Advanced support of Acute Liver Injury by Alexandra Rowell From CodaZero Live, Alex Rowell reviews the available advanced liver supports for patients with acute liver failure. Artificial supports for the liver are quite complex and difficult. This is largely due to the liver’s complex function. Some of the advanced liver supports include CVVHDF, Molecular Adsorbent…
Surgical considerations in the injured spine patient by Ruth Mitchell In this podcast, Ruth provides a summary of surgical considerations when managing an injured spine patient. She covers imaging considerations, indications for surgery and challenges to delivering excellent surgical care. Ruth shares a story of one of the most severely injured patients she has ever…
Update on delayed cerebral ischaemia by Christopher Andersen. Chris provides a brief update on some of the postulated underlying mechanisms involved in subarachnoid haemorrhage associated brain injury. Notably, these mechanisms provide hints to future therapeutic targets that will hopefully expand our currently limited repertoire of options. Subarachnoid haemorrhage is a catastrophic type of stroke. It…
TBI Management: Beyond the Resus Room by Andrew Chow In this podcast, Andrew Chow highlights the latest evidence for TBI. Andrew shares some clinical pearls for TBI management. Furthermore, he highlights a future direction for the management of patients with a traumatic brain injury. Studies have shown that the demographic of TBI patients has shifted.…
Echo in Cardiac Arrest by Behny Samadi From #CodaZero Live, Behny explains the importance of Echo and lists some of the ways in which Echo can help us during a cardiac arrest. It is more than we think! Echo is a quick, easy and simple tool, making it invaluable in many situations including cardiac arrests.…
Updates in pain management by Gavin Pattullo Opioids are often a mainstay of therapy in trauma pain, though they are in turn the cause of much trauma. For every 4000 Australians prescribed an opioid there will be one death in the community as a result. In-patients similarly have greater risk of harm when their analgesia…
Vitamin C: fact or fiction? In this podcast, Ken Sakurai provides an update on the recent randomised control trials (RCT) for Vitamin C in Sepsis. The earliest evidence of the importance of Vitamin C in human health and bone growth development comes from Ancient Egypt. Moreover, the earliest clinical trial known in Western Medicine involved…
Acute Spinal Cord Injury: What Matters by Oli Flower From CodaZero Live, Oli Flower discusses the emergency management of acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury. Oli covers the initial management of patients with traumatic cervical spinal cord injury. He covers the neurological assessment – how and why we do the ASIA or ISNCSCI Exam and…
The importance of sex and gender in medical research. For many years it was widely assumed that the occurrence and outcome of disease was the same for women and men. Our understanding was that studies involving only men would be equally relevant for women. In the last two decades however, it has been shown that…
Vascular Access: Reducing risk and increasing catheter longevity A structured decision matrix in the approach to vascular access reduces catheter-associated complications and increases device longevity. Evidently, there are over 15,000 central venous catheters are placed annually in Australia. Moreover, the actual insertion process for placing a central line only accounts for a small part of…
