Neuro Resus

Cardiologist and Associate Professor Chris Hayward talks at SIN. He broadens our understanding of mechanical cardiac assist devices and their use in clinical practice.

The UK intensivists Olusegun Olusanya and James Day are back to keep you up to date with recent literature including blood transfusions in intensive care, B2 agonists in ARDS and ICP monitoring for TBI. Their discussion is based around the July 2013 edition of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society (JICS).

The articles mentioned are found at the following link: http://journal.ics.ac.uk/journal_article_detail.html

Matthew Mac Partlin talks about emergency airways access. Make sure you listen or watch this on www.intensivecarenetwork.com before Matthew's workshop on cricothyroidotomy at BCC Cairns!

This podcast is Michael Rose talking on anaphylaxis. Michael is an anaesthetist in Sydney and a leading expert in the world of anaphylaxis. He talks about the basics and recent developments in this field - an area of critical care relevant to us all. His website http://www.anzaag.com has many useful resources, including validated management algorithms that you can use use in your department.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at Westmead hospital recently on "Navigating the Ethics of Modern Medicine". Fitting for our 100th podcast, thei Great man talks about organ donation, his own experiences with healthcare in recent years, the history of medicine in Tibet and has advice for us all about how to treat our patients. A transcript is available here too. A classic!

Richard Levitan is widely regarded as the global master of the emergency airway.

And he's keynoting at SMACC GOLD.

He was recently in Sydney, teaching on a cadaveric airways course with John Vassiliadis (of Simwars fame and mastermind behind EDWISE).

Rich talks about his global travels, his airways courses and his exciting new emergency surgical airway kit. John tells us about EDWISE, simulation and why he's pumped for SMACC GOLD. Harris provides entertainment whilst the hype for SMACC GOLD starts to swell.

Pierre Janin has spent a long time distilling down the essence of ultrasound physics into two short talks.

This second presentation really focuses on Doppler and has made some great animations to make this potentially confusing topic easy to understand.

Again, this is essential knowledge for anyone who is involved with ultrasound...so watch this, REPETITIVELY!

The first video is here

Pierre Janin has spent a long time distilling down the essence of ultrasound physics into two 10 minute talks.

This first one covers some history and basic theory and is essential knowledge for anyone who is involved with ultrasound... so that's all of us then?

Christine Bowles, an ED and trauma consultant, hosts a discussion on the controversial topic of clearing the C-Spine.

The discussion involves Donovan Dwyer, (Emergency Physician), Andrew Cheng (Intensivist) and Anthony Morgan (Trauma Surgeon) and takes us from the front door of the emergency department to several days down the track in the ICU.

James Day and Olusegun Olusanya interview Duncan Young, Director of Research for the UK Intensive Care Society about his work in the TracMan Trial. Young discusses the results of the trial as well as challenges with clinical trials and directions for future research. He also gives a few tips for young doctors looking to get involved with research.

The recently published paper in JAMA on the TracMan trial is found here.

JICS is the Journal of the Intensive Care Society and is in the process of becoming indexed on Medline.