COVID ARDS Proning
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Gareth Thomas and Dr Michael Slattery
First released 18 May 2023
First released 18 May 2023
A 23-year-old man presents to A&E having sustained a blunt force trauma to his head outside a nightclub. On arrival, he has just vomited for the second time and is confused. He is aggressive and claims not to remember the events. He shouts at you that he has no other medical problems, and no collateral history is available.
There is an obvious red swelling above his right brow ridge. There is a substantial ecchymosis overlying the right orbit...
Author Dr Andrew Gardner and Dr Meesha Jogia
There is an obvious red swelling above his right brow ridge. There is a substantial ecchymosis overlying the right orbit...
Author Dr Andrew Gardner and Dr Meesha Jogia
Dislodged ETT in a proned patient
What makes a successful ward round ?
Critical Care is a complex setting, with complex teams, and complex patients. As a Critical Care Consultant, leading the ward round, we’re responsible for orchestrating efficient, effective and nuanced care for our patients. The team works together towards shared outcome goals for our patients. But how can we make sure we’re delivering a “good” ward round? What does that really mean?
Written by Dr Gilly Fleming
Critical Care is a complex setting, with complex teams, and complex patients. As a Critical Care Consultant, leading the ward round, we’re responsible for orchestrating efficient, effective and nuanced care for our patients. The team works together towards shared outcome goals for our patients. But how can we make sure we’re delivering a “good” ward round? What does that really mean?
Written by Dr Gilly Fleming
A 40-year-old gentleman with no past medical history of note presents to the Emergency Department with increasing shortness of breath, productive cough, fever and pleuritic right sided chest pain for 7 days.
On assessment he is noted to be tachycardic (heart rate 110 bpm), tachypnoeic (respiratory rate 30 breaths/minutes), febrile (temperature 38.0oC), SpO2 of 85% on 15L/min O2 using a non-rebreathe mask and a PaO2 of 8.0 kPa...
Author Dr Lamya Mohammed
On assessment he is noted to be tachycardic (heart rate 110 bpm), tachypnoeic (respiratory rate 30 breaths/minutes), febrile (temperature 38.0oC), SpO2 of 85% on 15L/min O2 using a non-rebreathe mask and a PaO2 of 8.0 kPa...
Author Dr Lamya Mohammed
Gareth Thomas and Dr Alicia Waite
First released 6 July 2023
First released 6 July 2023
We are recruiting the third cohort of women to the Women in Intensive Care Medicine Emerging Leadership (WICMEL) Fellowship Programme.
I’m Abi and I work as a Cardiac Physiologist. I had never heard of a cardiac physiologist during my time at school. As a teenager I travelled the world to pursue a career in the very niche sport of table tennis also known as ping pong, which meant my studies took a bit of a side line and consequently I didn’t have much in the way of a ‘traditional’ career path...
Written by Abigail Gowland
Written by Abigail Gowland
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES)
A 51 year old woman is referred from the medical team. She had been admitted with new onset confusion, blurred vision and headache. She has had two tonic-clonic seizures in hospital and the medical registrar is concerned that she is in status epilepticus. She had a background of SLE...
Author Dr Helen Cole
A 51 year old woman is referred from the medical team. She had been admitted with new onset confusion, blurred vision and headache. She has had two tonic-clonic seizures in hospital and the medical registrar is concerned that she is in status epilepticus. She had a background of SLE...
Author Dr Helen Cole