Society of Critical Care Medicine
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest non-profit medical organization dedicated to promoting excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care. With members in more than 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that ensures excellence in patient care, education, research and advocacy.www.sccm.org
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Sep 18, 2026
Diane CarboHOST
Patricia brings more than 20 years of experience and dedication to the field of palliative medicine.
Diane CarboHOST
She is a nationally recognized educator, has authored textbook chapters and journal articles, and has contributed to palliative care initiatives through the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Diane CarboHOST
Patricia also played an important role in developing Columbia University Medical Center's lung transplant program and Center for Advanced Lung Disease.
Diane CarboHOST
She was instrumental in creating one of the nation's first pulmonary palliative care clinics, bringing pulmonary and palliative specialists together to better support people living with serious respiratory illnesses.
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Yes.
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Published by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
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These guidelines completely restructured how we handle pain, agitation, delirium, immobility, and sleep disruption in critically ill patients.
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So our mission in this deep dive is to synthesize this massive stack of presentation material into a really practical overarching philosophy for ICU care.
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What should we actually be doing at the bedside? So, from time to time, I'll add these as bonus guideline episodes, focused reviews of major recommendations, the strength of the evidence behind them, and the places where the guideline is clear versus where clinical judgment still matters.
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This week we're discussing the Society of Critical Care Medicine guideline on the treatment of heat stroke with a focus on rapid cooling, which methods work fastest, and which commonly considered medications should be avoided.
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The goal is not to read the guideline to you, but to turn it into something useful for rounds, the emergency department, and the ICU.
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You know, it is the middle of a brutal, unforgiving summer heat wave.
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reality is a lot of what we reflexively do in the ICU for a high temperature is just completely wrong for this specific patient.
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That is exactly why we are tearing apart this topic today.
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To figure out who is right in that chaotic trauma bay, we are going to dive deep into the brand new 2025 Society of Critical Care Medicine guidelines.
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It's a huge document.
Peta AlexanderHOST
And so they want to see evidence that we've taken that into account.
Peta AlexanderHOST
We invited a family member a parent of a child who'd been on ECMO to the Society of Critical Care Medicine meeting earlier this year.
Peta AlexanderHOST
And the society really generously funded and kind of navigated funding for childcare as well as spouse to attend.
Peta AlexanderHOST
And the support for our patient and family advisor to speak at that conference was really impressive.
Hesham A. HassaballaHOST
Um, but, you know, as we commemorate, uh, you know, September is also Sepsis Awareness Month, and so there's, uh, you know, [clears throat] people are talking about sepsis and how to care for it.
Hesham A. HassaballaHOST
And this year, the guidelines came out for the, uh, Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Hesham A. HassaballaHOST
Um, it's important to know how to take care of sepsis.
Hesham A. HassaballaHOST
It's important to, to, to, to do the right thing and provide the right care at the right time for patients with sepsis and septic shock.
Christina RollinsHOST
She's a certified nutrition support dietician and fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
Christina RollinsHOST
She's been actively, actively involved in both SCCM and ASPEN for many, many years, and has held leadership roles with both organizations.
Christina RollinsHOST
She's also presented nationally on critical care nutrition, nutrition support, advocacy, education, and an, and the evolving role of technology in nutrition care.
Christina RollinsHOST
Her work is particularly focused on helping dieticians move beyond simply delivering nutrition recommendations to becoming influential clinical partners, leaders, and advocates who can translate evidence into meaningful change.
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Ashley DepriestGUEST
Maybe early on you're really just trying to learn your own profession and really become that expert, and then later on you sort of dip the toe into other sides of things and try to build that network.
Ashley DepriestGUEST
Um, I did the opposite.
Ashley DepriestGUEST
I started really early kind of with a different profession and different society that I worked with, with the SCCM, um, and now have kind of come back home, so to speak, with working more with Aspen and the academy.
Ashley DepriestGUEST
So, um, but yeah, I think it just depends on what, what you're trying to get out of, of that participation.
Jan De WaeleGUEST
You're absolutely right.
Jan De WaeleGUEST
The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines, this is a project, this is one of our flagship projects, I think, together, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and our American friends from the SCCM have been developing the fifth iteration of the guidelines.
Jan De WaeleGUEST
It has grown, it has grown in number of experts contributing, almost 70 experts.
Jan De WaeleGUEST
The number of recommendations has risen to almost 130, so it's becoming a very big document.
John McClellanHOST
Dennis, the steroids in ARDS, where does the guidance actually sit now after much back and forth?
Dennis KimGUEST
Yeah, so both the twenty twenty-four ATS as well as the SCCM guidelines conditionally suggest corticosteroids for adult ARDS.
Dennis KimGUEST
In the past, this is something that's been quite debatable, particularly in terms of the impact of steroids on the development of that fibrotic phase of ARDS.
Dennis KimGUEST
But the evidence here, the certainty is moderate, and I think the important nuance is that neither guideline endorses one mandatory drug dose or a duration.
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Dennis KimGUEST
But routine high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, or HFOV, is no longer recommended in adults with moderate to severe ARDS.
Dennis KimGUEST
The pediatric literature may be different.
Dennis KimGUEST
But the earlier ATS, ESICM, as well as SCCM guideline recommend against routine use.
Dennis KimGUEST
And I think the, the big trial OSCILLATE showed increased mortality, so definitely not gonna be part of our usual rescue ladder, John.
Mike JackaGUEST
Do you remember the sepsis six pack from 20 years ago? Well, the sepsis six pack was a fun thing.
Mike JackaGUEST
That was another fiction, pejorative term, but nonetheless created by the Society of Critical Care Medicine, which looked at six major things, one of which was source control, one of which was antibiotics, one of which was central venous pressure measurement, one of which was steroids, one of which was insulin to get tight glucose control, and the last one of which was recombinant protein C. and the strongest recommendation was given to the modality which actually was supported by randomized controlled evidence so there was a high bias in favor of giving recombinant protein c a very strong recommendation which was of course the most expensive intervention and the source funding agency for the sepsis six-pack adventure uh-huh was the company which manufactures protein c did they maybe make it eli lilly
SoniaHOST
Eli Lilly and Company is known for a lot of things.
SoniaHOST
Let me just name a few.
Steven SimpsonGUEST
And I can tell you what they are.
Steven SimpsonGUEST
It is that the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine paid for the Sepsis III conference and developed the criteria.
Steven SimpsonGUEST
And the only people in that conference were representatives of those two organizations.
Brian MurphyHOST
Interesting.
Steven SimpsonGUEST
So that...
Steven SimpsonGUEST
You know, be that as it may, that's the way it came to be.
Steven SimpsonGUEST
And the surviving sepsis campaign itself is also paid for by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Steven SimpsonGUEST
So when we sat down in 2016 to begin going through this, basically, we were told you are using this definition.
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