Neuro Resus

Oli Flower gives an iconoclastic view of neurocritical care. This is a talk that was given at the College of Intensive Care Medicine's ASM in Wellington in June 2013. It focuses on three aspects of traumatic brain injury management: prognostication, transfusion thresholds and the role of ICP monitoring. For the references and more click here.

Michaela Cartner, an Intensivist and ED physician from Queensland's Gold Coast, gives a fascinating talk on environmental heat stress. The Marathon des Sables provided a perfect backdrop to discuss this important topic.

Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for the slides and more.

David Gattas is an Intensivist and clinical researcher from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

Known for his dry wit and calm composure under fire, David is a rising power player for the ANZICS CTG and was heavily involved with the recent CHEST study.

This talk was given at a Sydney Intensive Care Network meeting.

Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for the podcast and more.

Roger Harris, the Bedside Critical Care big dog gives his last talk of the 2012 conference.

From the maker of Sex and Nutrition comes Oxidative Stress.

Roger specifically discusses:

• What is Oxidative stress
• Why is Oxidative Stress important
• How does Selenium fit into Oxidative stress
• Selenium (Se) in critical illness
• What’s the current evidence for Se in ICU

Alex Rosenberg is an Intensivist who was working in a transplant centre last year. He gave this talk on immunosupression at last year's Bedside Critical Care Conference and managed to make a fairly dry subject seem understandable and relevant. Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for the slides and more...

Pierre Janin is an intensivist with many interests. For example you may have seen his fantastic echo guide or his talk on transcranial doppler. One of his other passions is microbiology, and at BCC last year he gave this talk on Fungal infections. He often proudly shows pictures of his fungal balls on ward rounds.

Anthony Holley, a world famous transfusion and coagulation guru, draws on his military, ED and ICU experience and talks about the most recent blood transfusion guidelines. They are a great resource and can be downloaded here. This talk is different to the last one he gave at Bedside Critical Care 2012!

Niklas Nielsen is an academic intensivist from Helsingborg, Sweden. He is the mastermind behind the Targeted Temperature Management Trial, a landmark international multicentre clinical that has sought to answer a question that many believed has already been answered: What is the optimal target temperature following out of hospital cardiac arrest?

The TTM trail has finished recruiting and the protocol can be seen here. The results will be out later this year.

So...

READ Niklas' FASCINATING paper which really lays down the rationale for the study

LISTEN to this podcast interview with Niklas

LEAVE some feedback if you have any comments on this controversial and emotive topic

KEEP an open mind about this topic!

A Pecha Kucha discussing prognostication following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. This includes discussion of the various grading scales used and other factors that impact upon prognosis. This is the 5th of 5 Pecha Kuchas on this topic.