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iCritical Care Podcasts allow listeners to keep up to date with the latest in critical care. Dubbed "critical care radio," podcasts can be accessed through a personal computer or any portable media player such as an iPod or other MP3 player.

The Voices of iCritical Care
Rich Savel, MD, FCCM, associate editor for podcasting, conducts thought-provoking interviews with authors from Critical Care Medicine and Critical Connections as well as other prominent members of the critical care community and SCCM leadership.

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, the guest editor for pediatric podcasts, talks with members of the pediatric critical care community and authors from Pediatric Critical Care Medicne.

Note: All authors are required to resolve conflicts of interest before publishing. Any conflicts of interest appear with the original source of the podcast.

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 SCCM Pod-136 PCCM: Community-Associated MRSA in Previously Healthy Children
Amy Creel, MD, served as lead author on an article published in the May 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “Severe Invasive Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) Infections in Previously Healthy Children.” Creel is a pediatric critical care physician at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. The study examined increases in CA-MRSA in healthy children, which raise concerns about the initial empirical antibiotic therapy being used. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[3]:323) Release 8/27/2010

 CCM Pod-135 PCCM: WFPICCS and Its Global Agenda
Niranjan Kissoon, MD, FCCM, discusses his article published in the September 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies: Its Global Agenda.” Kissoon is associate head and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is also the senior medical director at British Columbia Children’s Hospital. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[5]597-600) Released: 8/25/10

 SCCM Pod 134 CCM: Resolving End-of-Life Conflicts in the ICU
 John M. Luce, MD, FCCM, discusses his latest article, “A history of resolving conflicts over end-of-life care in intensive care units in the United States,”published in the August 2010 issue of Critical Care Medicine. The article discusses the impact of end-of-life decisions on physicians, the team and the family, particularly when conflicts in opinion arise. Luce is a professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as a physician at San Francisco General Hospital. (Crit Care Med. 2010;38[8]:1623-1629.) Released: 8/5/10

 SCCM Pod-133 CCM: Human Factors to Medication and Patient Safety in the ICU
Matthew C. Scanlon, MD, discuses is article, “Value of human factors to medication and patient safety in the intensive care unit,” published as part of a supplement to the June 2010 issue of Critical Care Medicine. He discusses how human factors provide a framework for understanding safety failures in critical care settings. Scanlon is an associate professor for the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and a physician at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, specializing in pediatrics and pediatric critical care. (Crit Care Med. 2010:38[6]:S90-S96.) Released: 07/31/10

 SCCM Pod-132 The Future of Acute Care Surgery 
Lewis J. Kaplan, MD, FCCM, discusses acute care surgery, its relation to surgical critical care, and his predictions for the future of acute care surgery, trauma surgery and surgical critical care. Kaplan is an associate professor and medical director in the surgical ICU at Yale University Medical School and Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. Released: 7/15/10

 SCCM Pod-131 CCM: Dexmedetomidine vs. Midazolam: A Cost Minimization Analysis
Joseph F. Dasta, MSc, FCCM, discusses his article published in the February 2010 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “A Cost Minimization Analysis of Dexmedetomidine Compared with Midazolam for Long-Term Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit.” His study compared the costs and determined factors influencing these costs, finding that continuous sedation with dexmedetomidine results in significantly lower costs, primarily due to decreased length of stay and reduced ventilator days. Dasta is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas College of Pharmacy and professor emeritus at The Ohio State University. He serves as a member of SCCM Council and has been an integral leader within the Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section. In 2010, he was awarded with the American College of Critical Care Medicine’s Distinguished Investigator Award. (Crit Care Med. 2010;38[2]:497-503.) Released: 6/30/10

 SCCM Pod-130 PCCM: Telemedicine in Rural Emergency Departments 
Amelia Hopkins, MD, FCCM, discusses her article published in the September 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, “Pediatric Critical Care Telemedicine in Rural Underserved Emergency Departments.” Hopkins is an assistant professor of pediatrics at The University of Vermont in Burlington. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[5]:588-591) Released: 6/17/10

 SCCM Pod-129 CCM: The Use of RIFLE in Patients with AKI 
John A. Kellum, MD, FCCM, discusses how one uses RIFLE to take care of patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). He also discusses his review article, published in the April 2008 Supplement issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “Acute Kidney Injury.” Dr. Kellum is a professor and vice chair of the department of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He is also past president of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) and co-chair of a workgroup producing the upcoming Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes’ (KDIGO) clinical practice guidelines on acute kidney injury. (Crit Care Med. 2008; 36[4 Suppl]:S141-145) Released: 5/31/10

 SCCM Pod-128 Patient Management After Cardiac Surgery
Anthony Carlese, MD, DO, discusses management of the patient after cardiac surgery, specifically his approach to caring for patients in the ICU who have just undergone coronary artery bypass surgery and the different situations and that he encounters. Carlese is the director of the open heart unit at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, and he is also an American College of Critical Care Medicine member. Released: 5/20/10

 SCCM Pod-127 CCM: Physician Extenders in the ICU 
Ruth Kleinpell, RN, PhD, RN-CS, FCCM, professor and director for the Center for Clinical Research and Scholarship at Rush University Medical Center’s School of Nursing, in Chicago, Illinois, discusses her experience as a nurse practitioner as well as her research into the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the ICU. Kleinpell has written extensively on nurse practitioners and physician assistants and served as lead author on the article "Nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the intensive care unit: An evidence-based review," published in the October 2008 issue of Critical Care Medicine. (Crit Care Med. 2008; 36[10]:2888) Released: 4/29/10


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A feedback line now is available for iCritical Care listeners to ask questions, make suggestions or recommend podcast topics. Call +1 847 493-6498 to give input on this developing medium. Comments and suggestions will be reviewed by the Society's associate editor for podcasting and podcast host Richard H. Savel, MD. You also may email info@sccm.org with your comments or suggestions.

More Information
Read an article published in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association highlighting the iCritical Care Podcasts.