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COVID-19 Blog Posts

Blog Posts related to COVID-19 pandemic.

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World-Renowned Experts at the 2024 Critical Care Congress

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World-Renowned Experts at the 2024 Critical Care Congress

SCCM is thrilled to bring world-renowned thought leaders to the 2024 Critical Care Congress to discuss innovative developments and hot topics in critical care. Read the thought leaders’ own prev...

SCCM Supports FCCS Training in Tajikistan

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SCCM Supports FCCS Training in Tajikistan

Khorog, the regional capital of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), sits at an elevation of 2200 meters among the beautiful but rugged and isolated Pamir Mountains, where some people live at el...

Discovery and SARI-PREP Have Roles in Preparing for Next Pathogen Outbreak

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Discovery and SARI-PREP Have Roles in Preparing for Next Pathogen Outbreak

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed major gaps in the U.S. healthcare system, prompting the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) to form the National Special Pathogen Sy...

Concise Critical Appraisal: COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Burnout Critical Care Professions Differently

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Concise Critical Appraisal: COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Burnout Critical Care Professions Differently

The COVID-19 pandemic created a new challenging environment in which healthcare workers must survive. Before the pandemic, healthcare workers experienced burnout due to resource allocation and shortag...

SCCM ICU Heroes: The Love Army

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SCCM ICU Heroes: The Love Army

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 patient and family and to the multiprofessional team tha...

2022 Critical Care Congress Plenary: Health System Readiness 2.0

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2022 Critical Care Congress Plenary: Health System Readiness 2.0

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 Memorial Lecture at the 2022 SCCM Congress.

2022 Critical Care Congress Plenary: What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About ECMO?

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2022 Critical Care Congress Plenary: What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About ECMO?

Peta M.A. Alexander, MBBS, FRACP, FCICM, will present the Max Harry Weil Memorial Lecture titled, “What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About ECMO?” during SCCM’s 2022 C...

2022 Critical Care Congress Thought Leaders: Critical Care Nurses and COVID-19

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2022 Critical Care Congress Thought Leaders: Critical Care Nurses and COVID-19

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, where he will lead the thought leader session Cr...

Managing Moral Distress During a Pandemic

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Managing Moral Distress During a Pandemic

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 Managing Moral Distress During a Pandemic.

Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages

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Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages

In SCCM's webcast “Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages,” a multiprofessional panel of experts discussed how staffing challenges arise in overwhelmed healthcare systems and how ...

COVID-19 Experiences from the Front Lines

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COVID-19 Experiences from the Front Lines

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 Medicine (SCCM) asked members in states with high rat...

Preparing Adult Clinicians to Treat Pediatric Patients

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Preparing Adult Clinicians to Treat Pediatric Patients

With the rise in cases among children across the country, more healthcare professionals who typically work with adult patients are being tasked with treating pediatric patients. SCCM’s latest bl...

Innovating Consistency in Care Through the  STOP-VIRUS ICU Learning Collaborative

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Innovating Consistency in Care Through the STOP-VIRUS ICU Learning Collaborative

In the preliminary analysis of the VIRUS COVID-19 Registry of Discovery, the Critical Care Research Network, investigators discovered significant variations in mortality that were not readily explaine...

Critical Care and Pulmonary Societies Encourage Flu Shots Amid COVID-19  Spread

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Critical Care and Pulmonary Societies Encourage Flu Shots Amid COVID-19 Spread

The members of the Critical Care Societies Collaborative, which are the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), American Thoracic Society (AT...

SARI-PREP Research Collaborative Aims To Revolutionize the Future

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SARI-PREP Research Collaborative Aims To Revolutionize the Future

Groundbreaking study of hospitalized COVID-19 and influenza patients charts new path in critical care research. Severe Acute Respiratory Infection - Preparedness (SARI-PREP) is a groundbreaking new re...

Concise Critical Appraisal: Awake Prone Positioning For COVID-19 Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

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Concise Critical Appraisal: Awake Prone Positioning For COVID-19 Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

This Concise Critical Appraisal explores an article in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine that evaluated the efficacy of awake prone positioning to prevent intubation or death in patients with sev...

Prepare for a Surge of Pediatric Patients With COVID-19

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Prepare for a Surge of Pediatric Patients With COVID-19

With children going back to school, continued outbreaks of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and the upcoming flu season, it is important to prepare for potential surges of pediatric patients with CO...

Ethical Considerations for a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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Ethical Considerations for a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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 world has seen. In this article, we summarize key f...

An SCCM Member Responds to a Call for Volunteers

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An SCCM Member Responds to a Call for Volunteers

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 system and, more specifically, how can it be used to im...

Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine: What Clinicians Need to Know

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Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine: What Clinicians Need to Know

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 United States. In clinical trials of approximately 40,...

Concise Critical Appraisal: Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 Guidelines Update

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Concise Critical Appraisal: Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 Guidelines Update

The updated Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) COVID-19 guidelines are now available, reflecting the learnings from the latest major studies. This month’s Concise Critical Appraisal dives into the ...

Tocilizumab May Reduce Mortality in Certain COVID-19 Patients

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Tocilizumab May Reduce Mortality in Certain COVID-19 Patients

Two recent trials suggest that immune-damping drugs such as tocilizumab may reduce mortality in patients with severe COVID-19.

Discovery VIRUS Registry Outcomes and STOP-VIRUS ICU Learning Collaborative

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Discovery VIRUS Registry Outcomes and STOP-VIRUS ICU Learning Collaborative

The first outcomes of VIRUS were recently published in Critical Care Medicine. More than 20 manuscripts are being prepared for publication during the next several months. Additionally, sites ...

A Shot in The Dark: COVID-19 Vaccine Update

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A Shot in The Dark: COVID-19 Vaccine Update

A January 8, 2021, SCCM webcast focusing on COVD-19 vaccination served as a primer for healthcare professionals who will be among the first to receive vaccines.

The Difficult Path Ahead: We Hear You and Are Here for You

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The Difficult Path Ahead: We Hear You and Are Here for You

SCCM released a statement to media imploring the public to rise to the challenge and follow recommended public health measures, such as mask wearing, social distancing, hand hygiene, avoiding large gr...

Concise Critical Appraisal: Is CPR Futile for COVID-19 Patients?

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Concise Critical Appraisal: Is CPR Futile for COVID-19 Patients?

Is cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) futile in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 experiencing cardiac arrest? A study recently published in Critical Care Medicine sought to answer this...

COVID-19: What’s Next: A Deeper Dive into Top Sessions

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COVID-19: What’s Next: A Deeper Dive into Top Sessions

COVID-19: What’s Next, the first-of-its kind virtual conference hosted by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), featured the newest research findings, epidemiologic models, and guideline...

Concise Critical Appraisal: Dexamethasone Use in the Treatment of COVID-19

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Concise Critical Appraisal: Dexamethasone Use in the Treatment of COVID-19

This Concise Critical Appraisal offers a look into the results of the RECOVERY trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which demonstrated that dexamethasone improved mortality i...

SCCM Experts Weigh in on Latest COVID-19 Treatment Strategies

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SCCM Experts Weigh in on Latest COVID-19 Treatment Strategies

This article distills some of the challenges and lessons learned in key areas of COVID-19 management: convalescent plasma therapy and strategies for diabetes/hyperglycemia and myocarditis.

PPE Strategies for the COVID-19 Era

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PPE Strategies for the COVID-19 Era

The supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been uncertain since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Months into this healthcare crisis, supply chains are unpredictable as reports of shortag...

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