Critical Care Practitioner
Latest Episodes
CCP Podcast: So you want to be an ACCP?
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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