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Critical Care — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed critical care literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

Episodes

  1. 18h ago

    This Week in Critical Care — Jun 16, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning major trials of interventions in shock and post-cardiac arrest, new approaches to respiratory management, and crucial insights into ICU outcomes and decision-ma… This week's papers: 1. Early high-dose vitamin C for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the VITaCCA randomized clinical trial. — Intensive care medicine 2026 2. Estimated Effectiveness of 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults. — JAMA internal medicine 2026 3. Determinants of Delayed Recovery of Consciousness After Analgosedation Discontinuation in the ICU: Insights From Patients With COVID-19 Hypoxemic Respiratory F… — Critical care medicine 2026 4. Airway Occlusions to Measure Inspiratory Effort, Respiratory Drive, and Lung Mechanics During Noninvasive Ventilation. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026 5. Patient versus surrogate decision making for life sustaining treatment and terminal care intensity. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026 6. Sodium Bicarbonate for Critically Ill Adults with Metabolic Acidosis and Shock. — The New England journal of medicine 2026 7. Gastric Residual Volume Assessment in Critically Ill Children: The GASTRIC-PICU Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 8. Defining disease stability in COPD: Evidence from Phase 3 clinical trials. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026 9. HA-330 hemoadsorption in septic shock requiring high-dose norepinephrine: a multicenter randomized controlled trial (CLEANSE). — Critical care (London, England) 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/dr9hybvejb

    12 min

  2. Jun 10

    This Week in Critical Care — Jun 9, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advances in point-of-care ultrasound, a re-evaluation of common ICU therapies, and new perspectives on lung injury and population health. Let's dive in. [PAUS… This week's papers: 1. Electronic cigarette use after smoking cessation and lung cancer risk. — Nature medicine 2026 2. International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound : 2025 focused update of the 2012 recommendations. — Intensive care medicine 2026 3. Patient blood management in general intensive care patients. — Intensive care medicine 2026 4. Continuing Vs. Withholding Home Beta-Blockers at Admission for Suspected Infection: A Target Trial Emulation. — Critical care medicine 2026 5. The effects of mechanical ventilation during v-a ecmo support: a systematic review. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 6. Performance of Age-Adjusted Whole Genome Sequencing Telomere Length in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026 7. Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of the Venous Excess Ultrasound Grading System: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — Critical care medicine 2026 8. Comparison of Intensive Versus Conventional Glycemic Control Targets: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the 2024 Society of Critical Care Medic… — Critical care medicine 2026 9. Effects of compulsory and free basic education policies and COVID-19-related educational disruptions on offspring mortality in low-income and middle-income cou… — The Lancet. Global health 2026 10. Is acute respiratory distress syndrome a preventable disease? — Intensive care medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/cmmdadshxh

    11 min

  3. Jun 6

    This Week in Critical Care — Jun 6, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning the management of sepsis and shock, advances in respiratory failure, and the integration of new technologies into ICU operations. Let's dive in. We begin with… This week's papers: 1. Is postoperative ARDS different from medical ARDS? — Critical care (London, England) 2026 2. Integrated comprehensive assessment for predicting weaning success in difficult-to-wean critically ill patients: the WEAN-US study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 3. Impact of higher versus lower PEEP on mortality in mechanically ventilated patients with Sepsis - A multicenter, multi-cohort observational analysis. — Journal of critical care 2026 4. Tocilizumab Therapy in Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Pediatric Septic Shock: A Comparative Pilot Study. — Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 2026 5. Multimodal Perfusion Assessment in Hemodynamically Unstable Patients: A Concise Definitive Review. — Critical care medicine 2026 6. Implementation of a Remote Respiratory Therapy in a Donor Center ICU Using a Telecritical Care Platform. — Critical care medicine 2026 7. Incidence and Outcomes of Refractory Septic Shock per Consensus Clinical Criteria: A Multicohort Retrospective Study. — Critical care medicine 2026 8. Hyperlactatemia in sepsis and shock: a renal metabolic perspective. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 9. Toll-like receptor 5 protects against murine lung fibrosis through reduced dysbiosis, anddeficiency is associated with human IPF. — Science translational medicine 2026 10. Operational Integration and Temporal Validation of a Continuously Deployed ICU Prediction Model. — Critical care medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/vh6jbvb64x

    11 min

  4. May 28

    This Week in Critical Care — May 28, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning cardiovascular dynamics in the ICU, the long-term systemic effects of critical illness, and practical questions around ICU procedures and interventions. Let's d… This week's papers: 1. Magnesium Sulfate to Prevent Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — Critical care medicine 2026 2. Reducing Physical Restraint in the ICU: Multicenter Phase II Randomized Trial of a Novel Device Versus Traditional Wrist Restraints. — Critical care medicine 2026 3. US Air Quality Index and respiratory health outcomes: background, knowledge gaps, and research prioritization. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026 4. Time course of energy expenditure in persistent critical illness: a prospective multicentre study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 5. Human haematopoietic stem cells remember inflammatory stress. — Nature 2026 6. Airway management with a supraglottic airway device during resuscitation by basic life support providers: a systematic review. — Resuscitation 2026 7. Sequential chemo-immunotherapy followed by standard versus reduced thoracic radiotherapy for older and/or frail stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A randomi… — PLoS medicine 2026 8. Visual Right Ventricular Assessment in ICU: A Multicenter International Study. — Critical care medicine 2026 9. Cardiovascular Subphenotypes in Sepsis. — Critical care medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/9bw8dexr4j

    13 min

  5. May 21

    This Week in Critical Care — May 21, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advanced bedside diagnostics, mechanical ventilation, novel therapies for lung disease, and systems-level innovations in resuscitation and artificial intellige… This week's papers: 1. Point-of-care ultrasound in hemodynamically unstable pulmonary embolism. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 2. The FaciLItated hospital-based ECPR via Helicopter Transport (FLIGHT-to-ECPR) study. — Resuscitation 2026 3. Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to Monitor Inspiratory Muscle Effort and Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony During Mechanical Ventilation. — Critical care medicine 2026 4. Accuracy of electrical impedance tomography to detect perfusion defects in pulmonary embolism. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 5. Mitochondrial L-2-hydroxyglutarate is a physiological signalling metabolite. — Nature 2026 6. Sotatercept reduces bone morphogenetic protein signaling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. — Science translational medicine 2026 7. The Association Between Mechanical Power and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analy… — Critical care medicine 2026 8. Dupilumab in COPD: A Pooled Analysis of Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Systemic Corticosteroid Use. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026 9. Multi-source data integration through pooling and transfer learning improves generalizability and specialization of deep learning models for ICU mortality and… — Critical care (London, England) 2026 10. Safety and efficacy of astegolimab for COPD with frequent exacerbations regardless of baseline blood eosinophil counts (ALIENTO and ARNASA): randomised, double… — Lancet (London, England) 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/mfgz83u2ad

    14 min

  6. May 14

    This Week in Critical Care — May 14, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning airway management, neurocritical care, critical care pharmacology, and the ethics and humanism of our practice. Let's dive in. [PAUSE] Airway Management and P… This week's papers: 1. The IMPACT framework for evaluating generative AI in critical care: development and multinational consensus validation. — Annals of intensive care 2026 2. High-flow nasal oxygen therapy via a single-prong cannula interface during bronchoscopy in patients with acute respiratory failure: a two-center, open-label, r… — Annals of intensive care 2026 3. Prevalence, semiology and neuroimaging of movements in comatose adults at risk of death by neurologic criteria: a prospective cohort study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 4. Difficulty Paying for Medical Care: Associations With Psychological Distress and Perceptions of Healthcare Among ICU Caregivers. — Critical care medicine 2026 5. Organ donation after ECPR: ethical challenges and clinical implications. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 6. Intrapulmonary penetration of ceftolozane/tazobactam and ceftazidime/avibactam administered by continuous infusion in critically ill patients with nosocomial p… — Critical care (London, England) 2026 7. Metabolic complications of citrate anticoagulation in continuous renal replacement therapy (crrt): a delphi consensus on indications, monitoring and management. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 8. A platform for near real-time and multiplexed monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and flow in neurocritical care. — Science translational medicine 2026 9. Airway management in critically ill patients with obesity. — Intensive care medicine 2026 10. Induction agents for emergency tracheal intubation in critically ill adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/bpfzvdgvp7

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Critical Care — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed critical care literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

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