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The iCritical Care Podcast: A Novel Medium for Critical Care Communication and Education

^a Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
^b VA Maryland Health Care System and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
^c Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety, Oak Brook, IL

^_* Correspondence and reprints: Richard H. Savel, MD, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Critical Care, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 10^th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219; Tel: (718) 283-7991; Fax: (646) 219-2129. (Email: rhsavel{at}yahoo.com).

Received for publication: 07/15/06; accepted for publication: 10/05/06.

Podcasting is a recent creation combining old and new technologies allowing rapid, inexpensive delivery of media content (primarily audio) to the end user, both via the desktop environment and personal media players. The authors’ group (the Society of Critical Care Medicine) saw the educational and communication potential for the podcasting concept, and have successfully designed and implemented the first podcast of a national medical society. As of this writing, there are an average of (mean ± SD) 664 ± 290 total downloads per podcast, and their podcast feed has been hit over 68,000 times in its first seven months. In this manuscript, the authors provide documentation of their successful endeavor, as well as a structured framework for other organizations to create similar products.

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