Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

Welcome to the 647th Critical Care Reviews Newsletter, bringing you the best critical care research and open access articles from across the medical literature over the past seven days.

The highlights of this week's edition are randomised controlled trials on video versus direct laryngoscopy for urgent intubation of newborn infants & long-term outcomes after treatment of delirium during critical illness with antipsychotics; systematic reviews and meta analyses on adjunctive inhaled colistin and tobramycin for ventilator-associated pneumonia & plasma exchange in acute liver failure; and observational studies on updated prediction models for neurological outcomes at 90 days in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest & ECMO alone versus ECPELLA in patients affected by cardiogenic shock.

There are also guidelines on airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury & recommendations for developing precision medicine in ICU; narrative reviews on critical care in Guillain–Barré syndrome & managing the critically ill patient with cirrhosis; editorials on the cerebral complications of acute respiratory distress syndrome & diuretic therapy in the critically ill patient; and commentaries on hepatorenal syndrome in the intensive care unit & hyponatremia correction rates and mortality.

If you only have time to read one review article this week, try this one on the intra-aortic balloon pump.

Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024

There are now just 5 weeks to the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024. Join us in person or virtually to hear 11 major trial results and some of the best trials published in the past year. The meeting will be freely livestreamed on the CCR website, with an option for paid CPD / CME points.