Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100123
John A. Myburgh MBBCh PhD DSc, FCICM, Balasubramanian Venkatesh MD, FCICM
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100142
Yahya Shehabi MBBS, PhD, EMBA, FCICM, FANZCA, Michael C. Reade MBBS, MPH, DPhil, DMedSc, GAICD, AFRACMA, FHEA, FCCM, FANZCA, FCICM
{"title":"Sedation Practice in Intensive Care Evaluation, SPICE and beyond, Rinaldo’s legacy in sedation and delirium research","authors":"Yahya Shehabi MBBS, PhD, EMBA, FCICM, FANZCA, Michael C. Reade MBBS, MPH, DPhil, DMedSc, GAICD, AFRACMA, FHEA, FCCM, FANZCA, FCICM","doi":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49215,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care and Resuscitation","volume":"27 3","pages":"Article 100142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145278189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100146
Steve A. Webb MBBS, PhD, Alisa M. Higgins BPhysio(Hons), PhD
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100128
Clive N. May PhD , Yugeesh R. Lankadeva PhD , Shailesh Bihari PhD
Professor Rinaldo Bellomo was a pioneer in intensive care medicine whose influence extended beyond clinical trials to preclinical and translational research. His long-standing collaboration with the Florey Institute established ovine sepsis models that overturned dogma, demonstrating that septic acute kidney injury can occur despite increased renal blood flow, and clarifying the effects of fluids, noradrenaline, vasopressin, and angiotensin II. These studies advanced understanding of renal medullary hypoperfusion and hypoxia, guided antioxidant strategies, and inspired clinical investigation of megadose sodium ascorbate. Rinaldo also championed integration of preclinical science into the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, legitimising dedicated sessions, fostering collaboration, and ensuring basic discoveries informed hypothesis-driven clinical trials. A gifted mentor and communicator, he inspired generations of researchers with his curiosity, humility, and passion for physiology. His legacy as both clinician and scientist underscores the enduring value of discovery research in advancing critical care.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100145
Simon R. Finfer DrMed , Naomi E. Hammond PhD , John A. Myburgh PhD
Research into the use of resuscitation and “maintenance” fluids in the intensive care unit was integral to the development of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (CTG) and the CTG being recognised as one of the most productive and influential trials groups in the world. Professor Rinaldo Bellomo (Rinaldo) played a central and critical role in this research and in this article; we focus on Rinaldo’s many roles and contributions to the key large clinical trials that changed the critical care research landscape in Australia and New Zealand and clinical practice worldwide. With a proposed recruitment of 7000 participants, the Saline versus Albumin Fluid Evaluation study was the first large pragmatic trial conducted in intensive care units anywhere in the world. Rinaldo brought the concept of the trial to the CTG and was critical to securing funding from multiple sources at a time when Australian National Health and Medical Research Council’s funding limits would cover only a fraction of the costs of such a trial. His personal contacts at CSL Ltd. and the Australian Red Cross Blood Service helped secure the supply of study fluids and made possible the seemingly impossible task of blinding a trial of two fluids that were macroscopically different with one supplied in glass bottles and the other in polyvinyl chloride bags. The successful conduct of the Saline versus Albumin Fluid Evaluation trial, the CTG’s first publication in The New England Journal of Medicine and presentation at the US Food and Drugs Administration, established the CTG on the global stage and served as a template for the Crystalloid versus Hydroxyethyl Starch Study and PlasmaLyte-148® versus Saline Study trials; we can only speculate what fraction of this could have been achieved without Rinaldo.
对在重症监护室使用复苏和“维持”液体的研究是澳大利亚和新西兰重症监护学会临床试验小组发展的组成部分,该小组被认为是世界上最有成效和最有影响力的试验小组之一。教授里纳尔多贝洛莫(里纳尔多)在这项研究和这篇文章中发挥了核心和关键作用;我们专注于Rinaldo在关键的大型临床试验中的许多角色和贡献,这些试验改变了澳大利亚和新西兰以及全球临床实践的重症监护研究格局。盐水与白蛋白液评估研究计划招募7000名参与者,是世界上第一个在重症监护病房进行的大型实用试验。Rinaldo向CTG提出了试验的概念,在澳大利亚国家卫生和医学研究委员会的资金限制只能支付此类试验费用的一小部分时,他对从多个来源获得资金至关重要。他在CSL有限公司和澳大利亚红十字会血液服务中心的个人联系帮助确保了研究液体的供应,并使一项看似不可能完成的任务成为可能,即对两种宏观上不同的液体进行盲化试验,一种用玻璃瓶供应,另一种用聚氯乙烯袋供应。CTG首次在《新英格兰医学杂志》(The New England Journal of Medicine)上发表,并在美国食品和药物管理局(US Food and drug Administration)上发表,CTG的成功开展使CTG登上了全球舞台,并成为Crystalloid与羟乙基淀粉研究和PlasmaLyte-148®与生理盐水研究试验的模板;我们只能推测,如果没有雷纳尔多,这一成绩能达到多少。
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100130
Craig French
{"title":"Rinaldo Bellomo's contribution to trauma and traumatic brain injury research","authors":"Craig French","doi":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49215,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care and Resuscitation","volume":"27 3","pages":"Article 100130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145278059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100150
Sean M. Bagshaw MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCAHS , John A. Kellum MD, MCCM
The field of critical care nephrology recently lost one of its founders and champions. From his seminal and revolutionary investigations into the pathophysiology of sepsis-induced AKI to his relentless efforts to improve the care of patients with AKI through drugs and devices, Rinaldo Bellomo was a larger-than-life figure in intensive care medicine. He was a visionary leader, mentor and thinker and yes, an unrelenting challenger of conventional wisdom. He will be missed by his many friends and collaborators around the world. We are thankful to have walked alongside him and to have been inspired by his humble enthusiasm, openness, and limitless curiosity.
{"title":"Professor Rinaldo Bellomo: Founder, architect, and choreographer of critical care nephrology","authors":"Sean M. Bagshaw MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCAHS , John A. Kellum MD, MCCM","doi":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The field of critical care nephrology recently lost one of its founders and champions. From his seminal and revolutionary investigations into the pathophysiology of sepsis-induced AKI to his relentless efforts to improve the care of patients with AKI through drugs and devices, Rinaldo Bellomo was a larger-than-life figure in intensive care medicine. He was a visionary leader, mentor and thinker and yes, an unrelenting challenger of conventional wisdom. He will be missed by his many friends and collaborators around the world. We are thankful to have walked alongside him and to have been inspired by his humble enthusiasm, openness, and limitless curiosity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49215,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care and Resuscitation","volume":"27 3","pages":"Article 100150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145324037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100140
Michael Bailey PhD , Sean M. Bagshaw MD, MSc , Graeme K. Hart MBBS , David Pilcher MBBS
Rinaldo Bellomo advanced critical care not only through randomised trials but also through rigorous use of observational data, particularly from the ANZICS Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (ANZICS CORE) Registry. At a time when retrospective analyses were often confined to hypothesis generation, he showed that carefully curated, clinically grounded registry studies could inform policy and change practice. Recognising early the potential of ANZICS CORE to become a leading registry, he worked to strengthen its data architecture and published in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, helping to spark global dialogue and shape guidelines. Using the Adult Patient Database, he described epidemiological trends, identified clinically relevant questions, designed, justified and evaluated randomised trials, and monitored the uptake of evidence-based practice. His work addressed key challenges in sepsis, acute kidney injury, glycaemic control, temperature management and health equity, and was marked by clear case definitions, extensive sensitivity analyses and transparent reporting. This article reviews selected contributions using ANZICS CORE data and outlines how his legacy endures through the value of these datasets and the many researchers he mentored.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100122
Glenn Eastwood
{"title":"One hundred trials of solitude: A call to action","authors":"Glenn Eastwood","doi":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100122","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49215,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care and Resuscitation","volume":"27 3","pages":"Article 100122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145278132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100143
Carol L. Hodgson PhD, PT, Sue Berney BPhysio, PhD
{"title":"Rinaldo Bellomo and the evolution of critical care survivorship","authors":"Carol L. Hodgson PhD, PT, Sue Berney BPhysio, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100143","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49215,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care and Resuscitation","volume":"27 3","pages":"Article 100143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145278190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}