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Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2025

The first trials for the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2025 have started to be announced.

Join us in June to hear the best critical care trials in the world.

added January 8th

The Critical Care Reviews Meeting is a focused trials meeting. We host the results of the most impactful and important critical care trials in the world. In 2024, between our Belfast and Melbourne meetings, we hosted 19 major trial results, plus many accompanying systematic reviews and meta analyses.

Many of these presentations were in conjunction with simultaneous publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and NEJM Evidence.

If you haven't been yet, check out our video - there's no other meeting like it.

Trial Announcements

updated January 10th

PREOXI presentation at CCR24

Jonathan Casey and Kevin Gibbs present the results of the PREOXI trial at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024, in Titanic Belfast. PREOXI investigated non-invasive ventilation for preoxygenation in emergency intubation in the critically ill.

Yonathan Freund delivers an independent editorial. Catriona Kelly chairs a panel discussion with Anthony Gordon, Sheila Myatra, Victoria Cornelius and Jan Gunst.

PREOXI was simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

PREOXI Paper

added January 9th

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Paper of the Day

Friday, January 10th

Meyfroidt. Management of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: an update for the intensivist. Intensive Care Med 2022;48:649–666

Join us to read one paper per day and cover the spectrum of critical care across 2024. Previous papers of the day are available here.

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Narrative Review

Nagesh. Management of gastrointestinal bleed in the intensive care setting, an updated literature review. World J Crit Care Med 2025;2025;14(1):101639

added January 8th

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Guideline

Management of Central Airway Obstruction. An American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline. Chest 2025;167(1):283-295

added January 8th

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DEFENDER presentation at CCR24

Profs Caio Tavares and Fernando Zampieri present the results of the DEFENDER trial at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024, in Titanic Belfast.

DEFENDER investigated the efficacy of dapagliflozin in the critically ill.

Danny McAuley delivers an independent editorial and Christopher Seymour chairs a panel discussion between Simon Finfer, Lennie Derde, Marion Campbell and Catherine McKenzie.

DEFENDER was simultaneously published in JAMA.

DEFENDER Paper

added January 7th

Narrative Review

Wong. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and pregnancy. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 2024;38(3):293-301

added January 8th

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Editorial

Newcombe. What’s new: the Glasgow Coma Scale at 50—evolution and future directions. Intensive Care Med 2025;epublished January 7th

added January 7th

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Editorial

Tuinman. How we use ultrasound in the management of weaning from mechanical ventilation. Intensive Care Med 2025;epublished January 7th

added January 7th

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REVISE presentation at CCR24

Deborah Cook and Adam Deane present the results of the REVISE trial, plus an accompanying systematic review and meta analysis, at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024, in Titanic Belfast.

REVISE investigates the efficacy of stress ulcer prophylaxis with pantoprazole in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients.

Kathy Rowan delivers an editorial and Darren Taichman chairs a panel discussion between David Harrison, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Madiha Hasmi and Danny McAuley.

REVISE was simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The SRMA was simultaneously published in NEJM Evidence.

REVISE Paper

SRMA

added January 6th