Coming this September: a proper face to face conference IS BACK! The 2022 Paediatric Critical Care Society Conference, held in Leicester on the 14-16th September 2022, will be packed full of mind-expanding workshops, cross cutting plenary topics, and focussed sessions Read more
Severe TBI is a difficult, frustrating condition to treat. The secondary injury process occurs despite our best efforts: and our monitoring tools are incredibly blunt. Physiological parameters change when it’s too late: ICP is a localised and at times unreliable Read more
For the June Paediatric Critical Care Society Hot Topics Webinar series, we have interviewed one of the the speakers Barney Scholefield from Birmingham, an expert in the field of Post Cardiac Arrest care. First of all: what is cardiac arrest? Read more
We were invited to chair a session at the 2022 Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group meeting at St Mary’s Hospital in London. This is a national meeting of research interested PIC clinicians. Two excellent speakers contributed. Chris Gale is Read more
Paediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (PARDS) is one of the very difficult situations which paediatric intensivists fear. As part of the UK Paediatric Critical Care Society Hot Topics series, this PicPod episode interviews Heidi Flori, Clinical Associate Professor at the Read more
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