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Network, learn, and advance critical care research.
Learn about new developments in critical care research and attend a Discovery Clinical Investigators Meeting! Held twice a year by SCCM’s Discovery, the Critical Care Research Network, these meetings give investigators the opportunity to:
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In Person
February 23, 2025
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Hyatt Regency Orlando, Orlando M
Orlando, Florida, USA
Held during the 2025 Critical Care Congress, this meeting with gather leaders in research. Critical Care Congress registration is required to attend.
Associate Editor, Chest Critical Care
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Department of Surgery, Department of Anesthesiology
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Theme: Tackling Unprecedented Challenges in Critical Care: Building a Research Infrastructure to Meet the Needs of the Future
Explore important topics that are likely to pose the most crucial challenges for the critical care community. This meeting will leverage the expertise of scientists across the fields of data science, epidemiology, and outcomes research to identify the most important problems and discuss approaches for solutions through research.
The dynamic nature of critical care warrants evolution in research to meet the needs of patients and the community. The next phase of critical care research poses a series of challenges for the field. The epidemiology of infectious and noninfectious critical illnesses is being affected by climate change, evolving resource constraints resulting from local and global conditions, and an increasing acknowledgement of responsibility to bring sustainable solutions to the impact of critical care delivery on the environment.
The COVID-19 pandemic yielded valuable lessons for critical care research, enabling the development of agile and adaptive methodologies to navigate uncertainty. Innovations in informatics, collaborative problem-solving, and engagement of diverse stakeholders fostered knowledge sharing and rapid response to generate scalable, timely, and effective interventions during the pandemic.
To address emerging challenges, critical care research must continue to prioritize multidisciplinary collaboration, adaptive research methodologies, and real-time data analytics to generate innovative solutions. Also crucial are environmental sustainability, pharmacovigilance, and capturing vaccine adverse events and treatment effects through data analytics.
Clinical outcomes research; evaluating preventive services; and infection incidence, severity, and outcomes will inform evidence-based practice. Key factors include the importance of data integration, standardization, and informatics innovation.
During this meeting, experts will discuss important topics that are likely to pose the most crucial challenges for the critical care community. The expertise of scientists across the fields of data science, epidemiology, and outcomes research will be leveraged to identify the most important problems and discuss approaches for solutions through research.
Diversity in critical care research is essential to ensure results that are generalizable and applicable to different populations. However, racial and ethnic minorities, as well as other groups (e.g., women), continue to be underrepresented in clinical trials. The meeting addressed the importance of diversity in critical care trials; reviewed challenges to inclusion and application of research findings in various environments; and discussed future directions.
