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Essential Critical Care: SARI, EARL and other 4 letter acronyms! ANZICS CTG podcast interviews - final episode with Dr Steve Webb
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Tuesday, 22 March 2016. SARI, EARL and other 4 letter acronyms! ANZICS CTG podcast interviews - final episode with Dr Steve Webb. The final episode of this series of podcast interviews with keynote speakers from the Noosa meeting of the ANZICS CTG is with Prof Steve Webb. Finally, Steve discusses the new frontier of clinical research, the platform trial. Listen to the interview here. Who would you like to hear from? View my complete profile.
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Essential Critical Care: Aggressive early resuscitation in sepsis - ARISE
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Saturday, 18 October 2014. Aggressive early resuscitation in sepsis - ARISE. So, ARISE is now out, and what do we have to show for it? The ARISE trial, released in the NEJM this past fortnight, has led many to believe that Early Goal Directed Therapy is dead. But what is that exactly? Can you define what EGDT actually is? I'm not sure I do. And this is where it gets sticky. Lets be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Paper Link ...
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Essential Critical Care: ANZICS CTG podcasts from Noosa - Selective Digestive Decontamination with Dr Ian Seppelt
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Monday, 14 March 2016. ANZICS CTG podcasts from Noosa - Selective Digestive Decontamination with Dr Ian Seppelt. The third of my series of podcast interviews with keynote speakers from the 2016 ANZICS CTG meeting in Noosa is with Dr Ian Seppelt. After years of effort, Ian and his team can now see light at the end of the funding tunnel. Listen to the podcast here : Ian Seppelt Interview. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Essential Critical Care: Transfusion restriction in Septic Shock - the TRISS trial
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Monday, 20 October 2014. Transfusion restriction in Septic Shock - the TRISS trial. Lower versus higher Hemoglobin Threshold for Transfusion in Septic Shock (TRISS). Holst L et al for the TRISS trials group and the Scandinavian Critical Care Trials Group. New England Journal of Medicine (2014); 371:1381-91. Intervention - restrictive transfusion threshold ( 7g/dL) in septic shock patients. Controlled - Yes. Control group transfused to 9g/dL.
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Essential Critical Care: SCCM podcast - Duration of antimicrobial therapy in bacteraemia
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Friday, 15 April 2016. SCCM podcast - Duration of antimicrobial therapy in bacteraemia. While fluid therapy is the magic, antibiotics are the dark arts of critical care. Its often easy, but more than occasionally, prescription of antibiotic therapy in critically unwell patients becomes a best guess, intuitive, gut feel. One such example is the duration of antimicrobial therapy in patients with hospital acquired bacteraemias. Join Osler free trial.
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Essential Critical Care: Credentialing in high stakes industries - why is healthcare exempt?
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Thursday, 12 November 2015. Credentialing in high stakes industries - why is healthcare exempt? After 5 years working in a helicopter medical retrieval service, I still can't quite believe how differently healthcare and aviation approach the issue of competency. To highlight this, let me introduce you to Al. Al is a veteran pilot, with over 8900 flying hours of experience who now works with a helicopter medical retrieval service. Ratings too are ...
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Essential Critical Care: PODCAST : The science behind learning a new skill, and keeping it
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Friday, 5 June 2015. PODCAST : The science behind learning a new skill, and keeping it. We all develop new skills. Importantly, those of us in clinical practice need to continue to "use it or lose it" as they say. But what's the science behind how we learn a new skill, and more importantly, can we measure and quantify this? What is procedural competency, and how does this differ from mastery? Listen to the podcast here. View my complete profile.
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Essential Critical Care: ARDS-Net 1 : Low volume ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome (The ARMA trial)
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Friday, 5 December 2014. ARDS-Net 1 : Low volume ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome (The ARMA trial). Does the use of a low-volume ventilation strategy (5-7ml/kg ideal body weight) improve hospital mortality compared with traditional tidal volumes 10-12ml/kg)? Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared to traditional volumes for acute lung injury and adult respiratory distress syndrome. Placebo used - No. Worsening damage to...
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Essential Critical Care: Daily Interruption of Sedation
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A site dedicated to promotion of critical care excellence. Monday, 29 December 2014. Daily Interruption of Sedation. Does the use of a protocolised interruption to sedation infusions of critically ill adults influence their outcomes? Daily interruption of sedative infusions in critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. Kress JP, et al. New England Journal of Medicine (2000); 342:1471-77. Placebo used - Yes. Population / Sample size calculation - 128 patients. 150 patients who were intubat...
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