Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This week we’re looking at the other ACS, the surgical ACS, the old abdominal compartment syndrome. This is common, especially in the surgical population and does not always immediately jump ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Oh dedicates an entire chapter, number 88 to CBRN issues. While not commonly seen you can rest assured that critical care will be expected to turn up and manage these ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. It is with trepidation that I approach any topic that involves the negative feedback loops of endocrine control as I really struggle to keep it all straight in my head, ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Condensing all of “inotropes and vasopressors” into a single 5 minute podcast is of course doomed to fail but that’s never stopped me before. The main reference for this is ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. In a further scandalous departure from Oh’s Manual today we’re going to look at a chapter of verified Irish Critical Care legend, Martin Tobin’s huge mechanical ventilation textbook. I have ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re going to talk about a fairly rare and niche issue in critical care – gas embolism. The venerated stone tablets of Oh’s Manual do not mention it in ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. With extreme brevity we are going to try and cover Oh’s Manual Chapter 38 on respiratory monitoring. This is something of a hodge podge i must admit. I’ll start by ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This is part of Oh’s Manual Chapter 77 on head injury and we covered ICP monitoring before in number 20. A key principle here is cerebral perfusion pressure or CPP. ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Oh’s Manual chapter 104 has a decent chapter on the intensive care aspects of lung transplant. A lot of this stuff ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. This week: serotonin syndrome. Much talked about, very common in an exam, quite rare in real life. It doesn’t really get ... Read More »