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2024 ICU Heroes Award Winners

Independence Day is supposed to be a day of celebration, but for Cooper Roberts and Ian Azeredo, it was life changing. If it were not for their respective critical care teams, it would have been life ending. Today, both Cooper and Ian are alive and doing well with the help of their care teams, family, and fighting spirit. They are all the recipients of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) ICU Heroes Award, which recognizes an ICU patient and family and the multidisciplinary team that delivered the care.


2023 ICU Heroes Award Winners: Perseverance and Compassion Amid the Chaos

Fifteen-year-old Rowen Cartmill played basketball for Westside Christian High School’s freshman team on January 8, 2022. Three days later, he was in the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) at Randall Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon, intubated, sedated, and paralyzed, and on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).