What form of renal replacement therapy should clinicians use for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU)? New research has connected the renal replacement therapy choice with mortality end points and renal replacement therapy dependency in patients with acute kidney injury. In this podcast episode, experts discuss their research in this area. Ron Wald, MDCM, MHP, professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, discusses his article, “Initiation of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Versus Intermittent Hemodialysis in Critically Ill Patients With Severe Acute Kidney Injury: A Secondary ..read more

Robert C. Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, shares the highlights of the March Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) issue. To read the full issue and discover the latest articles, visit pccmjournal.org. Explore some of Dr. Tasker's highlighted articles here: Kidney Outcomes in Children Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Single-Center Acute Cohort From 2009 to 2019, Followed to 2021 https://journals.lww.com/10.1097/PCC.0000000000003650 Patterns of Use of β-2 Agonists, Steroids, and Mucoactive Medications to Treat Bronchiolitis in the PICU: U.S. Pediatric Health Information Sy ..read more

Critical Care Medicine (CCM) Editor-in-Chief Jonathan E. Sevransky MD, MHS, FCCM, invites Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM, and Heather Meissen, DNP, FCCM, to discuss a feature article from the March 2025 issue of CCM. Read the full article, "The Definition of the Intensivist in the Era of Global Healthcare: 2024 Consensus Statement From the Society of Critical Care Medicine Defining Intensivist Task Force," online. https://journals.lww.com/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006580 ..read more

This session on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress discussed speakers’ experiences and approaches for extracting, normalizing, and storing information from various sources of heterogeneous information and electronic health records, providing valuable insights into the tools, methods, and challenges involved in understanding and extracting data from clinical ICU databases. The Structure of Clinical Data and How Information Flies Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, FCCM Data Extraction From Clinical Data Sources Eric S. Rosenthal, MD Discovery’s Data Science Campaign Data Harmo ..read more

This session on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress honored the recipients of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) Distinguished Investigator award, the Discovery Grant, and the SCCM-Weil Research Grant. ACCM Distinguished Investigator: Serendipity, Reverse Causation, Inspiration, and a Road Less Traveled Ashish K. Khanna, MD, MS, FASA, FCCM Discovery Grant Recipient: ECMO-Free Trial: A Multicenter Pilot Feasibility Study Whitney D. Gannon, APRN, MSN, RN SCCM-Weil Research Grant Recipient: Small Molecule MPO Inhibition to Prevent Delayed Cerebral Injur ..read more

This session on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress discussed the recent stress ulcer prophylaxis guidelines, including evaluating the role of enteral nutrition for the prevention of stress ulcer bleeding; best practices for the route, dose, and duration of stress ulcer prophylaxis; and application of guideline recommendations and best practice statements to patient care. GRADE Process Risk Factors Comparative Assessments of Therapies Versus No Therapy Joanna Dionne, MD, MS, BN Comparative Assessments of PPIs Versus H2RAs Role of Enteral Nutrition Robert MacLaren, MPH ..read more

J. Christopher C. Farmer, MD, MCCM, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at SCCM’s 2025 Critical Care Congress. He discussed the evolving scope of critical care practices and the needed advancements in critical care systems of care. Dr. Farmer is president of Trajectory Group, LLC. He is a senior management consultant for U.S.-based and international healthcare enterprises, medical universities, hospitals, and other government and non-government health agencies. He has previously held multiple roles at Mayo Clinic and as a colonel in the United States Air Force, as well as serving as a past ..read more

This session on Monday, February 24, 2025, at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress discussed future advancement in patient safety through AI algorithms, electronic medical record tools, and device interoperability, including technologic approaches, diagnostic accuracy, and the association between clinician wellness and favorable patient outcomes. Optimizing ICU Design Simon J.W. Oczkowski, MD, MHSc Leveraging Technology for Safety Julian Goldman, MD Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy Paul Bergl, MD ..read more

This session on Monday, February 24, 2025, at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress explored the key elements of the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F), focusing on sedation and mobility practices in the critical care setting. Experts presented contrasting perspectives on best practices, with a close look at both the immediate and long-term impacts of sedation levels and mobility interventions on patient outcomes. No Sedation Versus Deep Sedation: When to Dial It Up or Down? Joanna Stollings, PharmD, FCCM Pratik Pandharipande, MD, FCCM Is All Mobility Beneficial? Differentiating Effective Versus Harmful Mobi ..read more

This session on Monday, February 24, 2025, at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress discussed the impact of patient-centered care guidelines, as well as methods for effectively implementing shared decision-making in the ICU, including communicating complex information, eliciting patient values, and using decision-making tools while navigating the unique challenges of this setting to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Updates From Family-Centered Care Guidelines David Y. Hwang, MD, FCCM Shared Decision-Making in Navigating to Optimal Outcomes Carrie Sona, MSN, CCRN, CCNS Dealing With Contrarian Mindsets ..read more