Pub Date : 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-05882-5
Emmanuel Novy, Arnaud Schaeffer, Maxime Nguyen, Frédéric Dalle, Julien Pottecher, Valérie Letscher-Bru, Guillaume Louis, Charlotte Stephan, Amandine Luc, Marie Machouart, Anne Debourgogne
{"title":"Analytical performance of species-targeted quantitative PCR for intra-abdominal candidiasis in critically ill patients: a proof-of-concept post hoc analysis from the pBDG2 multicenter study.","authors":"Emmanuel Novy, Arnaud Schaeffer, Maxime Nguyen, Frédéric Dalle, Julien Pottecher, Valérie Letscher-Bru, Guillaume Louis, Charlotte Stephan, Amandine Luc, Marie Machouart, Anne Debourgogne","doi":"10.1186/s13054-026-05882-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-026-05882-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146156494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-05873-6
Nils Daum, Nils Drewniok, Annika Bald, Laura Homann, Linus Warner, Flora T Scheffenbichler, Antonia Leder, Max Liebl, Anett Reißhauer, Tobias Wollersheim, Stefan J Schaller, Steffen Weber-Carstens, Julius J Grunow
{"title":"Neuromuscular electrical stimulation for early rehabilitation in critically ill patients: a systematic review of applied protocols.","authors":"Nils Daum, Nils Drewniok, Annika Bald, Laura Homann, Linus Warner, Flora T Scheffenbichler, Antonia Leder, Max Liebl, Anett Reißhauer, Tobias Wollersheim, Stefan J Schaller, Steffen Weber-Carstens, Julius J Grunow","doi":"10.1186/s13054-026-05873-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-026-05873-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146156507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-05DOI: 10.1186/s13054-025-05785-x
Juan Carlos Beltrán, Jaime Fernández-Sarmiento, Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón, L Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, Juan Pablo Fernández-Sarta, Isabella La Rotta, Daniel Fernández-Sarta, Alejandro Coutin, Juan Esteban Godoy, Hans Vink, Sainath Raman, Niranjan Kissoon
{"title":"Microvascular phenotypes in pediatric sepsis identified by machine learning: prognostic implications for organ dysfunction and mortality.","authors":"Juan Carlos Beltrán, Jaime Fernández-Sarmiento, Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón, L Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, Juan Pablo Fernández-Sarta, Isabella La Rotta, Daniel Fernández-Sarta, Alejandro Coutin, Juan Esteban Godoy, Hans Vink, Sainath Raman, Niranjan Kissoon","doi":"10.1186/s13054-025-05785-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13054-025-05785-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":"30 1","pages":"61"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12874729/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146124210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-05872-7
Stefan E Knapen, Wouter H Hinsenveld, Marcus L F Janssen, Werner H Mess, Judith Drenthen, Martijn R Tannemaat
{"title":"Reply to: Utility in prognostication of continuous EEG monitoring in postanoxic coma: importance on timing in relation to the cardiac arrest.","authors":"Stefan E Knapen, Wouter H Hinsenveld, Marcus L F Janssen, Werner H Mess, Judith Drenthen, Martijn R Tannemaat","doi":"10.1186/s13054-026-05872-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13054-026-05872-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":"30 1","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12866203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146112707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-02DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-05849-6
Yoshihisa Fujimoto, Kohei Yamada, Takuo Yoshida
{"title":"Diagnostic accuracy of transcranial Doppler for cerebral vasospasm in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Yoshihisa Fujimoto, Kohei Yamada, Takuo Yoshida","doi":"10.1186/s13054-026-05849-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-026-05849-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146104418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-02DOI: 10.1186/s13054-025-05829-2
Gustavo A Plotnikow, Roque S Moracci, Emilio Steinberg, Emiliano Gogniat
{"title":"Assessment of inspiratory effort using airway occlusion pressure (ΔPocc) during non-invasive ventilation: a post-Hoc exploratory analysis.","authors":"Gustavo A Plotnikow, Roque S Moracci, Emilio Steinberg, Emiliano Gogniat","doi":"10.1186/s13054-025-05829-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13054-025-05829-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":"30 1","pages":"52"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12866048/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146104355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-05863-8
Enric Barbeta, Blanca Llonch, Jordi Vallverdú, Kasra Kiarostami, Luigi Zattera, Roberto Cabrera, Flavia Galli, Laia Fernández-Barat, Ana Motos, Filippo Sartori, Lisa Persico, Federico Carpenteri, Lucia Alessandra Pasqua, Nona Rovira-Ribalta, Cristina Miralles, Guillermo Laguna, Albert Carramiñana, Eduard Argudo, Maria Martínez-Martínez, Elisabet Gallart, Juan Antonio Sánchez, Katalin Rubí, Elena Sandoval, Maite Mata, Federica Piedepalumbo, Davide Calabretta, Carlos Ferrando, Jordi Riera, Antoni Torres
Background: Prone positioning improves survival in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) by reducing ventilator-induced lung injury and enhancing ventilation-perfusion matching. Whether these physiological benefits translate to patients supported with veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) remains uncertain.
Methods: This study compared the effects of prone versus supine positioning on the wet-to-dry lung weight ratio, gas exchange, respiratory mechanics, electrical impedance tomography, histopathology, microbiology, hemodynamics, and extracorporeal circuit function in pigs with severe ARDS undergoing VV-ECMO. Pigs with severe ARDS were placed on VV-ECMO according to EOLIA criteria and then randomized to either prone or supine positioning for 48 h, while receiving an ultraprotective ventilation strategy. Futility analyses were performed at half of the planned sample size using conditional power calculations, with early termination criteria set at < 10% probability of achieving statistical significance.
Results: Eight pigs with severe ARDS were randomized after VV-ECMO initiation. Prone positioning, compared with the supine position, resulted in a similar wet-to-dry lung weight ratio (6.77 [6.13-8.17] vs. 6.70 [6.22-8.48]; p = 0.89), meeting the futility threshold. Compared with the supine position, prone positioning significantly reduced the proportion of ventilation in non-dependent lung regions (51 [47-61.25]% vs. 86 [68.50-90]%; p = 0.02), thereby indicating a redistribution of ventilation toward dependent areas. Consistent with this shift in ventilation distribution, prone positioning redistributed histopathological lung injury, with relative preservation of non-dependent regions and greater damage in dependent zones, but without a net global decrease. Shunt fraction approached 100% in both groups, with no significant differences. Pulmonary CO₂ elimination was 8.45 (1.45-26.13) mL/min in the prone group and 0 (0-0.70) mL/min in the supine group (p = 0.23). Lung compliance showed no intergroup differences (14.67 [12.75-19.91] vs. 16.68 [15.51-19.47] mL/cmH₂O; p = 0.88), with similarly elevated end-inspiratory transpulmonary pressures. No significant differences were observed in systemic or pulmonary hemodynamics, nor in VV-ECMO circuit function.
Conclusions: Prone positioning did not decrease the overall severity of lung injury. Rather, it shifted the distribution of damage, with greater involvement of dependent regions and relative preservation of non-dependent areas.
背景:俯卧位通过减少呼吸机诱导的肺损伤和增强通气灌注匹配,提高急性呼吸窘迫综合征(ARDS)患者的生存率。这些生理上的益处是否转化为静脉-静脉体外膜氧合(VV-ECMO)支持的患者仍不确定。方法:本研究比较了俯卧位和仰卧位对VV-ECMO重症ARDS猪肺干湿重比、气体交换、呼吸力学、电阻抗断层扫描、组织病理学、微生物学、血流动力学和体外回路功能的影响。根据EOLIA标准将严重ARDS猪置于VV-ECMO,然后随机分为俯卧位或仰卧位48 h,同时接受超保护性通气策略。使用条件功率计算,在计划样本量的一半进行无效分析,早期终止标准设定于结果:在VV-ECMO启动后随机选择8头严重ARDS猪。俯卧位与仰卧位相比,肺干湿重量比相似(6.77 [6.13-8.17]vs. 6.70 [6.22-8.48], p = 0.89),达到无效阈值。与仰卧位相比,俯卧位显著降低了非依赖区通气比例(51 [47-61.25]% vs. 86 [68.50-90]%; p = 0.02),表明通气向依赖区重新分配。与通气分布的这种变化相一致,俯卧位重新分布了组织病理学肺损伤,非依赖区相对保留,依赖区损伤更大,但没有全球净减少。两组分流率均接近100%,差异无统计学意义。俯卧组肺部CO₂消除量为8.45 (1.45 ~ 26.13)mL/min,仰卧组为0 (0 ~ 0.70)mL/min (p = 0.23)。肺顺应性组间差异无统计学意义(14.67 [12.75-19.91]vs. 16.68 [15.51-19.47] mL/cmH₂O; p = 0.88),吸气末转肺压升高。在系统或肺血流动力学,以及VV-ECMO回路功能方面没有观察到显著差异。结论:俯卧位并不能降低肺损伤的整体严重程度。相反,它改变了损害的分布,依赖区域更多地参与其中,而非依赖区域则相对得到保护。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-05868-3
Yohei Komaru, Akinori Maeda, Ryota Inokuchi, Debra M Foster, John A Kellum, Kent Doi
{"title":"Clinical applications for the endotoxin activity assay in sepsis: a scoping review.","authors":"Yohei Komaru, Akinori Maeda, Ryota Inokuchi, Debra M Foster, John A Kellum, Kent Doi","doi":"10.1186/s13054-026-05868-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-026-05868-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146092439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1186/s13054-026-05869-2
Tomasz Królicki, Mateusz Zawadka, Magdalena Lis, Anna Królicka, Ryszard Gawda, Tomasz Czarnik
{"title":"Efficacy and safety of ultrasound-guided infraclavicular axillary vein cannulation for centrally inserted central catheter placement in critically ill patients: systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis.","authors":"Tomasz Królicki, Mateusz Zawadka, Magdalena Lis, Anna Królicka, Ryszard Gawda, Tomasz Czarnik","doi":"10.1186/s13054-026-05869-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-026-05869-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10811,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146092372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}