Critical Care Science

📣 Call for Papers – Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analysis
Critical Care Science welcomes submissions of Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses addressing key topics in #ICU #PedsICU
💎 Open Access:free to read, share & publish!
 No APCs.No submission fees.

👉 Submit your manuscript
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🧠 Is it time for SOFA 2.0 in #ICU ?

➡️ #SOFA score brought standardization to organ dysfunction assessment;
➡️ Advances in tech, sedation,new therapies demand an update;
➡️ SOFA 2.0 brings global input, data-driven validation, methodological rigor.

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Do we underestimate right ventricle & venous system in #ICU?

➡️ RV function & VR: essential for🫀output & tissue perfusion
➡️ Guyton’s model & concept of mean systemic filling Press : insights into fluid & vasopressor management
🎯 Great narrative #Review

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👶🏼 How can we identify #palliativecare needs in newborns admitted to #NICU?

🇧🇷 study w/188 neonates in a ⬆️risk Brazilian maternity
➡️ Palineo Score developed using 7 clinical domains
➡️ Exceptional accuracy to guide early & appropriate #palliativecare

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Can liberalized family presence in the ICU improve care & how do we make it work?
➡️ Structured implementation involves planning, staff training, & family education.

🎯 Evidence shows benefits for patients, families, & care quality.

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#ICU #PedsICU

🤖 How can AI improve #ICU & what are the risks?
➡️ AI tools support diagnosis, prediction & resource allocation
➡️ concerns remain:bias, transparency, inequity & environmental impact
🎯 Mitigating bias is 🗝️to equitable implementation in ICUs.

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🌏 Can Brazil and ANZ build a new model of global collaboration in ICU ?

➡️ cross-continental alliances are no longer optional — they're essential

➡️ Brazil & ANZ bring complementary strengths: large populations, diverse ICU case-mix, & aligned values

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‼️Call for Papers – Critical Care Science
🔎 Focus: Original Research from low- and middle-income countries
📎Deadline: November 1, 2025

#ICU #PedsICU #FoaMed #FoaCc #CCS #LMIC #sepsis #Some4MV

Submit your paper at:

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🧠 organ dysfunction has been incorporated into the core definition of pediatric #sepsis
❗️Pediatric delirium (PD) is a clear manifestation of CNS dysfunction, but PSS focuses only on GCS/pupils & omits delirium
Viewpoint 📝:

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#PedsICU #pediatricDelirium #CCS

🧒🏼 How is ped #palliative extubation in 🇧🇷 #PedsICU ?
➡️ Case series w/ 27 children (5 d–10 y) in a tertiary PICU
➡️ Main indications: neurological impairment & IMV weaning failure
➡️ Family presence & shared decision-making were part of most cases

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Important work from distinguished brazilian intensivists Daniela Souza, José Colleti e Andrea Ventura

🦠 Do 🇧🇷pediatricians recognize #sepsis & septic shock accurately?
🇧🇷 355 physicians
🔹 Most participants relied on SIRS-based criteria, intuition & clinical signs for diagnosis
🔹 Only 31.3% & 30% correctly identified sepsis & severe sepsis

#PedsICU #FoaMcc

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🔎 Have we truly advanced in #GenderEquity in critical care medicine?

➡️ Women remain underrepresented in leadership, authorship,grant awards
➡️ Initiatives exist,but structural barriers & workplace culture continue to limit progress

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#ICU #PedsICU #WomenInICU

🫁 Can 1 hour of positive pressure ventilation post SBT reduce extubation failure?
🔹Multicenter feasibility #RCT in 🇧🇷 w/65 #ICU pts
🔹 Pts ventilated >72h were randomized after successful SBT;
🔹 Extub failure in 7 d: 28.1% (intervention) vs. 42.4% (control)

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💧 Should fluid therapy in #ICU pts be shorter & more strategic?

🔹 Excessive fluid resuscitation=worse outcomes;
🔹#ROSE model & deresuscitation strategies aim to balance perfusion+ 💧 overload;
🔹Tools like US & bioimpedance can guide safe fluid removal

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🤖 Can artificial intelligence improve prediction of postoperative complications #ICU patients?

🔹 #AI models integrate perioperative data to identify at-risk patients
🔹 Applications include AKI, sepsis, mortality, ICU admission &more.

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#ICU #PedsICU

🏥 Can general intermediate care units (IMCUs) improve #ICU efficiency & patient safety?
🔹 IMCUs fill the gap between wards & ICUs
🔹 Reduce readmissions & optimize patient allocation
🔹 Improve comfort, allow family presence & enhance monitoring.

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#CCS

🧠 Bayesian analysis in #clinicaltrials: how does it differ from the traditional approach?

❗️Bayesian analysis is being used w/ increasing frequency in #ICU research & brings advantages/disadvantages compared to traditional Frequentist techniques
#Review

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🕯️ The legacy of Prof. Rinaldo Bellomo for critical care & scientific publishing

➡️Special Editorial

➡️ A pioneer, mentor, & visionary in #ICU medicine

➡️ His legacy continues to inspire a more inclusive, ambitious &collaborative ICU community

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#BRICnet: shaping the landscape of #ICU research in 🇧🇷 & beyond.
🔹Founded in 2007, has become a leading clinical research network in ICU;
➡️ 71 publications
➡️ 15 RCTs & 14 obs.studies
➡️ Strategic partnerships w/ international networks like ANZICS, CCCTG, ESICM

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🦠 Improving sepsis outcomes in 🇧🇷
Strategies & initiatives

➡️ @ILASepse has led initiatives focused on awareness, education & quality of care
✅ In this viewpoint, authors discuss recent strategies & initiatives aimed at ⬇️ burden of #sepsis

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#ICU #PedsiCU

📺 CPR in 🇧🇷 medical television shows: a descriptive &quality assessment study
➡️Analysis of 59 CPR scenes from 3 🇧🇷 medical TV shows
➡️ Major deviations from ACLS guidelines were common: delayed CPR, incorrect defibrillation, poor airway management.
#ICU #PedsICU

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🏠 Home care after #ICU discharge:a global perspective on challenges & opportunities
⬆️readmission rates & long-term disabilities after ICU discharge;
🔹Home visits & follow-up calls ⬇️ readmissions & improve outcomes
#FoaMed #FoaMcc #PedsICU #CriticalCareScience

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Im proud & honored to be part of editorial board of @critcarescience.bsky.social, full open access journal -no fee for authors & readers.
As science should be!
CCS is the official journal of associação de medicina intensiva brasileira & Sociedade Portuguesa de cuidados intensivos.
#ICU #PedsICU

🔵Message from our Editor-in-chief
🔹Advancing for Growth, Quality, & Global Visibility in 2025
We are proud to announce key updates that mark a new phase for CCS:
➡️ New visual identity
➡️ Expanded Editorial Board: more diverse,international experts
➡️ Updated Author Guidelines

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📚 Translation, cross-cultural adaptation & clinimetric evaluation of the Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment (CPAx) for Brazilian Portuguese:

🔹 ⬆️content validity index (CVI 0.91);
🔹 Excellent interrater reliability (ICC 0.997)

#FoaMed #ICU #FoaMcc

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💉 Are sedation practices different for patients intubated in the #ED compared to the #ICU?
➡️ Retrospective cohort study comparing sedation practices between ED & ICU pts
🔹 264 pts included (95 ED vs. 169 ICU);
See the results at:
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#ICU #PedsICU #FoaMed #FoaMCc

🫁🫀 Pulmonary artery pressure assessed by catheterization & its concordance/transthoracic echocardiographic estimates:
🇨🇴 Data from multicenter cohort of patients with pulmonary hypertension in Colombia;
➡️ Retrospective study
➡️ 633 pts
#ICU #FoaMed #FoaCCM

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🫁 Can early weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation using high-flow nasal oxygen (#HFNO) improve outcomes in patients w/acute hypoxemic resp failure?

🇮🇳 Indian #RCT, 80 patients
➡️ Extubation to HFNO vs. Extubation to Venturi Mask

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#ICU #PedsICU #Some4MV

Publication from our editor-in-chief, Dr. Jorge Salluh, on the neighboring network #Linkedin, explaining why publish in #CriticalCareScience!

#ICU #PedsICU #MedEd #FOAMed #NoFeeForPublication