Tasty Morsels of Critical Care

Bite size chunks of critical care medicine targeted at fellowship exam preparation

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 091 | Pulmonary Embolism Management

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This is the second of 2 parts on PE in critical care. The first focused on risk stratification and this one will focus on management. There is a link to ... Read More »

11-24
10:59

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 090 | Pulmonary Embolism Risk Stratification

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. I haven’t managed to cover PE on the podcast yet. I have been involved in lots of small PE projects over the years and have developed something of an interest ... Read More »

11-10
08:03

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 089 | Hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Hypertriglyceridaemua induced pancreatitis came up at a recent trainee presentation and I thought despite it being pretty niche and rare, it’s still common enough that it might be fair game ... Read More »

09-29
04:32

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 088 | Acute Liver Failure

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re going to try and cover the not insubstantial topic of acute liver failure from Oh’s Manual chapter 44. As you can imagine this will be a superficial skim ... Read More »

09-15
09:22

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 087 | Diabetes Insipidus

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we look at the other diabetes. We are of course all familiar with the sweet urine of diabetes mellitus but this time we will look at the tasteless or ... Read More »

09-01
06:01

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 086 | Heparin Induced Thrombocytopaenia

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Following on from the recent post on Heparin, today we’re going to talk about one of its more significant complications – Heparin Induced Thromboyctopaenia or HIT for short. In my ... Read More »

03-03
06:16

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 084 | Empyema

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Following on from our initial post in this entirely accidental series on “things you don’t want to find in the chest drain” we turn our eyes (if not our noses) ... Read More »

10-14
05:55

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 083 | Chylothorax

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we look at quite a niche topic, that of chylothorax. We are used to many things in the pleural space, like simple fluid or blood or air but the ... Read More »

09-30
03:32

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 082 | Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. We’re going to cover a bit of an environmental/tox topic today and look at carbon monoxide poisoning from Oh’s manual chapter 83 on burns. I have previously covered this on ... Read More »

06-10
05:48

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 081 | Pulmonary Hypertension ICU management strategies

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. We’ve been talking about pulmonary hypertension, last time we had a pretty broad overview with a focus on group 1 or pulmonary arterial hypertension. This time we’re going to go ... Read More »

05-27
07:49

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 080 | Pulmonary Hypertension Overview

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This time we’re looking at pulmonary hypertension. Mainly cause I recently had to give a talk on it so it’s fresh in my rapidly diminishing brain cells and thought I ... Read More »

05-13
07:42

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 079 | Hyponatraemia – management

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Last time i was butchering my way through a diagnostic approach to hyponatraemia, particularly the forms likely to end up in the critical care end of the hospital. This time ... Read More »

04-29
05:03

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 078 | Hyponatraemia – diagnostic approach

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we cover an incredibly common inpatient issue – hypnatraemia. We’ll often find 1 or 2 of these in our high dependency unit at any given time, mainly due to ... Read More »

04-16
06:33

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 077 | Thyroid emergencies

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’ll cover some key exam content, all be it not something you’re likely to run into in the ICU too often. The thyroid is a deceptive little organ, tucked ... Read More »

01-22
06:58

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 076 | VV ECMO

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’ll talk about one of the niche and shall I say “advanced” in inverted commas therapies in intensive care practice. ECMO. And to be precise we’ll be talking about ... Read More »

01-08
11:47

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 075 | Vasopressin

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Way back in the way back in tasty morsel number 43 we discussed inotropes and vasopressors but there was a noticeable AHD analogue shaped hole in that post that i ... Read More »

10-30
07:36

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 074 | Dynamic LV outflow tract obstruction

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re going to verge into challenging territory for an audio podcast in that we’re going to the discuss the very visual topic of dynamic LV outflow tract obstruction. This ... Read More »

10-16
09:54

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 073 | Hepatorenal syndrome

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Following hot on the heels of tasty morsel number 72 on cardio renal syndrome is its partner in nephron injury: hepatorenal syndrome. This gets covered in a sub section of ... Read More »

09-18
07:03

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 072 | Cardiorenal syndrome

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we tackle a somewhat nebulous syndrome. Something we throw around with a few hand wavy explanations but often light on detail. Hopefully in a few minutes you’ll at least ... Read More »

07-03
07:44

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 071 | Non invasive ventilation in the ICU

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Oh Chapter 37 is dedicated to NIV in the ICU and is probably worth some time given that this is a common respiratory support both in the ICU and throughout ... Read More »

03-27
07:50

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