# Peter Brindley

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Ep 281 - Best Bits of 2025: Getting Better the Sustainable Way

January often brings pressure to improve — to fix gaps, sharpen skills, and somehow be better than the year before. Done badly, that drive can become another source of burnout. This third episode in the Best Bits of 2025 series focuses on how improvement actually works in emergency and acute care …

Are Emergency Rooms in Crisis? With Dr Paul Parks.

In this episode of the Critical Care Commute, hosts Peter Brindley and Leon Byker engage in a compelling discussion with Dr. Paul Parks, a prominent emergency physician and advocate for healthcare reform. Dr. Parks shares his insights on the current state of emergency room care in Alberta, emphasi…

Steroids, Fluids, Interleukins, COVID 19 and lots of Professorial Wisdom with Prof. John Myburgh

In this discussion at the College of Intensive Care meeting in Tasmania 2025, Peter Brindley and Leon Byker engage with Prof. John Myburgh, who talks about his long-standing involvement in critical care research and the annual college meeting. John discusses the significance of the grad ceremony an…

Critical Care Workforce: Where We Are, And Where We're Going with Prof. Peter Kruger

In this conversation, Peter Brindley and Leon Byker sit down with Peter Kruger, President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine, to unpack one of the defining issues facing healthcare today: workforce reform. Against the backdrop of national workforce reviews across Australia and New Zealand, t…

Science Communication and the Certainty Illusion - Prof Tim Caulfield

In this conversation, Peter Brindley and Timothy Caulfield discuss the critical importance of science communication in the face of misinformation and the challenges posed by predatory journals. They explore the societal impact of vaccines, the misuse of scientific terms for marketing purposes (scie…

Meningtitis B: the implications for intensive care

Meningitis has been in the news in recent weeks with an unprecedented cluster of infections and, sadly, several deaths have taken place in the Kent area. In this timely podcast episode, Dr Jonny Wilkinson is joined by Intensivists Dr Martin Beed, Dr Peter Brindley (authors of the new primer on inf…

Meningtitis B: the implications for intensive care

Meningitis has been in the news in recent weeks, as an unprecedented cluster of infections and, sadly, several deaths have taken place in the Kent area. In this timely podcast episode, Dr Jonny Wilkinson is joined by Intensivists Dr Martin Beed, Dr Peter Brindley (authors of the new primer on infec…

Meningitis: Implications for Critical Care

Young lives have sadly been lost in the 2026 Kent meningitis outbreak. An “unprecedented” cluster centred on the University of Kent, linked to a Canterbury nightclub, and rapidly spreading through student halls and social mixing. In this timely and hard-hitting podcast episode, Jonny is joined by …

Vaccines: A Story of Heroes or Villains

In this episode, Prof. Lynora Saxinger and hosts Peter Brindley and Leon Byker explore the history, impact, and public perception of vaccines. They discuss how vaccines have saved millions of lives, the challenges of vaccine hesitancy, and strategies for effective science communication. Key topics…

The Role of Acute Care Ultrasound at the Bedside - A "Fireside" Chat with Peter Brindley, Brian Buchanan, Leo Smyth and Leon Byker

In this "fireside" chat, recorded in front of a live audience at the Canadian Resuscitative Ultrasound Course West 2026 (CRUS WEST), Peter Brindley explores the role of point-of-care ultrasound in clinical practice, as we kick of Season 6. Join us as Drs Brian Buchanan and Leon Byker, course direct…