Managing Perceived Devastating Brain Injured patients.

In this podcast Simon talks to Dan Harvey (ITU) and Mark Wilson (Neurosurgeon) on the management of complex patients with a perceived devastating brain injury.

This podcast is linked to the blog on the St.Emlyn's website.

http://stemlynsblog.org/jc-devastating-brain-injury-complex-decisions-in-the-resus-room-st-emlyns/

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What’s new at St.Emlyn’s? Conferences, Courses and Content from December 2017.

December round up of St.Emlyn's

Dates for your diary.

1. Cape Town Teaching Course

2. Manchester Teaching Course

3. BadEMFest18

Blog posts.

1.Dan does part of State of the Art #ICSSOA2017. St.Emlyn’s

2.Management of paracetamol therapeutic excess in the ED. St.Emlyn’s.

3.The ED Spa. Wellness and Support in #Virchester. St.Emlyn’s. (NOTE - We forgot to mention the incredible contribution of Kirsten Ballantyne on this project - it's more than just Laura)

4.JC : Paracetamol, NSAID’s or both in MSK trauma. St.Emlyn’s

5. 104 Reflections from Sydney HEMS – the eBook. St.Emlyn’s

6.MARSIPAN – Not just for (Christmas) Cakes. St.Emlyn’s

7.How to ask a question at a conference. The origin of ‘that’ algorithm. St.Emlyn’s

8.Review of 2017. St.Emlyn’s

If anyone wants to know more about any of the conferences we talk about please get in touch with the team stemlyns@gmail.com

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The Critical Care Reviews meeting and the ADRENAL Trial results. Jan 2017

Rob MacSweeney from the incredible Critical Care Reviews website joins Simon to talk about the forthcoming CCR meeting in Belfast and the news that the eagerly awaited ADRENAL trial will be releasing it's results this Friday.

Here's the link for the live stream at 0900 GMT on Friday 20th Jan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5w9AIu83Q If that does not work on the day then head over to the CCR website for an updated link

Here's the link to the CCR website. http://www.criticalcarereviews.com

Below is the 'blurb' from the CCR website. The bottom line is that this is a unique and incredibly valuable event and there is still time to get there.

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Every year the Critical Care Reviews Meeting brings the chief investigators for the biggest and best critical care trials of the year to Belfast to discuss their work. The programme is put together throughout the year as these trials either near completion or are published, but we have three confirmed mega trials to open registration with:

• ADRENAL - Prof Bala Venkatesh (Brisbane) will discuss ADRENAL, ANZICS latest mega trial, investigating corticosteroids in septic shock.
• TRANSFUSE - Prof Alistair Nichol (Dublin / Melbourne) will discuss TRANSFUSE, another massive ANZICS RCT, examining the age of transfused red cells in the critically ill
• MACMAN - Dr Jean-Baptise Lascarrou (Nantes) will present the MACMAN trial, comparing direct laryngoscopy with video laryngoscopy in the ICU.
• ATHOS-3 - Dr Ashish Khanna (Cleveland) gives his perspective on the ATHOS-3 trial, evaluating angiotensin II in vasodilatory shock.
• BREATHE - Prof Gavin Perkins (Warwick) tackles the role of non-invasive ventilation to achieve liberation from invasive mechanical ventilation
• VAP-RAPID - Prof John Simpson (Newcastle) describes his trial investigating a biomarker-guided strategy for limiting antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia
• ART - Prof Alexandre Cavalcanti (São Paulo) explains the ART trial, testing alveolar recruitment in ARDS
• SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN - Prof Andrew Rhodes (London) will explore the latest version of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, which was released in January
• JOHN HINDS TRAUMA LECTURE - Dr Sophie Wallace (Perth) delivers this honorary lecture, recalling events during a major incident on Mount Everest

The Meeting is getting increasingly popular and in 2017 sold out for the first time. If you haven't yet been, and are wondering what it's all about check out the promotional movie. In addition to the big trials, we also review the remaining major trials of the year, have talks on "how I manage..." specific conditions by these experts, and take a look at the dark arts of critical care research with some of the best trialists in the world. In addition, every delegate will receive a free copy of the "Critical Care Reviews Book 2018" summarising, critiquing and placing in context the best critical care trials of the year. If you are unluckily enough not to be able to make it, all talks will be recorded and made freely available online after the event. You can check out the previous talks here and last years book here

The Critical Care Reviews Meeting is a small, intimate event where you get the opportunity to meet the faculty, ask questions and have a beer with them. The famous "Informal Chat", held at the end of the day, guarantees this opportunity to ask some real questions and get some very interesting answers. Stay for dinner afterwards, overlooking the slipways where RMS Titanic and Olympic were built and launched. Year on year delegate feedback has been incredibly positive confirming this as one of the best meetings around. In 2017 delegates travelled from across Ireland, the UK, Europe, India, the USA and Australia. Don't wait too long before registering as numbers are limited and the meeting will sell out.

Critical Care Reviews is a not-for-profit organisation.