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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

September 5, 2026

Thirty Years of Protecting Patients From a Risk That Never Arrived

We chose antistaphylococcal penicillins over cefazolin for serious MSSA bacteraemia because of a laboratory phenomenon.

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Saturday · General Critical Care

August 29, 2026

Three Trials Told Us It Was Never the Device

For fifteen years the field tried to keep immunocompromised patients with respiratory failure off the ventilator by finding a better way to deliver oxygen.

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Saturday · General Critical Care

August 22, 2026

The Trial Passed. Read the Table Anyway.

CHIPS met its non-inferiority criterion for 21-day cold-stored platelets with better than 99.9 percent posterior probability.

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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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