Gain insights into airway pathophysiology in infants with severe bronchiolitis who require mechanical ventilation, a substantial portion of winter PICU admissions.
🎙️ Javier Varela, MD, MSc, discusses his study in PCCM: sccm.org/pod563
#PedsICU #SCCM
I'm married to a pediatrician and I love the AAP and also it's gotta bug them that they constantly have to write op-eds like "it is bad to put children into concentration camps, actually." And "It is bad to let children get vaccine preventable illnesses that kill or maim them."
17.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 92 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 0
🚨 World PICU Awareness Week 2026 – SAVE THE DATE 🚨
🌍 Theme: “Take Care of Those Who Care”
In 2026, #WFPICCS shifts the focus to caregiver wellbeing in #PedsICU.
Learn more and join the movement.
🔗 wfpiccs.org/2026-world-p...
#PedsICU #WPAW2026
The abstract deadline for the 2026 WFPICCS World Congress has been extended to 1 May.
More time to share your research, QI projects, and innovations in pediatric critical care.
🔬 Submit here: www.wfpiccs2026intensivecareasm.com/call-for-abs...
#WFPICCS #PedsICU #CriticalCare
#Blackhistorymonth FOTD:
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was one of the 1st physicians to perform open-heart surgery successfully. In 1891, he founded Provident Hospital in Chicago, the 1st Black-owned hospital & 1st non-segregated hospital in the US.
bit.ly/4r7Uo79
New Pearls episode out today about Spontaneous Breathing Trials!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and check out the full video on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GpeR...
Make sure to like and subscribe.
#criticalcare
#pulmonology
#medicaleducation
#mechanicalventilation
Read our full story that details how we got inside the Dilley detention center for immigrant families here: www.propublica.org/article/life...
09.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 350 🔁 196 💬 5 📌 6
This is an amazing book
#Gene
Don’t miss your chance to contribute to the most influential NICU and PICU event of the year, and be part of the global #NICU & #PICU conversation at #ESPNIC2026!
Submit your abstract before 16 March, 2026.
Submit here✍: bit.ly/4riRP2M
Register for the congress✅: bit.ly/46WhsOG
#PedICU
“O interesse da corporação médica é que haja um número mais reduzido de médicos para que se possa ter mais possibilidade de escolher entre o público e o privado, e assim manter certo nível de remuneração”, criticou Lígia Giovanella
02.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from JAMA, published online January 28, 2026, introduces the "Win Ratio Method for Hierarchical Composite Outcomes in Randomized Clinical Trials." It defines composite end points and discusses their application in clinical trials. Text@1
📊 JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods: The win ratio is a statistical method for hierarchical composite outcomes, offering a patient-centered summary of treatment effects by prioritizing more important clinical events in clinical trials.
ja.ma/3Meleve
New AHA Stroke 2026 guidelines
Peds EVT recommended when:
>/=6 yrs and:
🕐 <6 hours from symptom onset or
🧠 6-24hr from symptom onset + suspected salvageable tissue
28 days-6 years:
🧑⚕️new symptoms, <24hrs, and peds neurointerventionalist
#PedsICU #NCC
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
SCCM expresses heartbreak over the death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this past weekend. The Society extends its deepest condolences to his loved ones, colleagues, and the broader critical care community grieving this loss.
Read SCCM’s full statement below.
Update on sepsis and septic shock: from bundles to precision medicine
CCR Journal Watch
criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evide...
Sodium bicarbonate application for the treatment of acute metabolic acidosis: what we know and what we still don’t know
CCR Journal Watch
criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evide...
The Trump administration’s race to control the narrative around the killing of Alex Pretti underscores what has become a pattern to justify an increasingly violent crackdown: immediately going on the offensive and demonizing the victim, often distorting the facts in the process.
26.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 193 🔁 63 💬 49 📌 11
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
24.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 33667 🔁 10449 💬 446 📌 422bsky.app/profile/anti...
24.01.2026 20:32 — 👍 85 🔁 48 💬 6 📌 9
NYT: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man The victim was an American citizen with no criminal record who had a firearms permit, the city police chief said. Videos of the encounter contradict the federal government's description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found.
years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose
24.01.2026 20:31 — 👍 11662 🔁 2726 💬 161 📌 83
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
24.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 23748 🔁 7830 💬 632 📌 608
Team
For anyone involved in paediatric airway management
KEY PHRASE
"PILLOW PLEASE"
www.maskinduction.com/positioning-...
Aman Kalra, Professor of Anesthesiology, (Author, Illustrator and Web Designer)
#Ansky #Medsky #Anaesthesia #Anaesthetist #ICM #ICU #Intensivist #Anaesthesiologist #PHEM #HEMS
Online gambling
Online gambling products are rapidly gaining popularity worldwide and are disproportionately associated with harms, including addiction and suicide.
Evidence indicates industry self-regulation is insufficient to prevent harm, argues Analysis
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
#PedsICU
20.01.2026 13:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
12.01.2026 04:29 — 👍 4976 🔁 1445 💬 38 📌 48
I launched version 3.0 of my browser extension "Lazy Scholar", a free in-browser research assistant. It opens automatically when you load an academic article.
See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...
How do we handle ICP crisis in the neuro ICU? icuscenarios.com/episode-97-m...
#medsky #emimcc
Every single one of the vaccines “no longer universally” recommended today, is something I have seen kids in the ICU for, several of which I’ve seen die despite heroic efforts by the #PedsICU team. Freed up beds allowed us to advance other care for children, accommodating return of vanquished
05.01.2026 21:36 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
If only someone had tried to warn that the merger of mainstream medicine with antivaxx quackery was dangerous.
If only.
Neuralink, a leader in the fledgling field of brain implants, is hurting the industry's efforts to develop useful medical devices, rivals say.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/n...
