SCCM Podcast
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Podcast features in-depth interviews with leaders in critical care. Experts discuss hot topics in intensive care with perspectives from all members of the critical care team. Guests include authors from SCCM’s peer-reviewed journals, Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Critical Care Explorations, as well as thought leaders within the field. This is a new and updated channel, formerly known as the iCritical Care Podcast All Audio Channel.
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-447 eSIMPLER: A Dynamic, Electronic Health Record-Integrated Checklist
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
The increasing use of electronic health records (EHRs) has inspired the need for a more dynamic checklist. Geva et al conducted a before-after quality improvement study by replacing a static checklist with an updated dynamic checklist.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-448 Noninvasive Respiratory Support: Opinion- or Evidence-Based Medicine?
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
When should clinicians intubate preterm infants? The answer is not always straightforward, according to podcast guest Deepak Jain, MD, FAAP. He and host Pamela M. Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, discuss strategies that optimize noninvasive ventilation and when such strategies are appropriate.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-445 The Association of Workload and Outcomes in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Healthcare workload has emerged as an important metric associated with poor outcomes. To measure workload, studies have used bed occupancy as a surrogate. However, few studies have examined frontline clinician workload and outcomes.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-451: A Hard Learned Lesson on What It’s Like to Be a Patient
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
In the ICU, medical staff do all they can to assist patients and get them back to health as quickly as possible. In the process of saving lives, bedside manner and communication may suffer. Host Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by Lauren Rissman, MD, to discuss the eye-opening experience Dr. Rissman had when she was admitted to the ICU from the labor and delivery unit and the importance of having a patient advocate.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-450 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Long-Term Goals of Care
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Since the publication of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines, the focus has been on sepsis management, early identification, and treatment. (Evans L, et al. Crit Care Med. 2021;49:e1063-e1143). As more patients are surviving sepsis, they may be left with short- and long-term problems that need to be addressed. Host Ludwig H. Lin, MD, is joined by Christa A. Schorr, DNP, MSN, RN, FCCM, to discuss the implementation of initiatives for preventing impairments due to sepsis. They will also discuss the challenges faced by survivors of sepsis and the difficulties of matching care to the patient's and family's goals of care.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-452 CCM: Racial Disparities in ICU Outcomes
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
In this podcast, host Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FSHEA, FCCM, is joined by Samuel K. McGowan, MD, to discuss a systematic review that found significant differences in care and outcomes, including mortality rates, among intensive care unit (ICU) patients of different races (McGowan S, et al. Crit Care Med. 2022 Jan;50:1-20). Dr. McGowan is a first-year fellow in pulmonary and critical care at University of California in San Francisco, California, USA. This podcast is sponsored by Sound Physicians.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-454 PCCM: PANDEM Guidelines
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
The PANDEM guidelines evaluate current practices and provide recommendations for management of pain, agitation, iatrogenic withdrawal, neuromuscular blockade, delirium, ICU environment, and early mobility in critically ill infants and children. Host Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM, is joined by Heidi A. B. Smith, MD, MSCI, FAAP, to discuss the guidelines.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-455 Introduction to Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System Albumin Dialysis
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
This podcast will describe the principle of albumin dialysis of the molecular adsorbent recirculating system (MARS). Host Pamela M. Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, is joined by Ram M. Subramanian, MD, MBA, FCCM, to discuss the logistics of starting a MARS program to outline indications for MARS. Dr. Subramanian is a hepatologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is sponsored by Baxter.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-464 CCM: More Communication: Who Needs it? Families Do!
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Clinicians aim to communicate with surrogates of ICU patients in ways that both inform them of the patient’s medical condition and support their emotional needs. Written communication, as a supplement to traditional verbal communication, may overcome some of the challenges that clinicians face when engaging with families in the ICU. Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Jared Greenberg, MD, MSc, to discuss the article "Daily Written Care Summaries for Families of Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial," published in the September 2022 issue of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Greenberg is assistant professor of internal medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. This podcast is sponsored by Sound Physicians.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-463 CCM: Clazakizumab for COVID-19: Friend or Foe?
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Clazakizumab is a monoclonal antibody against human interleukin-6 that may benefit patients hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19 accompanied by hyperinflammation. Although not yet FDA approved, clinical trials of clazakizumab for treatment of COVID-19 are under way worldwide. Samantha Gambles Farr, MSN, NP-C, CCRN, RNFA, is joined by Bonnie E. Lonze, MD, PhD, to discuss the article, A Randomized Double-Blinded Placebo Controlled Trial of Clazakizumab for the Treatment of COVID-19 Pneumonia With Hyperinflammation, published in the September 2022 issue of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Lonze is a faculty transplant surgeon at NYU Langone in New York, New York, USA, focusing primarily on kidney transplants. As vice chair for research of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, she leads the research group on clinical trials and regulatory oversight.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-465 PCCM: Who’s Got the Right Dose?
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) guidelines include weight-based epinephrine dosing recommendations of 0.01 mg/kg with a maximum of 1 mg, which corresponds to a weight of 100 kg. But what are the actual practice patterns? Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by Martha Kienzle, MD, to discuss the article: Weight-Based Versus Flat Dosing of Epinephrine During Cardiac Arrest in the PICU: A Multicenter Survey, published in the October 2022 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Kienzle is an attending physician in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
The American Heart Association's (AHA) cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines recommend against the routine administration of IV calcium during pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest because of its association with worse outcomes. However, IV calcium is routinely used in children with heart disease who have cardiopulmonary arrest. Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Gurpreet S. Dhillon, MD, to discuss the article, Calcium Administration During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Heart Disease is Associated With Worse Survival - A Report From the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation (GWTG-R) Registry, published in the November issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (Dhillon G, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2022;23:860-871). Dr. Dhillon is a pediatric cardiac intensivist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, California.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
SCCM Pod-466: Hyperammonemia, the Silent Killer
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Untreated hyperammonemia can cause irreversible neurologic damage, coma, or death. A high level of clinical suspicion is necessary to quickly recognize and implement emergency interventions for hyperammonemia in the acute presentation of urea cycle disorders (UCDs). Pamela M. Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, is joined by Anna-Kaisa Niemi, MD, PhD, and a patient who was hospitalized for hyperammonemia at age 8 years to discuss the importance of improved recognition of hyperammonemia and awareness of the underlying causes, such as UCDs. Dr. Niemi is a neonatologist and associate professor at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California, USA. This podcast is sponsored by Horizon Therapeutics.
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
SCCM Pod-462 APP: Bullying in the Workplace
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Are there bullies in the world of advanced practice providers (APPs)? How is bullying defined in a clinical environment? In this podcast, hosted by Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, three APPs from different hospitals debate incivility and workplace culture. They also address interpersonal relationships among APPs, physicians, and nurses.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
SCCM Pod-461 PCCM: A Novel Machine Learning Model to Predict PICU Transfer
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Unrecognized clinical deterioration during illness requiring hospitalization is associated with high risk of mortality and long-term morbidity among children. In this podcast hosted by Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN, FCCM, Anoop Mayampurath, PhD, discusses a novel machine learning model that identifies ICU transfers in hospitalized children more accurately than current tools.
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Nosocomial infections are a prevalent cause of death and complications in critically ill children. Conventional cultures are able to detect only up to 25% of bacteremias. Several studies have suggested that molecular tests could be a faster and effective tool for detection of bacterial infections.
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-459: Processed EEG Monitoring in the ICU
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
This podcast will educate clinicians on the unfamiliar parameters of processed EEG (pEEG). Host Pamela M. Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, is joined by Meghan B. Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM, to discuss the benefits of pEEG for monitoring sedated mechanically ventilated patients and patients undergoing neuromuscular blockade. Dr. Lane-Fall is an associate professor of anesthesiology, critical care, and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. This podcast is sponsored by Medtronic.
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
SCCM Pod-458 CCM: Association of Catecholamine in Patients with Septic Shock
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Catecholamine is used in patients with septic shock to augment hemodynamics and achieve goal mean arterial pressure. Ludwig H. Lin, MD, is joined by Gretchen L. Sacha BCCCP, PharmD, to discuss this retrospective observational study to evaluate the associations of catecholamine dose, lactate concentration, and timing from shock onset at vasopressin initiation with in-hospital mortality. (Sacha G, et al. Crit Care Med. 2022;50:614-623). Dr. Sacha is a critical care clinical specialist at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. This podcast is sponsored by Sound Physicians.
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
While little is known about the epidemiology of ventilator-acquired pneumonia among COVID-19 patients, some studies suggest a higher risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia in this specific population. Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FCCM, is joined by Charles-Herve Vacheron, MD, to discuss the Cohort exposed/nonexposed study among the REA-REZO surveillance network.
Tuesday May 10, 2022
SCCM Pod-456 PCCM: Effects of Excessive Oxygen Supplementation
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
This podcast will examine a retrospective, observational cohort study that found an association between excessive oxygen supplementation in the first day of mechanical ventilation with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome on day 7 of admission and in-hospital mortality in critically ill children. Host Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, MD, MBI, to discuss the study's findings.