Critical Care Practitioner

In May of this year, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses held their National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.  NTI2018. By UK standards this is huge with over 9,500 delegates and 350 presentations to go to! I followed this conference via social media so kind of experienced it. I also watched the Facebook Livestreams they did […]

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Welcome to the first ever podcast from Critical Care Practitioner. This is an exciting project for me and I hope one that will continue to develop and improve over time. The intention is to cover a variety of subjects from those directly linked to critical care such as research, learning resources, websites involved in critical […]

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PLEASE go to www.life-saver.org.uk to see the fantastic job this podcasts interviewee has done of making the teaching of basic life support so much easier. I was blown away when I came across it, even as an experienced ALS team member. It sucks you in and gets you involved. To the novice it is a wonderful […]

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ICU acquired weakness or polyneuropathy An interview with Dr John Kress, an ITU physician from the University of Chicago. Dr Kress is a highly respected and well published doctor with an interest in ICU acquired weakness or polyneuropathy, one of his more well known papers being ” Daily Interruption of Sedative Infusions in Critically Ill Patients […]

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How high should I sit my patient? Should we measure the angle of the bed? I was lucky enough to be able to chat to Louise Rose again. She and I first had a conversation back on CCP Podcast 013: Mind and Body. In this episode we talk about a study she was involved in, […]

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