66 Best Critical Care Podcasts to Listen to (2026)

Help me fill in the blanks of the practice of ED Critical Care. In this podcast, we discuss all things related to the crashing, critically ill patient in the Emergency Department. Find the show notes at emcrit.org. more

The FlightBridgeED Podcast provides convenient, easy-to-understand critical care medical education and current topics related to the air medical industry. Each topic builds on another and weaves together a solid foundation of emergency, critical care, and prehospital medicine. more

Critical Care Time is the podcast for everyone who cares for the critically Ill. Whether you work in an ICU, a Med-Surg unit, an ED, a PACU or the back of an ambulance - Dr. Cyrus Askin & Dr. Nick Mark provide practical insights and useful tips to enhance your skillset. They are triple board-certified intensivists who love patient care and teaching. Journey with them through deep dives into physiology and practical pearls, leaving no stone unturned in the world of critical care medicine. Through their own insights, expert interviews and targeted reviews of the literature, Nick and Cyrus provide practical, relevant critical care pearls. If you bill for critical care time, you must make time for Critical Care Time! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

A Podcast for Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews, Debates and Commentary

Brought to you by a partnership that transcends the 49th parallel. Join Adam Thomas and Josh Farkas in the podcast that accompanies The Internet Book of Critical Care.The IBCC podcast will explore key points in each chapter. Initially the release of podcasts may lag a bit behind the chapters for logistic reasons. However, our goal is to eventually have a podcast for each chapter. Subsequently, the podcast will discuss updates to the IBCC based on new evidence. more

Emergency Medicine podcasts based on evidence based medicine focussed on practice in and around the resus room. more

Do you want to go from dreading emergencies to feeling confident and ready to jump into action to rescue your patient? Well, this show will let you see emergencies unfold through the eyes of a Rapid Response Nurse. With real life stories from the frontlines of nursing, host Sarah Lorenzini MSN, RN, CCRN, CEN, a Rapid Response Nurse and educator, shares her experiences at rapid response events and breaks down the pathophysiology, pharmacology, and the important role the nurse plays during emergencies.If you want to sharpen your assessment skills and learn how to think like a Rapid Response Nurse, then Sarah is here to share stories, tips, tricks, and mindsets that will prepare you to approach any emergency.Every episode is packed full of exactly what you need to know to handle whatever crisis that could arise on your shift. It's one thing to get the right answer on the test, but knowing how to detect when YOUR patient is declining and what to do when YOUR patient is crashing is what will make or break your day… and might just save your patient's life. more

An educational podcast teaching practical critical care. By Brandon Oto, PA-C and Bryan Boling, ACNP. New episodes biweekly. more

The Heavy Lies the Helmet® Podcast is made by emergency and critical care professionals for clinicians working across the prehospital and hospital environments. Hosted by Mike Boone, Dan Rauh, and Dr. Amanda Humphries, the show takes an honest look at the clinical decisions, challenges, and experiences that come with caring for critically ill and injured patients. We work through complex cases, question assumptions, and explore the things that don't always fit neatly into a protocol or textbook. From clinical practice and teamwork to operations, leadership, stress, and the weight that comes with the job, these conversations are grounded in the realities of high-acuity care. No fluff. No corporate talking points. Just honest conversations for clinicians doing difficult work. more

The Elective Rotation - the number 1 ranked Hospital Pharmacy podcast - is created for YOU Pharmacy Nation! If you are a Pharmacy Student, Resident, Pharmacist, Nurse, Physician, or Critical Care Practitioner in a hospital, intensive care unit (ICU) or emergency department looking to improve your practice, The Elective Rotation delivers unbiased critical care and hospital pharmacy content from a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. Episodes are published every Monday and Thursday at 3AM EST. Find the show notes at pharmacyjoe.com. more

Saving Lives Podcast: Critical Care w/eddyjoemd is a podcast that reviews evidence-based strategies to care for the critically ill patient in the Intensive Care Unit and other topics in Medicine. It is hosted by Eddy Joe Gutierrez, MD, a board-certified critical care physician.In each episode, Dr. Gutierrez discusses the latest research and best practices in Intensive Care Medicine. He also shares his own insights and experiences as an Intensivist/Critical Care physician.The podcast is designed for healthcare professionals who want to stay up-to-date with evidence-based medicine. more

Your trusted resource for everything to do with high-risk and critical care obstetrics. Our experienced, interprofessional team shares insights from years of practice, simulation, and team training—making complex topics simple and easy to understand. Sometimes it's just us, sometimes it's guests, and sometimes it's case reviews—always with the goal of helping you provide the best care. Thanks for listening! more

Prehospital emergency and critical care podcast by Tyler Christifulli & Sam Ireland

Pharmacy to Dose: The Critical Care Podcast discusses critical care and its pharmacotherapy in a fun and entertaining manner. Each episode features a special guest, a subject matter expert, talking with host Nick Peters. more

Short-ish critical care medicine topics to help paramedics, respiratory therapists, and nurses expand their knowledge of critical care medicine and HEMS, operate better out in the field, and pass their specialty certification exams with confidence. more

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. more

Podcast by Sound Physicians

This podcast is designed to inspire intensive care clinicians to become the very best they can be at delivering care to their critically ill patients. more

PICU Doc On Call is the podcast for current and aspiring Intensivists. This podcast will provide protocols that any Critical Care Physician would use to treat common emergencies and the sudden onset of acute symptoms. Brought to you by Emory University School of Medicine, in conjunction with Dr. Rahul Damania and under the supervision of Dr. Pradip Kamat. more

Bridging the gap between literature and practice in pediatric intensive care. Featuring guests from around the world and pediatric intensive care specialists Greg Kelly (Westmead Children's Hospital Sydney), Peta Alexander (Boston Children's Hospital), Karen Choong (McMaster Children's Hospital Canada) and Mike Clifford (Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne) Pediatrica intensiva won't tell you the answers, because no one knows what they are, but we can give you a chance to hear respected experts talk about what they actually do with some of the toughest problems in our field. Rather than having short episodes on a topic, we have whole seasons. And that gives us the chance to go deep. We really hope that you find it helpful - please listen and subscribe to Pediatrica intensiva wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on iTunes and Twitter (https://twitter.com/PedsIntensiva), share with your friends and reach out with any feedback, requests or comments. Of course, information in the podcast is not meant to replace the advice of a health professional and is in no way a substitute for the relationship between a patient and his/her/their own physician more

This is the AMPED Air Methods Prehospital EDucation (AMPED) podcast brought to you by Air Methods, a leader in air medical transport, with the mission to deliver critical care discussion and content to both the prehospital and in hospital care providers through clinician interviews and expert clinical commentary. more

Welcome to PedsCrit! We are a collaborative educational PICU podcast working with pediatric critical care educators around the world to create high-yield podcast episodes on core PICU topics. Find us at PedsCrit.com, or reach us via email at ****@gmail.com. We hope you enjoy! No financial conflicts of interest. Each clinical episode is made in coordination with a pediatric intensivist or guest that is a clinical or scholarly leader on the topic being discussed. Podcasts do not receive formal peer review prior to publication but quality and accuracy is closely monitored by the producers throughout the creation process to ensure accuracy and clarity. If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback-you can email us at ****@gmail.com. You can also find us on twitter visit @critpeds and @pedscrit on instagram. Want to support the show? Please rate and review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! PedsCrit is a passion project and is not supported by advertisements. Donations are appreciated to support ongoing costs (podcast hosting, audio editing software, website support, etc.). Search @PedsCrit on Venmo, or you can also support us by becoming a patron on Patreon. 100% of funds go to supporting the show. Please remember that all content during this episode is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be used as medical advice. The views expressed during this episode by hosts and our guests are their own and do not reflect the official position of their institutions. Thank you for listening to PedsCrit! -Alice Shanklin & Zac Hodges more

Two critical care guys walk into a recording studio and breakdown intensive care trials both old and new! We'll also do deep dives on specific topics important to practicing intensive care medicine and have special guests talking about their area of expertise! This podcast is made for educational purposes. The content provided in this podcast, and in any linked materials, is not intended and should not be construed as medical advice and should not be used to diagnose or treat any medical condition. We try to stay away from opinions but all opinions represent our own and not of any entity we work for. Please keep this in mind as you enjoy the podcast! more

Kali Dayton, DNP, ACNP-BC, is an ICU nurse practitioner and consultant on a mission to create Awake and Walking ICUs. She hands the microphone to ICU survivors and bedside caregivers to reveal the realities of ICU experience and patients' journeys after discharge. The big picture of sedation and immobility is discussed and we explore how to improve short and long-term patient outcomes. We shift the vision from transferring out of the ICU to walking straight home after the ICU. www.DaytonICUconsulting.com more

Podcasts on topics relevant to intensive care medicine

In this podcast I will focus on the management of the critically ill child who needs intensive care and provide an approach to managing them till care is taken over by the PICU team. more

Each month, CHEST hosts a discussion with the author of one or more articles from the current issue, adding context and commentary on the most relevant topics facing those in the fields of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. more

This podcast is about Intensive care pharmacology and physiology. This is created to prepare intensive care trainees for their primary CICM exams. However, it will be of benefit to anyone who works in intensive care and keen to acquire new knowledge or want to refresh their memory. more

Pulmonary and Critical Care content for learners and practitioners of all levels

CCP Network

The goal of the Neurocritical Care Society Podcast is to summarize some of the latest content and cutting edge research published in the journal, Neurocritical Care, official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society. Episodes are produced regularly and feature interviews with the top researchers around the world in the fields of neurology, critical care and neurosurgery. more

A podcast discussing critical care, anaesthesia and pain medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology

The Critical Care Commute Podcast is grateful for your ears, insights and feedback. In return its hosts- Peter Brindley and Leon Byker, two ICU doctors in Alberta, Canada- offer up knowledge and debate with some of the most qualified, interesting, enlightened and provocative folks in Critical Care Medicine, and beyond. We strive to keep it practical and concise. Like you, our overriding goal is to get better, do better and feel better. more

We discuss various topics in pediatric cardiac intensive care, cardiology, cardiac surgery, and anesthesia. Episodes include challenging cases, new science, journal clubs, humanity topics, current events, education, and novel ICU therapies with guests from pediatric cardiac ICUs across the world and other leaders in the field. The PCICS Podcast is the official podcast of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and is the longest-running podcast for pediatric cardiology and pediatric cardiac critical care. Executive Producers: David Werho, Saidie Rodriguez, Deanna Tzanetos. more

The information provided in this podcast is general in nature and is intended as a training tool for Children's Nebraska personnel. This podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Each patient is unique and information provided in any educational forum must be tailored to each patient's unique situation. By recording this podcast, neither Children's, nor any provider, is engaged in the practice of medicine, nursing or any other health care service. All rights to this podcast are reserved. Copyright Children's Nebraska 2018. more

Conversations in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine by the American Thoracic Society

The Out of the Blue podcast takes you out of the pages of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and into the minds of the most brilliant researchers in the fields of respiratory, critical care, and sleep medicine. more

www.tamingthesru.com - Free. Open-Access. Focused on Emergency Medicine, critical care and prehospital medicine, as well as practice algorithms and decreasing knowledge translation in Med Ed. more

The Critical Care Reviews Podcast discusses the biggest critical care trials, either planned or in progress, with their chief investigators. It's hosted by Rob Mac Sweeney, an intensivist in Belfast, Northern Ireland. We also release audio versions of the presentations from the Critical Care Reviews Meetings and ad hoc livestreams more

Podcast by OPENPediatrics

Jonathan Downham is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, in the UK and Bryan Boling is a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner in the US. both of whom have a desire to share with like-minded people. Discover new resources in the physical and virtual worlds to help improve your practice, from websites with direct links to critical care and intensive care to those websites which make your life as an internet learner easier. Social media as a powerful learning and networking tool, using Twitter, YouTube and Linkedin to their maximum potential. Current research and the discussions about that research happening amongst practitioners on the internet and how that research can be implemented. News from current conferences and interviews with others practising in critical care. A site for a variety of people from those working in the critical care field to paramedics and physiotherapists, to practitioners working in specialties other than critical care. more

Pod Four is a podcast dedicated to nursing education within the intensive care unit. We want to provide education on a range of topics that are relevant to the critical care environment, however this also transcends throughout the wider nursing community. more

A Paediatric Intensive Care Podcast

Welcome to ICS Radio.The Intensive Care Society is proud to present our open access podcasts. Our podcasts include 5 key channels. Research, Guidance, Wellbeing, Events and State of the Art. more

Tips for clinicians in Prehospital & Retrieval Medicine

Bite size chunks of critical care medicine targeted at fellowship exam preparation

The Resus Tonight team is curious to learn how critical care & emergency nursing can be better. The team translates research into everyday clinical practice, challenge the sacred cows of nursing and occasionally rant. more

WBM Emergency & Critical Care is an educational podcast focused on emergency medicine, critical care, and acute care topics. Through physiology-based discussions and evidence-informed reviews, we aim to help healthcare professionals strengthen their understanding of complex clinical concepts. To contact us, email ****@gmail.com WBM provides educational content for healthcare professionals and trainees. Content is intended for educational purposes only and should not be used as a substitute for independent clinical judgment. Full disclaimer: https://whiteboardmedicine.com/disclaimer/ more

Join Dr. Gregory Tino as he sits down with contributing authors to the Annals of the American Thoracic Society to discuss the latest advancements and conversations in the fields of respiratory, critical care, and sleep medicine. more

The Full Code Podcast dives deep into the world of critical care, hosted by experienced APPs working on the front lines of the ICU. Each episode brings high-yield discussions on real-world cases, cutting-edge research, and practical pearls to sharpen your clinical practice. Episodes drop bi-weekly. more

The landscape of Intensive care is changing. In the era of evidence based medicine, we try to make best possible decision for our patients based on best available evidence. Every fortnight, Dr Swapnil Pawar & Dr Jose Chacko will bring you one hot topic in Critical care. If you want to stay up to date with recent evidence or learn how to critically evaluate the literature in critical care, this podcast is for you. more

This podcast series is created for Intensive care trainees who are appearing for their final fellowship exam. The idea is to discuss different vivas asked in previous College of Intensive Care exams. However, this series will be useful for all healthcare professionals working in Intensive care to sharpen their critical thinking. more

A Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) podcast provided by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Talking all things trauma, critical care, and resuscitation. Maximize your impact in the room. Proud grad school drop out. Instagram: @traumabaypod more

Join critical care nurses in conversation with leaders, innovators and influencers as they discuss how nurses can and do shape healthcare. more

Join us for our Podcast, where we will discuss real clinical topics with real implications for real patients. No pulled punches. No fluff. Nothing but bedside respiratory critical care. What every bedside clinician should be thinking about, talking about and doing for their patients. more

Welcome to TBSA!This podcast arose as an idea between two docs: Luke and Jake. They have a passion for caring for burn patients, an appreciation of the unique pathophysiology of burn, and a desire to educate. During their training, they found that there were no podcasts dedicated to the care of burn victims. This podcast arose as an idea to leverage their passion and talents to help bridge this education gap to better prepare trainees to enter their burn rotations. For the person in active burn practice, this podcast will be a forum to provide up to date insights into burn care. more

SoCCC Pre-Rounds is your go-to for quick, high-yield insights in critical care cardiology, hosted by members of the Society of Critical Care Cardiology (SoCCC). With only 160 specialists in the U.S., mentorship is rare. This podcast bridges the gap with bite-sized episodes featuring clinical pearls, expert tips, and real-world answers on topics like cardiogenic shock, ECMO, and resuscitation. Perfect for pre-rounds, night shifts, or leveling up anytime.Listen in. Level up. Join the SoCCC community. more

CICU bedside nursing demands a high level of critical thinking, characterized by proactive clinical judgment and vigilant monitoring for even the slightest changes in patient status. This podcast explores all aspects of pediatric cardiac critical care, focusing on practical bedside application. Join Nurse Nat, CCRN, CPN, along with expert healthcare professionals, as they lead insightful conversations designed to educate and empower nurses at the bedside. Calling nurses to amplify their voice and foster more nursing-led teaching!Follow on Instagram @chatwithnat_rn more

A podcast for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants working in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine with CME credits.  more

Rykerr Medical LLC is a platform for education focused on emergency, transport, and critical care medicine.

Tune in for the ESAIC Podcast series on anaesthesia & intensive care as we talk about various knowledge-building topics covering Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain, Emergency and Perioperative Medicine, Patient Safety, and more. The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading society for education, research, and science. Take your career to the next level and help improve patient care everywhere by participating in our Education Tuesday series and beyond. You can also visit us at www.esaic.org. more

The European Society of Intensive Medicine Podcasts (ESICM Talks) space brings you insightful discussions on the latest developments and key topics in intensive care medicine, carried out by our 15 sections. more

PRISM Rounds is a clinical review series by the PRISM research team.Every other week, we break down a high-impact Pulmonary, Critical Care, or Sleep article into three segments:The Blueprint: Study design and methodology.The Math: Demystifying the statistics.The 'So What?': Real-world bedside implications.We bridge the gap between the journal and the clinic/ICU, helping you interpret trials quickly and skip the noise. Learn more about our research and clinical trials at: https://www.prismtrials.com/For questions and suggestions contact: ****@gmail.com more

A podcast dedicated to the teaching of critical care. The focus audience is physicians, residents, medical students, nurses, therapists, and paramedics. These are topics that arise while on teaching rounds in the Burn ICU at Vanderbilt Medical Center. A broad scope of critical care and prehospital topics are presented as well as recent journal articles and medical news. more

I'm Nicholas Ghionni, a pulmonary and critical care physician with a passion for making mechanical ventilation easier to understand. Whether you're an EMT, nurse, respiratory therapist, APP, resident, fellow, attending, or simply someone who loves critical care physiology, this podcast is for you.My goal is simple: break down complex ventilator concepts into practical, understandable lessons you can apply at the bedside. For more complex waveform breakdowns and simple explanations of complex mechanical ventilation physiology: follow me on Instagram at @pulmotoilet more