Dr Brent McSharry
Intensivist, Starship Child Health, Auckland, NZ
Brent is one of the intensivists at Starship Hospital. Non clinical responsibilities include overseeing the national PICU transport service, renal replacement therapy, and everything IT - from managing online resources, to overseeing collection, storage and analysis of data for statistical benchmarking procedures. He has not found any of these areas of interest to be useful conversation starters.
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Update on Caring for Children in General Intensive Care Units
A quick update in looking after children in a general ICU - includes a look at whether SPICE III should be extrapolated to children, implications of changing paediatric maintenance fluid regimes, new approaches to fluid management in DKA, what we learnt from the recent measles epidemic and some opinions on managing bronchiolitis now the PARIS trial results have been well and truly implemented in most children's wards
A quick update in looking after children in a general ICU - includes a look at whether SPICE III should be extrapolated to children, implications of changing paediatric maintenance fluid regimes, new approaches to fluid management in DKA, what we learnt from the recent measles epidemic and some opinions on managing bronchiolitis now the PARIS trial results have been well and truly implemented in most children's wards