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Diagnostic Stewardship of Endotracheal Aspirate Cultures in Hospitalized Children With Artificial Airways: Expert Consensus Statements From the BrighT STAR (Testing STewardship for Antibiotic Reduction) Respiratory Collaborative. Sick-Samuels AC, Kelly DP, Woods-Hill CZ, et al; and the BrighT STAR (Testing STewardship for Antibiotic Reduction) Respiratory Consensus Authorship group. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Feb 13. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39945582 [abstract]
Extubation Failure in Neonates Following Congenital Cardiac Surgery: Multicenter Retrospective Cohort, 2017-2020. Hames DL, Abbas Q, Asfari A, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Feb 10. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39927824 [abstract]
Interfacility Transfer and Admission to PICUs in the United States: Survey of Referral Communications in 2023. Cifra CL, Lin O, Gonzales CL, Pantekidis I,et al; Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Feb 7. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39918372 [abstract]
Central or Peripheral Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Pediatric Sepsis: Outcomes Comparison in the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Dataset, 2000-2021. Totapally A, Stark R, Danko M, Chen H, Altheimer A, Hardison D, Malone MP, Zivick E, Bridges B. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Jan 23. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39846796 [abstract]
Development and Preliminary Testing of the Withdrawal Assessment Tool-Alpha 2 Agonist: An Assessment Instrument for Monitoring Iatrogenic Withdrawal Symptoms in Children Receiving an Alpha-2 Agonist. Solodiuk JC, Donado C, Wickerham L, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025 Jan 1;26(1):e67-e76. PMID: 39625342 [abstract; full-text(pdf:1.6MB)]
Lung-Protective Ventilation for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial. Wong JJM, Dang H, Gan CS, et al.; Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Medicine Asian Network (PACCMAN). Crit Care Med. 2024 Oct 1;52(10):1602-1611. PMID: 38920618 [abstract]
Restrictive vs Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Acute Brain Injury: The TRAIN Randomized Clinical Trial. Taccone FS, Rynkowski Bittencourt C, et al.; TRAIN Study Group. JAMA. 2024 Nov 19;332(19):1623-1633. PMID: 39382241 [abstract]
Patterns of Use of β-2 Agonists, Steroids, and Mucoactive Medications to Treat Bronchiolitis in the PICU: U.S. Pediatric Health Information System 2009-2022 Database Study. Flaherty BF, Olsen CS, Coon ER, Srivastava R, Cook LJ, Keenan HT.
Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Dec 17. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39688969 [abstract]
Extracorporeal Life Support: Making Ethically Sound Allocation Decisions for a Limited Resource. Lewis-Newby M, Wightman AG, Banker KA, Dudzinski DM, Handley SJ, Mazor RL, McGuire JK, McMullan DM, Rice-Townsend SE, Soh E, Yalon L, Diekema DS, Berkman ER.
Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Dec 1;25(12):e449-e458. PMID: 39630074 [abstract; full-text (pdf:678K)]
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]