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, 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, Read more
Paul Kemp is a molecular biologist from Imperial College, London, who researches the genomics of muscle wasting in critical illness. Some surprising numbers here: how fast is our normal muscle turnover? What is the rate of critical illness myopathy, and Read more
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 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 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? 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 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 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 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 Read more