ICU Ed and Todd-Cast

Episode 103 LIVE from CHEST in Phoenix. It was a wonderful conference and thanks for everyone who came and joined us! In this episode we talk about lung recruitment during sigh breaths and GLP-1 use and its association with mortality in septic shock! Thanks also to special guest Hayley Gershengorn and congrats to both Todd and Hayley for winning big awards at the CHEST conference!

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Episode 102! In this episode we talk about ECMO anticoagulation strategies with RATE and go back in time to talk about the original landmark trial for ECMO in CESAR

RATE: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42413523/
CESAR: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19762075/

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Episode 101! In this episode we talk about targeted temperature management starting with TTM2 to set the stage and moving towards ICECAP published by Muerer et al in JAMA August 2026!

TTM2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34133859/
ICECAP: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42554995/

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Episode 100! Can't believe we made it here. 100 episode of trying to fit into Todd's triple booked schedule. This episode we do a little reminiscing about the past 3 years of podcasting but not after talking about a trial published in the form of a research letter about olanzapine versus dexmedetomidine for delirium by Liu et al published in the Blue Journal May 2026

Olanzapine vs Dex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42118124/

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Episode 99! In this episode we talk about Nutrition and Exercise in Critical Illness published in AJRCCM June 2026 by Needham et al. A shorter episode today as we're dealing with end-of-summer travel schedules so we add a mailbag segment to this one. 

NEXIS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42438140/

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Episode 98! We talk about polymyxin B filtration of endotoxin for patients with septic shock in EUPHRATES which sets the stage for Tigris. We also butcher Mesopotamian history (sorry!)

EUPHRATES: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30304428/
Tigris:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41887242/

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Episode 97! In this episode we talk about mucolytics for patients with difficult to clear secretions on the ventilator and the effects of a tele ICU rehabilitation intervention! We also have some emails following up on scurvy and the taste of chalk.

Scurvy History:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1276007/
Bootcamp: https://www.vumc.org/advanced-practice-critical-care/welcome
MARCH: https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2603406
Tele-Rehab: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2850403

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Episode 96. In this episode we talk about ARISE FLUIDS (early pressors vs early fluids) and VICTORY (high dose Vitamin C in severe burn) both simultaneously presented and published at the CCR26 conference. Then we start digging out form our ever growing mailbag

ARISE-FLUIDS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42274006/

VICTORY:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42267875/

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Episode 95! In this episode we talk about "Sodium Bicarbonate for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest" by Granfeldt et al and "Sodium Bicarbonate for Critically Ill Adults with Metabolic Acidosis and Shock" published by the ANZICS group both presented at the CCR26 conference.

BiHCA: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42273960/
BiHCA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2850405
SODa-BIC: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42283370/
SODa-BIC: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2600526

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Episode 94! In this episode we give some general reactions to the CCR conference, discuss our impact on the critical care world, and talk briefly about 3 of the presentations from the conference that did NOT have a simultaneous publication (REMAP-CAP oseltamivir, FISSH, and SAVE-ICU)

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