General Discussion

ECMO in severe respiratory failure

Neil Orford on 2009-11-03 21:58:00

The CESAR study, published in the Lancet is an important paper in the critical care literature. The finding of improved survival without severe disability at 6-months in critically...

Kingscliff conference

Todd Fraser on 2010-10-06 13:58:00

Recently I was asked to present at the Critical Care 2010 conference at Kingscliff in NSW. The conference was put together by Roger Harris, Carol Foote, Liz Steele and a few other...

Where now for MET?

Todd Fraser on 2010-10-10 12:14:00

I don't know about your place, but we run the Medical Emergency Team at our hospital. The concept intrigues me. We all know stories of patients in whom we wished we'd been invo...

Florence rocks! Music therapy in ICU

Todd Fraser on 2011-08-18 09:14:00

Okay, I'm going out on a bit of a limb here. Some of you hard-core EBM-ers are going to have me in the gun, but here goes. I just read a systematic review of music therapy in I...

Sleep in ICU

Todd Fraser on 2011-10-19 14:59:00

This is a topic I've been mulling over for some time. I know how important sleep is to me. A busy night on call with a few phone calls really takes the wind out of my sails, an...

Managing acute pain in ICU

Todd Fraser on 2011-11-27 21:34:00

This week's podcast is with Dr Myles Conroy, head of the acute pain service at Geelong Hospital in Victoria. I must say I went into this interview thinking that I had a pretty t...

College of Intensive Care Annual Scientific Meeting 2012

Todd Fraser on 2012-05-23 16:16:00

The CICM ASM is about to begin in Melbourne. Stay tuned to catch the highlights of the meeting - commences May 25th...

Conference Coverage - ANZICS-ACCCN 2012 from Adelaide

Todd Fraser on 2012-10-14 18:54:59

It's on again - the one and only ANZICS-ACCCN co-sponsored conference, this time in Adelaide, South Australia.

With a fantastic array of keynote speakers, a...

Handover in ICU - how do you do it?

Todd Fraser on 2012-10-16 08:57:46

Clinical handover is a hot topic in medicine. Its been identified by multiple bodies, including the World Health Organisation, who listed it on their top 5 hit list to imp...

Emergency cricothyroidotomy - what's your method?

Todd Fraser on 2013-06-24 13:48:06

We recently released our video outlining 3 commonly described emergency cricothyroidotomy methods, needle jet ventilation, percutaneous seldinger cricothyroidotomy and a surgica...

Zen and the art of passing a fellowship exam

Todd Fraser on 2013-08-02 11:55:40

Sometimes a little self congratulations is not a crime.

Passing a fellowship exam is an enormous effort, something I think we fail to appreciate, nor celebr...

Social Media and Critical Care - what's the deal?

Chris Poynter on 2014-03-27 08:10:18

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the smaccGOLD conference on the Gold Coast. It was amazingly good and I recommend it to anyone looking for ...

Gaming in Medical Education

Chris Poynter on 2014-08-01 09:49:23

I’ve been thinking for a while that the concepts and resources thrown into gaming will spill over into the medical education world. In fact I’ve been hopi...

How is dogma born?

Chris Poynter on 2014-09-08 13:27:45

For some time now I’ve been interested in how we make clinical decisions. There has been plenty of discussion about evidence based medicine ove...

Ebola pandemic - time to prepare?

Chris Poynter on 2014-10-14 09:33:11

Whoa! This evolving Ebola pandemic is really starting to gather some steam now. Another day goes by and more bad news emerges. Now the focus has turn...