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Becca Hay
@rebeccaelisehay.bsky.social
#PedsICU Doc
🇨🇦 Now in 🇬🇧 Bham Childrens & MSc @ox.ac.uk @kelloggoxford.bsky.social
Fellowship CHEO / #Peds & Med UCalgary / Neuro Carleton Alum
Post-PICU PTSD & #Neurocriticalcare research 🧠
Pinned
VERY proud to share our meta-analysis of prevalence and population-level risk factors for #PTSD in #PedsICU survivors in @sccm-pediatrics.bsky.social 🎉

We found:
🚨1 in 3 survivors had PTSD at 6mo
❤️Cardiac surg pts had ⬇️PTSD
🕜Time & type of assess changed prevalence

journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/...
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence and... : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
stematic review (CRD42022348997; Registered August 2022) using MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) databases, 2000 to 2022, with no language restricti...
journals.lww.com
🚨 Attn #PedsICU HCPs headed to Belfast for #pccs2025 @pccsociety.bsky.social

We'd love to hear your perspective on TCD use in PICU for a @ox.ac.uk study

Refreshments & education will be provided (along with the joy of contributing to research!)

Info & RSVP: forms.office.com/e/b7z27AQL5C
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"...a pivotal sexual assault trial has left some observers in Canada shocked but unsurprised – not only by a judge who seemed to scrutinize the female accuser more harshly than the five ice hockey players..missed opportunity for a reckoning in the macho culture of a major professional sport."
Canada’s hockey case raised questions about toxic culture – so why did the accuser end up on trial?
Judge seemed to scrutinize female accuser more harshly than the five hockey players who were charged with sexual assault but ultimately walked free
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Very proud to share this work- conceptualizing a framework for #PTSD after #PedsICU admission

Connecting neurophysiology to clinical correlates & aiming to help frame PICU-PTSD to identify modifiable factors & help early recognition

www.frontiersin.org/journals/ped...
Frontiers | Posttraumatic stress disorder neurophysiology and clinical correlates in pediatric critical care: conceptualizing a PICU-PTSD framework
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common in child and parent survivors of critical illness, with significant negative impact on life after survival. Un...
www.frontiersin.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Happy to share our latest in PedCritCareMed 🎉

Creation of #PedsICU outcome database by recruiting a global team at WFPICCS & machine learning

16,055 citations ➡️ 1,301 full text in 2mo, sensitivity 98%

@zorkosaurus.bsky.social & I equal effort aka dream team, w/ an incredible group 🙌
July 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Are adaptive clinical trials a reflection of a shift in epistemology of quantitative research? From positivism to a relativist recognition of true variation in how individuals experience disease and respond to treatment?
Reflections during #ESPNIC2025 Platform Trial session @markpicu.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Global #PedsICU collaboration through the PICU-CONNECT Network to help bring research & clinical care forward w/ more coordination, efficiency and benefit globally 🙌
Presented by Dr. Kusum Menon & Dr. Luregn Schlapbach #ESPNIC2025
June 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Excellent reminder of cognitive biases when implementing changes in our clinical practice to set the tone for the #OxyPICU session with @markpicu.bsky.social
#ESPNIC2025 #PICUSky
June 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🚨🚨 New AARC and PALISI guidelines for critical pediatric asthma #PedsICU

Consensus suggests:
🫁 Cont inh SABA > intermittent; IV SABA adj
💉 Dex or Methylpred; IV MgSo4
💨 NIV if persistent hypoxemia /resp distress; unclear if NIV > HFNC

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
AARC and PALISI Clinical Practice Guideline: Pediatric Critical Asthma | Respiratory Care
To address the lack of guidance for clinicians in their care of children with critical asthma, a multidisciplinary team of medical providers used Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, a...
www.liebertpub.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"For researchers who believe that knowledge cannot be objective, but is always shaped by the purposes, perspective and activities of those who create it."

Came across this quote from Yardley in her 2000 paper on quality in qualitative health research that resonated with my journey in embracing QM
April 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Becca Hay
We invite you to the #ESPNIC2025 Networking Dinner on Friday, 27 June.

For just €50, take part in an evening designed to spark new conversations, strengthen professional connections, and celebrate the ESPNIC community in a relaxed and elegant setting.

Register here☑️ : bit.ly/ESPNIC-REGIS...
April 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🚨🚨New trial @nejm.org

Endovascular thrombectomy + usual care VS usual care (tPA or tenectaplase with rehabilitation) in 530 adult patients with medium vessel ischemic stroke; with no difference in outcome (death/disability at 90 days)

How/Does this apply to #PedsICU #NCC?
April 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Beautiful beautiful #Edinburgh

Shot with a tilt shift lens for the effect!
February 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Becca Hay
🗺️ Cross-sectional descriptive & statistical analysis of geospatial access to #ECMO capable centers in 🇺🇸
🚧 findings emphasize need for thoughtful implementation of #ECLS systems to ensure equitable access. Novel systems should be developed, increasing access using advanced technology
🔓 bit.ly/41jMk8R
Geospatial access to #ECMO in U.S.
🚑 67% of population had direct access to ECMO-capable centers
⚖️ significant disparities in access exist
⚖️ significant racial/ethnic disparities identified
🚧 poverty, increased age, lower population density consistently correlated w limited access
🔓 bit.ly/41jMk8R
February 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Becca Hay
The #ESPNIC 2025 Masterclass Program is your chance to learn from top experts on topics such as #ECMO, #POCUS, #Sepsis Management, Mechanical Ventilation Workshop, Neurocritical Care, and Difficult airway management in children.

Register now to advance your expertise☑️ : bit.ly/ESPNIC-REGIS...
February 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Happy snow day Ontario ❄️
featuring the very good boy Winnie
February 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Reposted by Becca Hay
Heart #transplantation & DCD donation in children
🫀 pediatric cardiac donation
🩺 clinical need
📑 history of pediatric DCD heart #Tx
🔧 new technologies: #EVMP & TA #NRP
🚧 (overcomeable) logistics/resource barriers
⚖️ ethical concerns
📢 call to action
@esottransplant.bsky.social
🔓 bit.ly/4hwAG06
February 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Becca Hay
We look forward to welcoming you all to Belfast ICC on September 11th/12th 2025 for the annual #PCCS2025 conference.
Abstract submission is now open
#pedsICU

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auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st...
Oxford Abstracts
auth.oxfordabstracts.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
VERY proud to share our meta-analysis of prevalence and population-level risk factors for #PTSD in #PedsICU survivors in @sccm-pediatrics.bsky.social 🎉

We found:
🚨1 in 3 survivors had PTSD at 6mo
❤️Cardiac surg pts had ⬇️PTSD
🕜Time & type of assess changed prevalence

journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/...
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence and... : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
stematic review (CRD42022348997; Registered August 2022) using MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) databases, 2000 to 2022, with no language restricti...
journals.lww.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Becca Hay
Not-to-miss Keynote Speakers at #ESPNIC2025!
Join us in June for a 4-day discussion with the leading #paediatric and #neonatal #intensivecare community.

Register here ☑️: lnkd.in/diX3qPwS

#PedsICU #nicu #nicubaby #PICU #NeonatologyConference
February 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Great review from adult periop&ICU #PedsICU

Approach to protective hemodynamics & permissive hypotension

⚖️ Balancing aggressive MAP targets w/ harm of ⬆️⬆️ pressors

Discusses-

Individualized MAP
Macro+microcirculation decoupling & periph perfusion-targeted resus

www.jcvaonline.com/article/S105...
February 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🚨🔥 @thelancet.bsky.social
#PedsICU #Neurocriticalcare

STARSHIP prosp. multi-center obs trial:

🧠 Independ. association of PRx with favourable Neuro outcome @12mo (even if adj for initial disease severity, propensity score matching, and centre specific effects)

www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
Status of cerebrovascular autoregulation relates to outcome in severe paediatric head injury: STARSHIP, a prospective multicentre validation study
With STARSHIP, we validate the outcome association of CA derangements as assessed by PRx in pTBI in the first prospective observational multicentre study. This provides additional evidence for the pot...
www.thelancet.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Checkout @picujournalwatch.bsky.social for the latest in #PedsICU in Jan, like this paper-

⚡605 cEEGs in 411 CVICU pts
🧠 Seizures detected in 9%
📈 Seizures best predicted by combo of; risk factors, clin sympt & vital signs
🖥️VS changes alone predicted 0%

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Indications for continuous electroencephalography and frequency of electrographic seizure detection in a pediatric and neonatal cardiovascular intensive care unit
Objective Seizures are a recognized complication of critical cardiovascular illness in infants and children. We assessed the diagnostic yield of continuous video-electroencephalography (cEEG) in a p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Becca Hay
Today's Paper of the Day is diagnosis and management of malaria in the intensive care unit

criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evide...

Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025
February 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Reposted by Becca Hay
Acute RV failure on temporary MCS
🔍 PLACE international registry study; 644 pts w isolated aRVF treated with tMCS, 2000-2020
🫀 most frequent etiologies: post #LVAD & PC shock
⏱️ mean tMCS duration 9 days, weaning 70.5%
🪦 major cause of death MOF; mortality 45% in-hospital, 48.4% 3 m
🔗 bit.ly/42IMOq9
February 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
February 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM