Critical Care Practitioner
Summary: Jonathan Downham is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, in the UK and Bryan Boling is a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner in the US. both of whom have a desire to share with like-minded people. Discover new resources in the physical and virtual worlds to help improve your practice, from websites with direct links to critical care and intensive care to those websites which make your life as an internet learner easier. Social media as a powerful learning and networking tool, using Twitter, YouTube and Linkedin to their maximum potential. Current research and the discussions about that research happening amongst practitioners on the internet and how that research can be implemented. News from current conferences and interviews with others practising in critical care. A site for a variety of people from those working in the critical care field to paramedics and physiotherapists, to practitioners working in specialties other than critical care.
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- Artist: Jonathan Downham: Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, Teaching, Sharing and Interviewing.
- Copyright: Copyright: Critical Care Practitioner 2014
Podcasts:
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 [...]
Why Won’t My Patient Sleep! The Intensive Care patient will often lie awake at night, eyes wide open, clearly with no intention of sleeping. So why won’t the intensive care patient sleep? Perhaps we need to understand what happens during normal sleep and take it from there….. Stages of sleep Sleep is divided into non-rapid [...]
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. Interview Questions for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners [...]
ACCPs skills are many and varied as those of you who do the job will know. My friend Gavin Denton (@DentonGavin) has conducted 3 different audits along with his colleagues at the Heart of England NHS trust. In this podcast he presents some of the very interesting findings. I think it proves that we are very worth the time [...]
David Barton is Head of Department of Nursing at Swansea University and has been very involved in the development of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role both locally and nationally. This discussion centres around his history and some of the issues in the development of the role as well as some thoughts for the future. There [...]
I love the world of social media. It was through the medium of Twitter that I was able to connect with James DuCanto (@jducanto)who is an anesthesiologist at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. Gavin Denton (@DentonGavin) and I picked his brains about some of the pitfalls in intubation especially for those not so experienced but [...]
Three more papers of the month for us to peruse. This time Gavin (@DentonGavin) and I are also joined by Sean Munnelly (@seanmunn). The CLASSIC trial. Restricting volumes of resuscitation fluid in adults with septic shock after initial management: the CLASSIC randomised, parallel-group, multicentre feasibility trial. Hjortrup et al. Intensive Care Med. 2016 Nov;42(11):1695-1705. Epub [...]
“Magnesium For the Win!”- with Bryan Boling. Guest: Habib Srour Dr. Srour is an attending in the Anesthesia Critical Care Division at the University of Kentucky where I practice. The episode is the first in a mini-series on electrolyte imbalances in the ICU. I hope to record an episode on hyponatremia soon. In the episode, [...]
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 [...]
NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is an exciting new podcast project with Jonny Wilkinson (@WilkinsonJonny) who is an anaesthetist and Intensive Care Consultant at Northampton hospital He has a website, Critical Care Northampton, from where he does regular reviews of some of the many issues one can find on Twitter. During this podcast, [...]
This is a chat about the ICU patient with problems with their swallow or dysphagia, I had with Martin Brodsky (@MBBrodskyPhD), who is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a clinician, researcher and educator with interests in swallowing and swallowing disorders, head and [...]
I think this might be one of the most important podcasts I have ever done along with the next in the series. This is the first of two podcasts covering the latest NCEPOD paper on Non-Invasive Ventilation. This can also be found on the NCEPOD web page, but they also kindly agreed to allow me [...]
CCP Podcast 026 was myself and Ken Spearpoint (@K_G_Spearpoint) talking about some of the issues around Crew resource Management. We continue the conversation in this episode and maybe even arrive at some conclusions….maybe!! Originally posted 2015-02-11 20:38:55. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCCP Podcast 026 was myself and Ken Spearpoint (@K_G_Spearpoint) talking about some of [...]
Dorothy Wade works as a chartered health psychologist in the Critical Care Unit at UCH. She is registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, and has a PhD in psychology and health care evaluation from University College London. She is available to support patients, families and staff in Critical Care. [...]
The psychology of our patients, their relatives and the staff we work with is under discussion in this podcast. I managed to get Megan Hosey (@DrMeganHoseyPhD), a psychologist from Johns Hopkins, Dr Julie Highfield (@DrJulie_H), a psychologist from Cardiff and Dorothy Wade (@dwadepsych) a psychologist from London together to discuss these important issues. We talk about [...]
