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
We are all under Covid stress at the moment: patients, parents, and staff. To discuss the ethics of the situation we have two more special guests: Erin Talati Paquette, Assistant Professor of Paediatric Critical Care at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Associate chair of the ethics advisory board , associate Read more
PicPod 37 continues our theme of international interviews on the theme of Covid. Martin Kneyber is a paediatric intensivist from Groningen in the Netherlands, Chair of scientific affairs of ESPNIC, and lead author of the just published guidelines on mechanical ventilation in Covid children. Jimena del Castillo is a paediatric Read more
Covid-19 is everything at the moment. Much of the world has been affected: the parts which have not are about to be. But what about seriously ill children? For PicPod 36 we have a discussion between your regular PicPod-ers and three guests from around the world who have all been Read more
It’s a difficult time for all of PICU with coronavirus causing international devastation. Stay safe everyone, work hard, do your best. At the 2019 PICS/PCICS conference in London, Simon Nadel gave a talk on the use of ECMO in very severe sepsis. There is little which is more frightening in Read more
Lots of us look after major trauma patients: but I can almost guarantee that no one has looked after trauma to the scale of Shehan Hettiaratchy. He gave a fascinating talk at the 2019 PICS/PCICS conference based around his experiences of major combat trauma in Afghanistan. The survival rate for Read more
Ruchi Sinha is a consultant in PICU in St Mary’s, London, where she works in conjunction with the infectious diseases team to plan the UK’s response to High Consequence Infectious Diseases. These are the scary ones: Ebola, Hantavirus, Lassa Fever, the novel coronaviruses, etc. These are the diseases which have Read more
Peter Rimensberger is an intensivist in Geneva, well known for his work on ventilation. PicPod interviewed him during the PICS/PCICS conference in London in November. NAVA (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist) mode uses an oesophageal probe to sense diaphragmatic electrical impulse, and adds ventilatory power to assist depending on how much Read more