Congress Literature Releases

2026 Critical Care Congress Releases

Late-Breaking Articles

Thought Leader: Late-Breaking Studies That Will Change Your Practice
Sunday, March 22, 2026 | 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Central Time | Skyline Ballroom, W375ABC

• Ceragenin-Coated Endotracheal Tubes for the Reduction of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Prospective, Longitudinal, Crossover, Interrupted Time, Implementation Study (CEASE VAP Study)
  Published in Critical Care Explorations
• National Estimates of Pediatric Sepsis in U.S. Hospitals Using Clinical Data
  Published in JAMA
• Prehospital Whole Blood in Traumatic Hemorrhage — a Randomized Controlled Trial
  Published in New England Journal of Medicine

Late-Breaking Studies Affecting Patient Outcomes I
Sunday, March 22, 2026 | 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Central Time |  Skyline Ballroom, W375D

• Endotracheal Surfactant for Infants With Life-Threatening Bronchiolitis (BESS): A Randomised, Blinded, Sham-Controlled, Phase 2 Trial
  Published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
• Development and Psychometric Testing of the Optimizing Context in Assessing Sedation in ICU (OCEAN-ICU) Instrument to Optimize Sedation Use in Intensive Care
  Published in Critical Care Explorations
• Plasma Linoleic Acid Is Associated With Pediatric Sepsis Phenotype and Acute Kidney Injury
  Published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• Procalcitonin Testing Combined with NEWS2 Evaluation Compared with Usual Care Based On NEWS2 for Identification of Sepsis And Antibiotic Initiation in the Emergency Department in England and Wales (PRONTO): A Multicentre, Randomised, Controlled, Open-Label, Phase 3 Trial
  Published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
• Influence of Age in End-of-Life Practices in Worldwide ICUs (ETHICUS-2): A Prospective Observational Study
  Published in Critical Care Medicine

Late-Breaking Studies Affecting Patient Outcomes II
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Central Time | Skyline Ballroom, W375D

• The Association Between Socioeconomic Position and Mortality in Patients With Sepsis and Septic Shock—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Published in Critical Care Medicine
• Bedside Identification of Subphenotypes in Acute Respiratory Failure (PHIND): A Multicentre, Observational Cohort Study
  Published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
• Viral and Host-Related Factors in the Nasal Inflammatory Response to Critical Bronchiolitis in Infants and Children
  Published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• Polymyxin B Haemoadsorption in Endotoxic Septic Shock (Tigris): A Multicentre, Open-Label, Bayesian, Randomised, Controlled, Phase 3 Trial
  Published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Guidelines

ICU Triage: What We Know and Everything We Don’t
Sunday, March 22, 2026 | 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Central Time | Skyline Ballroom, W375ABC

• SCCM Guidelines for the Allocation of Critical Care Resources to Adults During Crisis-Level Shortages
  More Resources

What's New and Different in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026 | 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Central Time | Skyline Ballroom, W375ABC

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2026

2026 Updates to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children
Monday, March 23, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Central Time | W185

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children 2026

Every Breath You Take: PEEP and Recruitment Maneuvers in ARDS
Monday, March 23, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Central Time | Skyline Ballroom, W375D

• SCCM Guidelines for the Administration of Neuromuscular Blockade in Adults With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
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Compassionate and Evidence-Based Care
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Central Time | W181

• SCCM Clinical Practice Guidelines on Adult End-of-Life Care in the ICU
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• SCCM 2026 Guideline on the Care and Management of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Patients at the End of Life
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• SCCM Caring for Older Adults in the ICU Guideline
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Other Publications

Advancing Critical Care: Refractory Shock Guidelines, SOFA-2 Innovations, and the Expanding Role of Pharmacists
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Central Time | W178

• Clinical Criteria for the Definition of Refractory Septic Shock: A Joint Delphi Consensus from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

Congress Digital 

• The Sepsis Chain of Survival: A Comprehensive Framework for Improving Sepsis Outcomes
• Gaps and Strategies for Management of Sepsis in Low-Resource Settings: Expert Consensus Statements Using a Delphi Method
• The Frame of Survival for Sepsis: A Practical Systems Framework for Time-Sensitive Critical Illness in Low-Resource Settings
• Ten Steps to Improve Sepsis Care in Low-Resource Settings