ACIOS Study
Paper
Essential Emergency & Critical Care Project
Key Findings
- 1 in 8 (12.5%) hospital inpatients are critically ill
- 69% of the critically ill are treated in general wards (not in HDUs or ICUs)
- 56% are not receiving EECC
- 21% die within 7 days (compared to just 2.7% of non critically ill patients)


Paper of the Day
Friday, February 28th
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.

Guidelines

Narrative Review
added February 27th

Narrative Review
added February 27th

Randomised Controlled Trial

Randomised Controlled Trial

Observational Study

Guidelines
added February 25th

Narrative Review
added February 25th
John Hinds Lecture 2025
"Ukuthola ubuhle"

Prof John Myburgh
Sydney, Australia
Dr John Hinds
Dr John Hinds was a remarkable doctor and person. He worked as a prehospital physician, providing medical cover to professional motorbike road races, as well as being an intensivist and anaesthetist at Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Sadly, in 2015, John died whilst on duty at the Skerries 100 Road Race in Dublin. He leaves a legacy of improved trauma care, not just in Northern Ireland, but with a vision and passion that had impact worldwide through his lectures and talks. Locally, he was one of the most prominent voices campaigning for a HEMS service, which is now established and highly successful.
Every year at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting, we remember our friend and colleague with the John Hinds Lecture, delivered by a world leading critical care clinician. The 2025 edition will be delivered by Prof John Myburgh, another impressive individual with a remarkable story to tell. The lecture is titled "Ukuthola ubuhle".

Dr John Hinds
1980 - 2015
added February 21st

Narrative Review
Leon. The Role of Selected Adjuncts in the Management of the Bleeding Trauma Patient: Calcium and Vasopressin. Curr Anesthesiol Rep 2025;15:32
added February 25th

Newsletter 689
Critical Care Reviews Newsletter 689, bringing you the best critical care research and open access articles for the week January 17th to 23rd.
Subscriptions are available to individuals and departments.
added February 23rd

Narrative Review
added February 17th

Guidelines
added February 16th

Guideline

Commentary
added February 11th

Narrative Review
added February 10th

Guideline
added February 10th

Narrative Review
added February 10th
Check out this short video from the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2024. If you're interested in critical care trials, this is the meeting for you.
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

RESCUE 3
Trial Registration | Trial Protocol | RESCUE 2

INDex-CTP
Trial Registration | Trial Protocol

ENCOMPASS

TTM2 Biomarker

PROMIZING

FLUID

UK-ROX

GASTROSAM

TARGET Protein
updated February 4th
CCR Down Under 2025
December 9th & 10th
Due to the success of CCR Down Under, we're heading back to Melbourne in December 2025 for another 2 day event.
Join us in the Edge, Federation Square, to hear the results of the best critical care trials in the world.
Registration will open in May.
CCR Down Under is run in partnership with The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre.
