Medication errors are a significant challenge to the safety of patients.  Pre-filled syringes represent an opportunity to prevent errors related to medication preparation, and may have additional cost and efficiency savings.
Dr Rhys Thomas is an anaesthetist and the Quality and Safety Fellow at John Hunter Hospital in New South Wales.  He joins Todd to share his experiences with pre-filled syringes
 
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CPD Homes will be introduced to Australian-registered doctors in 2024, but what are they for, and what do they mean for you?
Chair of the Medical Board of Australia, Dr Anne Tonkin, joins Todd to talk about what lies ahead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CPD Homes with Anne Tonkin

Mechanical ventilation is indeed a lifesaving intervention.  However, it is clear that positive pressure ventilation itself has the potential to cause harm.  Novel approaches to ventilation aim to minimise this risk, and one such strategy is the incorporation of oesophageal pressure monitoring.
 
Tai Pham is a staff intensivist in Paris and an assistant professor at Paris Saclay university.  He completed a PhD in public health where he focussed on respiratory physiology and mechanical ventilation, and is a member of the executive committees for Lung Safe and Wean Safe studies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oesophageal manometry

If you’ve worked in ICU for very long, you’ll recognise the scenario where a patient who is weaning from mechanical ventilation goes into pulmonary oedema.  This syndrome is referred to as weaning induced pulmonary oedema, or WIPO.
Dr Rui Shi currently works as an intensivist in the surgical ICU of the First Affiliated Hospital at Sun Yet Sen University in China.
Rui has a strong interest in haemodynamic monitoring in critical care in which she has done a PhD, and she joins Todd to talk about this fascinating clinical problem.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Weaning induced pulmonary oedema (WIPO)

The ultimate outcome for patients who are resuscitated from cardiac arrest depends heavily on the neurological damage that results from a low flow state.  Prevention of further damage during this phase is one of the core goals of post resuscitation care.
In recent years, a multitude of research papers have been produced which examine various aspects of this approach, including oxygenation and blood pressure targets. 
One alternative strategy may be to increase cerebral blood flow by allowing mild therapeutic hypercapnoea, an approach studied in the recently released TAME trial.  Principle investigator of the study, Glenn Eastwood, joins Todd on the podcast to discuss the key features and results from this important trial. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TAME

This podcast comes to you from the 2023 ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Noosa meeting.
ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) is steadily embedding itself into modern critical care medicine.  
Does it have a role in pre-hospital setting for patients with refractory cardiac arrest?
In this podcast, we are joined by Aidan Burrell to talk about the SHERPA trial. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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