Neurocritical care at bedside resolution.
Neuro Resus treats neurocritical care as a practical problem, not a lecture-room abstraction. Episodes move through subarachnoid haemorrhage, brain oxygen monitoring, EVD troubleshooting, osmotherapy, ketamine, and the patient experience with careful attention to what changes care.
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Neuro Resus is a neurocritical care podcast centered on the practical medicine of injured brains. It is not broad wellness audio. The show speaks to intensive care, emergency, neurosurgical, and neuroscience audiences who are comfortable with terms such as ICP, CPP, PBT-O2, vasospasm, DCI, osmotherapy, and cortical spreading depolarization. Many recent episodes are drawn from recorded talks and symposium sessions, with Olly Flower introducing speakers and placing the topic in the wider Neuro Resus teaching ecosystem. The format is flexible. Some episodes are formal clinical talks, some are panel-style sessions, and one recent episode tests a conversation with an AI companion named Simon. The editorial center stays consistent: what does the physiology mean, how reliable is the monitor, and what should a team do next? Subarachnoid haemorrhage receives detailed attention. Vasospasm is treated not as a slogan but as a contested mechanism involving angiography, cerebral blood flow, ischemia, trial design, rescue therapy, and patient selection. Blood pressure targets are handled with the same caution. The show asks when induced hypertension may help, when it may harm, and why a systolic target may be less useful than a more individualized approach. Equipment episodes get very concrete. EVD troubleshooting covers leveling, zeroing, Codman monitor communication, burette height, CSF levels, and when neurosurgery needs to be called. Brain tissue oxygen monitoring is discussed through Bonanza, BOOST-2, ICP-based care, cerebral hypoxia burden, oxygen delivery, carbon dioxide management, and perfusion. The ketamine episode turns an old sedative into a neurocritical care question about cardiovascular stability, NMDA receptors, excitotoxic injury, vasopressor exposure, and feasibility in trials. The show also makes space for recovery after catastrophic haemorrhage. A patient and family experience episode describes surgery, vasospasm treatment, emergency decompression, workplace worries, concentration problems, sensory changes, and the randomness of recovery over years. Neuro Resus is strongest when clinical dogma is under pressure. It does not pretend every question has a clean answer. It gives listeners the uncertainty, the mechanism, and the bedside consequence in the same frame.
Made for: For ICU, emergency, neurosurgical, anaesthetic, and neuroscience clinicians who want detailed neurocritical care teaching. It best suits listeners already comfortable with acute brain injury physiology and ICU monitoring language.
What sets it apart: Neuro Resus combines conference teaching, clinical cases, technical equipment discussion, and trial-aware physiology in one practical feed. Its edge is the repeated move from monitor reading or treatment dogma to patient-specific bedside action.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Neuro Resus connects brain-injury evidence, monitoring and patient recovery to the difficult judgments made in intensive care.
Neuro Resus makes neurocritical care legible through the decisions that unfold around an injured brain. Olly Flower introduces recorded symposium talks, specialist discussions and, in one episode, a conversation with an AI companion.
Vasospasm refuses the tidy protocol here, rewarding your appetite for clinical caveats.
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A practical look at subarachnoid hemorrhage blood pressure management and the reasoning behind systolic targets.
The episode treats aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage as a bedside blood pressure problem, moving from the Himalaya trial to the limits of one size fits all targets.
A grounded look at how recovery from subarachnoid haemorrhage can return in uneven chunks.
The episode tracks subarachnoid haemorrhage through neurocritical care, but the real focus is what follows: swelling, vasospasm, emergency surgery, and a recovery that keeps changing shape.
A practical case for tracking brain oxygen alongside intracranial pressure.
Andrew Oody treats brain tissue oxygen monitoring as part of serious severe TBI care, not as a gadget added for effect. He keeps the focus on the harder clinical question: what actually gives the injured brain a better chance, and how PbtO2 fits alongside ICP, cerebral hypoxia,…
A careful case for ketamine as a perfusion-sparing option in acute brain injury.
The piece treats ketamine as an older drug with a live role in neurocritical care. It centers the practical reason clinicians still reach for it: cardiovascular stability during sedation, which can help avoid blood pressure drops that threaten cerebral perfusion pressure.
A practical regional ECMO review focused on readiness, team discipline, emergency coordination, and the measured use of mechanical CPR.
Regional ECMO is framed here as a test of preparation under pressure, with Matt Brain describing how a small ICU in Launceston has shaped its service since 2013.
A clear, practical look at blood-pressure targets in subarachnoid hemorrhage.
NeuroResus stays tightly on subarachnoid hemorrhage management, returning again and again to the question that matters most here: how hard to push blood pressure, and what evidence is actually doing the work.
Brain science before it becomes a headline.
Intensivist Matt Brain details the establishment and operation of a regional extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) service at Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania.
Oli Flower hosts a conversation with an AI co-host named Simon, focusing on subarachnoid hemorrhage management.
This episode discusses the debate between mannitol and hypertonic saline for osmotherapy in neurocritical care, highlighting the complexity of defining the question and outcomes.
NeuroResus's Vasospasm in aSAH - A Conversation with AI opens on 2 August 2025 with Oli Flower and Simon, an AI companion introduced as ChatGPT 4.0, focusing on delayed cerebral ischemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Neuro Resus’s "aSAH: Dilating the Dogma of Vasospasm" features Olly Flower introducing Rob Locke-McDonald, a Canadian neurosurgeon and academic in Fresno, California, as a leading authority on aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Olly Flower frames Neuro Resus around Lizzie Cleaves' 9 August 2020 subarachnoid haemorrhage, a 3 mm middle cerebral artery aneurysm, and 37 days in neuro ICU.
Olly Flower introduces Andrew Oody of the Alfred and Monash at a Neuro Resus recording from the final Coder event in September 2022, and Oody frames the talk around brain tissue oxygen monitoring and the Bonanza trial.
Toby Jeffcoat, an intensivist at the Alfred, presents a talk titled "Ketamine in Acute Brain Injury" at the Brain Symposium and frames ketamine as "an old drug" with new ICU uses.
A talk from a neurocritical care symposium discussing the debate between mannitol and hypertonic saline for osmotherapy.