Critical Care Practitioner

Another busy time in the world of the Critical Care Practitioner! This episode focuses on a discussion I had with Kaye Rolls (@Kaye_rolls) Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Intensive Care Coordination & Monitoring Unit (ICCMU). She and I had a Twitter discussion around a couple of articles she had read about the use of social media […]

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NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is the another episode of an exciting new podcast project with Jonny Wilkinson (@WilkinsonJonny) who is an anaesthetist and Intensive Care Consultant at Northampton hospital He has a website, Critical Care Northampton, from where he does regular reviews of some of the many issues one can find […]

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In this episode I talked to Jennifer Cotton (@sonomojo) who runs the website Sonomojo which is a guide to ultrasound education and she talks about her reasons for setting up the site. The aim of the site is about connecting people to resources about ultrasound. Jennifer is just about to become a doctor and has worked […]

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I have covered some aspects of PTSD already in CCP Podcast 041: PTSD in Critical Care when I chatted with Dorothy Wade about some of her research. This gave me great food for thought, so I went to read some of the plentiful research out there. I posted this recently but also decided to release my […]

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Lynn Schallom is a research scientist at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She published a paper ‘Head of Bed Elevation and Early Outcomes of Gastric Reflux, Aspiration, and Pressure Ulcers’ in the American Journal of Critical Care in January 2015. Head of Bed Elevation There is a conflict between the need to keep a patients head […]

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Nicol (@nicchik90) is an RN and an author over in the US. She also has a website over at nicolekupchikconsulting.com  where she has many other great resources for others in the profession to use. She recently presented at NTI Boston 2018 and. amongst other subjects, she discussed some of the recent papers we should all be aware […]

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Why Won’t My Patient Sleep! The Intensive Care patient will often lie awake at night, eyes wide open, clearly with no intention of sleeping. So why won’t the intensive care patient sleep? Perhaps we need to understand what happens during normal sleep and take it from there….. Stages of sleep Sleep is divided into non-rapid […]

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I was lucky enough to be able to join Tanj and Dale Needham in this conversation at the ICS State of the Art conference 2018 in London. We discuss some of the ongoing issues with delirium in the critical care patient and how we might help them in prevention. Interview Questions for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners […]

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ACCPs skills are many and varied as those of you who do the job will know. My friend Gavin Denton (@DentonGavin) has conducted 3 different audits along with his colleagues at the Heart of England NHS trust. In this podcast he presents some of the very interesting findings. I think it proves that we are very worth the time […]

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David Barton is Head of Department of Nursing at Swansea University and has been very involved in the development of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role both locally and nationally. This discussion centres around his history and some of the issues in the development of the role as well as some thoughts for the future. There […]

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