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The SCCM Podcast offers a wide selection of in-depth interviews on adult and pediatric topics.
SCCM Pod-162 Healthcare Quality: How Did We Get Here?
Kristine Lombardozzi, MD, FCCM, discusses her article published in the August Critical Connections titled, “Understanding the Evolution of Our National Healthcare Quality Improvement Process,” which outlines the origins and history of healthcare quality that brought us to where we are today.
Published: 11/3/2011
Category: Other
SCCM Pod-161 Clifford Deutschman on Sepsis Research, SCCM Involvement
SCCM president-elect Clifford S. Deutschman, MD, FCCM, professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, shares how his involvement within SCCM helped shape aspects of his career.
Published: 10/20/2011
SCCM Pod-159 Continuous Capnography and the Difficult Airway
The Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society was designed to identify and study serious airway complications occurring during anaesthesia in the intensive care unit and emergency department. The group recently published its results in the British Journal of Anesthesia and lead author Tim M. Cook, FRCA, discusses the findings.
Published: 9/15/2011
SCCM Pod-158 Mouth Care and VAP Prevention
Cindy L. Munro, RN, PhD, ANP-C, authored an article in the 2009 American Journal of Critical Care, titled “Chlorhexidine, Toothbrushing, and Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in Critically Ill Adults.”
Published: 9/1/2011
SCCM Pod-157 Sedation Strategies in the ICU
Troy E. Batterton, PharmD, and Dean Sandifer, MD, discuss sedation strategies in critical care, including designing, building and maintaining protocols in intensive care units.
Published: 8/17/2011
SCCM Pod-156 Delirium in the Critically Ill Patient
Pratik Pandharipande, MD, FCCM, discusses the definition and scope of delirium and how to identify and manage the condition in children.
Published: 8/2/2011
SCCM Pod-154 Establishing Successful FDM and FCCS Courses, METs
Babak Sarani, MD, serves as a course director for the Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) and Fundamental Disaster Management (FDM) programs and offers insight into the value of these programs, the road to becoming an instructor and how to establish FDM or FCCS at one's own institution.
Published: 7/6/2011
SCCM Pod-153 Council Member Shares SCCM Experiences, Sepsis Research
Craig Coopersmith, MD, FCCM, shares how early involvement within the Society, his receiving the Vision Grant, and his participation in Specialty Sections helped shape his career, while stressing the importance of mentorship.
Published: 6/16/2011
SCCM Pod-152 CCM: Implementing Real-Time Computerized Sepsis Alerts
Marin H. Kollef, MD,discusses an article published in the March 2011 Critical Care Medicine titled, “Implementation of a Real-Time Computerized Sepsis Alerts In Nonintensive Care Unit Patients.”
Published: 6/1/2011
Category: CCM Podcast
SCCM Pod-151 Symptoms Experienced by ICU Patients at Risk of Dying
Kathleen A. Puntillo, RN, DNSc, is the lead author of an article published in the November 2010 Critical Care Medicine titled, “Symptoms Experienced by Intensive Care Unit Patients at High Risk of Dying.”
Published: 5/10/2011
SCCM Pod-150 PCCM: Blood Transfusion and Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation
Ravi Thiagarajan, MD, MBBS, MPH, discusses his article published in the January Pediatric Critical Care Medicine titled, “Blood Transfusion is Associated with Prolonged Duration of Mechanical Ventilation in Infants Undergoing Reparative Cardiac Surgery.”
Published: 5/4/2011
Category: PCCM Podcast
SCCM Pod-149 Critical Care Coding and Billing
George A. Sample, MD, discusses current and emerging topics in coding and billing, including the end of consultation codes for Medicare patients and the future of consults for non-Medicare patients.
Published: 4/26/2011
SCCM Pod-148 Adjunctive Corticosteroid Therapy in Pediatric Sepsis
Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD, FCCM, discusses his article published in the January Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “Adjunctive Corticosteroid Therapy in Pediatric Severe Sepsis: Observations From the RESOLVE.”
Published: 4/7/2011
SCCM Pod-147 Daily Predictions of Death in the Medical ICU
William Meadow, MD, PhD, discusses an article published in the March Critical Care Medicine titled, “Power and Limitations of Daily Prognostications of Death in the Medical ICU.”
Published: 3/17/2011
SCCM Pod-146 Disaster Management in Haiti
Randy S. Wax, MD, and Marie Baldisseri, MD, FCCM, discuss disaster management and their relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Published: 3/3/2011
SCCM Pod-145 Drug Shortages in the ICU
Judith Jacobi, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM, discusses drug shortages in the intensive care unit and how such shortages affect critical care patients and those requiring anesthesia.
Published: 2/17/2011
SCCM Pod-144 Message from the 2011 President
Society of Critical Care Medicine president Pamela A. Lipsett, MD, MHPE, FCCM, discusses her professional background and research interests during an engaging conversation that touches on cutting-edge topics, including quality of life after a stay in the intensive care unit, the future of critical care certification, ethics and "making a science of patient safety."
Published: 2/3/2011
SCCM Pod-143 PCCM: The Effects of Heparin in Infants After Catheter-Related Thrombosis
Alan R. Schroeder, MD, discusses his article, “A Continuous Heparin Infusion Does Not Prevent Catheter-Related Thrombosis in Infants After Cardiac Surgery," published in the July Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Published: 12/30/2011
SCCM Pod-142 PCCM: Helping Mechanically Ventilated Infants Swallow
Steven B. Leder, PhD, discusses his article, “Dysphagia Testing and Aspiration Status in Medically Stable Infants Requiring Mechanical Ventilation Via Tracheotomy,” published in the July 2010 Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Published: 11/30/2010
SCCM Pod-141 PCCM: Emergent Endotracheal Intubations in Children
Christopher L. Carroll, MD, FCCM, lead author of an article published in the May 2010 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, “Emergent Endotracheal Intubations in Children: Be Careful if it's Late When You Intubate,” which discusses the risks of emergent tracheal intubations in children.
Published: 11/17/2010