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Literature reviews and articles from thought leaders and experts offer the latest insights into critical care issues and updates on SCCM activities.
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Implementation science, augmented intelligence, and social determinants of health are at the forefront of critical care and will ultimately change how clinicians provide the best care in ICUs.
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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 children.
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a study that reviewed transcripts from family meetings in the ICU to determine how clinicians use choice frames to present care options.
This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent study exploring the outcomes of children with medical complexities who speak a language other than English.
Driven by a shift in how information is consumed today and a focus on environmentally friendly publishing practices, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is transitioning its journals Read More
Examine professional development through a new framework to succeed in today’s complex ICU clinical environment.
This Concise Critical Appraisal discusses the major changes to the ventilator liberation guidelines, including completing spontaneous breathing trials before noon but not requiring low-level...
A new study further illustrates that implementing the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F) decreases patients’ mechanical ventilation duration and ICU length of stay (LOS), which can improve ICU...
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 Early CT Scores of less than 3 who underwent...
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 practitioner.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine has put together two free toolkits to address clinician workload, well-being, and burnout, providing resources and tools that reflect the uniqueness of the ICU.
This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a recent study evaluating the prevalence of bacterial codetection in infants with lower respiratory tract infections and its association with longer...
Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, MCCM, has announced that he will step down as editor-in-chief of Critical Care Explorations.
When should antibiotics be administered in septic patients with septic arthritis? This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent study that sought to determine whether patients with septic...
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, starting in October 2024.
Does adding mechanical circulatory support to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) lead to better outcomes than ECMO alone? This Concise Critical Appraisal reviews a recent meta-analysis that...
As an update to a 2019 workforce report, three committees from the Society of Critical Care Medicine evaluated critical care medicine’s continued emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic, changes...
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 respective critical care teams, it would have been...