PCCM Audio Summary - January 2025

The January 2025 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine is now solely digital. The featured original research articles cover the reliability of the Bleeding Assessment Scale in Critically Ill Children (BASIC), contribution of caloric support after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, and timing of pediatric palliative care consultation with end-of-life care in patients with advanced heart disease. There are a multitude of clinical investigations, including mechanical thromboprophylaxis for hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism in adolescents, implementation of a targeted temperature management bundle using quality improvement methodology, implementation science to assess barriers to sedation goals, prevalence of iron deficiency in children during and after a pediatric intensive care unit stay, development and preliminary testing of a withdrawal assessment tool for alpha-2 agonists, and assessment of serum phosphorus and hypophosphatemia in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus receiving treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis. Two trials are highlighted this month—one on a pilot study comparing bivalirudin with unfractionated heparin in patients undergoing pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and one outlining the Catheter-Related Early Thromboprophylaxis with Enoxaparin (CRETE) protocol.

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