Nudge nudge…. a favourite of politicians and social commentators, but how can nudge technology help us in ventilation weaning? Lisa McIlmurray has been working on a pilot study of nudge technology attached to a ventilator. How does this help to move patients on? What are the algorithms used in this Read more…
Change is hard….isn’t it? We spoke to Rebecca Lawton, a professor of Psychology from the University of Leeds, who is an expert in patient safety; behaviour change; improvement science; workforce engagement and wellbeing. Why is change so difficult? Who is it most difficult for? And how do we convince individuals, Read more…
First, do no harm… How much of the things we do every day are worthwhile? We all do so many interventions, but are they actually worthwhile? Some may be ineffective, some inefficient, and some may be harmful. But which is which? How do we find out whether we should, or Read more…
Calum Semple is a respiratory and infectious disease professor in Liverpool. He has been part of the governmental advice team for pandemics since before COVID. We spoke to him in advance of his talk at the 2024 PCCS conference What is the frequency of pandemics? Is the 1918 Spanish Flu Read more…
Nicola Disma, an anaesthetist in Genoa, Italy, is lead author on the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care guidelines on airway management in neonates and infants, published in full text here. We discussed all things airway. Video laryngoscopes: useful, mandatory, or deskilling? “Normal” video blade or hyperangulated? Oxygen during Read more…
From the 2023 PediCritiCon conference in Pune, India, I was lucky enough to chat with Bala Ramachandran from Chennai. He gave a great talk on precision medicine, its implications, and what the future may hold. What’s the difference between personalised medicine and precision medicine? How does it differ to “usual” Read more…
Much research is technical and esoteric. Some research is fundamental and answers questions we want to answer every day. Often the first is easy to do (just add a lab and equipment), but the second is really, really hard. Mark Peters and team have just published the OxyPICU trial in Read more…
PicPod went to the 2023 PediCritiCon conference in Pune, India. It was a superb conference full of content, learning, and Bollywood dancing…! We sat down with Brenda Morrow, Professor of Paediatrics at the Red Cross Hospital in Cape Town, physiotherapist, and president of the World Federation of Paediatric Intensive and Read more…
At the PCCS2023 conference Harish and I were delighted to be invited to be a part of the conference. We were interviewed on stage by Zoltan Gyorgyi and Peter Donnelly, who asked us about the birth of PicPod, the process, and some highlights and lowlights. Unfortunately questions from the audience Read more…
At the PCCS2023 conference in Edinburgh, we were lucky enough to meet David Cooper from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He gave a great talk on high reliability teams, and afterwards we chatted to him about his programme. We discuss hierarchies: when are hierarchies good, and when are they bad? Is democracy Read more…