Publications

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Outcomes, Characteristics, and Physiology of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Sepsis. Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Carcillo JA, et al; for the ICU-Resuscitation Project (ICU-RESUS) Investigators and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network Investigators. Crit Care Med. 2025 Aug 1;53(8):e1529-e1541. Epub 2025 Jun 25. PMID: 40558671 [abstract]

Presence of Families at the Bedside in the PICU: Prospective, Mixed-Methods Study of Race and Insurance Disparities. Mayeda MR, Rosenblatt S, Balmer DF, Morrison W, Magee P, Kirchner V, Yehya N. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Aug 4. PMID: 40758379 [abstract]

Clinical and Risk Analytics Associations With Extubation Failure in Children Following Congenital Cardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study, 2017-2020. Hames DL, Abbas Q, Asfari A, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Jul 30. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40736342 [abstract]

Epinephrine Before Defibrillation in Children With Initially Shockable In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Swanson MB, Lasa JJ, Chan PS, et al; American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines—Resuscitation Investigators. Crit Care Med. 2025 Jul 30. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40736349 [abstract]

Children With Severe Neurologic Impairment and Their Families in the PICU: A Secondary Qualitative Analysis to Assess Clinician-Family Collaboration and Mutuality. Sutyla RF, Bogetz JF, Dhar S, Oslin E, Parente V, Docherty SL, Lemmon M. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Jul 21. PMID: 40689712 [abstract]

Contribution of ethnicity and deprivation to paediatric critical care outcomes in the UK, 2008-21: a national retrospective cohort study. Mitchell HK, Seaton SE, Mustafa K, et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025 Jul 9:S2352-4642(25)00156-7. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40652941 [abstract; full-text]

How We Are Failing US Children. Wolf ER, Rivara FP, Woolf SH. JAMA. 2025 Jul 7. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40622725 [reference; full-text]

Editorial note: Though not strictly a PCCM article, we are all on the downstream effect of this trend. This is our lane...

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Massive Bleeding in Children With Cancer or Hematopoietic Cell Transplant: International, Multicenter Retrospective Study, 2017-2021. Nellis ME, Steiner ME, Bhar S, et al.; Massive Transfusion In Children (MATIC)-Cancer Investigators, and in collaboration with the Pediatric Critical Care Blood Research Network (BloodNet) subgroup and the Hematopoietic Cell Transplant subgroup of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Pediatr Crit Care Med. July 2025; 26(7): e889–e899 PMID: 40277427 [abstract; full-text (pdf 1.1 MB)]

Methylprednisolone for Infant Heart Surgery: Subpopulation Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Sunthankar SD, Hill KD, Jacobs JP, et al. Crit Care Med. 2025 Jul 1;53(7):e1470-e1480. Epub 2025 May 21. PMID: 40396812 [abstract]

Shah S, Kaul A, Shiwarkar G, Nare R, Khandare J. Fifth Centile Versus 50th Centile Mean Blood Pressure Targets in Pediatric Septic Shock: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Crit Care Med. 2025 Jun 13. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40511998. [abstract]

Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse Staffing Measures and Patient Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Taylor WM, Pelletier J, Heneghan JA, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jun 2;8(6):e2515376. PMID: 40504525 [abstract]

Infant Organ Donation After Death by Circulatory Criteria: A Literature Scoping Review. St Louis JR, Weiss MJ, Al-Ayass S, Tierney S, Wright AL, Dhanani S, Widger K. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Jun 9. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40488577 [abstract]