The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to the origin story of PULMCRIT! 

In this episode, we cover how best to practically monitor the balance between oxygenation, oxygen delivery and oxygen consumption. Controversial to say the least.

Come take a listen, and learn about the pulsatility index, a space we should all be watching for in the future.

We are back! Come dust off our shows spot in your favourite podcast app, and listen to why its important to hunt for SBP like it's the Red October (forgive the Sean Connery reference, I had too). We cover diagnosis (aka tap-y-tap) and treatment. 

In this episode, we cover that scary presentation where your patient goes from seemingly well, to skin melting off and in multi organ failure.

Come take a listen for all things clinical presentation, anti-toxin antibiotics regimes, skin cut downs and surgical debridement.

In this episode, you get a two-for-one. Come for the hypophosphatemia, stay for the hyperphosphatemia.

Contrast induced nephropathy is the "white walker" of critical care and emergency medicine. Come take a listen as we discuss the potential error in creating a clinically non-meaningful entity, and how we should address this in our daily clinical work.

In this episode we cover all those big highlights for infective endocarditis. Come solidify your approach to clinical presentation of both left and right sided disease, approach to imaging, and empiric therapy. We've even got the hot topic of dual coverage down!

In this episode we cover the finer points of the high stakes resuscitation of VF / VT "Storm."

Come get a solid approach to identification, resuscitation and nuanced management.

Have you ever seen that patient with a bicarb of 6 and a lactate of 14, and they are just smiling at you and texting their spouse about taxes? In this episode, we explore the direct, indirect, and obscured role that metformin can play in your critical care patients. Come listen for all things diagnosis, classification and some special discussion around GIK, Methylene Blue and when to spin that dialysis machine.

This often mis-understood "penicillin allergy" can have far more dire impacts on the population you would think. Come take a listen and explore the pathophysiology of R1-side chain impact on true allergy, what to do about it, and how it impacts antimicrobial selection and use.

In this episode, we've got you covered for this hypertensive emergency that you need to know cold. Come take a listen for all things around diagnosis, risk factors, clinical presentation, labs and treatment. We've got your magnesium. We've got your labetolol. We even have a few new tricks for hemolysis.