The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Website

About Us

PedsCCM.org was founded in 1995. We have provided a central location on the web for clinical, teaching and scholarly resources for our field. The new PedsCCM.org will focus on opportunities (jobs, fellowships, etc), announcements (grants, meetings, surveys) and highlight new developments in our field (resources, other websites, podcasts, emerging advancements).

Latest Job Listings

Wesley Children’s Hospital PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Shriners Children’s Texas PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Arkansas Children’s Hospital/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Gundersen Health System PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Boston Children’s Hospital: ICU – ACU Hospital Physician Opportunity PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia PhysicianCardiothoracicLearn More
Arkansas Children’s Hospital/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – Medical Director PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More

Courses & Conferences

PALISI Spring meeting 2025 Mar 31, 2025 - Apr 3, 2025 | Santa Fe, NM
2025 VPS Quality Summit and User Conference Apr 30, 2025 - May 2, 2025 | Kansas City, MO Read More
POCUS for the Pediatric Clinician May 1, 2025 - May 2, 2025 | Texas Children's Hospital Conference Center, Legacy Tower 4th Floor Read More

Latest Publications

US Science in Peril. Walensky RP, Walensky LD. JAMA. 2025;333(11):933–934. [full-text]

The Path From Intracranial Pressure to Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Laws JC, Kochanek PM, Wolf MS. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Mar 3;8(3):e250446. PMID: 40067307 [full-text]

Clinical Outcomes of Hypertonic Saline vs Mannitol Treatment Among Children With Traumatic Brain Injury. Chong SL, Zhu Y, Wang Q, et al.; Pediatric Acute and Critical Care Medicine in Asia Network (PACCMAN) and the Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latinoamérica (LARed). JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Mar 3;8(3):e250438. PMID: 40067302 [abstract]

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Children With Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: Post Hoc Analysis of the 2019-2020 Bronchiolitis and Codetection Cohort. White BR, Polikoff L, Alexander R, et al.; with the Bronchiolitis And COdetectioN (BACON) Study Investigators; for the Bronchiolitis Subgroup of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Network and the Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latinoamérica Network. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Mar 6. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40047495 [abstract]

Clinical Research

NICHD DASH (Data and Specimen Hub)

NICHD Data and Specimen Hub (DASH)

 

The NICHD also wishes to announce that seven Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) studies have been archived and released in the NICHD Data and Specimen Hub (DASH):

 

Development of a Quantitative Functional Status Scale (FSS) for Pediatric Patients
The Critical Illness Stress-induced Immune Suppression Prevention (CRISIS) Trial
Cortisol Quantification Investigation: Prospective, Observational Study Comparing Free versus Total Serum Cortisol in PICU Patients
Critical Asthma Mortality and Morbidity Planning Study (CAMMP)
Trichotomous Outcome Prediction in Critical Care (TOPICC)
Bleeding and Thrombosis During ECMO (BATE).
Measuring Opioid Tolerance Induced by Fentanyl (or Other Opioids) (MOTIF)

 

All interested investigators are encouraged to explore these and other studies archived in DASH that are available for secondary analysis. In addition to accessing study data and documents, DASH also serves as a portal for requesting access to biospecimens that are available for some studies. Please feel free to share this information with other investigators and colleagues who may be interested in learning more about DASH to archive their studies or to obtain data and biospecimens for their own research.

 

For questions regarding any of these issues, please feel free to contact Tessie October, MD, MPH at tessie.october@nih.gov or Tammara Jenkins, MSN, RN at tjenkins@mail.nih.gov

 

From the NIH/NICHD

Multisite Clinical Research: Leveraging Network Infrastructure to Advance Research for Women, Children, Pregnant and Lactating Individuals, and Persons with Disabilities (U01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-23-037)

  • The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement to invite applicants for multisite clinical trials and observational studies developed in conjunction with NICHD Networks that will be conducted using NICHD-supported Network infrastructure.   The goal of this FOA is to operationalize the previously reported NICHD guiding principles for multisite clinical trials delineated in Notice NOT-HD-19-034.
  • Consequently, multisite clinical trials and observational studies conducted by and within the participating NICHD-supported Clinical Research Networks will be submitted as investigator-initiated, multi-Principal Investigator (PI) grant applications by any qualified investigator in the extramural community (including NICHD Network investigators) in conjunction with the respective NICHD Network Data Coordinating Center (DCC).
  • Prior to application submission, all proposals must first undergo a rigorous pre-application process.  For additional information about this pre-application process, refer either to the FOA (PAR-23-037) or the following NICHD website:  Pre-Application Process for NICHD Network Multisite Clinical Research | NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (nih.gov)
  • The first full protocol submission due date June 5, 2023, after which submissions will follow NIH Standard Submission Dates.  The PAR expires May 8, 2026.
  • For specific questions not addressed in the FOA or website, please email the Scientific Contact for the FOA, Dr. Robert Tamburro, at NICHD-Network-ClinicalResearch@nih.gov

For questions regarding any of these issues, please feel free to contact Tessie October, MD, MPH at tessie.october@nih.gov or Tammara Jenkins, MSN, RN at tjenkins@mail.nih.gov

Fluid management survey

A survey regarding fluid management from Chloe Braun, Pediatric Critical Care fellow at UAB Birmingham, is here...

News

OPENPediatrics podcast: Pediatric ECMO Cannulation Strategies in Refractory Septic Shock March 26, 2025

Dr. Graeme MacLaren, MBBS, MSc, National University Hospital, Singapore discusses central vs. peripheral VA-ECMO strategies: Listen here...

“Fly Away” – a Nocturnist podcast October 8, 2024

Ann Schrooten, co-editor of "Shared Struggles: Stories from Parents and Pediatricians Caring for Children with Serious Illnesses" tells a poignant story about her son Jack (performed live in November 2023 in NY City) and is interviewed by Emily Silverman: here...

Pediatric sepsis: Landmark articles just published August 14, 2024

International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Sorce LR, et al; Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force. JAMA. 2024 Jan 21. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38245889 [abstractfull-text]

Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD, DeWitt PE, et al.; Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force. JAMA. 2024 Jan 21. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38245897 [abstractfull-text]

COVID-19 and MIS-C Information (mostly) specific to Critical Care and Pediatric Critical Care July 26, 2024

COVID-19 and MIS-C Information (mostly) specific to Critical Care and Pediatric Critical Care

Severe Pediatric Neurological Manifestations With SARS-CoV-2 or MIS-C Hospitalization and New Morbidity. Francoeur C, Alcamo AM, Robertson CL, et al; Global Consortium Study of Neurologic Dysfunction in COVID-19 (GCS-NeuroCOVID) Investigators. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jun 3;7(6):e2414122. PMID: 38857050 [abstract]

Zhu Y, Almeida FJ, Baillie JK, et al. International Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Consortium (ISARIC4C) group. Pediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) Network group. Internat...

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The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE July 26, 2024

PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE: our specialty's journal is online here. Support this acclaimed resource by subscribing today.

 

Featured full-text article from the July 2024 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine:

  • Executive Summary: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE (PEACE) Consensus Conference. Alexander PMA, Bembea MM, Cashen K, et al.; Pediatric ECMO Anticoagulation CollaborativE (PEACE), in collaboration with the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network, the Pediatric Critical Care Blood Research Network (...

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