Clinical Anaesthesia Podcasts: Conversations with Keith and Courtney

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Acid-Base Balance

Stay with us! In the final episode of this series, Keith and Courtney introduce Acid-Base Balance and Disturbances. It has taken years for both of them to get to grips on

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Carbon Dioxide, Part 2

Last episode, we talked about how carbon dioxide is formed in the body, and how it gets from the cells to the lungs. Now that it has arrived there – what next?! In this e

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Carbon Dioxide

In the first episode on carbon dioxide, Keith and Courtney will undoubtedly make you rethink the role of carbon dioxide in the blood – it isn’t the “bad guy” we perhaps t

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Oxygen, Part 3: Patient Monitoring During Oxygen Delivery

In the last of the 3 episodes on oxygen, Keith and Courtney discuss how we can monitor the concentration of oxygen our patient is receiving and also how to monitor our pa

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Oxygen, Part 2: From the Lungs to the Mitochondria

In this second episode, Keith and Courtney discuss how oxygen gets from the lungs and down to the cellular level. This episode won’t Bohr you! Listen out for Keith’s fant

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Oxygen, Part 1: Oxygen Delivery

Welcome to the first episode in our third season of the Conversations with Keith and Courtney podcast. This season looks into Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide – from the moment

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Mechanical Ventilation

In the last episode of our second series. Keith and Courtney discuss their bread & butter – mechanical ventilation. Whether you have a ventilator and don’t use it or you

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Manual Ventilation

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss the long-awaited Podcast on ventilation across 2 parts, with this one focused on manual ventilation. During everyday a

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney follow on from the discussion of the last episode on blood pressure, but this time discussing Invasive Blood Pressure (IBP) mon

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss the equipment, technique and limitations of non-invasive blood pressure measurements (NIBP). Is the fluffy coat of a p

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Rebreathing Systems

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss how rebreathing systems actually work. They discuss gas flow and resistances to breathing, to the point you might actua

Conversations with Keith and Courtney: Non-Rebreathing Systems

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss the different non-rebreathing systems – the types we have available, the way gas flow moves through them and why some m

Conversations With Keith & Courtney: Dead Space

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss what Dead Space means to our patients and how much of it is too much. All of our patients have anatomical dead space,

Conversations With Keith & Courtney: Functional Residual Capacity and Preoxygenation

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss what Functional Residual Capacity (FRC) is, why we should understand this component of lung volume, and its role in pat

Conversations With Keith & Courtney: Hypothermia

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss temperature monitoring in our patients under anaesthesia. Anaesthesia-related hypothermia is both extremely common and

Conversations With Keith & Courtney: ECGs

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss the best way to utilise your ECG machine in everyday anaesthesia. We often hear that the ECG machine gets dusted off a

Conversations With Keith & Courtney: Capnography

In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss the concepts of Capnography while clarifying some of the terminologies used when we discuss carbon dioxide (CO2) in the

Conversations With Keith & Courtney: Introduction

To start our first series, we spend this week’s episode getting to know Keith and Courtney, who make up the Clinical Team at Burtons Academy. They talk about their journe