ACCRAC Podcast

A Podcast for Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews, Debates and Commentary

ANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY

Episode 47: Arterial Lines with Stephen Freiberg

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In this episode, episode 47, I welcome back Dr. Stephen Freiberg, one of our chief residents, to discuss all you ever wanted to know about arterial lines.  We discuss the indications, contraindications, complications, placement technique, and how to interpret the waveform.

Slides with figures mentioned in the podcast can be found here: Arterial Line Podcast Images

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Episode 45: Postop Delirium with Charlie Brown

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In this episode, episode 45, I welcome Dr. Charlie Brown to the show.  Dr. Brown is one of our cardiac anesthesiologists with a research interest in postop delirium.  We discuss risk factors, consequences, prevention and treatment of postop delirium.

Episode 39: Liver Transplant with Dr. Steve Frank

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In this episode, episode 39, I interview Dr. Steve Frank, Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins, Medical Director of Blood Management for Johns Hopkins Health System and Chief of Adult Anesthesiology about anesthesia for liver transplants.

Episode 35: Pleural effusions with Dr. David Feller-Kopman

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In this episode, number 35, I welcome Dr. David Feller-Kopman to the show.  Dr. Feller-Kopman is an associate professor of medicine and Otolaryngology and the director of Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonology here at Johns Hopkins.  I interview him about pleural effusions including what they are, where they come from, how to categorize them, how to treat them and how to deal with them if they recur.

The NEJM article on the use of TPA and DNAse is here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1012740#t=abstract

Episode 33: ECMO with Dr. Rosanne Sheinberg

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In this episode, episode 33, I welcome cardiac anesthesiologist Dr. Rosanne (Rosie) Sheinberg to the show to discuss ECMO.  We go through a comprehensive overview of what ECMO is, how it is used, how it is managed, the complications that can be seen and how to manage them and how to wean it off.

Episode 31: Massive Transfusion with Dr. Stephen Freiberg

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In this episode, episode 31, I welcome one of our amazing chief residents to the show, Dr. Stephen Freiberg.  Stephen has taken an interest in massive transfusion and he goes over the highlights of when to do it, how to do it, what complications you see from it and how to manage those complications.

Episode 30: Management of anticoagulation for non-valvular a-fib

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In this episode, episode 30, I discuss the new American College of Cardiology Guidelines for the periprocedural management of anticoagulation for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.  This includes whether to stop, when to stop, whether to bridge, how to bridge, and how and when to restart.

Episode 29: PA catheters with Dr. Glenn Whitman

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In this episode, episode 29, I welcome to the show Dr. Glenn Whitman.  Dr. Whitman is a cardiac surgeon and intensivist and runs the cardiac surgical ICU here at Johns Hopkins.  I interview Dr. Whitman about PA catheters.  We discuss when to place them, when not to place them, how to use them and when to take them out.

Episode 28: Airway topicalization with Dr. Laeben Lester

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In this episode I welcome Dr. Laeben Lester to the show.  Dr. Lester is trained in Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology and has completed fellowship training in Cardiac Anesthesiology.  He shares with us his “Nearly Needleless 5-Step Approach” to airway topicalization for awake intubation.