Lessons from Animal Critical Care

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!

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Lessons from Animal Critical Care is an episode from Intensive Care Society Podcast by Intensive Care Society.

This episode is 42:56 long.

This episode was published on Mar 5, 2026.

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