Mastering Intensive Care

Mastering Intensive Care episodes:

• 09.25.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 9

  Thank you for listening to the ninth and final episode of the Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta series. If you’ve listened to the series, you’ll know my friend Ed Litton and I entered a four-day stage trail running event,...

  
• 09.05.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 8

  This is the 8th episode of the "Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta" series and if you’ve been listening to the previous ones, you’ll know that this episode is coming out after the four day stage race that fellow intensivist...

  
• 08.16.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 7

  Fellow intensivist Ed Litton and I signed up for a big challenge 10 months ago when we registered to run in the Run Larapinta, a 4-day stage race in central Australia. We’ve both completed many endurance events, however neither of...

  
• 07.28.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 6

  To help Ed Litton and I get really prepared for the Run Larapinta stage race we are only a few weeks away from competing in, today we bring a seasoned ultra trail running doctor on to the podcast to share...

  
• 07.11.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 5

  This is the fifth episode in the Mastering Intensive Care - Run Larapinta series. Ed Litton and I are back on opposite sides of Australia, and neither of us has had the perfect three weeks since we last chatted. There...

  
• 06.29.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 4

  Here is another episode in the Mastering Intensive Care - Run Larapinta series. For this one, I travelled to Perth to meet with my Run Larapinta co-participant Ed Litton and to head out for a few runs together over a...

  
• 06.08.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 3

  This is a follow on episode as Ed Litton and I continue our discussion about the Run Larapinta Stage Race we will be participating in soon. Ed and I tell each other how our running training is going. Then we...

  
• 06.02.2023

  82 - Will Bonavia - An ICU trainee’s perspective on learning, culture and wellbeing

  This episode features the wise perspectives of an Advanced Trainee in Intensive Care Medicine, Dr William Bonavia. The discussion covers: Why he chose medicine and Intensive Care His training journey and his learning strategy What makes a good ward...

  
• 05.11.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 2

  In this second of a different style episode, Ed Litton and I continue our discussion about the Run Larapinta Stage Race we will be embarking on in August 2023.  Ed and I talk about our preparation and then tell each...

  
• 05.04.2023

  80 - Tub Worthley - A pioneering “Grand Master” of intensive care

  This episode features the memories, experiences and wisdom of Dr Lindsay ‘Tub’ Worthley, AM. The discussion covers the following: Tub’s training to become an intensivist when no specific training existed His experience at a time when Australian ICUs were...

  
• 04.14.2023

  Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 1

  We are trying something different on Mastering Intensive Care. My friend and fellow intensivist Ed Litton has cajoled me into joining him in a running event. We will be running the Run Larapinta Stage Race in August 2023. In this...

  
• 04.04.2023

  78 - Chris Nickson - Modern & innovative clinician education

  This episode features the thoughts and perspectives of A/Prof Chris Nickson. The topics covered include: How Chris became an intensivist and then an educator How he began working on Life In The Fast Lane (LITFL) The network of Clinical...

  
• 12.24.2022

  77 - Recovering from the pandemic

  Mastering Intensive Care is returning from being offline for a full 12 months. In this episode, I ask you to ponder, “how are you going?” after the lengthy pandemic, which has lulled after the worst of the storm but has...

  
• 12.20.2021

  Persevering Through A Pandemic - 6 - Learnings We Might Take Away

  This episode focuses on learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic. Important lessons our global Intensive Care community, your local ICU and you personally might take away from what the novel coronavirus has caused - at least so far. Previous episodes of...

  
• 12.13.2021

  Persevering Through A Pandemic - 5 - 'Life' Support For Our People

  Intensive Care clinicians are used to being busy. Critically ill patients constantly arrive in the ICU with no awareness of staff workload at that moment. So being busy has not been the major problem of the COVID-19 pandemic. The difficult...

  
• 12.06.2021

  Persevering Through A Pandemic - 4 - Best & Worst Year

  The physical, mental and emotional burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on Intensive Care clinicians has been colossal. Many ICU staff, of all types and at all levels, have suffered significant psychological effects. After hearing the pandemic experiences and perspectives of...

  
• 11.29.2021

  Persevering Through A Pandemic - 3 - Ultramarathon

  Whilst some people choose to run long distances, caring for patients in the ICU is not supposed to feel like an ultramarathon. If you work in the complex, high stress, emotion-generating environment of an ICU, it might sometimes feel like...

  
• 11.22.2021

  Persevering Through A Pandemic - 2 - It Was Inconceivable

  Just like a surf beach shore, waves of COVID-19 keep crashing over the world’s Intensive Care Units. The waves have been unpredictable and pattern less, ravaging the ICUs and the people that work in them, often inconceivably. In this second...

  
• 11.15.2021

  Persevering Through A Pandemic - 1 - Sick Of COVID

  Are you sick of COVID? How have you coped in this pandemic? And what’s it actually felt like to live and work throughout this last two years?   Concerned for the wellbeing of healthcare professionals in the hardest hit ICUs...

  
• 11.10.2021

  Persevering Through A Pandemic - Series Trailer

  I’m trying something different on Mastering Intensive Care. Welcome to a special series named “Persevering Through A Pandemic”. Aghast at the stories I’d heard from Intensive Care colleagues amid large COVID-19 surges I approached several previous podcast guests in countries...

  
• 09.23.2021

  69 - Emma Ridley - Advocacy, communication and leadership as an ICU dietitian

  Mastering Intensive Care is back after a lengthy break with an episode featuring senior ICU dietitian Dr Emma Ridley. Emma is a Senior Research Fellow and a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research...

  
• 04.16.2021

  68 - David Tuxen - Making life and work fun (including ward rounds)

  This episode features Professor David Tuxen, a pioneer of Intensive Care in Australia, who recently retired after 38 years at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. David trained in both respiratory and intensive care medicine, and became the Alfred’s ICU Director...

  
• 03.09.2021

  67 - Rupert Pearse - Responding to the stress and the strain of COVID-19 in the UK

  In this episode the focus is on our Intensive Care friends in the UK and what they are going through right now with COVID-19. My guest is Rupert Pearse, a Professor and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Barts Health...

  
• 02.22.2021

  66 - Todd Rice - Learning and teaching how to “not just do something, stand there”

  This wide-ranging episode, covering many angles of how we should consider doing less interventions to our patients and more transparent communication to their families, features US intensivist Todd Rice. Dr Todd Rice, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the...

  
• 02.03.2021

  65 - Five valuable lessons COVID-19 taught Intensive Care in 2020

  This first podcast episode of 2021 is my attempt to put into perspective at least some of what has happened over the whirlwind of the last 12 months. We can’t control what happens to us, yet we can control our...

  
• 12.16.2020

  64 - Roger Harris & Oliver Flower - The innovative educationalists behind SMACC and CODA

  Two inspiring and innovative educationalists, Dr Roger Harris and Dr Oliver Flower, are featured in this episode. Both of these Sydney intensivists are the force behind the recently created educational initiative named Coda, having previously been two members of the...

  
• 12.04.2020

  63 - Naomi Pratt - A nurse practitioner’s personal and debilitating experience of long COVID

  The guest on this episode is Nurse Practitioner Naomi Pratt who describes the lingering and harrowing effects of long COVID. Naomi is a Nurse Practitioner who jointly manages and leads the Critical Care Liaison Nurse service at Peninsula Health. In...

  
• 11.09.2020

  62 - Steve Philpot - Communication, tribalism, shared decision making and the value of knowing you already know enough

  This episode is a departure from recent conversations about COVID-19 material to cover some very important topics on the human side of what we do in the ICU. My hope is you will glean valuable insights from an intensivist I...

  
• 10.30.2020

  61 - A tribute to the global Intensive Care community for your COVID-19 efforts

  2020 has been a roller coaster year and I wish to acknowledge my friends of the Intensive Care world for your outstanding and awe-inspiring efforts as clinicians, researchers, educators, digital content creators, and mostly as human beings, compassionately caring for...

  
• 04.20.2020

  60 - Simone Hannah-Clark - Firsthand COVID-19 clinical experience from a New York ICU nurse

  In many parts of the world the COVID-19 pandemic is overburdening Intensive Care Units with huge numbers of critically unwell patients, many of whom are dying. Whilst China, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the UK have been crisis-ridden over the...

  
• 03.19.2020

  59 - Steve McGloughlin - Preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic

  In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, this episode focuses on the pandemic planning all ICUs should be doing - if they haven’t already been overwhelmed. This week a Working Group of 30 colleagues released the Australian and New...

  
• 03.15.2020

  58 - We are all in COVID-19 together

  Our need to bring our best selves to work has become more important in the face of this COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe. Many intensive care clinicians are presently overwhelmed by escalating numbers of critically ill COVID-19 patients whilst many...

  
• 03.01.2020

  57 - Georg Auzinger - Remembering to keep the patient at the centre of what we do

  Those of you who are consultant intensivists or attendings hopefully remember most of your trainees - especially the ones you met when you were a brand new intensivist. In this episode I speak with Dr Georg Auzinger who in 1997...

  
• 02.24.2020

  56 - What’s in the February 2020 Journals to help you care

  In this episode I talk about what’s been recently published in the medical literature to help you master intensive care from a humanity point of view. In a departure from the usual interview episode, and as a trial, I searched...

  
• 02.16.2020

  55 - Mervyn Singer - Career enjoyment, curiosity and a “can-do” attitude

  Anyone who has heard UK intensivist Prof Mervyn Singer speak at an Intensive Care conference will no doubt enjoy listening to him speak on this episode of Mastering Intensive Care. Mervyn Singer is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University...

  
• 02.09.2020

  54 - Research success, end of life care, & clinical leadership pearls (Replay episode with Deborah Cook)

  In this episode of the Mastering Intensive Care podcast we replay a previous episode which featured Deborah Cook (broadcast originally as episode 46). Deborah is an intensivist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton and Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology...

  
• 01.26.2020

  53 - A passion to help patients fuelled by his own inpatient experience (Replay episode with Paul Wischmeyer)

  In this episode of the Mastering Intensive Care podcast we replay a previous episode which featured Paul Wischmeyer (broadcast originally as episode 35). Paul is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, the Director of Perioperative Research at the Duke Clinical...

  
• 01.19.2020

  52 - Safer healthcare through human factors (Replay episode with Martin Bromiley)

  In this episode of the Mastering Intensive Care podcast we replay a previous episode which featured Martin Bromiley (broadcast originally as episode 21). Martin is an airline captain, whose wife Elaine Bromiley sadly died in tragic circumstances, the story...

  
• 01.12.2020

  51 - A Recap of Mastering Intensive Care in 2019

  Happy New Year. Thanks for listening to Mastering Intensive Care in 2019. If you reflect on and put into action many of the perspectives shared on this podcast, and if your colleagues do too, I truly believe your ICUs should...

  
• 12.18.2019

  50 - Everybody has a story to tell on Mastering Intensive Care

  To celebrate the 50 episode milestone, podcast host and intensivist Andrew Davies (yes that’s me) is in the spotlight. Having started the show to learn perspectives that could help me, as well as you, to be better and more human...

  
• 11.17.2019

  49 - Hugh Montgomery - We’ve got to act right now

  Climate change is a conversation we need to be having in Intensive Care circles. Right now. If the environmental catastrophe that is unfolding around us continues unabated there may no longer even be Intensive Care Units. The rising global temperatures,...

  
• 10.24.2019

  48 - Laura Rock - Teaching and learning about communication

  Are you a good communicator? Can you identify the skills of optimal communication? Might you sometimes respond to emotion with facts? Communication is perhaps the most important thing we do in healthcare, let alone in life. And to support...

  
• 09.23.2019

  47 - Matt Morgan - Mixing science, history, emotion and humanity in telling Critical stories

  Have you visited any of your past patients or their families in their homes? Would this be difficult? What might you learn? Medicine is mostly a series of stories of people’s lives. This is a privilege we often overlook....

  
• 08.29.2019

  46 - Deborah Cook - The compassionate and world-leading Canadian granting wishes at end of life

  What do you do for your patients around their dying experience? Do you celebrate their lives and support those left behind in grief? Could you bring more humanity to your ICU?   Whilst you and your ICU colleagues likely act...

  
• 07.22.2019

  45 - Scott Weingart - Useful mental strategies of a thoughtful ED intensivist and hugely influential podcaster

  Today’s guest is Scott Weingart, the pioneer podcaster in the intensive care field through his EMCrit podcast. Scott is an ED Intensivist from New York, where he is Chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care at Stony Brook Hospital...

  
• 05.24.2019

  44 - Geoff Toogood - From severe depression to mental health advocacy through #CrazySocks4Docs

  To help raise awareness about #CrazySocks4Docs this episode’s guest is Dr Geoff Toogood. Geoff is a Cardiologist at Peninsula Health and in Private Practice in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a Board Member of South West Health Care, Ambassador for...

  
• 05.12.2019

  43 - Jo Stewart - Educating, leading, retaining and supporting Intensive Care nurses

  On International Nurses Day, please listen to Jo Stewart, the Clinical Nurse Unit Manager at the ICU in which I work - Frankston Hospital. On May 12th, the date that commemorates the birthdate of Florence Nightingale, we celebrate every single...

  
• 04.26.2019

  42 - Paul Young - Moving on as an ICU family after the death of a respected leader

  What it is like when a much loved and respected leader in your Intensive Care suddenly dies? And do you view the people you work with in your ICU as an extended family?   Paul Young, an Intensivist from New...

  
• 04.03.2019

  41 - Rana Awdish - From In Shock to true connection with our patients

  If you work in healthcare and haven’t read the book “In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope” I really hope you will. In the meantime listen to intensivist and best-selling author Dr Rana...

  
• 03.04.2019

  40 - Ed Litton - Exercise, adventure and excellent clinical care

  This week’s guest, Australian intensivist Dr Ed Litton, truly amazes and inspires me. Despite having a full-time clinical and research career, and a young family, Ed pursues his passion for adventure mostly through ultra-endurance exercise. Many intensivists run, swim, cycle...