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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-124 Achieving Success With Paragon 
The Paragon Critical Care Quality Implementation Program is a quality-focused program aimed to bring effective, tailored improvement strategies to hospitals. Diane C. Byrum, RN, MSN, CCRN, FCCM, is the current chair of the Paragon Committee and a coach. Ivor Douglas, MD, is a Paragon coach and serves as team leader for the Presbyterian Hospital Paragon Program. Both discuss the importance of quality improvement and detail the successes of this initiative. Released: 3/1/10


 SCCM Pod-123 Message from the 2010 President
Society of Critical Care Medicine president Judith Jacobi, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM, discusses her goals and vision for the Society during her 2010 term. As the first pharmacist president of the organization, Jacobi stresses the importance of pharmacists and their role in critical care in addition to outlining various anticipated projects. Jacobi is a critical care pharmacy specialist for the adult critical care and  neurocritical care units at Methodist Hospital of Indiana. Released: 2/18/10

 SCCM Pod-122 Disaster Management in Haiti
Barbara McLean, ACNP, CCNS-NP, a nurse from Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia, discusses her recent volunteer efforts in Haiti following the January 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated the area. McLean discusses general disaster management strategies as well as patient populations and care challenges specific to the event. Released: 2/11/10


 SCCM Pod-121 PCCM: E-CPR and ECMO in Pediatric Patients
Robert Tasker, MD, MBBS, discusses two editorials related to neurological issues in critical care. Tasker published "E-CPR for in-hospital cardiac arrest: lessons from acute neurotoxicity” in response to the PCCM article, “Neurological injury after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use to aid pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation.” His second editorial, “Validating serologic biomarkers of brain injury for cardiac arrest research,” is a response to “Neuron-specific enolase and S-100B are associated with neurologic outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest.” Tasker is a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in the United Kingdom. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[4] and Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[4]) Released: 12/17/09

 SCCM Pod-120 CCM: Tracheostomy Practice in the Surgical ICU
Bradley D. Freeman, MD, discusses his article published in the December 2009 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “Examination of Non-clinical Factors Affecting Tracheostomy Practice in an Academic Surgical Intensive Care Unit.” Freeman is an associate professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Freeman discusses his study which centers on the topic of who should undergo a tracheostomy and when it should happen in the surgical ICU. (Crit Care Med. 2009;37[12].) Released: 11/24/09

 SCCM Pod-119 PCCM: Does Fellowship Program Size and Rotations Affect Clinical and Research Time?
Wynne Morrison, MD, discusses an article published in the May issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, which highlighted the results of a national survey of pediatric critical care medicine fellowship clinical and research time allocation. Dr. Morrison is director of the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[3]:397-399) Released: 11/17/09

 SCCM Pod-118 PCCM: HLH and Sepsis
Leticia Castillo, MD, FCCM, assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, discusses an article published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, “Secondary HLH and severe sepsis/systemic inflammatory response syndrome/multiorgan dysfunction syndrome/macrophage activation syndrome share common intermediate phenotypes on a spectrum of inflammation.” (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[3]:387-392) Released 10/30/09

 SCCM Pod-117 CCM: Public Awareness and Perception of Sepsis
Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, discusses her article published in the January 2009 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “An International Survey: Public Awareness and Perception of Sepsis.” Parker is a professor of pediatrics, medicine and anesthesia at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. She is also the director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Medical Center. Parker serves as the SCCM guest editor for pediatric podcasts and is an associate editor for Critical Care Medicine. (Crit Care Med. 2009;37[1]:167-170) Released: 10/14/09

  SCCM Pod-116 CCM: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Development of ALI
Michelle Gong, MD, MS, discusses her recent articled published in the August 2009 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “Diabetes, Insulin, and Development of Acute Lung Injury.” Gong is the director of critical care research at Montefiore Medical Center and at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. One of Gong’s areas of interest is the relationship between diabetes and acute lung injury; a topic she addresses in her paper. (Crit Care Med. 2009;37[8]:2455-2464) Released: 9/23/09

 SCCM Pod-115 PCCM: Difficult Conversations in the Pediatric ICU
Elaine Meyer, RN, PhD, discusses a paper published recently in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “Difficult Conversations: Improving Communication Skills and Relational Abilities in Healthcare.” Meyer, a clinical psychologist, is the Director of the Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice at Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts. She also is Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.  (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009;10[3]:352-359) Released: 8/31/09

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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.