AudioScholar Critical Care Weekly

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Critical Care — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed critical care literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generate... more

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July 22, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jul 22, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 5 notable papers spanning metabolic resuscitation, extracorporeal support, mechanical ventilation weaning, and health equity in intensive care. Let's dive in.
We begin with metabolic resuscitation and extracorporeal organ support. Two recent studies highlight the complexities of managing acid-base balance and blood purification in cr…
This week's papers:
Sodium bicarbonate therapy in severe metabolic acidemia: an individual patient data meta-analysis of the BICAR-ICU and BICAR-ICU2 trials. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Hemoperfusion during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of 8,151 patients. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Prone positioning in ARDS. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Health-Economic Value of Transvenous Diaphragm Neurostimulation in Ventilator Weaning. — Critical care medicine 2026
Socioeconomic Disparities and the Role of Comorbidity in Hospital Mortality: A Dutch Nationwide Critical Care Cohort Study. — Critical care medicine 2026
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July 15, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jul 15, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning cardiopulmonary resuscitation dynamics, advanced respiratory support and nutrition strategies, and challenging clinical decisions in specialized intensive care populations. Let's dive in.
We begin with new insights into how we run resuscitations, focusing on the physical mechanics of manual ventilation durin…
This week's papers:
Nutrition and Exercise in Critical Illness (NEXIS) trial: randomized trial of combined in-bed cycling and intravenous amino acid plus usual care. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
Acute exacerbation in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: An International Working Group Report. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
High-flow nasal cannula oxygen during breaks from noninvasive ventilation after extubation: an observational study. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Ventilation parameters during Advanced Life Support in cardiac arrest (CAvent): A multicentre observational cohort study. — Resuscitation 2026
Discordant Neuron-Specific Enolase and Neurologic Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Decade-Long Analysis. — Resuscitation 2026
Incretins Predict Response to Enteral Nutrition Strategies in the EDEN Trial: A Secondary Analysis. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
Anticoagulation initiation during ECMO in trauma patients with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage: A narrative review and conceptual time-dependent risk framework. — Journal of critical care 2026
Characterizing Infections in Children after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. — Resuscitation 2026
Perceived Cognitive Load Among Emergency Department Code Blue Teams: Distribution, Correlates and Relationship with Team Performance. — Resuscitation 2026
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July 07, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jul 7, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning sepsis management and cardiovascular resuscitation, advanced airway and arrest care, and optimization of daily intensive care unit practices including respiratory support and device safety. Let's dive in.
We begin with sepsis care and cardiovascular resuscitation. Mendes and colleagues, writing in the journa…
This week's papers:
Mortality effect of albumin fluid resuscitation in adults with septic shock: a systematic review and dual frequentist-bayesian meta-analysis of randomised trials. — Critical Care 2026
In mechanically ventilated ICU patients, low vs. high physical restraint use did not differ for days free of delirium or coma at 14 d. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026
In acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, high-flow vs. standard oxygen therapy did not reduce mortality at 28 d. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026
Efficacy of higher-dose versus lower-dose corticosteroids in community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. — Critical Care 2026
Prevention of arterial catheter-related bloodstream infections: current evidence and future directions. — Critical Care 2026
Volume-controlled mechanical ventilation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. — Resuscitation 2026
Physiological and clinical effects of selected airway clearance techniques in mechanically ventilated adult ICU patients: a systematic review and synthesis without meta-analysis. — Critical Care 2026
Sedation Early After Return of Spontaneous Circulation and During Pre-Hospital Transport After Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Retrospective Analysis of the AfterROSC1 & 2 Database. — Resuscitation 2026
Coronary microvascular function in patients with sepsis and myocardial injury: an invasive coronary physiology study. — Critical Care 2026
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June 30, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jun 30, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we are covering eight notable papers spanning advanced life support strategies, precision medicine in sepsis and infectious diseases, and perioperative organ protection. Let's dive in.
We begin with major updates in how we manage acute respiratory failure, from noninvasive interventions to extracorporeal support. The American Journal of Respiratory…
This week's papers:
Noninvasive Respiratory Support for Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
HIgh versus STAndard blood Pressure target in hypertensive high-risk patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: the HISTAP multicenter randomized clinical trial. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Effects of a clinical metagenomics intervention on clinical outcomes, healthcare costs, and health-related quality of life in patients with sepsis or septic shock: results of the randomized-controlled DigiSep trial. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Interpreting protein dose trials in critical illness: a guide for the bedside clinician. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
ECMO for patients with obesity: evidence and practice. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Burden of and risk factors for neurological complications in critical illness. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Decoding candidemia in critically ill patients: unsupervised clustering identifies three unique phenotypes. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Association between red blood cell transfusion volume and infection risk: a dose-response analysis of a nationwide trauma registry. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
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June 24, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jun 23, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advanced respiratory and extracorporeal support, pharmacological and metabolic optimization, and the critical intersection of ICU ethics, delirium, and neuroprotection. Let's dive in.
We begin this week with a deep dive into advanced respiratory care and extracorporeal life support, starting with a comprehe…
This week's papers:
Body composition-guided protein dosing in critically ill patients: a before-and-after study (PROGRESS-ICU). — Critical Care 2026
Airway Mucus Plugs in Asthma and COPD: Pathobiology, Imaging, and Implications for Clinical Trials. — American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2026
Comparative efficacy and safety of extended versus continuous infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics for severe infection: a network meta-analysis of randomized trials. — Critical Care 2026
Implementation of the kidney protection strategy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury - a multi-center prospective cohort study. — Critical Care 2026
Extracorporeal life support in adult critically ill patients: mechanisms of benefit in respiratory and cardiac failure. — American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2026
Nurse-led family participatory support intervention on clinical outcomes in ICU patients: a prospective quasi-experimental study. — Critical Care 2026
Timing matters: sex differences in treatment limitation decisions in intensive care. — Critical Care 2026
How to optimize brain perfusion and prevent cerebral complications during extracorporeal life support. — Intensive Care Medicine 2026
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June 17, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jun 16, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning major trials of interventions in shock and post-cardiac arrest, new approaches to respiratory management, and crucial insights into ICU outcomes and decision-making. Let's dive in.
We begin with a theme of sobering results for several proposed therapies in shock and post-resuscitation care. In *The New Engla…
This week's papers:
Early high-dose vitamin C for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the VITaCCA randomized clinical trial. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Estimated Effectiveness of 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults. — JAMA internal medicine 2026
Determinants of Delayed Recovery of Consciousness After Analgosedation Discontinuation in the ICU: Insights From Patients With COVID-19 Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure. — Critical care medicine 2026
Airway Occlusions to Measure Inspiratory Effort, Respiratory Drive, and Lung Mechanics During Noninvasive Ventilation. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
Patient versus surrogate decision making for life sustaining treatment and terminal care intensity. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
Sodium Bicarbonate for Critically Ill Adults with Metabolic Acidosis and Shock. — The New England journal of medicine 2026
Gastric Residual Volume Assessment in Critically Ill Children: The GASTRIC-PICU Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026
Defining disease stability in COPD: Evidence from Phase 3 clinical trials. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
HA-330 hemoadsorption in septic shock requiring high-dose norepinephrine: a multicenter randomized controlled trial (CLEANSE). — Critical care (London, England) 2026
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June 10, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jun 9, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advances in point-of-care ultrasound, a re-evaluation of common ICU therapies, and new perspectives on lung injury and population health. Let's dive in.
We begin this week with a focus on point-of-care ultrasound, a tool that continues to expand its role at the bedside. The journal *Intensive Care Medicine*…
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Electronic cigarette use after smoking cessation and lung cancer risk. — Nature medicine 2026
International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound : 2025 focused update of the 2012 recommendations. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Patient blood management in general intensive care patients. — Intensive care medicine 2026
Continuing Vs. Withholding Home Beta-Blockers at Admission for Suspected Infection: A Target Trial Emulation. — Critical care medicine 2026
The effects of mechanical ventilation during v-a ecmo support: a systematic review. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Performance of Age-Adjusted Whole Genome Sequencing Telomere Length in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of the Venous Excess Ultrasound Grading System: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — Critical care medicine 2026
Comparison of Intensive Versus Conventional Glycemic Control Targets: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the 2024 Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Glycemic Control for Critically Ill Adults. — Critical care medicine 2026
Effects of compulsory and free basic education policies and COVID-19-related educational disruptions on offspring mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a quasi-experimental and modelling study. — The Lancet. Global health 2026
Is acute respiratory distress syndrome a preventable disease? — Intensive care medicine 2026
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June 06, 2026This Week in Critical Care — Jun 6, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning the management of sepsis and shock, advances in respiratory failure, and the integration of new technologies into ICU operations. Let's dive in.
We begin with a deep dive into sepsis and shock, a perennial challenge in the ICU. A major paper in Critical Care Medicine helps us define the sickest of these pat…
This week's papers:
Is postoperative ARDS different from medical ARDS? — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Integrated comprehensive assessment for predicting weaning success in difficult-to-wean critically ill patients: the WEAN-US study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Impact of higher versus lower PEEP on mortality in mechanically ventilated patients with Sepsis - A multicenter, multi-cohort observational analysis. — Journal of critical care 2026
Tocilizumab Therapy in Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Pediatric Septic Shock: A Comparative Pilot Study. — Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 2026
Multimodal Perfusion Assessment in Hemodynamically Unstable Patients: A Concise Definitive Review. — Critical care medicine 2026
Implementation of a Remote Respiratory Therapy in a Donor Center ICU Using a Telecritical Care Platform. — Critical care medicine 2026
Incidence and Outcomes of Refractory Septic Shock per Consensus Clinical Criteria: A Multicohort Retrospective Study. — Critical care medicine 2026
Hyperlactatemia in sepsis and shock: a renal metabolic perspective. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Toll-like receptor 5 protects against murine lung fibrosis through reduced dysbiosis, anddeficiency is associated with human IPF. — Science translational medicine 2026
Operational Integration and Temporal Validation of a Continuously Deployed ICU Prediction Model. — Critical care medicine 2026
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May 28, 2026This Week in Critical Care — May 28, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning cardiovascular dynamics in the ICU, the long-term systemic effects of critical illness, and practical questions around ICU procedures and interventions. Let's dive in.
We start this week with a focus on cardiovascular hemodynamics, with three papers examining how we assess and phenotype shock and arrhythmias…
This week's papers:
Magnesium Sulfate to Prevent Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — Critical care medicine 2026
Reducing Physical Restraint in the ICU: Multicenter Phase II Randomized Trial of a Novel Device Versus Traditional Wrist Restraints. — Critical care medicine 2026
US Air Quality Index and respiratory health outcomes: background, knowledge gaps, and research prioritization. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
Time course of energy expenditure in persistent critical illness: a prospective multicentre study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Human haematopoietic stem cells remember inflammatory stress. — Nature 2026
Airway management with a supraglottic airway device during resuscitation by basic life support providers: a systematic review. — Resuscitation 2026
Sequential chemo-immunotherapy followed by standard versus reduced thoracic radiotherapy for older and/or frail stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A randomized open-label cohort trial. — PLoS medicine 2026
Visual Right Ventricular Assessment in ICU: A Multicenter International Study. — Critical care medicine 2026
Cardiovascular Subphenotypes in Sepsis. — Critical care medicine 2026
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May 21, 2026This Week in Critical Care — May 21, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advanced bedside diagnostics, mechanical ventilation, novel therapies for lung disease, and systems-level innovations in resuscitation and artificial intelligence. Let's dive in.
Bedside Diagnostics for Pulmonary Embolism
When a patient with suspected pulmonary embolism is too hemodynamically unstable for…
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Point-of-care ultrasound in hemodynamically unstable pulmonary embolism. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
The FaciLItated hospital-based ECPR via Helicopter Transport (FLIGHT-to-ECPR) study. — Resuscitation 2026
Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to Monitor Inspiratory Muscle Effort and Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony During Mechanical Ventilation. — Critical care medicine 2026
Accuracy of electrical impedance tomography to detect perfusion defects in pulmonary embolism. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Mitochondrial L-2-hydroxyglutarate is a physiological signalling metabolite. — Nature 2026
Sotatercept reduces bone morphogenetic protein signaling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. — Science translational medicine 2026
The Association Between Mechanical Power and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — Critical care medicine 2026
Dupilumab in COPD: A Pooled Analysis of Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Systemic Corticosteroid Use. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026
Multi-source data integration through pooling and transfer learning improves generalizability and specialization of deep learning models for ICU mortality and length of stay prediction: a four-database external validation study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
Safety and efficacy of astegolimab for COPD with frequent exacerbations regardless of baseline blood eosinophil counts (ALIENTO and ARNASA): randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2b and 3 trials. — Lancet (London, England) 2026
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How many episodes does AudioScholar Critical Care Weekly have?

The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.