PCCM Audio Summary – June 2024
The June 2024 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) has a strong focus on healthcare resource utilization and peri-PICU hospitalization. Feature articles include post-acute care facilities for pediatric patients; strengths and areas of improvement for interfacility referral communication for PICU patient transfers; sepsis biomarkers in pediatric patients with hypoxemia, encephalopathy, and shock; and post-pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome healthcare burden and resource utilization. This month's PCCM trial shares the results of an early rehabilitation implementation program. Clinical investigations explore post-discharge health-related quality of life, utility of AI language models for generating differential diagnoses, and outcomes of pediatric oncology and hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients who undergo tracheostomy. The cardiac intensive care articles highlight cost analysis and efficacy of nitroprusside versus nicardipine, association of socioeconomic factors and length of stay after surgery for congenital heart disease, and efficacy of prophylactic peritoneal dialysis catheter placement prior to cardiac surgery. Listen for more details!
PCCM Audio Summary – June 2024