Pearls • Physiologic instability is a key factor in the prediction of short-term outcomes in critically ill patients. • Prediction tools are central to controlling for severity of illness in…
Pearls • Clinical trials require appropriate design, conduct, and analysis in order to provide valid, unbiased, and reliable results that will be useful to clinicians. • Trial design is more…
Pearls • Emergency mass critical care (EMCC) is limited, essential critical care during disasters when intensive care demands surpass resources. • Pediatric, neonatal, and cardiac intensivists must be engaged with…
Pearls • The practice of pediatric critical care medicine requires a broad knowledge base and skill set that necessitates lifelong learning throughout an intensivist’s career to achieve mastery. • Based…
Pearls • Global child mortality is declining due to decreasing poverty and increasing basic medical care access and quality. • Given the large burden and high mortality of critical illness…
Pearls • A learning healthcare system occurs when patient care, interdisciplinary education, and clinical research are so integrated and intercalated that they are basically inseparable. Each element informs and benefits…
Pearls • As part of the multiprofessional team of dedicated intensive care experts, nurses are pivotal in the care of children and families during critical illness. • Building a humanistic…
Pearls • A modern pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) faces constant pressures to implement new clinical care practices, introduce new equipment, or assimilate new systems in response to rapidly evolving…
Pearls • The medical profession is largely self-regulated by a system composed of state medical licensing boards, subspecialty boards, and credentialing and accrediting bodies. This system confers many benefits on…
Pearls • Patient safety is paramount to outstanding healthcare, and effective communication is critical to sustaining a safe patient care environment. • Strategies and tools to promote situational awareness and…
