Speaker: Robert C. Tasker, MBBS, MD, MA, FRCP, RCPCH
Robert C. Tasker, MBBS, MD, MA, FRCP, RCPCH: Welcome to September 2024. My name is Robert Tasker and I'm your Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Just a quick announcement, if you're thinking about submitting to PCCM from now, remember that we will be in the digital format from January 2025 so all color images are free. Now to this month's PCCM. Three Editor's Choice which do follow a theme and you'll be able to put this all together at the end. My first choice is from Bhalla et al. This is developing a noninvasive surrogate marker of dead space in PARDS. The cohort is from 2017 to 2023. 131 cases. and it's the CO2 ventilatory equivalent. There is an accompanying editorial. The second choice is health related quality of life decline after septic shock in relation to premorbid social determinants of health. This is by Lenz et al. and this is another investigation by the LAPSE group, the 2014 to 2017 cohort and here the authors have 358 cases in which there was premorbid social determinants of health. There is an accompanying editorial. The third Editor's Choice is about PARDS severity and associated early post PICU change in health-related quality of life. This comes from Killien et al. The cohort is from 2011 to 2017. The authors look at 41 cases of PARDS survivors and 274 non-PARDS survivors and they retrospectively apply the PALICC-2 severity scale to these cases and compare them. There's an accompanying editorial and the reason why it's interesting is because this is suggesting new end points for clinical trials. Then in the two educational sections, first PCCM Connections. I've built around the piece around Slain et al. and their PHIS dataset study from 2019 with 175,000 discharges and connect this with the initiative announced by the June 2024 CDC agenda called Healthy People 2030. So this takes us on a tour of social determinants of health, ethnicity, race, access to healthcare and food insecurity. All well worth reading. Then lastly, in the PCCM International section, Fernandez-Sarmiento et al. write a report from a 12 center study in Colombia. 184 children, severe PARDS, 2018 to 2022. The object of the study was to look at driving pressure and 28 day mortality. So I hope you see the connection in all this material. PARDS, health related quality of life, social determinants of health and some physiology. I look forward to seeing you next month.
