Neuro Resus

This round table discussion from the JICScast team asks whether Intensivists are the greatest danger to Intensive Care. They tackle why single or dual specialty training is recommended and whether this could endanger Intensive Care as a specialty field. The podcast is inspired and based on a blog post written by Aoife Abbey, trainee in intensive care https://whistlingdixietalk.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/the-biggest-threat-to-icu-intensivists/

Associate Professor Neil Orford is an intensive care specialist and Director of Intensive Care at University Hospital Geelong. Neil is the clinical lead for the i-Validate program. In this podcast he discusses this collaboration between Barwon Health and Deakin University which aims to improve patient-centred end-of-life care through training in clinical communication.

Associate Professor Sue Berney is head of physiotherapy at Austin Health.She has over 20 years experience working in the cardiorespiratory field, with a particular interest in critical care and early rehabilitation. She currently holds an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and has a passion for research into patient outcomes in intensive care. Here she discuses cognitive dysfunction post critical illness.

Peter Brindley, an intensivist from Canada, and Jon Gatward (of the Critical Care Airway Management Course fame) discuss a recent paper by Peter and a group of airway experts, which discusses airway management outside the operating room and how to better prepare. Clearly this isn't a new concept but there hasn't been much written from the ICU perspective about this, and it's something many of us deal with all the time. Every place has their own way of managing airways but there are so many good ideas in this paper that it might just change your practice!

Kimberley Haines is a senior ICU physiotherapist and the Allied Health Research Lead at Western Health. Her academic research focusses on the long term progress of ICU survivors. Here she discusses the developing puzzle of ICU outcomes.

Professor Andrew Davies is an Intensivist working at Peninsula Health in Melbourne with a special interest in nutrition in the ICU, and is a past Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN). In this talk, Professor Davies tackles the often overlooked aspect of nutrition in the ICU and it's potential benefits for our patients

Professor Rinaldo Bellomo is an Intensivist at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. He is Professor of Medicine at Melbourne University, and Honorary Professor of Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne and The University of Sydney.

He is one of the most eminent researchers in Intensive Care Medicine today and has been named one of the most influential scientific minds of our time.

In this thought-provoking talk Professor Bellomo discusses glycemic control of critically ill diabetic patients in the ICU.

Pete McCanny gives a talk on the cutting edge management of cardiogenic shock and challenges the conventional approach to mechanical support.

Thomas & Kass bust some common ICU Myths in a classic Podcast.

David Anderson, intensivist at the Alfred, discusses dementia, death and end of life care in the intensive care unit