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Foundational Trials Collection

Introducing our latest resource – Foundational Trials in Critical Care. Replacing our old Top 100 Trials, this new collection presents the trials that underpin modern intensive care practice.

All trials are fully appraised in the same systematic manner, allowing clinicians to easily follow every trial. If you are new to critical care, need a resource to guide those new to the field, or just want to refresh your knowledge, then enjoy reading our Foundational Trials Collection.

We’ll release one most days, starting with arguably the most impactful trial of them all – ARMA.

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CCR Down Under 2025


Registration has opened for CCR Down Under in Melbourne, on December 9th and 10th, again at the Edge in Federation Square.

We aim to bring another set of fantastic international critical care trials to Australia. If you are interested in the science underlying clinical practice, this is the meeting for you.

We're delighted to be partnering once again with the Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre, and this year, with Monash University.

If you missed the presentations last December, the presentations of the so far published trials are available here.


CCR Content


Blood in a syringe following an upper GI bleed

Paper of the Day

Saturday, July 5th

Alali. An update on the management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Gastroenterol Rep 2023;11:goad011

Join us to read one paper per day and cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025. Previous papers of the day are available here.

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Bedside vial of dexmedetomidine

Foundational Trials

The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. Ventilation with Lower Tidal Volumes as Compared with Traditional Tidal Volumes for Acute Lung Injury and the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1301-1308

We start a new section looking at the foundation trials in critical care and start with probably the most important trial yet in the field.

added July 2nd

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Newsletter 707

Critical Care Reviews Newsletter 707, bringing you the best critical care research and open access articles for the week June 23rd to 29th.

Subscriptions are available to individuals and departments.

added June 30th


CCR Meeting Talks


After 14 meetings, we have a huge collection of superb presentations. We'll showcase them here, one at a time.

CCR25


John Hinds Lecture

Prof John Myburgh delivers a remarkable John Hinds Lecture at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2025, titled Ukuthola Ubuhle