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NICO presentation at CCR24

Yonathan Freund (Paris) presents the NICO trial at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024 in Titanic Belfast. Sheila Myatra (Mumbai) delivers an independent editorial. The session is chaired by Danny McAuley (Belfast).

The NICO trial investigated non-invasive airway management of patients comatose from acute poisoning.

NICO was previously published in JAMA.

added January 17th



The first trials for the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2025 have started to be announced.

Join us in June to hear the best critical care trials in the world.

The Critical Care Reviews Meeting is a focused trials meeting. We host the results of the most impactful and important critical care trials in the world. In 2024, between our Belfast and Melbourne meetings, we hosted 19 major trial results, plus many accompanying systematic reviews and meta analyses.

Many of these presentations were in conjunction with simultaneous publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and NEJM Evidence.

If you haven't been yet, check out our video - there's no other meeting like it.

Trial Announcements


TTM2 Trial Logo

TTM2 Biomarker

Biomarkers of Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest
PROMIZING Trial Logo

PROMIZING

Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation

NOTACS

Nasal High-Flow Oxygen Therapy after Cardiac Surgery

FLUID

Crystalloid FLUID Choices for Resuscitation of Hospital Patients

UK-ROX

Evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a conservative approach to oxygen therapy for invasively ventilated adults in intensive care

GASTROSAM

Gastroenteritis Rehydration Of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition

TARGET Protein

Augmented Administration of Enteral Protein to Critically Ill Adults

updated January 17th


HEMOTION presentation at CCR24

Alexis Turgeon and Francois Lauzier (both Quebec City) present the results of the HEMOTION trial at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024 in Titanic Belfast. HEMOTION compared liberal with restrictive transfusion thresholds in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury.

The session is chaired by Catriona Kelly (Dublin). John Myburgh (Sydney) delivers an independent editorial. Anthony Gordon (London), Marion Campbell (Aberdeen), Alistair Nichol (Dublin) and Carol Hodgson (Melbourne) contribute to a panel discussion.

HEMOTION was simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

added January 14th


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Newsletter 683

Critical Care Reviews Newsletter 683, bringing you the best critical care research and open access articles for the week January 6th to 12th.

Subscriptions are available to individuals and departments.

added January 14th


PREOXI presentation at CCR24

Jonathan Casey and Kevin Gibbs present the results of the PREOXI trial at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024, in Titanic Belfast. PREOXI investigated non-invasive ventilation for preoxygenation in emergency intubation in the critically ill.

Yonathan Freund delivers an independent editorial. Catriona Kelly chairs a panel discussion with Anthony Gordon, Sheila Myatra, Victoria Cornelius and Jan Gunst.

PREOXI was simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

added January 9th


DEFENDER presentation at CCR24

Profs Caio Tavares and Fernando Zampieri present the results of the DEFENDER trial at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024, in Titanic Belfast.

DEFENDER investigated the efficacy of dapagliflozin in the critically ill.

Danny McAuley delivers an independent editorial and Christopher Seymour chairs a panel discussion between Simon Finfer, Lennie Derde, Marion Campbell and Catherine McKenzie.

DEFENDER was simultaneously published in JAMA.

added January 7th


REVISE presentation at CCR24

Deborah Cook and Adam Deane present the results of the REVISE trial, plus an accompanying systematic review and meta analysis, at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024, in Titanic Belfast.

REVISE investigates the efficacy of stress ulcer prophylaxis with pantoprazole in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients.

Kathy Rowan delivers an editorial and Darren Taichman chairs a panel discussion between David Harrison, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Madiha Hasmi and Danny McAuley.

REVISE was simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The SRMA was simultaneously published in NEJM Evidence.

added January 6th


CCR Down Under 2025

Week of December 8th

Due to the success of CCR Down Under, we're heading back to Melbourne in December 2025 for another 2 day event.

Join us in the Edge, Federation Square, to hear the results of the best critical care trials in the world.

Registration will open in May.

CCR Down Under is run in partnership with The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre.

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