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Episode 57! We were excited to have on this episode Dr. Adam Wright who is a PhD in Bioinformatics to discuss SCREEN or "Electronic Sepsis Screening Among Patients Admitted to Hospital Wards: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial" published by Arabi et al in JAMA 2024 and presented at the CCR Down Under Conference. A long episode but a lot of good discussion

SCREEN (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39658862/
SCREEN (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2828069

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Episode 56! In this episode we spend a few minutes talking about making decisions on ECMO initiation but spend most of the episode talking about ADAPT-Sepsis or "Biomarker-Guided Antibiotic Duration for Hospitalized Patients
With Suspected Sepsis" published by Dark et al in JAMA 2024 and presented at the CCR Down Under Conference.

ADAPT-Sepsis (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39652885/
ADAPT-Sepsis (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2828036

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Episode 55 and Happy New Year! In this episode we talk broad strokes about the CCR Down Under Conference and the trials that were presented, then Todd and Eddie go over a bunch of articles from the year 2024 that they didn't have time to go over or want to re-emphasize for whatever reason. Big show and we hope you enjoy!

TIGHT K: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39215972/
PROPHY VAP: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38262428/
REVISE: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38875111/
Point (withdrawal of ECMO): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39663030/
Counterpoint: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39663031/
DanGer SHOCK: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38587239/
Intubation in physiologic difficult airway guidelines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39162823/

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Episode 54! In this episode we talk about antibiotic duration in bacteremia (BALANCE) and also antibiotic duration in Pseudomonas Ventilator associated pneumonia (iDIAPASON). 

BALANCE (NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2404991
BALANCE (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39565030/

iDIAPASON (ICM): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-022-06690-5
iDIAPASON (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35552788/

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Episode 53! In this episode we talk about access in patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest. Both articles are similar so we talk in depth about IVIO and then bringing PARAMEDIC-3 to round out our discussion. A good acronym discussion too, don't miss it!

IVIO (NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2407616
IVIO (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39480221/

PARAMEDIC-3 (NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2407780
PARAMEDIC-3 (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39480216/

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Episode 52! In this episode we talk about fevers in acute neurologic injury and double that up with talking about low tidal volume ventilation in patients with neurologic injury

INTREPID (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2824088
INTREPID (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39320879/

PROLABI (Blue): https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.202402-0375OC
PROLABI (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39288368/

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We are (were) LIVE at ACNP Critical Care Bootcamp 2024! Thank you to the organizers of the conference for inviting us do a live show and thank you to everyone who came out to listen! We talk about the NONSEDA trial or "Nonsedation or Light Sedation in Critically Ill, Mechanically Ventilated Patients" by Olsen et al published in the New England Journal of Medicine February 2020

NONSEDA (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32068366/
NONSEDA (NEJM): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1906759

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Episode 50! In this episode we talk about SBT frequency and "Frequency of Screening and Spontaneous Breathing Trial Techniques" by Burns et al from JAMA 2024 that was released with the ESICM conference. In our second segment, instead of another trial we talk a little bit about the IV fluid shortage happening in the United States.

FAST (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2824928
FAST (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39382222/

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We are LIVE at CHEST2024! Thank you to the organizers of the conference for inviting us do a live show and thank you to everyone who came out to listen! We talk about a few articles that were recently published in CHEST - "Prophylactic Minocycline for Delirium in Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial" published by Dal-Pizzol et al and then "Comparative Effectiveness of Amiodarone and Lidocaine for the Treatment of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest" by Wagner et al.

We then touch briefly on some articles being presented later at the conference which we might cover soon (stay tuned)!

Minocycline for Delirium (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38043911/
Minocycline for Delirium (CHEST): https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(23)05833-6/abstract
Amio vs Lido (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36332663/
Amio vs lido (CHEST): https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(22)04039-9/abstract

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Episode 48! In this episode we talk about the long term effects of ICU visitation policies on families. 

Long Term Outcomes of Visitation (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39172240/
Long Term Outcomes of Visitation (ICM): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-024-07577-3
Outcomes of Visitation (pubmed): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31310297/
Outcomes of Visitation (JAMA): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2738289

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