Contemporary management of aneurysmal SAH
🔍epidemiology
🪜clinical presentation & severity scales
⏱️early complications before aneurysm securing
🩸rebleeding
💧hydrocephalus
🧠 aneurysm treatment
🏥 #ICU
⚠️intra/extracranial complications
🔮outcomes
🔓 bit.ly/3VSmCG8

Today, we are especially honored to inaugurate The Ron Gottesman Division of Pediatric Critical Medicine in recognition of a giant in #PedsICU - a clinician, leader, teacher and mentor Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants Centre universitaire de santé McGill

Cedric
Sharon Cave
2020

Electrical Impedance Tomography to Monitor Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

🔗 bit.ly/4coD9Yv

Clinical puzzle for medical trainees.

Patient has two blood gasses done from a femoral and radial arterial line within 2 minutes of each other.

What are three possibilities to account for this?

#medtwitter #foamed #foamcc

Great #PedsICU research on display at McMaster University Department of Pediatrics McMaster Child Health Research #MCHRD2024 . Patient-reported outcome measures, post-PICU follow-up clinics, and Liber8 bundle implementation... Congrats to our awesome trainees on their projects!
Karen Choong Melissa Parker

The end of a HFOV era or birth of a new one?! Excited to see what comes of this!

🎯 Capillary refill time in septic shock: useful monitoring to tailor fluids/vasoactives administration & to disclose macro/microcirculatory coupling? Training & standardization of acquisition technique mandatory to accurately measure
#FOAMcc on Intensive Care Medicine
🔓bit.ly/3TeW92A

#CritCare #OpenAccess

Pathophysiology of acute lung injury in patients with acute brain injury: the triple-hit hypothesis

Read the full article: ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Jean-Louis Vincent ISICEM #FOAMed #FOAMcc

A research study co-authored by Dr. Karen Choong (Karen Choong) & pediatric intensivists across Canada for @CCCTG described the experiences and impact of restricted family presence on families of critically ill children for future policy and practice.

#PICU #PedsICU #Research

🚨Did you miss the initial #WFPICCS24 abstract/case submission call out?
🌟No worries... late-breakers submission now open!

WFPICCS

At today’s PCCM academic half-day, we are fortunate to have Samara Zavalkoff educating fellows, NPs and attendings about the realities of gender equity in #PedsICU , including barriers, problems when it’s not present, and the benefits when it is (incl clinical care & academic)

Are routine chest radiographs still indicated after central line insertion? Short Answer: Nope. Huge thx ⁦Intensive Care Society 💙⁩ & reviewers. Feel free to disagree- it’s how we learn. Kudos ⁦Brian Buchanan⁩ ⁦Jean Deschamps⁩ ⁦Lazercats⁩ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

🎺 Soon-to-be PCCM Pittsburgh faculty and current NIH T32 research fellow #CaitMcNamara has 2 new Pubs: Children with Abusive Head Trauma have worse long term outcomes and MODS vs Accidental #TBI
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38088760/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38062303/

Airway opening pressure maneuver to detect airway closure in mechanically ventilated #pediatric pts. Innovative interdisciplinary research!
SickKids Critical Care Medicine SK Resp Therapy Luciana Rodriguez Guerineau Katherine Reise Mark Todd AnneMarieGuerguerian Laurent Brochard

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our February #HPEScholarSpotlight features Dr. Katherine Prowse! Dr. Prowse is and Assistant Clinic Professor and Pediatric Gastroenterologist at McMaster University Department of Pediatrics. Her research supports the establishment of the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Transition Clinic.

Nice work from Children's Hospital’s Mark Weber Charlotte Woods-Hill et al looking at ethanol locks (with short dwell times) to salvage central lines after #CLABSI in #PedsICU - saving these lines can be a big deal for our patients!

🔬Hey, McMaster Health Sciences learners, don't forget to register for the Feb. 15 #MCHRD prep workshop: 'How to Create a Research Poster' led by research expert, Elizabeth Gunn (@ElizabethABGunn). ⬇️

fhspeds.mcmaster.ca/pedsCapOne/sur…

#MCHRD 2024 #ChildHealth

🔬 Researchers from McMaster University Department of Pediatrics
have been awarded $3M+ from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s (@CIHR_IRSC) Fall 2023 Grant competition. 🚀

pediatrics.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/pediatrics-rec…

#Research #PeopleofPediatrics

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of our newest member, Dr Christina Maratta. An alum of our #PedsICU fellowship, Christina returns to focus on improving long-term patient / family outcomes & understanding impact of social determinants of health in critical care