Bronchiolitis is THE standard illness for paediatric intensivists. Dozens of patients every season, all the same age, size, and type But are they the same? What is bronchiolitis? How should we treat it? Does High Flow Nasal Cannulae treatment work: Read more
Our patients are sick and it makes sense that they need lots of blood. Surely more blood means more oxygen to the tissues which is good… or is it? Why are things not so clear? When should we transfuse our Read more
Nutrition on children’s intensive care is difficult and is not always a priority. The focus is on survival and the ABC, not the niceties of feeding. However our patients are in an extreme metabolic state and may well be catabolic. Read more
In PicPod 12 we revisit some of the themes of PicPod 6. Sedation is difficult to get right, and we can do much harm if we give too much, or not enough. How bad are some of the drugs we Read more
Picpod 11 puts it all in to context. Hans Jorg Lang is an intensivist who works with Medicins Sans Frontiers in a variety of countries in Sub Sahara Africa, including Malawi and Congo. Including a guest appearance by David Bird, Read more
Picpod 10 is based on an interview with Pat Kochanek from Pittsburgh, who is also the editor in chief of PCCM. He has done much lab based and patient based work on traumatic brain injury, and talks about the next Read more
PicPod 9 features Joseph Manning, who specialises in research in to the family centered outcomes of PIC patients. We get so caught up in the technicalities of our patients, do we forget to look after the wider family? Who looks Read more
With excellent timing (see the NEJM publication of the PARAMEDIC2 study), Mike Shepherd from Starship Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand discusses the use of adrenaline in paediatric cardiac arrest. Does it work? What does “work” mean? Is the outcome return Read more
Welcome to PicPod 7. Martin Kneyber from the Netherlands was kind enough to talk to me in Singapore. He is part of the PROSpect trial, which is a 2×2 trial in to HFOV / conventional ventilation, and prone/supine positioning. Should Read more
How sedated should our patients be? How should we sedate our patients? Two similar but actually different questions. Monique van Dijk from Rotterdam was part of a debate in Singapore: should patients be sedated more deeply, or should they have Read more