Critical Care St James's Hospital in the past year, have abolished the practice of measuring Gastric Residual Volumes (GRV's). This practice has been ingrained in many ICU's nationally and internationally for many years now despite little to no evidence to support it. We interview key members of the MDT today including Dr Arnaud-Felix Miailhe Consultant Intensivist, Emer O Sullivan Clinical Specialist Dietitian and Deirdre Doyle Practice Development Facilitator Critical Care St James's Hospital about the changes in practice, the literature surrounding this practice and the value of MDT involvement in driving change.

Aoife Dillon is an ANP on the Home First specialist team for older persons in the ED Department in St James's hospital. Aoife speaks with us today about the older persons experience in the acute hospital setting, her experience meeting patients post an ICU stay and the role of advanced practice in the patients experience of accessing healthcare. Please send any comments or episode suggestions to [email protected]

Dr Natalie McEvoy StAR Research Lecturer in Critical Care nurisng at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) joins us today to talk about her nursing journey, completing her PhD and the journey from the bedside into fulltime academia. Natalie became chairperson of the Irish Association of Critical Care Nurses (IACCN) in January 2024 and she shares with us the great work the IACCN are doing and why all critical care nurses should join! Please do leave us some feedback and/or suggested topics [email protected]

Nurse Lead CNM3 in Antimicrobial Stewardship in St James's Hospital Carolyn O' Reilly joins us today to speak about her pilot role.

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Of note: This episode was recorded in January 2024

Welcome back to our podcast. We took a little break for a few months but we are back with more exciting episodes coming your way. August is ICU Liberation as part of the Themed Education months in Critical Care St James's Hospital and today we are joined by Consultant Intensivist Dr Orsolya Miskolci from St James's Hospital to talk to us about what PICS is and how we can spot it and try prevent it for our patients. Please leave us a comment or review and send on any episode suggestions to [email protected]

Introducing our new 'Research Mini-Series' hosted in partnership with our colleagues in the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) at St James's Hospital. We will bring you a series of topics related to clinical research, trials and the work that goes on behind the scenes in research. In our first episode today we have a guest host 'Ed Smyth' DJ with Today FM who in conjunction with Ciara interviews Professor Martina Hennessy Director of the Clinical Research Facility in St James's Hospital and Assistant Director of Nursing (ADoN) Derval Reidy from the CRF.

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Julie McCabe is the Haemovigilance officer for St James's Hospital Dublin. Please like and subscribe to our podcast 'Critical Conversations'.

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In anticipation of Advanced Practice week 2023 we are joined today by two of our own Critical Care ANPs from St James's Hospital Rachel Egan & Emma Morrissey. We are very lucky to have a team of 7, soon to become 8 ANPs in our Critical Care.

Zoe and her new husband Brian were caught up in the deadly wildfires in 2018 in Greece ultimately claiming the life of her new husband. Zoe and Brian were on honeymoon in Greece when elation turned to devastation and despair. Today, Zoe bravely talks us through her journey from the initial fire, her injuries, coming back to Ireland from Greece and the wonderful care she received in the National Burns Unit St James's Hospital. Zoe also talks about where she is now in terms of her recovery. Zoe is joined on the episode today with Patricia, Clinical Facilitator in Burns unit St James's Hospital. NOTE: This episode was recorded in June 2023 and the British Burns Association annual conference took place in Dublin in June 2023.

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Dr Arnaud-Felix Miailhe Consultant Intensivist at St James's Hospital Dublin joins our podcast today to talk about all things ICU Delirium. During the podcast he talks about resources such as CAM-ICU and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) resources on delirium. Check out the following links: https://www.sccm.org/iculiberation/guidelines

CAM- ICU: https://www.sccm.org/getattachment/a32976ed-af4c-4cc5-a984-513e9472c5b3/CAM-ICU-Assessment-Tool

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