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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
The PicPod project has hit 50 episodes, a milestone we never imagined we would reach. We hope you have found these podcasts informative and useful. Here’s to the next 50! For this special anniversary episode we have three very special Read more…
One of the extraordinary aspects of the pathophysiology of COVID-19 is the so-called “Cytokine Storm”. This is implicated both in the adult type condition, and as part of the PIMTS-TS / MIS-C condition. We were lucky to spend time talking Read more…