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The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) recognizes and appreciates the recent bipartisan, bicameral Knowledge Area:
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) recognizes and appreciates the recent bipartisan, bicameral Knowledge Area:
A new Infectious Diseases Society of America guideline on group A streptococcus redefines how clinicians should assess and test for streptococcal phar...
A Florida hospital had improved patient outcomes for patients through daily, consistent application of the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) elements.
Delays in involving psychiatry in critical care patients miss key opportunities to improve care and facilitate ICU liberation. This longstanding parad...
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The Society of Critical Care Medicine has named Megan N. Schagrin, MBA, CAE, CFRE, AAiP, as the next CEO/EVP.
SCCM President Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM, provides an update on the completion of SCCM's first healthcare infrastructure initi...
Plan ahead for the Critical Care Congress with SCCM's breakdown on what you should know before Congress, what to focus on while you are on site, a...
Critical care professionals will gather in Chicago for the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) 2026 Critical Care Congress, connecting wi...
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a prospective observational study examining the feasibility and safety of ultra-low-field portable MRI in pat...
As part of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) mission to ensure the highest-quality care for every critically ill and injured patien...
A single-center, randomized noninferiority study found no difference in mortality in children with septic shock when comparing mean arterial blood pre...
Delirium is common in the intensive care unit and is associated with worse long-term physical and mental health outcomes. Read about one hospital&rsqu...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) continues its unwavering mission to improve care for critically ill and injured patients and is working d...
The SCCM American Medical Association House of Delegates delegation helped shape several high-impact health policies that will benefit critically ill ...
Patients with septic shock who receive vasopressin at higher norepinephrine doses or lactate levels had significantly greater mortality, indicating th...
Kimberley Lewis, MD, MSc, FRCPC, methodology chair of the recent PADIS guideline focused update, discusses some of the changes and new recommendations...
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The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) launched the ICU Centers of Excellence Program which seeks to encourage quality bedside intensive care un...
SCCM brought together leading minds across diverse disciplines to explore emerging critical care innovations in pharmaceuticals, medical technology, b...
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a recent study evaluating the accuracy of tidal volume-diaphragmatic contraction velocity to predict mechanic...
The cochairs of the 2026 Critical Care Congress discuss what to expect at the 2026 Congress, to be held in Chicago, Illinois, from March 22-24, 2026.
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a recent randomized clinical trial on whether therapeutic hypothermia initiated at six hours of age reduces t...
A recent retrospective cohort study failed to demonstrate clinical outcome improvement for early antibiotic administration. Despite this finding, prac...
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) president Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM, describes the process of SCCM-endorsed manuscripts a...
ICU Liberation is more than a static achievement; it is a journey of small successes that lead to better outcomes. Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni, MD, FC...
Society of Critical Care Medicine President Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM, describes the Society's commitment to improving patient...
How can an early mobility program overcome the practical barriers to implementation and sustainability? SCCM member Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS, discusse...
This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent retrospective study that examined the effect of obesity on the mortality rate in patients undergoing ...
From groundbreaking therapies for sepsis to advanced respiratory support and innovative monitoring techniques, critical care medicine has dramatically...
This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent study exploring the association between adequacy of caloric support and functional outcomes in pediat...
A Society of Critical Care Medicine task force recently reviewed the 1992 intensivist definition guidelines in order to craft a new definition of an i...
Respiratory therapists (RTs) are indispensable members of critical care teams. As healthcare delivery becomes more complex, retaining skilled RTs in t...
Critical care trainees begin preparing for board examinations from the moment they start their training program. The Multidisciplinary Critical Care K...
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a recent retrospective review that analyzed clusters of simultaneously performed coagulation tests in critica...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s ICU Heroes Award is given to an ICU patient, their family, and the multiprofessional team that delivered...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) leadership is evaluating the impact of key areas of concern from recent U.S. presidential executive order...
This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent study examining pediatric ICU use of β-agonists, hypertonic saline, antibiotics, mucolytics, and...
The Africa Infrastructure Relief and Support (AIRS) project focuses on delivering stable medical oxygen and electricity to hospitals in Sierra Leone, ...
Staff from one ICU describe how they integrated the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) into the electronic health record to improve patient care.
Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni, MD, FCCM, talked with Andrew Schulman about his journey from ICU survivor to medical musician.
This Concise Critical Appraisal discusses a recent meta-analysis that analyzed the likelihood of developing pressure injuries when evidence-based nurs...
As nurse practitioners take on increasingly responsible roles in practice, it is worthwhile to review how the education, certification, licensure, and...
Does telecritical care impact patient care in ICUs? This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent randomized controlled trial on 30 Brazilian ICUs ...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) annual Critical Care Congress is an opportunity for critical care professionals from around the w...
Attending Congress for the first time? SCCM provides first-time attendees with suggestions of what to expect at Congress and how to maximize the Congr...
An SCCM task force used an extensive approach to develop the most comprehensive and up-to-date criteria for defining sepsis and septic shock in childr...
This Concise Critical Appraisal discusses a recent study identifying conditions associated with parents’ decision regret after their critically ...
Patients taking SGLT2 inhibitors are at increased risk for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Clinicians often miss the diagnosis of DKA when blood glucose ...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has named Tamás Szakmány, MD, PhD, MBE, FCCM, as the new editor-in-chief of Critical Care Explorations.
Implementation science, augmented intelligence, and social determinants of health are at the forefront of critical care and will ultimately change how...
The 2025 Critical Care Congress will be held February 23-25, 2025, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA. Register now!
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a study that reviewed transcripts from family meetings in the ICU to determine how clinicians use choice fram...
This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent study exploring the outcomes of children with medical complexities who speak a language other than En...
Examine professional development through a new framework to succeed in today’s complex ICU clinical environment.
Driven by a shift in how information is consumed today and a focus on environmentally friendly publishing practices, the Society of Critical Care Medi...
This Concise Critical Appraisal discusses the major changes to the ventilator liberation guidelines, including completing spontaneous breathing trials...
A new study further illustrates that implementing the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) decreases patients’ mechanical ventilation duration and ICU le...
Growing and advancing careers in critical care starts at home with the multidisciplinary team.
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a study that evaluated the clinical outcomes of patients with large infarct cores and Alberta Stroke Program ...
SCCM member Amy Tschirhart, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC, shares how her own story of multiple ICU stays has influenced her practice as a pediatric ICU nurse pr...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine has put together two free toolkits to address clinician workload, well-being, and burnout, providing resources a...
Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, MCCM, has announced that he will step down as editor-in-chief of Critical Care Explorations.
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a recent study evaluating the prevalence of bacterial codetection in infants with lower respiratory tract inf...
When should antibiotics be administered in septic patients with septic arthritis? This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent study that sought t...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has named Jonathan E. Sevransky, MD, MHS, FCCM, as the new editor-in-chief of Critical Care Medicine
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Are push-dose vasopressors (PDPs) safe and effective for patients with hypotension outside the operating room? This Concise Critical Appraisal covers ...
Sepsis is the leading cause of hospitalization and hospital deaths in the United States. SCCM has received a grant from the Council of Medical Special...
The Discovery Data Science Campaign was launched in 2022 to improve the care of critically ill patients by leveraging the use of large-scale data (big...
Is prehospital transfusion associated with better outcomes in pediatric trauma? This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a retrospective study of child...
This Concise Critical Appraisal delves into the impact of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and explores a recent trial that led to U.S. Food and Drug...
SCCM President Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, MS, FCCM, provides an overview on how the Society is prioritizing and rethinking ease, comfort, and cost of acce...
Is hydrocortisone for septic shock best used alone or in combination with fludrocortisone? This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a retrospective co...
Members of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) traveled from the United States to Lviv, Ukraine in March to train more than 140 clinicians on...
Norma J. Shoemaker, RN, MN, FCCM, one of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) earliest nurse members and its first executive director,...
Oxygen is essential for human life and has no substitute. Its importance was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic by the many patients who had dif...
Is there an association between balanced versus unbalanced fluids and endothelial glycocalyx integrity in children with sepsis? This Concise Critical ...
With the advancement and increasing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, researchers have begun studying how to apply the technical cap...
SCCM President Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, MS, FCCM, provides an update on the SCCM emergency response efforts for the Turkiye-Syria Earthquake.
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a meta-analysis showing that prone positioning is beneficial for patients meeting criteria for venovenous ext...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) new global health initiative, Africa Infrastructure Relief and Support (AIRS), will ensure the av...
José L. Díaz-Gómez, MD, FASE, FCCM, rides his bicycle to work every day in Houston, Texas. He passes the Texas Medical Center, where he sees a large U...
In 2014, Nibras F. Bughrara, MD, FASA, FCCM, joined Albany Medical Center (AMC) in Albany, New York, USA, after completing a critical care medicine fe...
Before Michael J. Waxman, MBA, MD, FCCM, heads out to teach an FCCS course, he goes into his attic, where his simulation and teaching equipment is sto...
Mary J. Reed, MD, FCCM, began teaching FCCS about 25 years ago. From there, her involvement expanded to teaching multiple SCCM courses, helping to dev...
Khorog, the regional capital of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), sits at an elevation of 2200 meters among the beautiful but rugged and isol...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) 2023 Critical Care Congress in San Francisco marked the in-person return of the largest multiprofes...
Social media star and comedian Dr. Glaucomflecken, aka ophthalmologist William E. Flanary, MD, along with his wife, Kristin Flanary, MA, shared social...
Is there an association between fluid accumulation (FA) and adverse outcomes in critically ill pediatric patients, and is there a threshold FA associa...
Fifteen-year-old Rowen Cartmill played basketball for Westside Christian High School’s freshman team on January 8, 2022. Three days later, he wa...
Early active mobilization has been shown to mitigate ICU-acquired weakness, reduce disability and, most importantly, reduce mortality. This Concise Cr...
In funding a five-year prospective multicenter study to determine the safest and most effective approach to sepsis intervention, the National Heart, L...
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FASPEN, FCCM, has a highly personal understanding of the challenges of recovering from an intensive care unit (ICU) stay...
Rom A. Stevens, MD, FCCM, and Robert Kerr, MD, were planning to spend this past April sailing off the west coast of Alaska. The two retired Navy capta...
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Jarone Lee, MD, MPH, FCCM, like so many others, wanted to help the Ukrainian people. But beyond donating money or supplie...
Common causes of death in hospitals, such as sepsis and respiratory failure, are treatable and benefit from early intervention. Machine learning algor...
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed major gaps in the U.S. healthcare system, prompting the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Cente...
This Concise Critical Appraisal describes two articles that illuminate the associations among the COVID-19 pandemic, clinician well-being, and burnout...
How can nurses champion change and improve outcomes by implementing the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F)? Laura S. Maples, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, summarizes how ...
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine has quickly become historic for its magnitude. The conflict has also led to crisis within the Ukrainian hea...
The COVID-19 pandemic created a new challenging environment in which healthcare workers must survive. Before the pandemic, healthcare workers experien...
Has the rate of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in children changed over time? A 2009 study reported a 70 percent increase in VTE in acutely and chronica...
Recently published guidelines have replaced the recommendations on temperature management after cardiac arrest included in the 2021 post-resuscitation...
More than 75 percent of healthcare professionals have self-reported burnout as well as increased frustration and feeling overwhelmed at work. Andrea S...
The new Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs offers customizable tools and training resou...
The ICU Heroes Award recognizes that patients and families are an integral part of intensive care unit (ICU) care. The award is given to an ICU patien...
Does your hospital use a checklist or bundle to minimize risk factors for delirium? Delirium is common in surgical and medical intensive care units (I...
Several years before the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted healthcare worldwide, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) launched a task force to identi...
Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS, will address some of the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and how health systems can prepare during the Peter Safar Mem...
This article describes the new Leapfrog quality metrics and their methodology, focusing on postoperative sepsis identification and the potential impac...
This Concise Critical Appraisal highlights an article in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine that sought to determine the association between in...
SCCM President Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MSc, FCCP, FCCM, provides an update on the SCCM emergency response efforts in Ukraine.
Peta M.A. Alexander, MBBS, FRACP, FCICM, will present the Max Harry Weil Memorial Lecture titled, "What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About ECMO?&q...
Tracheal intubation is a high-risk procedure that is frequently performed in the emergency department and intensive care unit. Failure of first-pass s...
Emphasize importance of continual assessment, nonpharmacologic interventions, and family involvement. The PANDEM guidelines for children and infants w...
Although several trials have examined in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA), only two trials in the past decade have examined the use of vasopressin and g...
John J. Gallagher, DNP, RN, CCNS, CCRN-K, TCRN, RRT, FCCM, will bring his experiences and teaching enjoyment to SCCM's 2022 Critical Care Congress...
During the 2022 Critical Care Congress, Karin Reuter-Rice, PhD, NP, FAAN, FCCM, will talk about precision health, and specifically the role omic techn...
To help understand what moral distress looks like and how to manage and prevent it, the Society of Critical Care Medicine recently hosted the webcast ...
With the average rate of daily new cases of COVID-19 on the rise, and the delta and omicron variants causing concern, the Society of Critical Care Med...
Beth A. Wathen, CCRN-K, MSN, RN, is the current president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the world’s largest specia...
In SCCM's webcast “Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages,” a multiprofessional panel of experts discussed how staffing challenge...
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores an article published in Critical Care Medicine on a program at Cooper University Hospital in Camden,...
On August 14, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake rattled the nation of Haiti, killing more than 2200 people and leaving thousands of Haitians injured and in n...
In the preliminary analysis of the VIRUS COVID-19 Registry of Discovery, the Critical Care Research Network, investigators discovered significant vari...
The members of the Critical Care Societies Collaborative, which are the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), American College of Chest...
The average annual incidence of pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) has recently been estimated at more than 15,000 cases. Survival rates for ...
Groundbreaking study of hospitalized COVID-19 and influenza patients charts new path in critical care research. Severe Acute Respiratory Infection - P...
Updated global adult sepsis guidelines, released by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC), place an increased emphasis on improving the care of sepsis p...
Ake Grenvik, MD, PhD, MCCM, a founding member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and one of the earliest pioneers of critical care, died ...
Joanna L. Stollings, PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, and Devin N. Holden, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, summarize how pharmacists can play an important role in the develop...
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores an article in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine that evaluated the efficacy of awake prone positioning t...
With children going back to school, continued outbreaks of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and the upcoming flu season, it is important to prepare ...
SCCM President Greg S. Martin, MD, MSc, FCCM, provides an update on the SCCM relief efforts in Haiti.
Clostrididioides difficile infection (CDI) occurs in about 4% of ICU patients, causing fulminant colitis and death in nearly 60% of symptomatic critic...
Invasive bedside procedures (IBPs) require a high degree of familiarity and skillful expertise. Yet effective and thorough bedside training can be hap...
Mandate to vaccinate or nudge if there is no budge? COVID-19 vaccines remain a key weapon in the fight against the deadliest modern-day pandemic the w...
How can clinical information gleaned from focused cardiac ultrasound (FCU) be used to augment clinical assessments in children with suspected septic s...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Tina R. Shah, MD, MPH, focused her work on two questions: How can technology help improve the United States health syste...
In the past few weeks more than 7 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to people in the Unit...
The updated Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) COVID-19 guidelines are now available, reflecting the learnings from the latest major studies. This month&...
The ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) can help rehabilitation practitioners and respiratory care practitioners (RCPs) assess the broad, long-term goals of p...
The medical community has faced many challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, including ensuring continued medical education in the face of so...
As a bedside nurse in the intensive care unit (ICU), I did not have much understanding of the financial impact my care was having on the patients and ...
The first outcomes of VIRUS were recently published in Critical Care Medicine. More than 20 manuscripts are being prepared for publication du...
Two recent trials suggest that immune-damping drugs such as tocilizumab may reduce mortality in patients with severe COVID-19.
This Concise Critical Appraisal delves into a study published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine that sought to determine whether early hemost...
Sepsis continues to affect Americans and hospital patients across the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates th...
Implicit bias is an unconscious negative view of a group of people that can compromise relationships and, in the case of the medical community, stand ...
Learn how Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) members turned a passion for improving care into action by holding donor-funded training in resourc...
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant gaps in the healthcare system, such as healthcare inequities and the need for more treatment options for int...
SCCM is supporting transformative and informative research, encouraging thought and action through its grants, programs, sections, collaborative audit...
Does extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) improve survival rates? This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a study that sought to determ...
Thanks to the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation, Gisselle Aguilar Sabillon, MD, recently led two Pediatric Fun...
Does delaying antibiotic treatment in patients with bloodstream infections have an effect on mortality? This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a stud...
Does adding mechanical circulatory support to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) lead to better outcomes than ECMO alone? This Concise Critica...
As an update to a 2019 workforce report, three committees from the Society of Critical Care Medicine evaluated critical care medicine’s continue...
Should critically injured children receive balanced crystalloid (BC) solutions or normal saline (NS) during fluid resuscitation? This Concise Critical...
Independence Day is supposed to be a day of celebration, but for Cooper Roberts and Ian Azeredo, it was life changing. If it were not for their respec...
This Concise Critical Appraisal delves into the impact of blood culture positivity on community-acquired sepsis and evaluates the epidemiology, resist...
SCCM is thrilled to bring world-renowned thought leaders to the 2024 Critical Care Congress to discuss innovative developments and hot topics in criti...
Attending your first Critical Care Congress? Read on for some tips and tricks on navigating the meeting without becoming overwhelmed.
A multiprofessional group of SCCM members trained more than 300 clinicians in September, returning to Lviv, Ukraine to provide Fundamental Critical Ca...
Society of Critical Care Medicine representatives to the American Medical Association House of Delegates provide an update on recent advocacy.
Does use of the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) improve outcomes in critically ill children? Explore the first multicenter report on the impact of the ent...