Liz Whittaker, consultant in Infectious diseases at St Mary’s Hospital in London, talks to us about Group A Strep in children. Over the past month or so the UK has had a huge surge in invasive Group A Streptococcal infection in children. Trainees up and down the country have rapidly Read more…
We all “know” of the clear respiratory support escalator: air, oxygen, CPAP, BiPAP, Invasive ventilation. But where does High Flow fit in? What parameters should we use to determine when and how to use it? Ram from Imperial/St Mary’s in London led the two-armed First ABC trial, the largest and Read more…
Without statistics, studies are just words. We need some way of translating data in to messages. More and more we read about studies which are using the mysterious Bayesian approach. How does this compare to the standard “frequentist” approach? What are the differences in data collection, analysis, messaging, and interpretation? Read more…
Everyone has now heard of Cytokine Storms. It’s the thing with Covid: and why Covid was so severe in so many patients. However, what is a cytokine storm? What are the “good” cytokines, and what are the “bad” ones? How do we differentiate, and what can we do about it? Read more…
Our second podcast linked to the 2022 PCCS Conference in Leicester, September 2022, with Mike Farquhar, sleep consultant at Evelina Children’s Hospital, and Sapna Kudchadkar from Johns Hopkins. This podcast went live at the time of Mike’s talk at the conference. Take a walk around a paediatric intensive care unit. Read more…
Big Data. Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. All very 2022, all very trendy. But how can this help our practice in Paediatric Intensive Care? Heather Duncan, consultant intensivist in Birmingham, has been working for many years with AI and Machine Learning, including input from the MacLaren F1 team. What is Big Read more…
In conjunction with the 2022 Leicester Paediatric Critical Care Society Conference, we have FIVE podcasts being released this week. Thursday: Big Data To Detect Clinical Deterioration with Heather Duncan Friday: Sleep in PICU with Michael Farquhar and Sapna KudchakarCytokine Storm in PICU with Joe CarcilloEvolution of Critical Care Trials from Read more…
Coming this September: a proper face to face conference IS BACK! The 2022 Paediatric Critical Care Society Conference, held in Leicester on the 14-16th September 2022, will be packed full of mind-expanding workshops, cross cutting plenary topics, and focussed sessions on a breadth of PCC issues for all members of Read more…
Severe TBI is a difficult, frustrating condition to treat. The secondary injury process occurs despite our best efforts: and our monitoring tools are incredibly blunt. Physiological parameters change when it’s too late: ICP is a localised and at times unreliable measure. CPP is two steps away from cerebral blood flow. Read more…
For the June Paediatric Critical Care Society Hot Topics Webinar series, we have interviewed one of the the speakers Barney Scholefield from Birmingham, an expert in the field of Post Cardiac Arrest care. First of all: what is cardiac arrest? How do we define it, and how do we classify Read more…