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Congress Literature Releases

The latest from leading medical journals.

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The 2024 Critical Care Congress features sessions on a record-breaking number of new journal articles, guidelines, and research from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and other leading medical journals. Links to these new releases and their related sessions will be added below as the articles are published.

Articles are from Critical Care Medicine (CCM), Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM), Critical Care Explorations (CCE), Neurology, The Lancet, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

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Late-Breaking Literature

Survival for Nonshockable Cardiac Arrests Treated With Noninvasive Circulatory Adjuncts and Head/Thorax Elevation
CCM
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Conservative Versus Liberal Oxygenation Targets in Critically Ill Children (Oxy-PICU): A UK Multicentre, Open, Parallel-Group, Randomised Clinical Trial
Lancet
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Ceftriaxone to Prevent Early Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Patients with Acute Brian Injury: A Multicentre, Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Assessor-Masked Superiority Trial
Lancet Respir Med
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Association Between Nurse Copatient Illness Severity and Mortality in the ICU
CCM
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The Effect of Computerised Decision Support Alerts Tailored to Intensive Care On The Administration Of High-Risk Drug Combinations, And Their Monitoring: A Cluster Randomised Stepped-Wedge Trial
The Lancet
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Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis Versus Placebo — A Blinded Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Safety of Two Strategies in Critically Ill Infants With Congenital Heart Disease
PCCM
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Improving Outcomes in Mechanically Ventilated Adult ICU Patients Following Implementation of the ICU Liberation (ABCDEF) Bundle Across a Large Healthcare System
CCE
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Timely Cessation of Proton Pump Inhibitors in Critically Ill Patients Impacts Morbidity and Mortality: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study
CCM
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Individualised, Short-Course Antibiotic Treatment Versus Usual Long-Course Treatment for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (REGARD-VAP): A Multicentre, Individually Randomised, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Trial
Lancet Respir Med
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Immunomodulatory Therapy in Children with Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS, MIS-C; RECOVERY): A Randomised, Controlled, Open-Label, Platform Trial
Lancet Child Adolesc Health
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Resuscitation With Vitamin C, Hydrocortisone, and Thiamin in Children With Septic Shock: A Multicenter Randomized Pilot Study
PCCM
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