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PCCM Critical Content - January 2025

January 13, 2025

Robert C. Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, shares the highlights of the January Pediatric Critical Care Medicine issue.


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Speakers: Robert C. Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH

Robert C. Tasker: Welcome. 2025. My name is Robert Tasker and I'm your Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. We're into a new era, 26th volume, fully digital journal. Do look at the Foreword to the journal to give you an idea about what has changed. The Editor's Choices are no longer. All Feature Articles are to be considered as my choices. So first we have an article by Nellis et al. with an editorial about bleeding assessment scale, 2020 to 2022, 328 patients, prospective study. The second Editor's Choice or Feature is by Elliott et al. with an editorial, and this is about caloric support for traumatic brain injury, 2010 to 2022, 93 patients retrospective study. The third Feature Article is by Songer et al., an editorial accompanies this, and this is about palliative care and end-of-life care in the CICU 2014 to 2022, 218 patients retrospective study. In the other material we have 6 clinical investigations. Betensky et al. looking at the PHIS data set and mechanical thromboprophylaxis for VTE, McMullin et al. looking at targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest, a quality improvement study. Third, Yang et al. sedation goals and implementation science paper. Vadivelan et al., iron deficiency during and after PICU, with an editorial. Solodiuk et al. WAT-A2A score, and this is a withdrawal assessment after five days of dexmedetomidine and Hasan et al. looking at DKA and phosphorus. Then we have two PCCM Trials items. McMichael et al., a pilot RCT on bivalirudin versus heparin on ECMO, and there's an editorial with this. And the second is a trial protocol by Faustino et al. on catheter-related early thromboprophylaxis with enoxaparin. And last, an item that replaces Special Articles, and this is now called Conference Report and Expert Panel, and this is the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group, their 20-year experience, and this should be read alongside the articles that we ran in 2022 about CPCCRN, PALISI, and the UK PCCS-SG. So, all in all, a fully packed January issue of PCCM. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you.



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