Mastering Intensive Care

The guest on this episode is Professor Rob Mac Sweeney, who founded and leads the hugely valuable organisation Critical Care Reviews. Rob is a Consultant Intensivist at the Royal Victoria Hospital and an Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rob founded Critical Care Reviews back in 2008 and this has grown to now be holding two meetings a year where the largest trials in critical care are presented, critiqued and analysed. Critical Care Reviews also has a comprehensive website, a podcast and publishes a newsletter and a paper of the day, amongst other things, as a way of disseminating the most up to date science in critical care. If you are fascinated about the story of the man behind Critical Care Reviews, you'll love listening to this. In this episode, Rob talks about: How Critical Care Reviews began as a simple website His anxiety when he sent the first newsletter How the website and newsletter developed into a scientific meeting The attraction of trialists wit