Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Episode 85! In this episode we go over LIBERATE-D or "A Conservative Dialysis Strategy and Kidney Function Recovery in Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury" by Liu et al in JAMA 2026. We have the second author, Eddie Siew, on with us to discuss!

LIBERATE-D (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41201895/

LIBERATE-D (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2841171

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Episode 84! In this episode we finish up our discussion of the articles presented with the CCR Down Under Conference with ACTiVE (close loop ventilation) and CLIP2 (cryopreserved platelets for surgical bleeding). Both are neutral trials at best, so we took them both pretty short.

ACTiVE: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41361939/

ACTiVE (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2842610

CLIP2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41360717/

CLIP2 (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2842479

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Episode 83! Only one article this episode since Todd is feeling a little under the weather, but still a good discussion!

ImmunoSep (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2842634

ImmunoSep (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41359996/

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Back by popular demand, year in review! Or probably better titled "Our Favorite Articles of the Year" but I kept the title from last year. A smattering of papers and topics in this one ranging from avalanche survival, to intubation, to cardiac resuscitation and more. 

Happy New Year everyone! We will see you in 2026, thanks for listening and spending sometime with us.

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Episode 81! In this episode we talk to Yonathan Fruend the senior author on the MODS study looking at a single questions approach to ruling out pulmonary embolism in the emergency department. This is not our typical patient population but this is a good episode, don't miss this one!

MODS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41135553/

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

We start our Critical Care Reviews Down Under coverage with RSI talking with the first author of the "Ketamine versus Etomidate for Adults Receiving Emergency Endotrachael Intubation", Jonathan Casey! We will pick up the rest of our CCR Down Under Coverage after the holiday break!

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Episode 79! We talk all about perfusion with arterial lines in EVERDAC and personalized resuscitation with ANDROMEDA SHOCK 2! 

EVERDAC: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41159885/

EVERDAC (NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2502136

ANDROMEDA SHOCK 2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41159835/

ANDROMEDA SHOCK 2(JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840823

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Episode 78! We start our discussion of the trials that drop with ESICM with the much anticipated BICAR-ICU 2! Then we talk briefly about some changes to the SOFA score with the new SOFA-2 score. 

BICAR-ICU2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41159812/

BICAR-ICU 2 (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840824

SOFA-2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41159833/

SOFA-2 (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840822

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

Episode 77! We will start on ESICM coverage next episode. In this episode we talk about WFIT or "A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Post-ICU Telehealth Care Model" by Bakhru et al published in the blue journal September 2025! A long discussion but a good one!

WFIT: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40532205/

Editorial: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40700738/

ICU Recovery Pilot: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31385881/

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!)

We were LIVE from the CHEST Annual Meeting 2025! Thanks to everyone who came out and stuck around to chat afterwards. We cover a lot of ground including some conference and Chicago related banter (~8 minutes if you wanted to skip to the learning!)

High frequency oscillation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40983167/

MELLOW: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39800236/

Continuous glucose monitoring: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39956190/

SAFE-ECMO: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40081660/

BASE: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39971001/

If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us on the social @icucast for the associated figures, comments, and other content not available in the audio format! Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions! Thank you Mike Gannon for the intro and exit music!