The Critical Care Practitioner
The right ventricle is often overlooked in critical care in favour of the attention to the left side of the heart. But acute right heart failure is important and today on the podcast we discuss its implications for critical care.
 
My guest is Barbara McLean, a critical care nurse practitioner from Atlanta, GA. You can follow her on twitter @criticalbarbara or her website at www.barbaramclean.com.
 
Repessé et al. Acute Cor Pulmonale in ARDS, 2015 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25560864
 
Chemla et al. Haemodynamic evaluation of pulmonary hypertension, 2002
 
Haddad, et al. Right Ventricular Function in Cardiovascular Disease, 2008
 
Mebazza, et al. Acute right ventricular failure - from pathophysiology to new treatments, 2004
 
Jardin, et al. Monitoring of right‐sided heart function, 2005
 
McLean, et al. Hemodynamics of Acute Right Heart Failure in Mechanically Ventilated Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, 2015
Direct download: Acute_Right_Heart_Failure_-_1_17_19_9.49_AM.mp3
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I was lucky enough to be able to join Tanj and Dale Needham in this conversation at the ICS State of the Art conference 2018 in London. We discuss some of the ongoing issues with delirium in the critical care patient and how we might help them in prevention.

Direct download: Dale_Needham.mp3
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Palliative Care in the ICU

All too often, we see critical care and palliative care as opposites, but they really go together nicely. Today on the podcast, we talk with Dr. Jessica McFarlin (@JessMcFarlinMD) about palliative care and how we can integrate it into the care of our ICU patients.
 
Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC): https://www.capc.org/
 
 
The Society of Critical Care Medicine has more information about the Care and Communication Bundle: http://learnicu.net/Communications/Critical-Connections/Archives/Pages/Improving-Palliative-Care---The-Care-and-Communication-Bundle.aspx
Direct download: CCP_Podcast_101_Palliative_Care.mp3
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