Best Sesar Podcasts (2025)

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Beyond Digital Towers: Airport Digitisation and the Great Data Convergence 54:33

10d ago54:33

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Aviation is at a crossroads. On one side is the familiarity of legacy systems, including decades-old air traffic control infrastructure and manual ground operations. On the other is the promise of digital transformation: smarter flight management, real-time operational insights, and seamless passenger experiences driven by advanced technologies. Wi…

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New: REMAP-CAP Steroids 40:02

10d ago40:02

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 64! We talk more about steroids in severe community acquired pneumonia with "Effect of hydrocortisone on mortality in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia : The REMAP-CAP Corticosteroid Domain Randomized Clinical Trial" published in Intensive Care Medicine Ap…

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New/Old: PEERLESS and PEITHO 50:27

24d ago50:27

50:27

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 63! We talk about intermediate risk PE in "Large-Bore Mechanical Thrombectomy Versus Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis in the Management of Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism" by Jaber et al published in Circulation in February 2025. Then we talk about "Fibrinolysis for pa…

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ISICEM Review and SESAR 48:46

1M ago48:46

48:46

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 62! We talk briefly about two of the analyses that dropped with the ISICEM conference and then talk in depth about SESAR or "Inhaled Sedation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" by Jabudon et al in JAMA 2025. Then was answer a question on sleep in the ICU. Eddie did m…

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Time Flies: A decade of smarter, greener air traffic management 46:40

2M ago46:40

46:40

A decade ago, NATS became the first air traffic management service in the world to introduce Time-Based Separation in a groundbreaking collaboration with Heathrow Airport and Leidos UK. Since then, it has reduced carbon emissions by 300,000 tonnes, saved airlines 100,000 tonnes of fuel and cut headwind-related delays by 62%, something that’s helped…

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New/Review: Extubating to HFNC 46:47

2M ago46:47

46:47

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 61! We talk about HFNC including extubation to HFNC in "Early weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation via high-flow nasal oxygen versus conventional weaning in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure" by Ayyawar et al published in Critical Care Science. Then we t…

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SCCM: PROACTIVE and ASA in sepsis 45:15

2M ago45:15

45:15

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 60! We jump to SCCM where we talk about 2 late breakers - PROACTIVE or "Propranolol As an Anxiolytic to Reduce the Use of Sedatives for Critically Ill Adults Receiving Mechanical Ventilation" by Downar et al and "Acetylsalicylic Acid Treatment in Patients With Sepsis and …

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TRAUMOX2, SAHARA, and mailbag 57:02

3M ago57:02

57:02

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 59! We finish our CCR down under coverage with TRAUMOX2 or "Early Restrictive vs Liberal Oxygen for Trauma Patients" published in JAMA by Arleth et al and then switch to SAHARA or "Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion Strategy in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage" by Engli…

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Cleared for Green? The Future of Sustainable Aviation 48:22

3M ago48:22

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The race to net-zero aviation is on, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. In this month's Altitude we're taking you inside the cutting edge of sustainable flight, where game-changing technology, bold policies, and radical thinking are reshaping the skies. From hydrogen-powered aircraft to AI-driven efficiency, from SAF breakthroughs to the future of …

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Old/New: FLORALI and RENOVATE 56:42

3M ago56:42

56:42

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 58! We talk about non-invasive oxygen support and RENOVATE or "High-Flow Nasal Oxygen vs Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure" published in JAMA December 2024 and presented at the CCR Down Under Conference. We supplement this by first talking…

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CCR Down Under: SCREEN with Adam Wright 1:06:27

4M ago1:06:27

1:06:27

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 57! We were excited to have on this episode Dr. Adam Wright who is a PhD in Bioinformatics to discuss SCREEN or "Electronic Sepsis Screening Among Patients Admitted to Hospital Wards: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial" published by Arabi et al in JAMA 2024 and pres…

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Inside Heathrow's Airport Operations Centre 43:11

4M ago43:11

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Beyond the tower and the terminals lies the APOC – Heathrow’s Airport Operations Centre. From here, up to 50 people from across the airport community are looking after just about every aspect of the Heathrow operation. From responding to suspect packages and monitoring traffic to planning presidential visits, it is all done by the team here. Alongs…

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CCR Down Under: ADAPT-Sepsis 46:03

4M ago46:03

46:03

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 56! In this episode we spend a few minutes talking about making decisions on ECMO initiation but spend most of the episode talking about ADAPT-Sepsis or "Biomarker-Guided Antibiotic Duration for Hospitalized Patients With Suspected Sepsis" published by Dark et al in JAMA …

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2024 Year in Review and CCR Down Under 59:58

5M ago59:58

59:58

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 55 and Happy New Year! In this episode we talk broad strokes about the CCR Down Under Conference and the trials that were presented, then Todd and Eddie go over a bunch of articles from the year 2024 that they didn't have time to go over or want to re-emphasize for whatev…

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New/Old: BALANCE and iDIAPASON 52:01

5M ago52:01

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 54! In this episode we talk about antibiotic duration in bacteremia (BALANCE) and also antibiotic duration in Pseudomonas Ventilator associated pneumonia (iDIAPASON). BALANCE (NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2404991 BALANCE (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi…

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New/New-ish: IVIO and PARAMEDIC-3 34:16

5M ago34:16

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 53! In this episode we talk about access in patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest. Both articles are similar so we talk in depth about IVIO and then bringing PARAMEDIC-3 to round out our discussion. A good acronym discussion too, don't miss it! IVIO (NEJM): https:/…

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New/New: INTREPID and PROLABI 40:42

6M ago40:42

40:42

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 52! In this episode we talk about fevers in acute neurologic injury and double that up with talking about low tidal volume ventilation in patients with neurologic injury INTREPID (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2824088 INTREPID (pubmed): https://…

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LIVE @ CC Bootcamp 2024: NONSEDA 22:32

6M ago22:32

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) We are (were) LIVE at ACNP Critical Care Bootcamp 2024! Thank you to the organizers of the conference for inviting us do a live show and thank you to everyone who came out to listen! We talk about the NONSEDA trial or "Nonsedation or Light Sedation in Critically Ill, Mechanically…

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FAST and IV Fluid Shortage 55:49

7M ago55:49

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 50! In this episode we talk about SBT frequency and "Frequency of Screening and Spontaneous Breathing Trial Techniques" by Burns et al from JAMA 2024 that was released with the ESICM conference. In our second segment, instead of another trial we talk a little bit about th…

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Drones: Redefining Industries, Revolutionising Lives 1:01:45

7M ago1:01:45

1:01:45

From keeping us safe and reducing our climate impact to delivering hot meals in just three minutes – just some of the incredible drone use cases we heard about in a special episode of Altitude recorded at the DroneX Tradeshow & Conference. ✈ Taryn Evans tells us about the National Police Chiefs' Council ambitious drone programme. ✈ Alan Hicks expl…

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LIVE @ CHEST2024: Minocycline for delirium and Amio vs lido for cardiac arrest 52:10

7M ago52:10

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) We are LIVE at CHEST2024! Thank you to the organizers of the conference for inviting us do a live show and thank you to everyone who came out to listen! We talk about a few articles that were recently published in CHEST - "Prophylactic Minocycline for Delirium in Critically Ill P…

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New: Long Term Outcomes of ICU Visitation Policies 35:26

8M ago35:26

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 48! In this episode we talk about the long term effects of ICU visitation policies on families. Long Term Outcomes of Visitation (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39172240/ Long Term Outcomes of Visitation (ICM): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-02…

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New/Guidelines: Cognitive Dissociation and Death by Neurologic Criteria 43:13

8M ago43:13

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 47! In this episode we talk about a prospective observational study examining cognitive motor dissociation by Bodien et al published in the New England Journal of Medicine and then we pair that talking about the guidelines for death by neurologic criteria published in SCC…

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New/Old: TIMELESS and ANDROMEDA-Shock 49:51

9M ago49:51

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 46! In this episode we talk about thrombolytic windows in acute ischemic stroke from TIMELESS published by Albers et al published in the New England Journal of Medicine and then we talk about ANDROMEDA shock and serial lactates published by Hernandez et al! TIMELESS (pubm…

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New/Guidelines: 1-BED and SUP Guidelines 51:51

9M ago51:51

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 45! In this episode we talk about sepsis bundles and the 1-BED trial by Fruend et al and discuss the stress ulcer prophylaxis guidelines just published in SCCM! 1-BED (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38913098/ SUP Guidelines: https://www.sccm.org/Clinical-Resourc…

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CCR24: BLING3 with Joanna Stollings 51:40

10M ago51:40

51:40

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) We were honored to be joined by Joanna Stollings (and honestly we needed someone to keep us grounded) to talk about BLING3 or "Continuous vs Intermittent β-Lactam Antibiotic Infusions in Critically Ill Patients With Sepsis" published in JAMA by Dulhunty et al and also released wi…

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CCR24: HEMOTION and DEFENDER 44:52

10M ago44:52

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 43! In this episode come close to finishing our dedicated discussion of the CCR24 trials talking about transfusion targets in TBI (HEMOTION) and dapagliflozin in critical illness (DEFENDER)! HEMOTION: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2404360 HEMOTION (pubmed): …

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Tips and Advice for Future Trainee Air Traffic Controllers 34:45

11M ago34:45

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NATS has just reopened recruitment for trainee air traffic controllers, but what does that process look like and what kind of career can successful candidates look forward to? In this special episode of Altitude we’re exploring the whole recruitment process, from understanding the requirements and the application process through to assessment and b…

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CCR24: PROTECTION and CYCLE 1:00:06

11M ago1:00:06

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 42! In this episode we foray into weight lifting and body building as we talked about amino acids for kidney protection after cardiac surgery (PROTECTION) and cycling in addition to PT in mechanically ventilated adults (CYCLE). We also feature our first real ad for the Cr…

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CCR24: Brief Overview and REVISE 43:50

11M ago43:50

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 41! We continue our CCR24 recap with a brief overview and thoughts on the conference as a whole and then dive into REVISE or "Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis during Invasive Mechanical Ventilation" published by Cook et al in NEJM June 2024. Not the sexiest of all the topics but …

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CCR24: PREOXI with Kevin Gibbs 1:06:08

11M ago1:06:08

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 40! In this special episode releasing at the conclusion of the PREOXI presentation at the Critical Care Reviews 2024 conference in Belfast, Ireland - we discuss the recently published PREOXI trial evaluating NIV vs facemask as pre-oxygenation for emergent endotracheal int…

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New/Mailbag: APROCCHSS-CAP, Intubation Timing, and Driving Pressure 52:05

12M ago52:05

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 39! In this episode we talk about steroids in septic shock from community acquired pneumonia - a secondary from the APROCCHSS trial. We then dive into our mailbag to talk about a couple of topics we've been asked questions about and address them in a more broad sense. A p…

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Beyond the Beaches: The amazing aviation innovations behind D-Day 45:59

12M ago45:59

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The 6th June 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the Allied invasion of Western Europe during the Second World War and one of the most pivotal days in human history. Most people will be familiar with the sight of the landings in Normandy, but fewer know the story beyond the beaches. D-Day itself saw an incredible 14,674 flights, all hand…

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ATS 2024: Review of NEJM/JAMA/ATS Session 55:03

12M ago55:03

55:03

Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) We're live from ATS! We decide to format our episode after the NEJM/JAMA/ATS combined session and talk about the articles presented there. Some of them we've talked about before but provide new insights from listeners and questions from the audience. Some of them are new and we p…

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Old/New: NICE SUGAR and TGC-Fast 49:28

1y ago49:28

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 37! In this episode we talk about glycemic control in the ICU. We liked the flipped script and so we're again going old article first. NICE-SUGAR or "Intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients" was published in NEJM 2009 and then we talk abou…

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Serving from the skies - London's amazing emergency services pilots 47:54

1y ago47:54

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With such unique requirements, one of the most essential and complex users of our skies are the emergency services. In this month’s Altitude, we’re joined by pilots Captain Andrew Brandt from the National Police Air Service and Captain David Rolfe from London Air Ambulance Service to learn about their amazing life saving work and how collaboration …

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Old/New: HALT-IT and TXA in GI Bleed with cirrhosis 40:48

1y ago40:48

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 36! In this episode we talk about tranexamic acid in GI bleeds. We flip the script a little bit and talk about our OLD article first, HALT-IT or "Tranexamic acid in upper gastrointestinal bleed in patients with cirrhosis: A randomized controlled trial" published in Lancet…

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New/Obs: SPEED UP and Extubation on Pressors 58:35

1y ago58:35

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 35! In this episode we talk about extubation practices with "Effect of aggressive vs conservative screening and confirmatory test on time to extubation among patients at low or intermediate risk: a randomized clinical trial" published in Intensive Care Medicine by Hernand…

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New/New: Oxygen Targets from ISICEM 51:04

1y ago51:04

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 34! In this episode we talk about oxygen targets! Specifically we go over the two oxygen target analyses that were published simultaneously with ISICEM. We spend most of our time with HOT-COVID published by Nielson et al and then dip a little into individualized treatment…

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30 - Shaping our future skies 50:09

1y ago50:09

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From delivering airspace modernisation and integrating drones through to understanding the impact of AI and the ever pressing need to address aviation’s climate impact, the list of priorities for leaders in air traffic management is a long and complex one. Our industry is in the midst of a period of unprecedented change and that’s in addition to de…

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New: VENT-AVOID with Eddy Fan and Whitney Gannon 53:09

1y ago53:09

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 33! In this episode we are excited to be joined by Eddy Fan and Whitney Gannon, two extraordinary ECMO researchers to talk about VENT-AVOID or " Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal to Avoid Invasive Ventilation During Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disea…

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29 - Winter Operations: Finnish Snow-how 45:43

1y ago45:43

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Ice, snow, howling winds and temperatures as low as minus 30.C are hardly ideal conditions to be running an international airport, but that’s the reality for the team at Rovaniemi, Finland’s second busiest airport. In beautiful Lapland, sitting on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the near constant need to clear runways and de-ice aircraft should cons…

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Old/Old/Old: VASST, VANISH, ATHOS-3 1:03:23

1y ago1:03:23

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 32! We got a lot of feedback on our last episode so we decided to address it in a full episode! A lot of listeners asked us about vasopressors specifically vasopressin and angiotensin-2 so we talk about VASST, VANISH, and ATHOS-3. It is a full episode but a good one! VASS…

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Obs/Old: Invasive vs Non-invasive Blood Pressure and 65 Trial 42:00

1+ y ago42:00

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 31! This episode we talk first about invasive vs non-invasive blood pressures from an observational paper titled "Accuracy of Noninvasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Critically Ill Adults" published in journal of Intensive Care Medicine by Haber et al and then for our ol…

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SCCM: PROPHY-VAP and Mailbag 54:58

1+ y ago54:58

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 30! This episode is a little different. We recap the SCCM conference first. THEN we go into PROPHY-VAP or "Ceftriaxone to prevent early ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with acute brain injury" published January 2024 by Professor Dahyot-Fizelier in Lancet Respi…

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28 - The Human Factor 57:20

1+ y ago57:20

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Human Factors is the understanding of ‘the human in the loop’. It’s about how people behave and interact both with technology and each other, and it’s something that has become fundamental to safety across aviation and a host of other industries. But what really is Human Factors? Where did it come from and why is it become so integral? In this mont…

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ATS vs ESICM ARDS Guidelines 48:04

1+ y ago48:04

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 29! We stray a little bit from our new and old article structure to talk about two recently published but slightly different ARDS recommendations from ATS and ESCIM. We compare and contrast them and give our takes on the data and evidence. Thanks to everyone who emails in…

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New/Old: PRONECMO and EOLIA 55:10

1+ y ago55:10

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 28! In this episodes we talk about ECMO! PRONECMO evaluated the effect of prone positioning on patients already on ECMO by Schmidt et al in JAMA December 2023 and then EOLIA by Combes et al in NEJM 2018 which is our old article which randomized patients to ECMO or not. Gr…

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New/Old: NICO and Intubation timing 47:21

1+ y ago47:21

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) Episode 27! In this episodes we sit down to talk all about the "when" to intubate a patient centered around acute poisoning in the NICO trial or "Effect of Noninvasive Airway Management of Comatose Patients With Acute Poisoning: A Randomized Clinical Trial" published by Freud et …

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New: ACORN with PulmPEEPs 50:28

1+ y ago50:28

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Send us a Text Message (please include your email so we can respond!) This was easily our most requested article to discuss and for good reason - Eddie and Todd recently published the ACORN trial or "Cefepime vs Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Adults Hospitalized With Acute Infection" in JAMA October 2023. We recognize our bias as the first and last aut…

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