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The guest on this episode is Professor Rob Mac Sweeney, who founded and leads the hugely valuable organisation Critical Care Reviews.
Rob is a Consultant Intensivist at the Royal Victoria Hospital and an Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rob founded Critical Care Reviews back in 2008 and this has grown to now be holding two meetings a year where the largest trials in critical care are presented, critiqued and analysed. Critical Care Reviews also has a comprehensive website, a podcast and publishes a newsletter and a paper of the day, amongst other things, as a way of disseminating the most up to date science in critical care.
If you are fascinated about the story of the man behind Critical Care Reviews, you'll love listening to this.
In this episode, Rob talks about:
How Critical Care Reviews began as a simple website His anxiety when he sent the first newsletter How the website and newsletter developed into a scientific meeting The attraction of trialists with their RCTs to the growing Critical Care Reviews meeting The multi-media output of Critical Care Reviews The importance of a consistent reading habit with the medical literature The significance of high-quality production values for the Critical Care Reviews meeting His passion of sharing science to improve patient care How study investigators gain a slot at a Critical Care Reviews meeting What he requests from study investigators submitting a study The magical quality of significant study results being presented for the first time How Critical Care Reviews expanded to hold a meeting in Melbourne How he translates evidence into clinical practice What’s unique about his ward round His thoughts on the teaching and sharing of non-clinical skills How his family provides solace from work How he uses running to manage his wellbeing (often in the dark) And, some closing advicePlease enjoy listening to Rob Mac Sweeeney.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to work, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Critical Care Reviews 2025 (CCR25) Meeting - June 11-13, 2025
Critical Care Reviews Down Under 2025 (CCR Down Under 2025) Meeting - December 9-10, 2025
Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
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This episode is a rebroadcast of Episode 3 (from 2017) featuring the late Professor Rinaldo Bellomo, who unexpectedly died in May 2025.
There is also a personal tribute from me.
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In this episode, you'll hear from a wise and thoughtful paediatric intensivist.
Michael Clifford is a Paediatric Intensivist and Anaesthetist from the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash Childrens Hospital, Melbourne. Mike has recently finished his term as a CICM Examiner for both the Paediatric Fellowship and the CICM Primary exams. He is a keen teacher with a passion for the basic sciences and how they can inform our clinical practise. He sees every ward round as an opportunity for teaching the primary syllabus - and reminding non-paediatricians of the wonders of breast milk. He is a regular on the Paediatrica Intensiva podcast and has also appeared on Swapnil Pawar's ICU Primary prepcast. More recently he has become an open advocate of discsussions around neurodivergence and mental health in doctors in anaesthesia and critical care.
In our conversation, Michael talks about:
How he became a paediatric intensivist and why he loves it The essential differences between managing children and adults His thoughts on interacting with the parents of sick children How his ward rounds have changed His mental health experience in recent times Remembering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic What he’s observed with mental health awareness Modern adaptations to sick leave in doctors How he looks after his health The benefits of no longer drinking alcohol What brings him joy, particularly at work The value of a human-oriented approach to ICU care What older intensivists might do Career advice for trainees and fellowsThank you for listening to Dr Michael Clifford.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to work, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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My guest in this episode is Dr Jeram Hyde, an intensivist in Newcastle with a special interest in teaching non-technical skills.
Jeram is the force behind an annual Trainee Education Day, run by the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, and which I attended this year. Jeram has been building this meeting over recent years from a single ICU’s annual meeting to educate their trainees on non-clinical topics like work-life balance, communication and civility to one that is now sponsored by the CICM and attracts people from all over the state of New South Wales.
Apart from working as an intensivist, Jeram holds masters degrees in business and human resource management. In his free time he enjoys paragliding and rock climbing.
We recorded this interview whilst I was in Newcastle and we talked about the philosophy of the Education Day, the benefits of teaching these non-technical skills, and how the meeting has grown. Jeram also talked about the fear that prompted his choice to become an ICU doctor, what he values in fostering team culture, and what he looks for when conducting interviews for ICU trainee roles.
Thank you for listening to my conversation with Dr Jeram Hyde.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to work, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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My guest in this episode is Dr Emily Amos, a general practitioner and a passionate educator on mindfulness in Melbourne.
Emily might not be an intensivist but she is a doctor with a powerful burnout story that led to her becoming an enthusiastic guide and teacher about mindfulness and self care. Emily has roles as a GP, a surgical assistant, a lactation consultant, a yoga teacher, a university tutor and a registered mindfulness meditation teacher. Her business, Whole Hearted Medicine, runs mindfulness & self care retreats for doctors. These immersive, CPD approved retreats offer doctors the chance to learn skills in mindfulness, meditation and self compassion away from both work and family pressures. Emily also blogs, speaks, podcasts, runs workshops, and offers several courses through her website www.dremilyamos.com.
Emily provides excellent perspectives on burnout, wellbeing, mindfulness, stress management, life balance and psychological safety. On this episode, Emily openly shares her vivid recollection of the day her life fell apart, what she discovered about herself during her recovery, and, most importantly, how this fuelled her subsequent drive to guide and support people, including doctors, through mindfulness-based self care.
Thank you for listening to Dr Emily Amos.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to work, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Dr Emily Amos
Emily Amos website with links to courses, podcast, blog and other useful material
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Whole Hearted Medicine retreats
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My guest in this episode is Dr Peter Brindley, an intensivist in Edmonton, Canada.
Peter is a tenured full Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Medical Ethics, with over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 30 book chapters, and over 100 other articles, including regular opinion pieces for the British Medical Journal. He has written one book and co-hosts a podcast (The Critical Care Commute). He has presented to audiences in 15 countries during appoximately 650 invited presentations, 50 plenaries and 10 named lectures. He is convinced happiness comes from finding meaning and showing gratitude. He is proudest of two feral kids, neither of whom give a hoot about his work-related achievements.
Peter was previously featured in episode 15 as well as in the Persevering Through A Pandemic series from 2021. These episodes are well worth listening to. Given he was in Australia for the Annual Scientific Meeting of the CICM, I thought I had to have him on the show again.
In this episode, Peter talks about why he’s a doctor and why he stays working where he does, before touching on a variety of topics including clinical leadership, imposter syndrome, the differing skills of the people making up our teams, efficiency, understanding when patients are dying, podcasting, wellbeing and parting advice.
Thank you for listening to Dr Peter Brindley.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to work, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Peter Brindley, MD, FRCPC (Canada), FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin)
Critical Care Commute podcast
Opinion piece "Diagnosing dying: is it time for doctors to write 'dying certificates'?" (by Peter Brindley & Matt Morgan)
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Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Persevering Through A Pandemic - 4 - Best & Worst Year
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Mastering Intensive Care is back after a long hiatus between episodes, and a fun divergence into a series about at athletic adventure.
This episode features Dr Andrew Holt, a highly experienced intensivist at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, who was one of the mentors who significantly shaped my career.
You’ll discover why Andrew was pivotal in my journey, what he sees as the key aspects of a good intensivist, what he has done in coaching and supporting trainees, how he was nearly waylaid by an early career mishap, and what's been profoundly challenging him in recent years.
This conversation is personal, candid, sombre and essential listening - even if it has taken me longer to publish than I would have liked.
I’m grateful to Andrew for courageously and vulnerably sharing his recent difficulties in amongst some valuable lessons and wisdom.
Thank you for listening to Dr Andrew Holt.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Thank you for listening to the ninth and final episode of the Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta series.
If you’ve listened to the series, you’ll know my friend Ed Litton and I entered a four-day stage trail running event, the Run Larapinta Stage Race, and ran, climbed, descended, scrambled and walked with 200 other enthusiastic participants along a mountainous and rugged trail in the spectacular red centre of Australia.
Ed and I thought these conversations on the podcast might help others in setting and completing endurance exercise challenges, something we both prioritise in supporting our well-being to keep bringing our best selves to work in the ICU.
In this episode, we thought we’d record a final episode to reflect on how we have recovered, what the whole experience meant, what we learned from the challenge and what might be next for each of us?
Thank you for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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This is the 8th episode of the "Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta" series and if you’ve been listening to the previous ones, you’ll know that this episode is coming out after the four day stage race that fellow intensivist Ed Litton and I set ourselves the challenge of running many months ago.
Two Intensive Care doctors, both novices at trail running, looking for something moderately hard, something we could do together, and something we could talk about on the show to hopefully inspire you and other listeners to go for a run or to set yourself your own exercise challenge.
We’ve had regular conversations in the lead up to the event, held from August 24th-27th, on the spectacular Larapinta trail, near Alice Springs in the red centre of Australia, and now it’s time to tell you how it all played out.
Did we make it? Were there obstacles? How hard was it? And did it measure up to our expectations?
Thanks for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton
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Fellow intensivist Ed Litton and I signed up for a big challenge 10 months ago when we registered to run in the Run Larapinta, a 4-day stage race in central Australia. We’ve both completed many endurance events, however neither of us have done any serious trail running nor have we ever run 130km in 4 days on a rocky and mountainous trail like the beautiful Larapinta trail in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It’s now only a week away so Ed and I had a conversation to update each other on our recent training before answering 5 questions we thought were worth asking each other at this final stage of our preparations.
What’s worked well in our preparations? What’s not worked well in our preparations? What’s the focus of the remaining time? What have we learned from taking on this challenge? What is exciting us about the upcoming challenge?We hope you’ll enjoy listening to the conversation, and that it might inspire you to get out for a run or for any type of exercise that suits you.
Thanks for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Run Larapinta Stage Race
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 1
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Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 4
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To help Ed Litton and I get really prepared for the Run Larapinta stage race we are only a few weeks away from competing in, today we bring a seasoned ultra trail running doctor on to the podcast to share her advice.
In this sixth episode of the Mastering Intensive Challenges series, we welcome Dr Cheryl Martin, who is an Emergency Medicine specialist, a podcaster and has huge experience in trail running, including ultra marathons.
Cheryl’s podcast, the Mind Full Medic podcast, explores health, wellbeing, optimal performance and professional fulfilment, with a focus on doctors and healthcare. I love listening to it, and the best bit for me is that Cheryl has interviewed a bunch of endurance athletes including several high performing ultra runners.
Today we thought we’d ask Cheryl lots of questions about our training and our preparations including heat adaptation, nutrition, footwear and other aspects that will hopefully help us to complete this event successfully.
We hope you’ll enjoy listening to the conversation, especially if you are a trail runner yourself. If not, hopefully it might inspire you to get out for a run or for any type of exercise that suits you.
Thanks for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing
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Cheryl Martin on Strava
The Mind Full Medic podcast
The Mind Full Medic podcast - Episode with Dr Kellie Angel
Ed Litton on Twitter: @ed_litton
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Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Mastering Intensive Challenges - Run Larapinta - Episode 3
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This is the fifth episode in the Mastering Intensive Care - Run Larapinta series. Ed Litton and I are back on opposite sides of Australia, and neither of us has had the perfect three weeks since we last chatted.
There are now less than seven weeks until the event starts, so we chat about our training, then swing over to what we are each thinking about the logistical challenges we will be presented with.
We hope you’ll enjoy listening to the conversation, even if you prefer the couch to your running shoes. If we can inspire you to get out for some exercise, that would be even better.
Thanks for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Run Larapinta Stage Race
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Run Larapinta - Episode 1
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Here is another episode in the Mastering Intensive Care - Run Larapinta series. For this one, I travelled to Perth to meet with my Run Larapinta co-participant Ed Litton and to head out for a few runs together over a three day weekend.
We also set up the microphones to update each other with our preparations and to discuss our perspectives on the social aspects of exercise, mainly endurance sport. We talked about group training, family support, and even using the social media platform Strava to share inspiration.
We hope you’ll enjoy listening to the conversation, whatever exercise you choose to do.
Thanks for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Ed Litton on Twitter: @ed_litton
Ed Litton at University of Western Australia
Ed Litton on Strava
Andrew Davies on Strava
Run Larapinta Stage Race
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Run Larapinta - Episode 1
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Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Run Larapinta - Episode 3
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This is a follow on episode as Ed Litton and I continue our discussion about the Run Larapinta Stage Race we will be participating in soon.
Ed and I tell each other how our running training is going. Then we talk about our general views on nutrition and sleep, especially as we lead into a multi-day endurance event.
One of us has picked up a little niggle. And each of us has a different approach to what we consume during long runs.
It might not be what we talk about on regular episodes of Mastering Intensive Care but we hope you’ll enjoy listening to the conversation, whether you run, walk, cycle, hike, workout in the gym, or do whatever is your style of physical activity.
Thanks for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Book “Community" (by Hetty McKinnon)
Book “Eat & Run” (by Scott Jurek)
Rich Roll podcast
Ed Litton on Twitter: @ed_litton
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Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Run Larapinta - Episode 1
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Run Larapinta Stage Race
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This episode features the wise perspectives of an Advanced Trainee in Intensive Care Medicine, Dr William Bonavia.
The discussion covers:
Why he chose medicine and Intensive Care His training journey and his learning strategy What makes a good ward round Learning from colleagues The principles of good communication and collaboration The value of work being fun Making mistakes Dealing with the pressures of the job His thoughts on sleep, exercise, resilience and burnout Gender inequity in training The future of his career Tips for fellow traineesWill Bonavia is an Intensive Care Trainee at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and has previously worked at Peninsula Health ICU. He has an interest in teaching, having previously played a role in tutorial, simulation and workshop environments, as well as coordinating a training program for ICU trainees sitting the CICM first part examination. He is also interested in staff welfare and has worked as a trainee representative within his intensive care department at Peninsula Health.
Will has an interest in the long term outcomes of ICU patients and has published research in the area of delirium prediction models. He is currently working on research in the area of persistent critical illness and long term outcomes of critically ill ICU patients with COVID-19. Outside of work, Will enjoys a rotating roster of hobbies but is currently an avid squash enthusiast.
Will has a highly compassionate and careful communication-focused approach. Whether you are a trainee, a fully fledged consultant or someone else involved in the practice of Intensive Care, I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dr Will Bonavia.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Life In The Fast Lane
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In this second of a different style episode, Ed Litton and I continue our discussion about the Run Larapinta Stage Race we will be embarking on in August 2023.
Ed and I talk about our preparation and then tell each other why we run, and what we get out of it.
Ed is a multi-sport endurance athlete whose reasons for getting out in nature are deep and truly inspiring.
We hope you’ll enjoy hearing this conversation, whether you run, walk, cycle, hike, work out in the gym, or do whatever is your style of physical activity.
Thanks for listening.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Ed Litton on Twitter: @ed_litton
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Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Run Larapinta - Episode 1
Run Larapinta Stage Race
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This episode features the memories, experiences and wisdom of Dr Lindsay ‘Tub’ Worthley, AM.
The discussion covers the following:
Tub’s training to become an intensivist when no specific training existed His experience at a time when Australian ICUs were in their infancy The difference between the beginning and the end of his clinical career His eventual transition to retirement His writing of textbooks, scientific papers, editorials and a memoir What he learned about humanity in the ICU Working and communicating with various team members Enthusiastic leadership and the importance of a smooth-running team How he maintained his wellbeing His potential concern for the future of intensive care Some long-lasting career adviceTub worked as an intensive care medical specialist at the Royal Adelaide hospital ICU between 1971 and 1991, before moving to the Flinders Medical Centre ICU, where he worked until 2007. He retired from active clinical intensive care practice in 2009 although his legacy remains through his prolific writing (of scientific papers, editorials and books).
Tub has been a passionate and highly respected postgraduate teacher in intensive care medicine, establishing and running the Adelaide Short Course on Intensive Care Medicine (known colloquially as “Tub’s course) from 1983 – 2005. The course continues today and is now known as the South Australian CICM Fellowship Exam Course.
He created the journal “Critical Care and Resuscitation” and was the inaugural Editor-In-Chief for 6 years. He has also served as President of ANZICS, as an examiner for several Colleges and as a convener of many conferences.
Tub is married to Janice and has 3 sons and 8 grandchildren, all of who he loves dearly. In 2010 he was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for “Service to medical education, particularly in the area of intensive care medicine, as a clinician, mentor and educator, and through contributions to professional associations”.
His books are:
- Worthley LIG. Synopsis of Intensive Care Medicine. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1994.
- Worthley LIG. Handbook of Emergency Laboratory Tests. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1996.
- Worthley LIG. Clinical examination of the critically ill patient, 3rd Ed. Melbourne: The Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine, 2006.
- Worthley LIG. Inside God’s shed: memoirs of an intensive care specialist. Adelaide: JANDL Holdings Pty Ltd, 2014.Most importantly, Tub was one of the consultants responsible for my training, so this episode is a big thrill for me.
Thanks for listening to a true colossus of intensive care, Dr Tub Worthley.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Relevant links
"Tub's Course"
Book “Inside God's shed: memoirs of an intensive care specialist" (by Lindsay Worthley)
Journal “Critical Care and Resuscitation”
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Mastering Intensive Care page on Facebook
Mastering Intensive Care page on Life In The Fast Lane
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 5 with Jamie Cooper
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Audio Producer Chris Burke
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We are trying something different on Mastering Intensive Care.
My friend and fellow intensivist Ed Litton has cajoled me into joining him in a running event.
We will be running the Run Larapinta Stage Race in August 2023.
In this episode, we commence a mini-series discussing our lead up to the event.
Ed and I have different backgrounds as amateur endurance event participants, and in this episode, you’ll hear some of Ed’s endurance accomplishments, what the Run Larapinta event involves, and what we are both pondering as we start ramping up our training.
If you are a runner, an endurance activity participant, a person who exercises regularly, or someone who enjoys hearing about other people’s challenges, I hope you will enjoy listening in.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Relevant links
Ed Litton on Twitter: @ed_litton
Ed Litton at University of Western Australia
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 40 with Ed Litton
Run Larapinta Stage Race
Mastering Intensive Care podcast
Mastering Intensive Care page on Facebook
Mastering Intensive Care at Life In The Fast Lane
Andrew Davies on Twitter: @andrewdavies66
Andrew Davies on Instagram: @andrewdavies66
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Audio Producer Chris Burke
Burke Sound & Media
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This episode features the thoughts and perspectives of A/Prof Chris Nickson.
The topics covered include:
How Chris became an intensivist and then an educator How he began working on Life In The Fast Lane (LITFL) The network of Clinical Educators he leads and the “Incubator” program Simulation and debriefing The current place of FOAM and podcasts in education What he tries to achieve on his ward round Clinical leadership, team dynamics and the necessity of psychological safety The difficulties of fatigue and undervaluing sleep Other aspects of personal wellbeing His reading (including a book recommendation) The future of Intensive Care, especially after COVID-19 Advice for new intensivists Advice on teaching the human aspects of ICUChris Nickson is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne and a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme, a Director of the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Foundation, and a First Part Examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives.
After finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia’s Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He has completed fellowship training in intensive care medicine and emergency medicine; and post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professions education.
Chris is involved in the Alfred ICU’s education and simulation programmes and runs the unit’s education website, INTENSIVE. He created the ‘Critically Ill Airway’ course and teaches numerous courses worldwide. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of litfl.com, the RAGE podcast, the Resuscitology course, and the SMACC conference.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
Thanks for listening to my conversation with Chris Nickson.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to the Intensive Care bedside, with a focus on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Links related to Chris Nickson
Chris Nickson at Life In The Fast Lane
Chris Nickson on Twitter: @precordialthump
Chris Nickson on LinkedIn
Life In The Fast Lane
Intensive blog
Links to other resources (in order of mentioning)
David Galler
Mike Cadogan
Aequanimitas
Clinician Educator Incubator program
Cameron Knott
Manisa Ghani
Deb Massey
Kylie Moon
Steve Philpot
FOAM
Scott Weingart
EMCrit
Academic Life In Emergency Medicine blog
SMACC conference
Deranged Physiology
Steve McGloughlin
Marcus Aurelius
William Osler
Book “How The World Really Works" (by Vaclav Smil)
Bill Gates
Links related to Mastering Intensive Care podcast
Mastering Intensive Care podcast
Mastering Intensive Care page on Facebook
Mastering Intensive Care at Life In The Fast Lane
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 5 with Jamie Cooper
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 45 with Scott Weingart
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 59 with Steve McLoughlin
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 63 with Steve Philpot
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Mastering Intensive Care is returning from being offline for a full 12 months. In this episode, I ask you to ponder, “how are you going?” after the lengthy pandemic, which has lulled after the worst of the storm but has not yet settled into a state of calm.
Whilst few intensive care clinicians have actively diminished what we’ve been through over the last few years, the relentless world of Intensive Care continues unabated. There have been many learnings from the pandemic, but we mustn’t sweep the emotions we’ve witnessed under the carpet.
As you listen to this shorter episode than usual, I hope you’ll ponder questions about how you have managed yourself during the pandemic, both individually and in your local ICU community. I share what I’ve witnessed in myself and my colleagues before offering a few thoughts on where we might focus our actions in recovering from what we’ve been through.
Thank you for listening as I use this opportunity to reinvigorate this podcast after 12 months of languishing.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to inspire and empower Intensive Care clinicians through conversations about the human side of Intensive Care to bring their best selves to work by focusing on compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.
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Links to resources discussed (in order of mentioning)
Article in New York Times “There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing” (by Adam Grant)
Article in New York Times “There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing” (by Adam Grant)
Mastering Intensive Care episode - Persevering Through A Pandemic - 1 - Sick Of COVID
Mastering Intensive Care episode - Persevering Through A Pandemic - 2 - It Was Inconceivable
Mastering Intensive Care episode - Persevering Through A Pandemic - 3 - Ultramarathon
Mastering Intensive Care episode - Persevering Through A Pandemic - 4 - Best & Worst Year
Mastering Intensive Care episode - Persevering Through A Pandemic - 5 - 'Life' Support For Our People
Mastering Intensive Care episode - Persevering Through A Pandemic - 6 - Learnings We Might Take Away
Links related to Mastering Intensive Care podcast
Mastering Intensive Care podcast
Mastering Intensive Care page on Facebook
Mastering Intensive Care at Life In The Fast Lane
Andrew Davies on Twitter: @andrewdavies66
Andrew Davies on Instagram: @andrewdavies66
Andrew Davies on LinkedIn
Email Andrew Davies
Audio Producer Chris Burke
Burke Sound & Media
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