Thinking Beyond Bleeding
Not all major trauma patients are hypotensive from hypovolemia: what are the differential diagnoses? with Caroline Leech
Category Clinical Crit Care
Nailing the paediatric Lumbar Puncture
Ahilan Parameswaran discuses the role of ultrasound in paediatric lumbar puncture.
Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest
Does POCUS delay CPR in cardiac arrest? Should we be doing transesophageal echocardiography in the resus room? A pro-con case-based debate.
Multimodal monitoring
Brandon Foreman delivers a rapid-fire talk on assessing stroke symptoms; using EEG after acute brain injury; and advanced multimodality monitoring.
Brain Cooling – who and how?
Cooling the severely brain injured patient is far from straight forward. Who should we be cooling and how can we do it well? with Kelly Harbour
Prognosis and Palliation in TBI
Evie Marcolini talks about an aspect of neurocritical care that we commonly wrestle with:...prognostication.
Mild TBI and Concussion
Concussions have gained lay person attention over the past several years, due to high profile media stories from military conflict and professional sports.Also known as "mild" TBI, concussion affects millions of patients worldwide
Ultrasound in the Field
Jason Bowman reviews multiple papers that cover the merits of ultrasound use in the prehospital field.
ICP Threshold Debate
ICP Threshold Debate: Wilson vs Myburgh Mark Wilson and John Myburgh discuss intracranial pressure. Some fundamentals, some history to put it all in perspective and all the issues with focusing on just one number. Fascinating insights from two true experts.…
Wake up Thrombolysis
Why keep fighting? 15 million strokes/year (WHO) >5 million permanently disabled >500,000 deaths Wake-up Strokes >20-25% occur during bedtime hours
In the eye of the storm
Ganesh Suntharalingam discussion of incident management in non-conventional, ICU-centred major incidents including the TGN1412 drug trial
Old Brain, New tricks
Alice Ma provides a quick introduction to endovascular stroke treatment