Roger Harris, the Bedside Critical Care big dog gives his last talk of the 2012 conference.

From the maker of Sex and Nutrition comes Oxidative Stress.

Roger specifically discusses:

• What is Oxidative stress
• Why is Oxidative Stress important
• How does Selenium fit into Oxidative stress
• Selenium (Se) in critical illness
• What’s the current evidence for Se in ICU

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SMACC INNOVATION CONNECTIVITY EDUCATION

SMACC 13 OPENING CEREMONY Director's Cut

Director's cut: a low-key talk through the Opening Ceremony video with Oli Flower and Roger Harris.

SMACC INNOVATION CONNECTIVITY EDUCATION

SMACC 13 OPENING CEREMONY

The stunt that opened smacc 2013.

WHO: Associate Professor Yahya Shehabi

WHAT: Delirium - an elephant in the room?

DATE: Thursday 6.6.13

TIME: 18.30 onwards

WHERE: Edmund Blacket Room, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney

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A pecha kucha giving a succinct update and evidence review on protein and nutrition administration in patients with hepatic encephalopathy and advanced liver cirrhosis, with a historical overview of nutrition developments.

By Melissa Chin, a medical student at Sydney Universiity

Made for SMACC 2013.

See our other Pecha Kuchas here.

How safe is your hospital for a patient with a tracheostomy? 

Sean Kelly from the Intensive Care Coordination Monitoring Unit (ICCMU) talks with Tony Burrell from the Clinical Excellence Commission and Ian Seppelt about improving the safety of  patients with tracheostomies in and out of the ICU…….managing tracheostomy airway emergencies,  before and when the cavalry arrives……and the recently released  ICCMU  guideline, "Adult Patients in Acute Care Facilities with a Tracheostomy".

The guideline and other resources to help implement the guideline in your hospital can be accessed at ICCMU here

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If someone does something of note, you can be almost certain there'll be a host of parodies following in its wake. Some are funny, some are in poor taste, some are better than the original and occasionally some have a message. 

SMACC2: The inside scoop! 

It’s time that we come clean with some of the preliminary planning for smacc2.

This post is a brief synopsis of what’s been happening in the last 7 weeks...

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 Alex ROSENBERG 

Alex Rosenberg is an Intensivist who was working in a transplant centre last year.

He gave this talk on immunosupression at last year's Bedside Critical Care Conference and managed to make a fairly dry subject seem understandable and relevant. 

Click here for more info on this year's Bedside Critical Care Conference, which promises to be fantastic.

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The ANZICS Safety and Quality Committee needs your help!

They've reviewed the prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in intensive care units, looking at epidemiology and pathophysiology, with the intent to make recommendations on prevention. They have not reviewed diagnosis or treatment. However, before they release it as an official document, they are looking for some feedback from Australian and New Zealand intensive care practicioners, to see if there is likely to be a significant difference between the proposed statement recommendations and current practice and whether there might be areas that could present opportunities for further research.

So they've engaged in a bit of social media to get a wide view of opinions on the proposed consensus statement. You can read this "consultation" version of the statement document here: ANZICS VAP Statement: Consultation Version

Once you've digested it, you can answer a survey on the statement here: ANZICS VAP Statement - Consultation Version survey (Survey Monkey) or send comments on the statement to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The ANZICS Safety and Quality Committee last surveyed ICU VAP prevention practice in 2009 (ANZICS VAP Survey Report 2009)