COVID-19 has devastated the world, with millions of deaths and socio-economic disasters. Medicine has been fighting back hard, with some incredible examples of research answering the important questions at breakneck speed. The RECOVERY trial is the one which has answered questions on Dexamethasone, Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromicin, Lopinavir-Ritonavir, and now convalescent plasma Read more…
Kathy Wilkinson is the lead author and project co-lead for the The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes for Long Term Ventilation Hilary Cass leads the CoLab project: Partnership throughpaediatric complexity, and is the former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. They both gave excellent talks Read more…
Most people retire and take up a suitable hobby. Pat Weir however moved from the PICU in Bristol, a large cardiac surgical unit, to Malawi to continue her work there. She spoke eloquently at the 2020 E-PCCS conference about her experiences, and agreed to an interview on the topic. The Read more…
Nutrition is important: but as we discussed way back in PicPod 13, nutrition should be at the right time, at the right amount. Luise Marino is the senior dietician at the PIC in Southampton. She gave an excellent talk at the 2020 E-PCCS conference on refeeding syndrome. Children admitted to Read more…
It’s one of the miracles of medicine that we are able to help patients in need of new organs, and it’s one of the miracles of humanity that about to be bereaved parents have the generosity to donate their child’s organs. But the process only works if we can keep Read more…
The seriously low-tone baby is a heartsink diagnosis for intensivists. Knowing that this perfect looking baby is looking at a lifetime of severe disability, with full consciousness, is such a difficult journey for the patient, the parents, and the whole team around them. However, in the past few years some Read more…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many PICUs took adult patients. Although initially taking “older adolescents” was planned, it rapidly became clear that patients of any age would need to come to PICU. For PicPod 42 we discuss these issues with the King’s Hospital, London team. Starring are Richard Long, a 78 Read more…
Were you surprised by the COVID-19 pandemic? If you were (and I was), you haven’t been paying attention. Pandemics are constantly threatening: in the past few decades we have had HIV, MERS, SARS, H1N1, Zika, and Ebola. Mike Osterholm is the Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, Read more…
We have experienced an amazing development in Paediatric Intensive care over the past few months. Out of nowhere, a raft of patients with similar but highly unusual presentations started appearing in PICs across Europe and parts of the US, lagging behind the COVID-19 curve by around 4-6 weeks, but not Read more…
So much of the conversation around Covid-19 has been from the well resourced, high income countries. A pandemic is bad enough when a country has almost unlimited funds to throw at the problem: but what is it like in areas where this is not the case? For this podcast we Read more…