Speaker: Robert C.Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH
Robert C.Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH: Welcome to Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. May 2024, lots of great content. I'm on the clock and I'm trying to get everything in for you. This is a packed issue with my three Editors' Choices, PCCM Connections, a new section called PCCM International and an end piece about PCCM and writing for the journal. Choice number one, clinical decision support and harnessing bedside data by Pelletier et al. 15,000 arterial blood gasses, 484 patients, an in silico equation for predicting minute ventilation. Not surprisingly, the equation performs better than we do. There's an editorial about using such simulation in teaching platforms by Geva et. al. Why have I chosen this? This work extends two themes within PCCM. February 2023, PALICC and the imperative to leverage data in patient care. Secondly, the PEDAL initiative and the special article that we had in April 2024. Choice number two is about training in education and needs with a focus on tools for spiritual care. Stevens et al survey 245 out of 720 fellows. Why do I consider this important? It's important material for curricular development, education and research. Gaudio and Markovitz extend this narrative for us. Choice number three is about communication with parents in care conferences and speaking about prognosis, the language we use. Olive et al assessed 70 transcripts of such care conferences. In 63 there were over 1000 instances of nudging. Why have I chosen this? This is an area of underrepresented research. Our editorial writers Smith et al discussed the implications of this type of research with a nice summary table. Do look at this in the context of the systematic review in this area that we've had as well as navigator support studies.
Robert C.Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH: In the PCCM Connections section, we have editorial and educational material that covers two topic areas. All you need to know about pSOFA, paired articles by Akhondi-Asl et al and a great editorial written by Horvat and Taylor covering the whole bioinformatics area. The second topic is end-of-life care and the principle of supported privacy by Butler et al. There's a good table that ties in with our second editor's choice. Lastly, there's a PCCM International section in my editor's choices. This is a new item and this covers this month a sepsis septic shock epidemiology study from China. 12 centers over 11,000 PICU admissions with a 3.3% rate of sepsis and septic shock. That's by Liu et al. There's an editorial by Kortz and Kissoon talking about the next steps in this international arena. Finally, I have written the next installment in PCCM Notes about writing for PCCM. This is on editorials and commentaries. So if there are any aspiring editorialists and commentators, this is a roadmap paragraph by paragraph. So thank you for all your support for the journal. Do read everything, it's all great material. And I thank our authors and reviewers.
