Tasty Morsels of Critical Care

Mar 03 2025 86 ep. 5 mins 142

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

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 086 | Heparin Induced Thrombocytopaenia

Mar 03 2025 6 mins

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 notes I had it down as HITTS for hepain induced thrombotic thrombocytopaenia syndrome which I kind of liked as it included the impor

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 084 | Empyema

Oct 14 2024 5 mins

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) to empyema. Many penumonias will develope a parapneumonic effusion. This is largely reactive and inflammatory but by no means does it mean there i

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 083 | Chylothorax

Sep 30 2024 3 mins

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 presence of the myseterious substance chyle is a much more unusual and note worthy event. As a reminder of the basics which I of course knew implicitly and definitely did not

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 082 | Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Jun 10 2024 5 mins

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 the old tasty morsels of EM series back when i was doing my EM fellowship exams. As you no doubt remember from school chemistry classes, ca

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

May 27 2024 7 mins

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 through some management strategies that might keep you between the hedges on a night on call or a fellowship exam viva. We briefly men

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 080 | Pulmonary Hypertension Overview

May 13 2024 7 mins

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 should get it all written down before I forget it. We’re going to try it as a 2 parter. Part 1 will cover a broad overview of pulmonary hype

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 079 | Hyponatraemia – management

Apr 29 2024 5 mins

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 we’ll take a punt at how you might approach management. In an ideal world of course you would have all of the diagnostic tests back and you̵

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 078 | Hyponatraemia – diagnostic approach

Apr 16 2024 6 mins

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 the requirement for frequent testing of Na levels that seems beyond the remit of normal ward level care. The approach I describe here is neither compr

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 077 | Thyroid emergencies

Jan 22 2024 6 mins

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 in the neck, quietly secreting hormones and interfering in negative feedback loops. It usually restricts its mischief to outpatient clinics by running

Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 076 | VV ECMO

Jan 08 2024 11 mins

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 VV ECMO. Indeed saying that you are “putting someone on ECMO” is a woefully incomplete sentence as the support and ph