Intensive Talk -Meet The Experts by ANZICS

In this podcast, Professor Dale Needham from John Hopkins hospital shares his insights into ICU rehab experiences during COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about the challenges associated with prolonged ICU length of stay and advises on how to optimise the recovery of COVID-19 patients.

In this podcast, Professor Maurizio Cecconi talks about Italian experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and outlines the challenges specific to intensive care in the post-pandemic phase. He discusses various issues including prolonged ICU length of stay, slow weaning, and the impact of the pandemic on staff well-being.

COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant ethical challenges to an intensive care community. Although we managed to contain the spread with social distancing, the second wave of the pandemic is still on the radar. In this podcast, George & I discuss the various ethical dilemmas that ICU clinicians might face during the second wave and outline how we should deal with those dilemmas.

In this podcast, Professor john Marini from Minnesota talks about the new terminology CARDS and explains how the concept of power and energy can be utilised to optimise mechanical ventilation in COVID-19.

COVID -19 has a very unique pattern and it has challenged the dogmatic approach of mechanical ventilation described for ARDS patients. In this podcast, Prof Luciano Gattinoni talks in-depth about the pathophysiology of the disease and how we should ventilate these patients. His key messages are monitor closely, identify the right phenotype, be patient and do not apply blanket protocols for mechanical ventilation.

In this episode, Professor Steve McGloughlin, the chair of ANZICS COVID guidelines group talks about the process of guideline development, different recommendations in comparison with other guidelines and the approach to deal with ethical dilemmas.

Planning is underway for the possibility of successive waves of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic over the coming months.

Following the news of the first confirmed cases of person-to-person transmission within Australia, the focus is now turning to the capacity of the health system to respond.

COVID-19 is rapidly spreading and ANZICS is preparing to face this challenge. In this podcast, the immediate past chair of ANZICS-CTG, A/Prof Craig French talks about various challenges ahead and outlines the plan from ANZICS.