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Are you a health care practitioner or a concerned potential patient as we approach a crisis of Intensive Care Bed supply? Would you like your voice to be heard about the Ethics of allocating scarce resources to mortally ill patients? I am a UK Intensive Care Medicine Consultant (retired from

Universities and Colleges are now delivering Lectures to your home Computer, and FluidPhysiology.org is following suit. The first lecture commitment that I decided I had to cancel was in Leeds, Yorkshire, March 17th. I have now added a Sound file with my commentary to each Keynote slide, which plays on

Today I cast a critical eye over a recent paper from Professor Tatara’s team in Hyogo, Japan. DOI: 10.1111/aas.13548. It is a fine example of the sort of physiology experiment that can be performed in clinical practice to advance our understanding of acute body water distribution changes.  The study population

I redoubled efforts to have fluid physiology recognised as a subspecialty of intensive/ critical care medicine and anaesthesia/ anesthesiology with Podcasts on TopMedTalk, and was rewarded with an Endorsement from UCL’s Monty Mythen that reading the book could be “Career-changing”. Korbin Haycock, EM Physician at Loma Linda in California, called

Every critical care team needs its own super specialists and I have long believed that fluid physiology should be one of those super specialisms. I was therefore delighted to see this short if cryptic comment from the Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at University College London. Now,

Can you explain these remarkable observations about the circulation of blood? If not, it’s time to order your copy of the book just in time for New Year reading…. Become a fluid physiologist.

Armand Girbes, Professor in Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Pharmacologist, chairs the Division of Scientific Affairs at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), so when he complains about the direction of research in his speciality he deserves our attention. Last year he gave an Invited Lecture entitled Fifteen

Here is a paper that has to go in the next edition of Fluid Physiology: Extreme bradycardia and tachycardia in the world’s largest animal “The biomechanical properties and dimensions of the aortic wall in fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) have led to the hypothesis that, at heart rates ≤10 beats min−1 (bpm)

Reiterer C, Kabon B, Zotti O, Obradovic M, Kurz A, Fleischmann E. Effect of goal-directed crystalloid- versus colloid-based fluid strategy on tissue oxygen tension: a randomised controlled trial. Br J Anaesth. 2019;123:768-776. Yet another HES vs LR for GDT in major surgery RCT. Regular readers will understand that modern Starling

Q. Who tied a beating-heart dog preparation to the railings between a courtyard of the Sorbonne and the pavement of a Parisian public thorough-fare? Q. Why was The Brown Dog immortalised with a statue in London? Q. Can you describe the several forms of the endothelial barrier and the major