PCCM Audio Summary - November 2025
The November 2025 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) features articles on interventions in the emergency department that may contribute to delirium development during a hospital stay, timing of death of children in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) for sepsis, use of a multidimensional portfolio to assess neurodevelopmental sequelae among PICU survivors, and the significance of changes in platelet counts and association with mortality and patient illness factors. Clinical investigation articles include an investigation of factors associated with death, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation requirement, or cardiac intervention in neonates in the neonatal ICU with respiratory failure, assessment of intracranial pressure burden and brain injury patterns on MRI, association of urine output trajectories during hospitalization and dialysis independence in children with acute kidney injury, and evaluation of factors associated with duration of postoperative invasive mechanical ventilation in children with complex chronic conditions undergoing spinal fusion. The PCCM conference report and expert panel outlines a set of pediatric neurocritical care entrustable professional activities for pediatric critical care medicine fellowship trainees. Finally, the PCCM narrative gives insight into the silent burden that women in medicine may carry as they return to work postpartum and balance every facet of life while still showing up for each other, their colleagues, their patients, and their loved ones.
