This is the first of 9 (!) Singapore Specials. Arparna Hoskote is an intensivist from Great Ormond St Hospital in London. She presented part of a debate asking if Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) should be a necessary part of PIC monitoring.

It was a really interesting debate. This is not new technology: so why hasn’t it been adopted? What is missing?

PicPod4 is based around an interview with Betsy Hunt, associate professor and director of Johns Hopkins Simulation Centre.

Betsy has some brilliant, simple ideas of how to improve our CPR practice. These are things we can do tomorrow.

Thank you Betsy and enjoy the podcast.

PicPod2 is all about organ donation, and the wider issues around it. We discuss brain stem testing, rates of consent, and the use of muscle relaxants in end of life situations. It might be a little heavy, but it’s important. Promise to lighten up a bit next time.

The papers we have based this discussion on are:

Hawkins KC, Scales A, Murphy P, et al: Current status of paediatric and neonatal organ donation in the UK. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2018;103:210-215

and

Carone L, Alurkar S, Kigozi P, Vyas H. Organ and tissue donation in a regional paediatric intensive care unit: evaluation of practice. Eur J Pediatr. 2018 May;177(5):709-714.

PICPOD1: Sepsis, Circularity, and ROC curves