Late-Breaking Studies Affecting Patient Outcomes II

The 2024 Critical Care Congress featured sessions on a record-breaking number of new journal articles, guidelines, and research from Critical Care Medicine and other leading medical journals. This session, recorded Tuesday, January 23, featured four late-breaking articles from four prominent journals.

Timely Cessation of Proton Pump Inhibitors in Critically Ill Patients Impacts Morbidity and Mortality: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study
Critical Care Medicine

Individualised, Short-Course Antibiotic Treatment Versus Usual Long-Course Treatment for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (REGARD-VAP): A Multicentre, Individually Randomised, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Trial
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Immunomodulatory Therapy in Children with Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS, MIS-C; RECOVERY): A Randomised, Controlled, Open-Label, Platform Trial
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Resuscitation With Vitamin C, Hydrocortisone, and Thiamin in Children With Septic Shock: A Multicenter Randomized Pilot Study
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine