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Out of hours (OOH) care remains a challenge in all medical specialties round the world. Day and Olusanya interview Owen Roodenburg from the Royal Alfred, Melbourne, about an innovative approach to managing OOH care in hospitals. This new programme directly addresses many of the issues with night time staff cover and allows selected trainees to obtain a Certificate of Clinical Leadership centred around experience, exposure, and education.

ICU as the centre of the hospital of the future? Listen to hear more!You can read the article published in JICS here: O’Leary R, Strange J, McKimm A, Gantner D, McClure J, Roodenburg O. ICU should improve the night-time hospital. JICS October 2013; 14, 4: 284-287 (free full text at http://journal.ics.ac.uk/pdf/1404284.pdf )

Cartan Costello is an Intensivist from St George hospital in Sydney. He has a particular interest in critical care echocardiography and in this talk describes how useful it can be for trauma patients. Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for the slides and video.

1.6 million people are on the Australian Organ Donation Registry. How do you approach organ donation with your patients? Steve Philpot speaks at the May VIN meeting about how we can better facilitate organ donation and about the usefulness of the donation registry.

Rupert Pearse discusses the importance of results from the OPTIMISE trial to improve perioperative patient management.

Gerard Fennessy interviews Associate Professor Daryl Jones (Austin Hospital, Melbourne) on Medical Emergency Teams. They discuss how such Rapid Response Teams have developed across the globe and how they have improved critical care delivery.

Gordon Flynn is an Intensivist and an Anaesthetist from Prince of Wales hospital in Sydney.

Here he gives an entertaining and thought provoking talk on the big topic of obesity in ICU.

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John Botha discusses renal failure at the VIN April meeting.

David Bihari is an Intensivist from Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. He is particularly interested and passionate about nutrition in the critically ill, and has been involved in research in this area for many years.

Check out what's new in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society with James Day and Segun Olusanya. They discuss new research on futility of care, nurse led tracheostomy weaning and concerns with work-related health problems for ICU staff.

Ravi Tiruvopati discusses hypercapnia in ICU patients, particularly for those with severe respiratory failure. This podcast was recorded during a VIN meeting in January.