Tasty Morsels of Critical Care
Andy Neill
Bite size chunks of critical care medicine targeted at fellowship exam preparation
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Dec 7, 2020 • 3min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 010 | Cardiac disease in pregnancy
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Critical illness in pregnancy is remarkably rare given the somewhat bonkers system for reproduction that we seem to have evolved over the past million or years. Improved care of complex ... Read More »
Dec 3, 2020 • 4min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 009 | The ESPEN 2018 Nutrition Guidelines
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. As an EM trainee doing intensive care I will confess that I struggle to work up the enthusiasm to cover a nutrition guideline. With my deepest apologies to all the ... Read More »
Nov 30, 2020 • 4min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 008 | Decompressive Craniectomy for Stroke
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Just to be clear up front we’re going to be talking about taking the lid off for stroke, NOT taking the lid off for TBI. I will get to TBI ... Read More »
Nov 26, 2020 • 5min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 007 | Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Pneumocystis Jriovecii Pneumonia, the infection formerly known as Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia The official change in name from Carinii to Jirovecii was in the late 1990s to emphasise the distinct organism ... Read More »
Nov 23, 2020 • 3min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 006 | Chylothorax
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re talking about chylothorax, not something I’ve not had the joy of managing as yet. Chyle is produced through digestion and absorption of emulsified fats from the small intestine. ... Read More »
Nov 19, 2020 • 3min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 005 | Submersion
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. One would think that the term drowning should be relatively straightforward, however there have been a plethora of descriptions including wet drowning, dry drowning and near drowning. These have all ... Read More »
Nov 14, 2020 • 4min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 004 | Transplant drugs
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. All of these posts are simplifications of much more complex topics but when it comes to the immunosuppressants used in solid organ transplant I’m wading out of my depth even ... Read More »
Nov 1, 2020 • 5min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 003 | Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. DKA is bread and butter for critical care providers. In fact the combination of bread and butter in the absence of insulin is a core part of the pathophysiology of ... Read More »
Oct 28, 2020 • 5min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 002 | Diastolic dysfunction in the ICU
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. In the main we get excited about systolic dysfunction. We obsess over the ejection fraction with numbers like EF of 12% being reproduced recurrently in handover sheets. But this is ... Read More »
Oct 28, 2020 • 5min
Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 001 | Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenic Purpura
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. TTP is a lovely ICU diagnosis. Not so much for the patient but it’s one of those ones that is niche enough to not have been picked up via the ... Read More »
