Cardiac Output
Cardiac Output is a podcast on cardiothoracic anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. Dr Mike Charlesworth and Dr Calum Downes discuss the evidence, the controversies and the practicalities of modern practice.
Episodes
Mechanical Circulatory Support in ICU: Cardiac Output, VA-ECMO and VADs
It's the middle of the night (again). Your post-op cardiac patient looks awful, and the nurse says the cardiac output's low. Do you reach for a number — or do you look at the patient?
In this episode Mike and Calum work through heart failure and mechanical circulatory support the way it actually plays out on a cardiothoracic ICU: how you know the output is low, what the devices really do, and how
VV-ECMO for Residents: Physiology, Evidence, Troubleshooting
It's three in the morning. Your patient is proned, paralysed, on 100% oxygen, and his P/F ratio is 70. Do you keep cranking the ventilator — or do you pick up the phone?
In this episode Mike and Calum work through veno-venous ECMO the way it actually gets used on an ICU: what it does, who it's for, and the things that catch people out at the bedside.
We cover the single most important idea in ECMO
