Critical Care Scenarios

Latest Episodes
Lightning rounds #27: Burnout and career satisfaction
We chat about why people get burned out in medicine, how to weigh the pros and cons of our work, and the right perspective on job satisfaction.
TIRBO #36: Liberty or death
A brief overview and call to arms around the key concepts of ICU liberation.
Episode 61: ECPR with Scott Weingart
We chat with Scott Weingart of Emcrit about the use of crash VA ECMO for the cardiac arrest patient. Check out the REANIMATE course here! Listen to the ED ECMO podcast on ECPR here Find us on Patreon
TIRBO #35: Vent double-triggering
Understanding the causes of doubled vent breaths, including premature/short cycling and reverse triggering, plus a basic approach to managing them.
Lightning rounds #27: Our favorite FOAM
Bryan and Brandon share their favorite podcasts, blogs, social media, and other online channels for medical education. Podcasts Blogs/websites Twitter accounts So, with Twitter, we could post all day
TIRBO #34: What makes it a central line?
Reflections on the definition of a central line, whether its arbitrary, and the clinical implications of making the distinction.
Episode 59: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy with Vincent Sorrell
We look at stress (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy in the setting of critical illness, with Dr. Vincent Sorrell. Dr. Sorrell is a cardiologist at the University of Kentucky, where he helped develop the Adva
TIRBO #33: Positioning patients in bed
When scooching a patient in the bed can make a difference.
TIRBO #32: Approaching bacteremia
What does bacteremia mean to you? A brief overview of how this affects the picture of an infected patient.
Episode 58: Toxic alcohols with Jerry Snow
We look at evaluating the patient with encephalopathy and unexplained anion gap, including the workup and treatment of toxic alcohol poisoning, with guest Dr. Jerry Snow (@ToxicSnowEM), medical toxico