Neuro Resus

John Myburgh takes us through 200 years of fluids therapy in critical care in one powerful presentation. He discusses the essential moments from history that changed the way we practice today and puts this long an bizarre story into context.

He covers the key aspects of relevant physiology and, inspired by Kipling, the what, where, when, how, why and whom of this intervention that has become synonymous with critical care. He tackles starch controversies with his unique perspective on the subject, as well as the very topical chloride debate and the upcoming SPLIT trial.

Best watched with John's superb slide deck.

WARNING: this may leave you questioning something you prescribe every day and feeling disturbed that something you assumed to be simple and sorted is far from it.

Other talks from John Myburgh include:

Beta Blocker and Sepsis

Fluid Resuscitation 2013

Decompressive Craniectomy

Catecholamines, resuscitation & resurrection

Day and Olusanya discuss key articles from the July 2014 edition of JICS (Journal of the Intensive Care Society). These include: management of diabetic ketoacidosis, a review on oxygen therapy and a look into ECHO in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.This journal is open access and can be found here: http://inc.sagepub.com/content/15/3.toc

Prof. Darren Heyland speaks to Dr David Gary and Dr James Day about Critical Care Nutrition. He discusses the PEP UP protocol for enteral feeding and the NUTRIC Score for identifying patients that may benefit from agressive nutrition therapy. This talk was first posted on www.intensivecarenetwork.com

Olusanya and Day are back with an interesting interview with Ron Daniels, the head of the UK Sepsis Trust. Daniels discusses the worldwide effort towards working for greater recognition and earlier treatment of sepsis. World Sepsis Day 2015 is on September 13th. For references of this talk and more information check out our post on www.intensivecarenetwork.com

David (@expensivecare) breaks some bad news: you are going to die. And so are many of your patients. Whilst many of us are pretty competent at bring people back to life, managing death well is a completely different skill set. David offers some very practical tips in this witty and incredibly relevant talk.

This is in the Pecha Kucha format so if your life only has a 6.40 hole, plug it!

This was also recorded live in David's local sushi bar in Erskineville for an ICN NSW night powered by Pecha Kucha in the PK format of 20 slides, 20 s per slide.

Shay McGuinness talks about what ECMO is, the history of its use in New Zealand and how their ECMO retrieval system works there. This was recorded live at the inaugural ICN NZ meeting, with support from ANZICS NZ.

Hussain (@HussainKadim ) takes us through what trauma is and means today, and how the network of trauma services becomes more than a sum of its parts. An interesting perspective on the big picture which is so easy to loose sight of.

This is in the Pecha Kucha format so if your life only has a 6.40 hole, plug it!

This was also recorded live in a sushi bar in Erskineville for an ICN NSW night powered by Pecha Kucha in the PK format of 20 slides, 20 s per slide.

Whilst faeces may not be the most glamorous of topics, the bowel habits of the critically ill matter. In Code Brown: Poo in the ICU, Claire takes us through the nuts and bolts of what faeces are, what to do if the consistency is wrong, the pitfalls of faecal management systems and why Bowels deserve their place in the ABC of resuscitation.

Sumesh Arora goes through the key intensive care aspects of managing the patient who's just had an oesophagectomy.

These patients can test the best of us and when it all goes wrong it's not pretty. This is in the Pecha Kucha format so if your life only has a 6.40 hole, plug it!

This was recorded at the ICN night powered by PK last December.

Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for more.

This podcast was recorded backstage at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting in January 2015 at the Galgorm Resort in Northern Ireland.

The meeting is hosted annually by Rob Mac Sweeney, the creator and curator of the awesome Critical Care Reviews website.

The intro and outro track is from Spiedkiks "Take off your make up", a creative commons free music download.