Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Journal

PCCM is the first scientific, peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on pediatric critical care and critical care neonatology.

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) is internationally recognized as a leading critical care journal. PCCM presents practitioners with clinical breakthroughs that lead to better patient care for critically ill and injured patients. Launched in July 2000, it is a growing publication that is distributed monthly. PCCM is an official publication of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS).

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View critical content from the latest issue of PCCM! Editor-in-Chief Robert C. Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, created this brief video to highlight the must-read articles in this month's issue.

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PCCM Audio Summary - June 2025

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The June 2025 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) features original research articles investigating outcomes of hypoxemic respiratory failure in mechanically ventilated children, obstacles to pediatric organ donation, and early use of sodium bicarbonate in in-hospital cardiac arrest. Clinical investigation articles offer insights on augmented renal clearance in sepsis, in-hospital mortality in mechanically ventilated patients with severe dengue fever, and enteral nutrition for noninvasively ventilated patients in the pediatric intensive care unit. The PCCM trial compares acute kidney injury biomarkers in septic shock, and there are two research letters, one evaluating validation of the Phoenix Sepsis Score and one about diversity engagement of pediatric critical care medicine fellows. There is also an informative piece explaining the benefits of using area under the precision-recall curve and a compelling PCCM narrative.

PCCM Podcasts

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SCCM Pod-537 PCCM: Gender Gaps in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Careers

Host Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNC-AC, CCRN, FCCM, welcomes Kitman Wai, MD, and Sonali Basu, MD, to discuss the article, “Evolution of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Physicians Clinical and...

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SCCM Pod-532 PCCM: Understanding Quality-of-Life Risks in PARDS Survivors

Host Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, welcomes Elizabeth Y. Killien, MD, MPH, to discuss pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS).

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SCCM Pod-530 PCCM: Essential Communication in Pediatric Critical Care Transfers

Host Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNC-AC, CCRN, FCCM, sits down with Christina L. Cifra, MD, MS, to discuss communication strategies for interfacility transfers to the pediatric intensive care unit (P...

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Robert C. Tasker, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Tasker is a leader in pediatric critical care. He serves as the founding chair in neurocritical care and senior associate staff physician in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. As a clinical academic, he is a professor of anesthesia (pediatrics) at Harvard Medical School, with a fellowship at Selwyn College, Cambridge (UK). He was selected to serve as editor-in-chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine because of his extensive editorial expertise and international experience. He has more than 20 years of experience as an editorial associate for other academic medical journals, including Intensive Care Medicine, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Critical Care, and Current Opinion in Pediatrics. He served as an associate editor and senior associate editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine before becoming editor-in-chief.

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