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Welcome to the first of our podcasts using interviews recorded during the 2019 PICS/PCICS conference in London in November. Anthony Bennett was one of the opening speakers. Almost ten years ago, aged 16, he became seriously unwell and underwent three weeks of ECMO, and had twelve cardiac arrests. Since then Read more…

The Tracheostomy: is it a short cut to discharge, or of significant benefit to the patients? What are the risks, and what are the benefits? When should a tracheostomy be done? Are there benefits in the short and long term to going early or late? What is the evidence, and Read more…

Sepsis is everywhere. We hear lots of news stories about sepsis patients, and the solution seems easy. Follow the guidelines, identify sepsis, and treat it early. As always it’s not so simple. How is sepsis defined? How is it identified? And which patients need urgent treating? Are the current sepsis Read more…

PicPod 27 is about death. We try so hard to stop our patients from dying, and yet we cannot stop all of them. How have death rates changed over the past 30 years? Have the patients dying changed? Has the mode of death changed? Is this because of better treatment, Read more…

We are better at making children survive. But are we better at making them survive well? What are the trends in survival and outcome quality over time? There is obvious benefit to children needing PIC, but does PIC do harm to patients? How can we minimise this? What kind of Read more…

This episode is a three way discussion including Mark Russell, currently a senior fellow in Adelaide. In a Dickensian manner, we have a PIC consultant past, present, and future. What is it like? How does it feel? When you turn up to a resuscitation, and your badge says PIC consultant, Read more…

Patients with status epilepticus are one of the most common reasons for admission to Paediatric Intensive Care. There are two important questions: when should we stop the seizure, and how? We go through evidence of when harm increases with a seizure. Can we define a threshold of when we need Read more…

Welcome to PicPod 23. This episode we talk about new technology on PICU. Does Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) work? Is it worthwhile? Does it help our assessment of the patient? Should we throw away our stethoscopes? Including an interview with Michael Griksaitis, POCUS aficionado, and co-founder of the UK Read more…