Critical Care Practitioner

Latest Episodes:

CCP Podcast 040: Why Won’t We Change? Nov 11, 2018

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This episode features a chat with Fiona Moffat who is a lecturer in Physiotherapy and practising physiotherapist. She was involved in some LEAN thinking and is now interested in early mobilisation in the critical care world. As a social scientist she is also interested in how we get to normalise new technologies or interventions in health […]

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CCP Podcast 045: Simple Things to Help Them Sleep. Nov 11, 2018

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Characterisation of sleep in intensive care using 24-hour polysomnography: an observational study. This was a very enlightening discussion with Rosalind Elliott from Sydney about her study. Our poor ITU patients are struggling to get any decent sleep- what can we do to help them? Rosalind Elliott qualified as a nurse in London, England in the […]

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CCP Podcast 059: Surviving the ICU-The Patient Experience Nov 11, 2018

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This is an episode featuring Dr Paul Wischmeyer (@Paul_wischmeyer) who is a doctor at the Department of Anesthesiology and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center. I noticed he had tweeted about a presentation (Surviving the ICU-The Patient Experience: What Patients Need Their Doctors to Know) he gave which was available on YouTube and […]

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CCP Podcast 090: Mechanical Ventilation with Thomas Nov 11, 2018

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I thought it was time we explored the subject of mechanical ventilation again and so I reached out on Twitter and am now joined by Thomas Piraino (@respresource) who is a Clinical Specialist in mechanical ventilation at the Centre of Excellence in Mechanical Ventilation, St. Michael’s Hospital. We start with the basic modes and what is […]

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CCP Podcast 072: The Two Jonnys Do Twitter July 2017 Nov 11, 2018

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NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is the fourth episode of an exciting new podcast project with Jonny Wilkinson (@WilkinsonJonny) who is an anaesthetist and Intensive Care Consultant at Northampton hospital He has a website, Critical Care Northampton, from where he does regular reviews of some of the many issues one can find […]

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CCP Podcast 018: Mechanical Ventilation…. Nov 11, 2018

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In this podcast episode I was lucky enough to have a discussion with Ollie Poole who is a respiratory therapist in Canada. I came across Ollies’ YouTube site Respiratory Review and was very impressed with his series on mechanical ventilation helping to explain some of the terminology and reasoning behind how we ventilate patients. He […]

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CCP Podcast 023: Wash Your Mouth Out!! Nov 11, 2018

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Reducing ventilator associated pneumonia in adult patients through high standards of oral care: A historical control study Lee Cutler, Paula Sluman. Intensive and Critical care Nursing. 2014 Consultant Nurse Lee Cutler discusses the study he was involved in with his colleague Paula Sluman. Ventilator associated pneumonia is a big problem in the critical care environment so […]

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CCP Podcast: Happy Christmas 2015 Nov 11, 2018

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Happy Christmas…thats all! Happy Christmas…thats all!

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CCP Podcast 048:RSI- Which Drug? Nov 11, 2018

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RSI My good friend Dr. Nitin Arora and I had a discussion about the various combinations of drugs which can be used during a rapid sequence induction or RSI and the reasons for giving them. Sometimes its not always evident why the doctor wants the drugs he asks for. Hopefully, in this podcast, some of […]

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CCP Podcast 082: FICE…Just Do It! Nov 11, 2018

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This is a conversation I had with Marcus Peck (@ICUltrasonica) who is the chair of the FICE committee (Focussed Intensive Care Echocardiography) and Hannah Conway who is an ACCP at Glenfield Hospital and is VERY qualified when it comes to ultrasound and echocardiography. It would seem that Marcus and colleagues are very keen for us to do echo! […]

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