Critical Care Practitioner

Psychological well being, health related quality of life and memories of intensive care and a specialised weaning centre reported by survivors of prolonged mechanical ventilation. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 145–151, June 2014 The lead author of this paper Louise Rose very kindly agreed to discuss this article and some of […]

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This is a discussion which follows on from CCP Podcast 077: NCEPOD 2017 Acute Non-Invasive Ventilation: Inspiring Change. In this episode, I have a chat about the NCEPOD findings with one of the authors, Mark Juniper and with Vicky Mummery a physio who is very involved in improving practice at her trust. I think this discussion […]

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I made contact with Dr Segun Olunsanya via Twitter to discuss some of the issues around the fluid management of the sick patient. He in turn persuaded a couple of others involved in ITU. This has led to this fascinating discussion around this issue and it is one of the podcasts I am most pleased […]

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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO is one of those treatments we sometimes need to think about with our very sick patients. I recently had to make a referral to my local centre and doing so made me wonder what it is that the ECMO centres want from us to make the path smoother. So I […]

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