Critical care evidence, carefully talked through.
SCCM Podcast follows critical care conversations from journal articles to practical decisions at the bedside. Its episodes favor measured interviews with clinicians and researchers on shock, ventilation, transfusion, ultrasound, sepsis, and lifelong learning.
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SCCM Podcast is a long-running critical care interview series with a deliberately clinical center of gravity. It is not built for quick medical takes. The strongest episodes move slowly through a question until the listener can hear the shape of the evidence, the uncertainty around it, and the practical problem clinicians are trying to solve. Sampled conversations have covered ultrasound training for advanced practice providers, humanitarian medical work, microcirculation and shock, transfusion practices in traumatic brain injury, pediatric septic shock, infant bronchiolitis ventilation, and angiotensin II in vasodilatory shock with renal replacement therapy. The range is broad, but the method is consistent. A host introduces a study, a guest’s clinical background, or a professional-development theme, then follows with layered questions that invite explanation rather than performance. The show is comfortable with technical vocabulary. It talks about capillary refill time, lactate delays, pressure-volume curves, airway opening pressure, randomized pilot trials, meta-analysis reproducibility, vasopressor dosing, and the gap between guidelines and bedside concern. It also has a practical streak. The discussion of capillary refill time, for example, turns a simple bedside maneuver into a broader conversation about microcirculation, rural practice, and resource-limited care. The professional-development episodes are similarly grounded. Rather than offering generic advice, they ask how early-career nurses and APPs can build learning habits, verify medical education sources, and avoid mistaking online popularity for reliability. The show’s best use is as continuing professional context for people already close to critical care. It assumes listeners can follow dense clinical reasoning, but it usually pauses to restate the important terms and connect study design to patient care. There is warmth in the teaching. There is also discipline in the disclaimers, disclosures, and repeated attention to what the evidence can and cannot say. That combination makes SCCM Podcast feel less like medical news and more like a recorded corridor conversation between serious clinicians after reading the paper carefully.
Made for: For ICU clinicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, trainees, and medical educators who want detailed conversations about critical care evidence and practice. It is best suited to listeners comfortable with technical clinical language.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its patient movement from study design and measurement details to bedside implications. It gives guests room to explain uncertainty, methods, and practical tradeoffs instead of reducing research to a quick conclusion.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Podcast features in-depth interviews with leaders in critical care. Experts discuss hot topics in intensive care with perspectives from all members of the critical care team. Guests include authors from SCCM’s peer-reviewed journals, Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Critical Care Explorations, as well as thought leaders within the field. This is a new and updated channel, formerly known as the iCritical Care Podcast All Audio Channel.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
SCCM Podcast turns critical-care research into precise questions about measurement, evidence, training, and bedside decisions.
SCCM Podcast starts with decisions that matter at the bedside, then traces the evidence beneath them. Marilyn Bullock's interviews move from age-friendly care and fluctuating patient capacity to capillary refill time in shock and transfusion thresholds after traumatic brain…
A fingertip refill test meets meta-analysis here, so you get bedside practicality with the caveats intact.
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Ultrasound training and humanitarian service are linked by a steady, practice-first voice.
Susanna Rudy's conversation with Maureen Madden stays grounded in practice, moving from ultrasound training to humanitarian work with a steady, practical emphasis.
A focused, clinically grounded discussion of airway closure in ventilated infants with bronchiolitis using pressure-volume curves and electrical impedance tomography.
Airway closure sits at the center of this SCCM Podcast discussion of acute bronchiolitis in infants on invasive mechanical ventilation. Maureen Matten speaks with Dr.
A focused critical care discussion on hemorrhage recognition, access choices, flow rates, and transfusion practice.
This SCCM Podcast episode treats hemostatic resuscitation as a bedside problem of recognizing bleeding early, getting the right access, and moving blood products with enough speed to matter.
A measured case for bringing age-friendly care into critical care.
SCCM's conversation with Terri Fulmer makes the 4Ms approach feel less like a framework and more like a practical way to think about age-friendly critical care.
A practical look at shock that keeps perfusion, bedside utility, and current limits in view.
SCCM frames a focused discussion on tissue perfusion and microcirculation in shock, with Ulfa Hamzawi tying physiology to bedside practice. The conversation moves between capillary refill time, laser Doppler findings, and the gap that can open between peripheral perfusion and…
A practical conversation about early-career growth, clinical judgment, and verifying medical voices without getting cynical.
This episode treats lifelong learning as a working habit, not a slogan. Samantha Gambles-Farr talks with Brian Bolling, an acute care nurse practitioner whose background spans the University of Kentucky and Georgetown University, and the conversation stays close to early career…
A measured look at TBI transfusion evidence, shaped by a small randomized trial pool.
This episode follows Marilyn Bullock and Dr. Matthaeus Bonnick through Transfusion Practices in Traumatic Brain Injury, a Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials, with steady attention on what the evidence can and cannot show.
Clinical research, reduced to its practical signal.
Oncology evidence translated into clinical decisions.
Evidence translated into clinical next steps.
Dr. Nassim Motair says hemostatic resuscitation means restoring homeostasis while reversing coagulopathy.
Host Marilyn Bullock interviews Dr.
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Host Maureen Madden interviews Dr.
Host Marilyn Bullitt interviews Dr.
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Host Maureen Matten interviews Dr.
Marilyn Bullock opens the SCCM Podcast with Terri Fulmer, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, to talk about her Norma Sheemaker Honorary Lecture on the 4Ms approach to critical care.
Brian Bolling joins Samantha Gambles-Farr to talk about professional development for healthcare workers at the start of their careers.
Marilyn Bullock speaks with Ulfa Hamzawi about tissue perfusion and microcirculation shock.
Maureen Madden speaks with Susanna Rudy about APP's role in ultrasound and international medical missions.