Critical Care Scenarios

Critical Care Scenarios


Latest Episodes

TIRBO 54: Documenting POCUS studies
February 07, 2024

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Episode 70: Airway evaluation for non-anesthesiologists, with Jed Wolpaw
January 31, 2024

We discuss assessing patients prior to intubation or other airway management, including both elective and emergent circumstances, with Dr. Jed Wolpaw, anesthesiologist and intensivist from Johns Hopki

TIRBO 53: Who needs an arterial line?
January 24, 2024

Arterial lines are resuscitative tools.

Lightning rounds 36: Nurses are from Venus
January 17, 2024

Bedside nurses and providers (physicians, PAs, NPs) tend to see the world differently, much of it driven by their training and the systems they work within. We chat about reconciling this and how to b

TIRBO 52: Reliable is better than perfect
January 10, 2024

In general, medical decisions that avoid error are better than those that optimize care.

Episode 69: Head and neck surgery with Alexandra Kejner
January 03, 2024

We discuss head and neck surgery with Dr. Alexandra Kejner, otolaryngologist at the Medical University of South Carolina specializing in transoral robotic surgery, reconstructive surgery including mic

TIRBO 51: Critical care problems are syndromes
December 27, 2023

The core disorders of critical care are mostly syndromes, not diseases. What should this mean to us?

Lightning rounds #35: Brain death updates, with Ariane Lewis and Matthew Kirschen
December 20, 2023

Discussing the new 2023 AAN/AAP/CNS/SCCM Pediatric and Adult Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Consensus Practice Guideline, with the joint first authors: Dr. Ariane Lewis, neurointensivist, pr

TIRBO #50: Never do anything once
December 13, 2023

If you produce academic work, use the research to produce multiple products. Once is a waste.

Episode 68: Liver transplant with Meera Gupta
December 06, 2023

We learn about liver transplant with Dr. Meera Gupta, transplant surgeon at the University of Kentucky Healthcare Transplant Center, and surgical director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program