SCCM Syndication - Podcasts and RSS Feeds iCritical Care Podcasts
The iCritical Care Podcast is a novel way for you to keep up-to-date with the latest in Critical Care.
The concept is Critical Care radio, and you can listen on your home computer, or your portable media player (iPod and others).
New content comes out frequently, and examples include:
summaries of articles from Critical Connections, Critical Care Medicine, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
interviews with authors of these articles, as well as other prominent members of the Critical Care Community
Like What You Hear? Offer Feedback About the iCritical Care Podcasts
A feedback line now is available for iCritical Care listeners to ask questions, make suggestions or recommend podcast topics.
The Society values and appreciates feedback, and listeners are encouraged to call +1 847 493-6498 to give their input on this
developing medium. Comments and suggestions will be reviewed by the Society's associate editor for podcasting and podcast host Richard H. Savel, MD.
You may click on the title of the podcast in the flash player below and listen on your computer speakers.
You may click on the title of the podcast in the list of podcasts below, and this will open up the media player associated with your browser.
Again, you will hear the podcast on your computer speakers.
You may listen to our podcasts using your iPod and iTunes. This is a free service.
First, please make sure that iTunes is installed and working properly on your computer.
Next, please click on this icon:
iTunes will start automatically, and you will be taken to the SCCM podcast page.
Finally, please click on the SUBSCRIBE icon within iTunes. That’s it! You’re done. New content will be automatically downloaded to your computer,
and synchronized with your iPod whenever you attach your iPod. You may listen whenever, wherever you want.
You may listen to our podcasts using other podcast aggregator (or “podcatching”) software. If you do so, please paste in the following address of our podcast feed:
SCCM Pod-33 Patient Safety and CPOE
Brian Jacobs, MD, project director of Integrating Clinical Information Systems, or ICIS, at Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Medical Center, discusses how efforts in computerized physician order entry relate to patient safety. The ICIS system
is a computer-based system implemented throughout the hospital through which all medical orders are entered and documented
electronically. The system, believed to be the most comprehensive in any pediatric hospital in the United States, is expected
to reduce medical errors significantly.
SCCM Pod-32 CC: Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections
Vera De Palo, MD, outlines several common questions healthcare professionals should consider to help prevent catheter-related
loodstream infections in the ICU. Her article "Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections: Can We Make it Safer For Our Patients?"
appears in the April issue of Critical Connections. Dr. DePalo is associate chief of medicine and director of critical care at
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. She also is an associate professor of medicine at Brown Medical School. (Crit Conn 2006 Vol.5 No.2)
SCCM Pod-31 CC: Prophylactic Antimicrobial Use in the ICU
Phil Barie, MD, MBA, FCCM, discusses his article from the April edition of Critical Connections on antibiotic prophylaxis.
He addresses when this therapy is most useful as well as the consequences of overuse. Dr. Barie is professor of surgery and
public health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, and he sits on the executive committee of the
Society of Critical Care Medicine. (Crit Conn 2006 Vol.5 No.2)
SCCM POD-30 CCM: Hospital Mortality Assessment
Jack Zimmerman, MD, FCCM, discusses his article in the May 2006 edition of Critical Care Medicine, "Acute Physiology and
Chronic Health Evaluation (or APACHE IV): Hospital Mortality Assessment for Today's Critically Ill Patients." Dr. Zimmerman
is professor emeritus of anesthesia and critical care medicine at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington,
D.C. (Critical Care Medicine Volume 34, Number 5, May 2006 pp 1297-1310)
SCCM Pod-29 CCM: Rationing in the ICU
Robert Truog, MD, discusses his article in the April issue of Critical Care Medicine, "Rationing in the Intensive Care Unit." Dr. Truog is professor of medical ethics and anesthesia, pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston. The article focuses on how ICU caregivers distribute resources in the ICU.
SCCM Pod-28 CCM: Morbid Obesity and the Surgical Critical Patient
Stanley Nasraway, MD, FCCM, discusses his article published in the April issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled "Morbid Obesity Is an Independent Determinant of Death Among Surgical Critically Ill Patients." Dr. Nasraway is associate professor of surgery, medicine and anesthesia at Tufts University and chief of the surgical intensive care units at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. His article addresses the growing number of morbidly obese patients entering the intensive care unit and suggests that customized processes be developed to address this unique and challenging patient population. (Critical Care Medicine Volume 34, Number 4, April 2006 pp 964-970)
RSS provides a convenient way to syndicate information from a variety of sources, including news stories, updates
to a web site or important bulletins. Regardless of the purpose for which the RSS file is being used, by watching
this XML file, you can quickly and easily see whenever an update has occurred. Of course, viewing the RSS feed
in Internet Explorer and manually reloading the page every few minutes is not the most efficient use of your time,
so most people take advantage of some form of client software to read and monitor RSS feeds.
Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
SCCM now offers Really Simple Syndication (RSS) headline feeds.
RSS is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content.
When SCCM.org headlines are updated, the headlines on your news reader will automatically update.
To access RSS feeds, you will need to install a news reader or subscribe to an online aggregrator.
All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
The basic process is as follows:
1) Copy the URL for the SCCM RSS: http://www.sccm.org/documents/sccmRSS1.xml
2) Paste it into the “Add Feed…” or “New Feed…” dialog of the RSS feed reader of your choice.
3) Optionally choose to refresh or continue/discontinue subscribing to the feed.
Podcasting is similar in nature to RSS, which allows subscribers to subscribe to a set of feeds to view syndicated Web site content.
With podcasting however, you have a set of subscriptions that are checked regularly for updates and instead of reading the feeds on
your computer screen, you listen to the new content on on your iPod (or like device).
All you need to get started is a podcasting application. Once you install the application, simply add one of SCCM's podcast feeds.
The podcasting application will automatically check for updates and download the files to your computer so then you can load them onto your MP3 player.
The iCritical Care Podcast is a novel way for you to keep up-to-date with the latest in Critical Care.
The concept is Critical Care radio, and you can listen on your home computer, or your portable media player (iPod and others).
New content comes out frequently, and examples include:
