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General Critical Care & Controversies

Every Saturday: the topics that don’t fit neat categories.

Critical care is interdisciplinary by definition. Saturdays bring the topics that resist categorization — the practice-shaping controversies, the case studies, the cross-cutting questions that span every track.

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What This Track Covers

Topics on the schedule.

Transfusion thresholds in the ICU
Infection prevention & antimicrobial resistance
Electrolyte & acid-base mastery
Practice-changing case studies
ICU controversies (steroids, statins, etc.)
Nutrition in critical illness
Ethics & goals-of-care conversations

Latest From This Track

Recent Saturday editions.

Saturday · General Critical Care

July 25, 2026

When Restraint Became the Intervention: Twenty-Five Years of Landmark Trials in Critical Care Nephrology

A chronological journey from the death of the renal-dose dopamine myth (2000) to the newest bicarbonate and prevention trials of 2025, and what each one changed at the bedside for…

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Saturday · General Critical Care

July 18, 2026

You Can Save the Life and Lose the Patient: What 23 Landmark Neurocritical Care Trials Actually Proved

The interventions that work in the injured brain act on a mechanism inside a time window.

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Saturday · General Critical Care

July 11, 2026

The Circulatory Graveyard: What Thirty Years of Hemodynamic Trials Actually Proved, and Why the Answer Was Almost Always Less

A synthesis of 25 landmark circulatory trials from BICKELL in 1994 to EVERDAC and FLUID in 2025.

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A Note from the Founder

Why Saturdays matter.

Some of the most important questions in critical care are the ones that span specialties — the ones that resist a single discipline’s framing. Saturdays exist for those questions.

— Javier Amador-Castaneda, BHS, RRT, FCCM, PNAP

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