PCCM Audio Summary - November 2026
The November 2026 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) features four original research articles, nine clinical investigations, an original research article, and a PCCM narrative. The featured original research articles explore successful lung transplantation in pediatric patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), enteral nutrition tolerance and delivery in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), development of a simple MRI scoring tool in severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, and new tracheostomy tube placement in children unable to liberate from mechanical ventilation. Clinical investigation articles cover a wide variety of topics, including acute kidney injury (AKI) phenotypes and major adverse kidney events in children after 30 days on ECMO, abnormal pupillary reactivity and unfavorable outcomes after pediatric cardiac arrest, infant congenital heart disease and parent-infant bonding during hospitalization in the cardiac PICU, adverse events in procedural sedation for pediatric patients undergoing dental procedures, and different pediatric intermediate care unit models. Further clinical research articles explore the association between obesity and ICU length of stay in children with critical asthma, meropenem pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic variability in critically ill children, prevalence of AKI after liver transplantation, communication experiences of marginalized groups in the PICU, and inspiratory flow amplitude association with successful extubation in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome.
