Dec 20, 2021
This episode focuses on learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic. Important lessons our global Intensive Care community, your local ICU and you personally might take away from what the novel coronavirus has caused - at least so far.
Previous episodes of this series (a series best listened to in episode order) have allowed...
Dec 13, 2021
Intensive Care clinicians are used to being busy. Critically ill patients constantly arrive in the ICU with no awareness of staff workload at that moment. So being busy has not been the major problem of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The difficult emotional responses to physical exhaustion, mental strain, heart-breaking human...
Dec 6, 2021
The physical, mental and emotional burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on Intensive Care clinicians has been colossal. Many ICU staff, of all types and at all levels, have suffered significant psychological effects.
After hearing the pandemic experiences and perspectives of bedside clinicians in recent episodes, the focus...
Nov 29, 2021
Whilst some people choose to run long distances, caring for patients in the ICU is not supposed to feel like an ultramarathon.
If you work in the complex, high stress, emotion-generating environment of an ICU, it might sometimes feel like you are the logistics organiser of an ultimate endurance event, but you...
Nov 22, 2021
Just like a surf beach shore, waves of COVID-19 keep crashing over the world’s Intensive Care Units. The waves have been unpredictable and pattern less, ravaging the ICUs and the people that work in them, often inconceivably.
In this second episode of the “Persevering Through A Pandemic” series, you’ll hear from...