Critical Care/Emergency Medicine

Acute Respiratory Diseases

• Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome: consensus recommendations from the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2015;16(5):428-439. 
• The Current State of Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Pediatr Allergy Immunol Pulmonol. 2019;32(2):35-44. 

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

• Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients. Pediatr Ann. 2018;47(7):e286-e291. 
• Dialysis modalities for the management of pediatric acute kidney injury. Pediatr Nephrol. 2020;35(5):753-765. 
• University of Louisville Kidney Disease Program – Pediatric Drug Book 

ECMO

• Pharmacokinetic changes during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: implications for drug therapy of neonates. Clin Pharmacokinet. 2003;42(5):403-17.
• Pediatric cardiovascular drug dosing in critically ill children and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2011 Aug;58(2):126-32.
• Anticoagulation Therapy during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenator Support in Pediatric Patients. Chonnam Med J. 2017;53:110-117.
• Pharmacokinetics and Dosing of Anti-infective Drugs in Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation:  A Review of the Current Literature. Clinical Therapeutics. 2016;38(9): 1976-1994
• Thromboprophylaxis in extracorporeal circuits:  current pharmacological strategies and future directions. Am J Cardiovasc Drugs. 2017 Dec;17(6):425-439
• An overview of medical ECMO for neonates. InSeminars in perinatology 2018. WB Saunders.
• Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Crit Care Clin. 2017 Oct;33(4):825-8411.

Emergency Preparedness

• Practice Parameter on Disaster Preparedness J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 2013;52(11):1224–1238
• CDC Emergency Preparedness
• National Pediatric Readiness Project

Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders

• Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and cerebral/renal salt wasting syndrome: similarities and differences. Front Pediatr. 2014;2:146.
• Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone and Hyponatremia. Pediatr Rev (2018) 39 (1): 27–35. 
• Diabetes Insipidus. Pediatr Rev (2020) 41 (2): 96–99. 

Near Drowning

• Near Drowning. Pediatr Rev (1999) 20 (8): 255–260. 
• Drowning. N Engl J Med. 2012;366(22):2102-2110.
• Prevention of Drowning. Pediatrics (2021) 148 (2): e2021052227. 

PALS

• Part 4: Pediatric Basic and Advanced Life Support: 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. Circulation. 2020;142(16_suppl_2):S469-S523. 

Sedation/Analgesia

• The Withdrawal Assessment Tool-1 (WAT-1): an assessment instrument for monitoring opioid and benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms in pediatric patients. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008 Nov;9(6):573-80.
• Recognition and Management of Iatrogenically Induced Opioid Dependence and Withdrawal in Children. Pediatrics 2014; 133: 153-155.
• Tolerance and Withdrawal From Prolonged Opioid Use in Critically Ill Children. Pediatrics. 2010;125:e1208-1225.
• Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Review of sedative pharmacology. Pediatrics in Review 2017;37(5)
• Pediatric Sedation Management. Pediatr Rev. 2016 May;37(5):203-12.
• Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in pediatric patients. J Pediatr Neurosci 2014 Jan-Apr; 9(1): 1-6
• An Introduction to the Smart Tots Concensus Statement on the Use of Anesthetic and Sedative Drugs in Infants and Toddlers.  J Perianesth Nurs. 2016 Feb;31(1):3-10
• Guidelines for monitoring and management of pediatric patients before, during, and after sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures: update 2016. Pediatrics. 2016:e20161212.
• 2022 Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation, Neuromuscular Blockade, and Delirium in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients With Consideration of the ICU Environment and Early Mobility. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: February 2022 - Volume 23 - Issue 2 - p e74-e110 
• Practical approaches to sedation and analgesia in the newborn. Journal of Perinatology (2021) 41:383–395 

• Effectiveness of interventions to improve medication use during rapid-sequence intubation in a pediatric emergency department. AJHP. September 2017, 74 (17) 1353-1362

Shock (cardiogenic, septic)

Cardiogenic

• Cardiogenic Shock. The Open Pediatric Medicine Journal, 2013,7, (Suppl 1:M5)19-27
• Cardiogenic shock. Pediatr Rev. 2015;36(5):225-226.

Septic

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign international guidelines of the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2020; 21:e52.106.
• American College of Critical Care Medicine clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock. Crit Care Med. 2017; 45:1061-1093.
• Pediatric sepsis: Important considerations for diagnosing and managing severe infections in infants, children, and adolescents. Virulence. 2014;5(1):179-189. doi:10.4161/viru.27045.
• Pediatric sepsis.Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 28(3):380-387, June 2016.

Status Asthmaticus

• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. NHLBI and NAEPP: Expert panel report 3 (2007)
• Severe Acute Asthma Exacerbation in Children: A Stepwise Approach for Escalating Therapy in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2013 Apr-Jun; 18(2): 88–104.
• GINA. Main Report: 2022 GINA Report, Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention: Chapter 4 (2020) 

Status Epilepticus

• Levetiracetam versus phenytoin for second-line treatment of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus (EcLiPSE): a multicentre, open-label, randomised trial. Lancet. 2019;393(10186):2125-2134. 
• Treatment of generalized convulsive status epilepticus in pediatric patients.  J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Jul-Aug;20(4):260-89
• Management of Pediatric Status Epilepticus. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2014 July ; 16(7)

Trauma

• Prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism in pediatric trauma: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Pediatric Trauma Society. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2017 Mar;82(3):627-636.
• Management of Pediatric Trauma. Pediatrics (2016) 138 (2): e20161569. 
• Pediatric Trauma Society Guidelines HUB

Traumatic Brain Injury

• Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: 2019 Consensus and Guidelines-Based Algorithm for First and Second Tier Therapies. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: March 2019 - Volume 20 - Issue 3 - p 269-279 
• Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition. Neurosurgery. 2017 Jan 1;80(1):6-15. 
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Among Children. JAMA Pediatr. 2018 November 01; 172(11): e182853.