We were invited to chair a session at the 2022 Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group meeting at St Mary’s Hospital in London. This is a national meeting of research interested PIC clinicians. Two excellent speakers contributed. Chris Gale is a neonatologist who has led the WHEAT trial, in to Read more…
Paediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (PARDS) is one of the very difficult situations which paediatric intensivists fear. As part of the UK Paediatric Critical Care Society Hot Topics series, this PicPod episode interviews Heidi Flori, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, and PALICC member, who was a speaker Read more…
We are pleased to announce that in the coming weeks the UK Paediatric Critical Care Society (https://pccsociety.uk/, @PICSociety, soon to be @PCCSociety) is going to be joining up its educational resources run by its members. In this short podcast we explain the strategy. First we have Akash Deep, chair of Read more…
Some conditions are rare. Some conditions are difficult to understand. Some conditions are difficult to treat. ADEM is all 3. A sometimes devastating condition affecting completely normal children, ADEM is an upsetting and challenging condition. Treatment this aggressively is important. Mainstays of treatment are steroids, IVIG, and plasma exchange. But: Read more…
PicPod 55 was all about Lactate: this one’s about the opposite (in some ways): Oxygen. Mark Peters is a professor of Paediatric Intensive Care at Great Ormond St Hospital in London. He is leading the Oxy-PICU trial, looking at whether a targeted saturation of 88-92% is different to 94-98% in Read more…
Lactate, the intensivist’s friend and the athlete’s enemy. As intensivists we always ask about the lactate as it’s a great indicator of problems afoot. But where does it come from? What does it signify? Is lactate itself actually bad? Does it cause damage? Does CRRT reduce lactate (hint: yes, but Read more…
From the 8th to the 14th May 2021 the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) organised a very impressive, continent by continent programme of events to celebrate, discuss, and share PIC around the world. To mark this we invited four really special guests to the PicPod: Read more…
The news has been full of pictures of the Covid situation in Brazil. In a huge and diverse country, control seemed to have been lost. We have interviewed Fatima Marinho and Ana Bierrenbach from Sao Paulo who work for a non governmental organisation (Vital Strategies) which is keeping track of Read more…
Extraordinary times need extraordinary solutions. The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has caused global health and economic devastation. But humanity is fighting back. It is an incredible effort of humankind to create vaccines in less than a year. But not only have we been able to create vaccines, we have created them in Read more…
Bronchiolitis (remember that condition) will come back, and it will again be the staple of the PICU winter. It’s our bread and butter: but are we doing the right thing? Becky Mitting from St Mary’s in London has just published experience from three centres in London, all very close together, Read more…