Critical Care Literature, Curated
The week’s most important critical care research.
Twenty-six high-impact journals across critical care, pulmonary, cardiac, anesthesia, and healthcare leadership — NEJM, JAMA, The Lancet, AJRCCM, CCM, CHEST, ICM, Circulation, JACC, BMJ Leader, and more — auto-tagged by the ICCN editorial calendar. Refreshed every six hours.
60 articles
This Month in Anesthesiology [November 2025 issue]: Erratum
Sensory-selective Peripheral and Neuraxial Nerve Blockade with 2',6'-Pipecoloxylidide: Erratum
Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy: Implications for Obstetric Anesthesia: Erratum
Moving the Goalposts: An Evidence-based Updated Framework for Postanesthesia Apnea Risk in Neonates and Infants
How Should America Pay for Anesthesia?
Improving Propofol Safety
Chronic Pain and Dementia/Cognitive Decline Risk: Reply
Chronic Pain and Dementia/Cognitive Decline Risk: Comment
Spatial Analysis of Preoperative Malnutrition: A Geographic Targeting Framework for Nutrition Intervention
Ancient Mitochondrial Genetic Variant, Modern-day Pandora's Box
Pediatric Anesthesia and Respiratory Complications: Reply
Pediatric Anesthesia and Respiratory Complications: Comment
Presynaptic Protein Gene and General Anesthesia: Reply
Presynaptic Protein Gene and General Anesthesia: Comment
Urine-guided Hydration and Kidney Injury: Comment
Urine-guided Hydration and Kidney Injury: Comment
Urine-guided Hydration and Kidney Injury: Reply
Effect of Analgesics on Nerve Excitability: Comment
Effect of Analgesics on Nerve Excitability: Reply
Adolescent Cardiorespiratory Fitness and the Trade-Off Between Atrial Fibrillation Risk and Cardiovascular Benefits: A Nationwide Sibling-Controlled Cohort Study
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Appropriate Patient Selection and Triage: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
Accuracy of electrical impedance tomography to detect perfusion defects in pulmonary embolism
Background Methods Results Conclusions
Costs and complications of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy in Australia and New Zealand
Background Methods Results Conclusions
Hantavirus Outbreak: First Test of US Public Health Response After WHO Withdrawal
Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Plus Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury
Pain
The Obesity Epidemic at a Crossroads: Progress and Pitfalls
Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Plus Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury-Reply
Primary Care as a Public Utility: The Case for a Common Fund
Weight Loss in Older Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Research Summary
A New Era in Dementia-Advances in Diagnostic Blood Tests, Novel Drugs, and the Power of Lifestyle Changes: A Healthy Dialogue With Gil Rabinovici
Does Weight Loss Prevent Atrial Fibrillation?
Lifestyle Modification and Incretin-Based Therapy for Obesity
Pain and Poetry: "Conversing With a Clown"
Weight Loss in Older Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: The LOSE-AF Randomized Clinical Trial
Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Plus Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury
Persistent Dyspnea in COVID-19 Survivors without Structural Cardiopulmonary Disease: Multidimensional Phenotyping at 4 Years
Establishing Scope of Practice: National Trends in Tracheobronchial Stenting for Central Airway Obstruction
Effects of the ABCDEF Bundle on Delirium, Function, and Quality of Life in Australian ICU Patients: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Observational Comparative Research in Cardiovascular and Brain Health and Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
An Unfinished ANTHEM: Ethics, Evidence, and Early Trial Termination
Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction: The ANTHEM-HFrEF Trial
Sex and Age Specific Genetic Risk Across the Dilated and Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy Spectrum: Insights From the SHaRe Registry
Left Ventricular Unloading in STEMI: From Bench to Bedside and Back Again
Improving Cardiology Care Within Constrained and Distinctive Health Care Systems
When Trials Stop Prematurely: Transparency, Governance, and Our Responsibility to Patients
Chronic PM(2.5) Exposure Is Associated With Invasively Assessed Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction
Charting New Territories in Cardiac Care Intensive Care Rehabilitation and the Enduring Impact on Post-Acute Cardiac Event Outcomes
Inflammation and endothelium after cardiac arrest: a complex relationship
Cumulative exposure to factor XIII deficiency during veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a prospective cohort study
On Mortality
Making Nothing Happen, in Medicine and Poetry
CDC Warns About Medetomidine in the US Illegal Fentanyl Supply
Oral Semaglutide Sustains Long-Term CVD Risk Factor Reductions
Monthly Insulin Price Cap for Private Insurance Proposed
Higher Meat Consumption Tied to Better Cognitive Outcomes in Some Genotypes
Poor Sense of Smell Linked to Physical Decline in Older Adults
Reply to Hong and Shu, and to Deng and Liu
Methodological Considerations for Quantitative Computed Tomography-Based Prognosis in Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease
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