Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning airway management, neurocritical care, critical care pharmacology, and the ethics and humanism of our practice. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. The IMPACT framework for evaluating generative AI in critical care: development and multinational consensus validation. — Annals of intensive care 2026
2. High-flow nasal oxygen therapy via a single-prong cannula interface during bronchoscopy in patients with acute respiratory failure: a two-center, open-label, randomized controlled trial. — Annals of intensive care 2026
3. Prevalence, semiology and neuroimaging of movements in comatose adults at risk of death by neurologic criteria: a prospective cohort study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
4. Difficulty Paying for Medical Care: Associations With Psychological Distress and Perceptions of Healthcare Among ICU Caregivers. — Critical care medicine 2026
5. Organ donation after ECPR: ethical challenges and clinical implications. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
6. Intrapulmonary penetration of ceftolozane/tazobactam and ceftazidime/avibactam administered by continuous infusion in critically ill patients with nosocomial pneumonia: a randomized pharmacokinetic trial. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
7. Metabolic complications of citrate anticoagulation in continuous renal replacement therapy (crrt): a delphi consensus on indications, monitoring and management. — Critical care (London, England) 2026
8. A platform for near real-time and multiplexed monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and flow in neurocritical care. — Science translational medicine 2026
9. Airway management in critically ill patients with obesity. — Intensive care medicine 2026
10. Induction agents for emergency tracheal intubation in critically ill adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. — Critical care (London, England) 2026

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