Asking Questions – Delivering Answers
RCTs deliver the most reliable evidence to guide how we treat our patients but they are badly designed, inaccurately reported and misunderstood. We can do better.
Category Intensive Care
Surviving the Aftermath of ECMO
ECMO is a life-saving intervention for critically ill patients, but patients describe a recovery period that can take months to years.
Critical care ultrasound
He blinded me with science (Critical care ultrasound) with Tom (Dolby) Rozen
FAST HUGS IN BED Please!
Regardless of the underlying cause of the illness, the provision of meticulous supportive care is essential to the management of any critically ill patient. Back in 2005, Jean Louis Vincent popularised the FAST HUGS mnemonic for recalling the key issues to review when looking after a critically ill patient.
Ultrasound in Trauma
The scope of ultrasound in trauma; the evolution of point-of-care Ultrasound in Trauma, and the FAST examination with Resa Lewiss
Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodore Otto Forßman (1904 - 1979) was a German Doctor, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer of interventional cardiology.
Emotions and COVID-19
Dr Laura Rock describes how a simple emotion response tool, GIVE, can be used to help us connect, understand, and support one another. This is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mastering Intensive Care 017 with Flavia Machado
Flavia Machado - Improving communication, saying “I don’t know” and working with limited resources
COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath
Introduction to a series of posts titled "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath", focusing on the need to build on existing knowledge in critical care and the appropriate testing of new therapies and innovations.
Overcoming uncertainty in the Age of COVID-19
Overcoming uncertainty in the Age of COVID-19. Part 7 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series.
Novel drug therapies and COVID-19 clinical trials
Novel drug therapies and clinical research. Part 6 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series
COVID-19: “To PEEP, or not to PEEP”?
Part 4 of "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" discussing the setting of positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) in critically ill COVID-19 patients.