SCCM Podcast

Poor audio quality mars experience w high quality content of episode of pathophysiology of AKI. Pls pay attention to this. Thanks

Topics don’t have much relevance to clinical practice. Good if you are into details of research and ethics.

As an RN working in ICU and Emergency Medicine, I really identify with the barriers to instituting Sepsis identification. I’ve been working on Sepsis since 2012 and seen what goes well and not so well. I’ve been pleased with the continuous review and updates of the Surviving Sepsis campaign. My system used MEWS and even in patient who did not have an infection, it was a useful tool in identifying patients who were deteriorating. Thank you for covering Sepsis. So, much more to say about challenges from a nursing standpoint, but really enjoy the insights.

Very sad commentary by the pediatric doctor. A lot of “doing the best we can” as justification for putting nurses in unsafe conditions-reusing masks and gowns, (used to be against OSHA rules and could be grounds for getting fired.) While doctors didn’t round in patient rooms, they didn’t see a problem with having the nurses stay in the rooms for hours-until the nurses complained. Plus, wonder if administrators are thinking about the potential legal implications of the situations in which they are placing the nurses. Didn’t anyone wonder why nurses were contracting Covid even though using PPE (maybe because the PPE was being reused?) As a pediatric nurse, I find it hard to understand why the pediatric nurses are expected to take care of adults, but wonder how med-surg nurses feel if they would be expected to take care of pediatric or NICU patients. Would adult doctors be ok working in a NICU?