Pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is an increasingly ultilized, life-saving
technology with high mortality and morbidity. A complex technology employed urgently or …

Pediatric asthma is a common cause of emergency department visits and hospital
admissions. Whereas most patients respond well to standard pharmacologic treatments …

Rationale: Over 20,000 children are hospitalized in the United States for asthma every year.
Although initial treatment guidelines are well established, there is a lack of high-quality …

Objective: To evaluate the association of parenteral epinephrine and terbutaline use on
ventilatory support in children admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with critical asthma in …

Medicine (PCCM); what a challenge, and what a triumph (1, 2). From July 2000 to July 2024,
there is no doubt that clinical research in our field has tremendously advanced: our specialty …

Asthma is a complex genetic and environmental disease, which in its acute, severe form—
status asthmaticus—results in profound abnormality in lung mechanics. There is a critical …

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) contains a great deal of research that uses large,
multicenter, curated datasets. Three resources stand out because they are frequently …

Objective To develop a set of pediatric acute care hospital referral regions for use in
studying pediatric acute care delivery and test their utility relative to other regional systems …

Rationale The high‐flow nasal cannula (HFNC) device is commonly used to treat pediatric
severe acute asthma. However, there is little evidence regarding its effectiveness in real …

Introduction Despite improvements in long‐term asthma treatment, an increasing number of
children are being hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) for asthma. The main …