Speaker: Robert C. Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH
Robert C. Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH: Welcome. My name is Robert Tasker and I'm your Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Lots of great new content for you for June 2024. My first editor's choice is about the scale of pediatric post acute facilities across the United States. Straka at al have used Medicare and Medicaid data from 2022 to 2023 and identified 109 facilities in 39 states. There's an editorial that accompanies this and there's a discussion about chronic medical complexity and illness. My second editor's choice follows the theme of sepsis phenotypes and this is biochemical profiles of sepsis related hypoxemia, encephalopathy, and shock by Atreya et al. They look at a data set from 2003 to 2023. 25 PICUs, 15,000 patients, 1,800 with septic shock. They explore the PERSEVERE-II risk model in this data set. My third editor's choice looks at late outcomes three and nine months after pediatric ARDS, looking at family and children outcomes. This is by Ames et al. This comes from the CPCCRN group. Eight US PICUs 2019 to 2020 with a follow up on 100 patients. In the other two educational sections, first, there is PCCM Connections and the topic this month is CICU and cardiac ICU training. First, there's an item about entrustable professional activities. Previously, we published the nine EPAs and now the authors have mapped 110 training subcompetencies. There's also an editorial. The other cardiac material in PCCM Connections is a systematic review about peritoneal dialysis and epidemiology item about area deprivation index and the patients that are seen on CICU. Finally, an item about antihypertensives, nicardipine and nitroprusside. That has an accompanying editorial Next, in the educational material, there is PCCM International. This takes an editorial perspective on CRRT therapy and this is a document that comes from Europe, Japan, US, UK, and Turkey. Finally, we have a PCCM Narrative which is a poem called "Meaning". Taken all together a great read. I wish our WFPICCS colleagues well on their congress at the moment and I will see you next month. Thank you very much.
