Critical Care Practitioner

Critical Care Practitioner


Latest Episodes

CCP Podcast: So you want to be an ACCP?
October 10, 2023

This is a chat with Rowan Grieves, who works in Belfast, about her journey to become an ACCP and the hurdles she had to overcome when starting this new role.

CCP Podcast- Patient Diaries
March 28, 2023

This was originally a Facebook livestream with an ex patient- Carol Billian, Christine representing ICU Steps, a group helping support ICU survivors and Peter Nydahl from Germany who also aims to supp

CCP Podcast- Lung Protective Ventilation- How to improve our practice.
March 22, 2023

This is a chat I had with Dr Daniel Watkin about his QI project to assess compliance with the guidelines and how they went about improving it.You can find the paper here- 'Beyond Audit: Embracing QI

CCP Podcast: When to do the tracheostomy
February 10, 2023

This is a chat with Tamas Szakmany about the paper 'Impact of early tracheostomy versus late or no tracheostomy in nonneurologically injured adult patients: a systematic review and meta analysis' and

CCP Podcast- Weaning our patients.
February 02, 2023

This is a chat with Professor John Laffey about the WEAN_SAFE study.Weaning from mechanical ventilation in intensive care units across 50 countries (WEAN SAFE): a multicentre, prospective, observati

CCP Podcast: Do Not Resuscitate- the conversations we have.
January 27, 2023

A discussion with Michelle about the recent paper she played a part in discussing the conversation s we have, or don't about Do No Resuscitate orders.The experiences of adult patients, families, and

ICU Acquired Weakness and Muscle Wasting
January 13, 2023

Brigitta and colleagues have just published 'The rate and assessment of muscle wasting during critical illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis.'Some important and interesting discussion points

Podcast- Nutrition management for critically and acutely unwell hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Australia and New Zealand
May 30, 2022

Great discussion with Dr Emma Ridley a dietitian from Australia about how they planned to look after the nutritional requirements of COVID patients. A lot of pointers about how we care for their needs

Organ Donation from the Frontline- with Vikki Howarth
May 29, 2022

Vikki has been a clinical lead for Organ Donation in the past so I spent some time picking her brains about the role of the Organ Donation team and how that affects how we look after our patients. Lot

Proning- The PROSEVA Trial
March 21, 2022

This study entitled "Prone Positioning in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" was published in 2013 and its aim was to evaluate the effect of early application of prone positioning on outcomes