Lessons from Animal Critical Care

About this episode

This episode explores insights from animal critical care that can enhance human ICU practices, featuring discussions with experts in the field.

In this lively episode recorded at SOA25, Jonny sits down with Prof Matt Morgan and Dr Hannah Matson for a hilarious and insightful chat about what animals can teach us about human critical care! Matt is a renowned intensive care consultant, honorary professor, and author of One Medicine: How Understanding Animals Can Save Our Lives, shares how lessons from the animal kingdom—from giraffe physiology aiding asthma treatment to whale heart insights improving cardiac care—can transform human ICU practice. Hannah is a veterinary intensivist and staff clinician in Emergency and Critical Care at the Royal Veterinary College's Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, who brought a wealth of practical wisdom on animal critical care and eye-opening parallels to human medicine. If you're ready for serious insights delivered with serious laughs, this one's not to be missed!

People in this episode

Host: Jonny

Guests: Prof Matt Morgan, Dr Hannah Matson

Topics covered

• animal critical care
• human critical care
• ICU practice
• veterinary medicine
• physiology
• emergency care

Keywords

• animal critical care
• human medicine
• ICU
• physiology
• emergency care
• veterinary
• asthma treatment
• cardiac care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal Veterinary College

Books & works: One Medicine: How Understanding Animals Can Save Our Lives

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