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Critical Care Practitioner Podcast | Intensive Care Society

Dec 13, 2018

TopMedTalk catches up with another online media source, The Critical Care Practitioner podcast, organised by our guest who - appropriately enough - is a critical care practitioner. What's it like being a critical care practitioner in the UK at the moment? Originally a lot of nurses moved into the sphere but...

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Nasogastric feeding | Intensive Care Society

Dec 13, 2018

How is it the case that some people can lose significant muscle mass while they are being cared for on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)? What can practitioners do to help avoid this? How do we integrate a dynamic stimulus and react to new research relating to nasogastric feeding?
 
In this piece you will hear about a...

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Point of care ultrasound | Intensive Care Society

Dec 13, 2018

How essential is training in focused transthoracic echo for adult intensive care? Ultrasound technology has evolved in recent years, some people say handheld devices look set to become as ubiquitous as a doctor's stethoscope. Could the nurse at the bedside get more involved in the process or is it...

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Nutrition | Intensive Care Society

Dec 13, 2018

This piece starts with a discussion about indirect calorimetry and the challenges associated with it as well as recent improvements in the field. The penn state equation is discussed. Muscle wastage and the need for resistence training, as well as protein feeding is covered.
 
More widely; what does good ICU feeding...

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Mike of the antarctic | Intensive Care Society

Dec 13, 2018

Fresh from an expedition to Antarctica, on the National Geographic Explorer, Mike Grocott gives us an update on the "Anaesthesia at the Extreme" conference.

Regular listeners will remember his excellent talk about Xtreme Everest, which you can find here:

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