PCCM Audio Summary - July 2025

The July 2025 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) features original research articles evaluating rapid ultrasound for differentiating shock and hypotension phenotypes, use of corticosteroids for hypotension in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit, and optimal hemostatic resuscitation in children with cancer and/or hematopoietic cell transplant. Clinical investigation articles review timing of focal cerebral injuries on extracorporeal life support, the utility of day-three sepsis phenotype classifications, the association of early levels of brain injury biomarkers and pattern of brain injury on MRI, and the occurrence rate of venous thromboembolism among critically ill children and young adults with diabetic ketoacidosis. The PCCM conference report and expert panel review The PICU Data Collaborative: A Novel, Multi-Institutional, Pediatric Critical Care Dataset. The summary ends with this month’s PCCM narrative.

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