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November 21, 2023November 21, 2023Critical care, Haematology, Haemorrhage

122 Reflections on the THOR THUNDER conference with Graeme and Emelyn

Hi Everyone, Whole blood, freeze dried plasma, refrigerated or frozen platelets…. On Oct 31st – Nov 3 Graeme, Emelyn and I attended the THOR – THUNDER conference hosted here in […]

October 17, 2023October 17, 2023Anaesthesia, Critical care, Haematology, Obstetrics, Patient Blood Management

121 PBM Case discussion with Anastazia and Nolan part 3 blood is not an option.

Hi everyone, Welcome to part 3 of a 3 part series we have put together – 3 hypothetical cases involving anaemia / patient blood management scenarios. Thanks to the two […]

October 9, 2023Critical care, Haematology, Obstetrics, Patient Blood Management

120 PBM case discussion with Anastazia and Nolan part 2 postpartum anaemia

Hi everyone, Welcome to part 2 of a 3 part series we have put together – 3 hypothetical cases involving anaemia / patient blood management scenarios. Thanks to the two […]

September 19, 2023September 20, 2023Critical care, Obstetrics

118 Challenges of lactate interpretation with Tim and Declan

You are phoned and asked to review the venous blood gas from a woman who has just given birth in labour ward. She had a long and difficult labour and […]

August 3, 2023Anaesthesia, Critical care, Obstetrics

117 Toxicity of neuraxial tranexamic acid with Graeme

Hi Everyone, “Three minutes after the administration on the spinal anaesthetic they became restless and complained of severe pain in both lower limbs and back. Their heart rate and blood […]

April 18, 2023April 18, 2023Critical care, Obstetrics

112 Peripartum hyponatraemia with Jess & Siv

You are called to a code blue medical on labour ward – a previously well nulliparous woman has just had a seizure, and now seems confused. Her observations are normal, […]

March 1, 2023March 1, 2023Anaesthesia, Critical care

109 Radial arterial line strategies to prevent failure with Graeme & Siv

Arterial lines – let’s face it who doesn’t love them? When you have a truly sick patient these humble and often underrated devices bring so much to the table, precise […]

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023Anaesthesia, Critical care

108 Postoperative pulmonary complications and protective lung ventilation strategies with Lloyd Green

(Hypothetical case) You are called to the PACU to review a patient, who despite face mask oxygen has saturations of only 88%. She is a woman in her 50s who […]

November 5, 2022November 5, 2022Anaesthesia, Critical care

104 Oral midodrine a discussion with Rheily

Your 76 yr old patient is now two days post her laparotomy for ovarian cancer. She looks well, is starting to eat and keen to get up to the shower […]

September 1, 2022September 20, 2022Anaesthesia, Critical care, Haemorrhage, Obstetrics

100 Learning from real haemorrhage case discussions

Hi everyone, Join us this week as we briefly celebrate the 100th episode – almost exactly 5 years after the first episodes aired. Then we sit down to discuss some […]