What is Intensive Care really?
Knowing how to manage dying is just as important as preventing it. - Alex Psirides
Category Intensive Care
Neonatal Intensive Care
A neonates journey, just what feedback would your neonatal patient give you after 3 months of intensive care? Insight into the world of a NICU with Trish Woods
Are the Critically Ill Actually Hungry?
The delivery of nutrition to the critically ill is incredibly complex. There is little evidence that providing standard nutritional requirements of 25K/cal/Kg improves outcome. Foremost amongst this evidence is the TARGET trial, a large randomised controlled trial of 4000 patients in Intensive care
Resuscitology Update: Sydney and Melbourne 2019
A quick update on the upcoming Resuscitology courses in Sydney and Melbourne in 2019.
Medicine, mindfulness, movement, mental (ill)health and creativity
Medicine, mindfulness, movement, mental (ill)health and creativity. Guest post: Dr Elizabeth Winson (@DrLemmingo). Liz is a intensive care doctor in Melbourne, Australia.
Mastering Intensive Care 040 with Ed Litton
This week’s guest, Australian intensivist Dr Ed Litton, truly amazes and inspires me. Despite having a full-time clinical and research career, and a young family, Ed pursues his passion for adventure mostly through ultra-endurance exercise.
Everything ECMO
In specialist centres, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a now a mainstay of the management of cardio/respiratory failure refractory to other measures. However, much of the clinical information required to care for ECMO patients at the bedside remains inaccessible to…
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting QA cardiovascular curveball. Your patient has poor cardiac output after CABGx4 and starts IABP
Lifting the lid on a ‘proven therapy’
According to an editorial in the NEJM, decompressive craniectomy "has a proven benefit in the management of malignant cerebral edema after ischemic stroke”... We point out the caveats to this assertion.
Drug Withdrawal States in ICU
Drug withdrawal in ICU is more common than generally appreciated.
ICU Mind Maps
The ICU Mind Maps covering the CICM Fellowship Exam curriculum are in pdf format. They were created by Dr. Paul Young
Mastering Intensive Care 037 with Michael O’Leary
Interview with Michael O’Leary – Dealing with the frustrations of the changing ICU landscape (SG-ANZICS special episode) Our ICUs might be growing larger in size but there seem to be the same number of very sick patients to care for…