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

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt PhysicianCardiothoracicLearn More
Providence Swedish Seattle PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Children’s Hospital of Michigan PhysicianMultidisciplinary CardiothoracicLearn More
Children’s Hospital of Michigan PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
The University of Chicago PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Saint Francis Children’s Hospital PhysicianMultidisciplinaryLearn More
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center APP / NursingMultidisciplinaryLearn More
GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL FellowMultidisciplinaryLearn More

Courses & Conferences

2025 SCCM Critical Care Congress Feb 23, 2025 - Feb 25, 2025 | Orlando, FL Read More
PALISI Spring meeting 2025 Mar 31, 2025 - Apr 3, 2025 | Santa Fe, NM

Latest Publications

Diagnostic Uncertainty Among Critically Ill Children Admitted to the PICU: A Multicenter Study. Cifra CL, Custer JW, Smith CM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2024 Nov 25. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39585176 [abstract]

Extubation Failure in the PICU: A Virtual Pediatric Systems Database Study, 2017-2021.
Kim FY, Soto-Campos G, Palumbo J, Newth CJL, Rice TB. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Nov 21. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39570068 [abstract]

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Outcomes in a Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort 2009-2021. Mowrer MC, Lima L, Nair R, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024: 25(11): 1026-1034. PMID: 39028213 [abstract; full-text (pdf:850K)]

Delirium Screening in Critically Ill Children: Secondary Analysis of the Multicenter PICU Up! Pilot Trial Dataset, 2019-2020. Azamfirei R, Behrens D, Padilla S, Madden K, Goldberg S, Geno M, Manning MJ, Piole M, Madsen E, Maue D, Abu-Sultaneh S, Awojoodu R, Wang NY, Needham DM, Neufeld K, Kudchadkar SR. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Oct 1;25(10):880-888. PMID: 38832837 [abstract; full-text (pdf:874K)]

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

“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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