PCCM Audio Summary – October 2024

The October 2024 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) features diverse articles, including delirium screening in critically ill children, the evolution of PCCM physician clinical and academic profiles by gender, intensity of medical interventions at the end of life, and analysis of ethnicity’s role in measuring oxygen saturations. Clinical investigations examined a simulation-based trial and clinician outcomes using an aerosol box to reduce healthcare worker contamination during procedures, the optimal chest compression point during pediatric CPR, pancreatic stone protein as a sepsis biomarker, association of new morbidities and pediatric intensive care unit readmission, and extracorporeal CPR use among children with heart disease. Brief reports focused on perspectives of parents with critically ill children. The PCCM narrative this month is one we can all relate to when experiencing the death of a patient.

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