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Critical Care Scenarios — 233 episodes
Episode 101: Acalculous cholecystitis with Dennis Kim
Episode 100: Autoimmune encephalitis testing with Tammy Smith
Lightning rounds 64: The new Surviving Sepsis guidelines with Hallie Prescott
Lightning rounds 63: How to be right, with Scott Weingart
Episode 99: RV failure in the MICU
Lightning rounds 61: Credentialing and privileging, with Christopher Newman
Lightning rounds 60: The nuances of insulin, with Melissa Nestor
Episode 98: Running rapid responses
Lightning rounds 59: The nuances of nebulizers, with Keith Lamb
Episode 97: Managing ICP crisis
Episode 96: Understanding ammonia, with Prem Kandiah
Academy bites: Do you want to feel special?
Lightning rounds 58: Steroids for septic shock with David Janz
Lightning rounds 57: Burn critical care with Clint Leonard
Episode 95: Spontaneous breathing trials with Martin Tobin
Episode 94: Mastering seizure pharmacology with Tom Bleck
Episode 93: Fluid in sepsis and the FloPatch, with Jon-Emile Kenny
Episode 92: PRIS and propylene glycol toxicity, with Jerry Snow
Episode 91: A simulated goals of care conversation
Episode 90: Sugammadex in the ICU, with Sara J Hyland
Lightning rounds 56: The CHEST Critical Care APP cert, with Leeah Sloan
Special announcement: ICA 1-year anniversary
Academy bites: Specialization is breadth, not depth
Lightning rounds 55: APP fellowships with Melissa Bridges
Lightning rounds 54: Medical musicians with Andrew Schulman
Lightning rounds 53: GI Q&A with Elliot Tapper
Special announcement: Academy CME accreditation
Lightning rounds 52: Echo tips with Michael Lanspa
Episode 89: Thrombectomy for stroke, with Justin Fraser
Episode 87: Maternal-fetal monitoring with Stephanie Martin
Academy bites: The power of disagreeing
Episode 86: EEGs in the ICU with Carolina Maciel
Lightning rounds 51: Hemodynamic interfaces with Philippe Rola
Episode 88: ICU Liberation SCCM Congress 2025
Lightning rounds 50: Mastering PA catheter placement with Matt Siuba
Lightning rounds 49: The Vortex approach with Nicholas Chrimes
Episode 85: Tracheostomy basics with Vinciya Pandian
Academy bites: You were here when we were not
Episode 84: Acute liver failure with Sergio Navarrete
Episode 83: Cardiac arrest with Scott Weingart
Lightning rounds 48: Complete airway closure with Thomas Piraino
Episode 82: When it goes wrong
Lightning rounds 47: Post-op care transitions
Episode 81: Bacterial meningitis with Casey Albin
Lightning rounds 46: Nick Ghionni on combating cognitive bias
Episode 80: Implementing the A-F bundle with Kali Dayton
Lightning rounds 45: Noelia Bischoff on transitioning nursing roles
Episode 79: Transfusion reactions with Joe Chaffin
Lightning rounds 44: Post-intubation sedation roundup
Episode 78: Echoing the RV with Matt Siuba
Lightning rounds 43: AI in medicine, with Nawar Shara
Special episode: The Intensive Care Academy
Episode 77: Mastering APRV with Rory Spiegel
Lightning rounds 42: Hospital chaplains, with Christine V. Davies
Episode 76: Rehabilitation psychology, with Megan Hosey
Lightning rounds 41: Respiratory therapy with Keith Lamb
TIRBO 62: The sweet spot for learning
Episode 75: Automatic tube compensation, with Ben Fabry
TIRBO 61: How to use POCUS (our expert consensus)
Episode 74: Obstructive shock, with Sarah Lorenzini (Nurses’ Podcrawl 2024)
Lightning rounds 40: Critical care medicine fellowships with Nicholas Ghionni
TIRBO 60: They don’t care about you
Episode 73: POCUS for nephrology, with Abhilash Koratala
TIRBO 59: How we make the podcast
Lightning rounds 39: Understanding flight medicine with Jace Mullen
TIRBO 58: Difficult cases
Episode 72: CPR-induced consciousness with Jack Howard
TIRBO 57: Volume vs pressure control
Lightning rounds 38: Working in APP leadership, with Jason Wieland
TIRBO 56: Transfixing vessels
Episode 71: Transplant medications with Olivia Philippart
TIRBO 55: Bowel regimens
Lightning rounds 37: Weaning the deliriosedated patient (SCCM roundup)
TIRBO 54: Documenting POCUS studies
Episode 70: Airway evaluation for non-anesthesiologists, with Jed Wolpaw
TIRBO 53: Who needs an arterial line?
Lightning rounds 36: Nurses are from Venus
TIRBO 52: Reliable is better than perfect
Episode 69: Head and neck surgery with Alexandra Kejner
TIRBO 51: Critical care problems are syndromes
Lightning rounds #35: Brain death updates, with Ariane Lewis and Matthew Kirschen
TIRBO #50: Never do anything once
Episode 68: Liver transplant with Meera Gupta
TIRBO #49: The universal acuity equation
Lightning rounds #34: … When?
TIRBO #48: Choosing a line site
Episode 67: Whipples with Michael Cavnar
TIRBO #47: Why do we prone?
Lightning rounds #33: Transitioning to academics with Janelle Bludorn
TIRBO #46: Being curious
Episode 66: Aortic dissection with Travis Hughes
TIRBO #45: SBT failure phenotypes
Lightning rounds #32: Creating a POCUS system with Leon Chen
TIRBO #44: The things I carry
Episode 65: Obstructive UTI with Ashley Winter
TIRBO #43: Lying to ourselves (the clinician’s perspective on end-of-life care)
Lightning rounds #31: How to not get fired
TIRBO #42: The mobile locus of control
Episode 64: Neurologic POCUS with Aarti Sarwal
TIRBO #41: Tissue compression and elasticity during procedures
Lightning rounds #29: Making APP and physician collaboration work, with Matt Siuba
TIRBO #40: Ventilating the breathing patient
Episode 63: Understanding dialysis, with Paul Adams
TIRBO #39: 5 rules for clinical excellence
Lightning rounds #28: Online learning with Callie Tennyson
TIRBO #38: Why you should follow up
Episode 62: Running a cardiac arrest
TIRBO #37: Remote brains
Lightning rounds #27: Burnout and career satisfaction
TIRBO #36: Liberty or death
Episode 61: ECPR with Scott Weingart
TIRBO #35: Vent double-triggering
Lightning rounds #27: Our favorite FOAM
TIRBO #34: What makes it a central line?
Episode 59: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy with Vincent Sorrell
TIRBO #33: Positioning patients in bed
TIRBO #32: Approaching bacteremia
Episode 58: Toxic alcohols with Jerry Snow
TIRBO #31: Giving better lectures
Lightning rounds #26: How we follow the medical literature
TIRBO #30: Experience is lying to you
Episode 57: Hyponatremia with Paul Adams
TIRBO #29: Understanding blood transfusion
Lightning rounds #25: FailureFest! (Why we’re bad and so are you)
TIRBO #28: How I set PEEP
Episode 56: Resuscitation psychology with Dan Dworkis
TIRBO #27: The halo effect
Lightning rounds #24: Getting into leadership roles
TIRBO #26: RadioPEEP discordance
Episode 55: Undifferentiated encephalopathy and autoimmune encephalitis, with Casey Albin
TIRBO #25: Two things NOT to hear
Lightning rounds #23: How we do end-of-life care
TIRBO #24: Two things people need to hear
Episode 54: The critically ill patient with pulmonary hypertension, with Ray Foley
TIRBO #23: Cultivating clinical calm
Lightning rounds #22: Our drugs of choice
TIRBO #22: Understanding “weak” trainees
Episode 53: Documentation and coding with Robert Oubre
TIRBO #21: Locating, securing, and dressing lines
Lightning rounds #21: CME, merch, Patreon, and other podcast updates
TIRBO #20: Understanding the needle
Episode 52: Pleural effusions in the ICU with Emily Fridenmaker
TIRBO #19: Guidewire safety
Lightning rounds #20: Being efficient
TIRBO #18: Mastering dilation
Episode 51: Resuscitating and deresuscitating with hypertonic saline, with Sean Barnett
TIRBO #17: Being cool is a privilege
Lightning rounds #19: How to write a journal article
TIRBO #16: Are PAs as good as doctors?
Episode 50: Rib fractures and surgical plating with Ron Barbosa
TIRBO #15: Reviewing ultrasound modes
Lightning rounds #18: How to give a conference presentation
TIRBO #14: Trajectories of illness and critical care
Episode 49: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis with Shmuel Shoham
TIRBO #13: Hospital relativity
Lightning rounds #17: Reading chest x-rays
TIRBO #12: On heroics (or: is critical care hard?)
Episode 48: Undifferentiated hypotension
TIRBO #11: Mastering wire guidance
Lightning rounds #16: How we do case-based teaching
TIRBO #10: Put the I back in Team
Episode 47: ICU triage with Eddy Gutierrez
TIRBO #9: Some quotes about why
Lightning rounds #15: Night shifts
TIRBO #8: What does skin really tell you about hemodynamics?
Episode 46: Neurologic catastrophe and brain death with Casey Albin
TIRBO #7: Selecting vasopressors
Lightning rounds #14: Abdominal compartment syndrome
TIRBO #6: The many varieties of subclavian line
Episode 45: Amniotic fluid embolism with Stephanie Martin
Episode 44: Physical therapy with Heidi Engel
TIRBO #5: Tracheoinnominate fistulas
Lightning rounds #13: What’s the deal with nurses?
TIRBO #4: Hope
Episode 43: Resuscitative TEE with Felipe Teran
TIRBO #3: Weaning vs Titration
Lightning rounds #12: Co-managing patients in a surgical ICU
TIRBO #2: Procedural handedness
TIRBO #1: Toughness
Episode 42: Clinical pharmacists with Laura Means Ebbitt
Lightning rounds #11: Reflections on two years of the podcast
Episode 41: Preventing and managing complications (part 2) with Matt Siuba
Lightning rounds #10: Physical examination in the ICU
Episode 40: Making the diagnosis with André Mansoor
Lightning rounds #9: Notes and documentation
Episode 39: ECMO for COVID-19 with Kim Boswell
Lightning rounds #8: Five things you’re getting wrong
Episode 38: GI bleeding with Elliot Tapper
Lightning rounds #7: Operationalizing clinical skill
Episode 37: Airway management for COVID-19
Lightning rounds #6: Point of care ultrasound
Episode 36: Preventing and managing complications
Lightning rounds #5: Career development for critical care APPs
Episode 35: When to operate in trauma with Dennis Kim
Episode 34: Lightning rounds #4
Episode 33: Ischemic stroke with Thomas Lawson
Episode 32: Lightning rounds #3
Episode 31: Practical mobility, awakening, and delirium prevention with Kali Dayton
Episode 30: Diabetic ketoacidosis
Episode 29: Lightning rounds #2
Episode 28: Diuresis, deescalation, and liberation with Matt Siuba
Episode 27: Wilderness medicine with Ross Hofmeyr
Episode 26: ICU sedation, mobility, and delirium with Dale Needham
Episode 25: Rhabdomyolysis
Special episode: Surviving COVID-19 with Eve Leckie
Episode 24: Rural retrieval medicine with Minh Le Cong
Episode 23: COVID-19 pneumonia with Nicole King
Episode 22: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage with Thomas Lawson
Episode 21: Trauma resuscitation with Scott Weingart
Episode 20: Post-CABG emergencies with Kris Ramilo and Brendan Riordan
Episode 19: Emergency medicine with Seth Trueger
Episode 18: Oncologic emergencies with Leon Chen
Episode 17: Interventional radiology with Bobby Chiong (part 2)
Episode 16: Interventional radiology with Bobby Chiong (part 1)
Episode 16: Lightning rounds #1
Episode 15: Liver failure with Elliott Tapper
Episode 14: Intracerebral hemorrhage and elevated ICP (part 2)
Episode 13: Intracerebral hemorrhage and elevated ICP (part 1)
Episode 12: Flight medicine with Tyler Christifulli and Sam Ireland (part 2)
Episode 11: Flight medicine with Tyler Christifulli and Sam Ireland (part 1)
Episode 10: Ventilator dyssynchrony
Episode 9: Right heart failure and the SAVIOR protocol with Habib Srour (part 2)
Episode 9: Right heart failure and the SAVIOR protocol with Habib Srour (part 1)
Episode 8: Palliative care with Jessica McFarlin (part 2)
Episode 7: Palliative care with Jessica McFarlin (part 1)
Episode 6: Status epilepticus with Gracia Mui
Episode 5: Cardiogenic shock and ECMO with Brendan Riordan
Special episode: COVID-19 brief
Episode 4: Venous congestion with Philippe Rola
Episode 3: Refractory ARDS
Episode 2: Takotsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy
Episode 1: Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
Episode 0: Introduction