Research Networks

The aim of this survey is to have a global picture of the use of vasopressin in patients with septic shock.

Vasopressin, a naturally occurring hormone, has gained attention because of its vasopressor activity in the management of patients with septic shock. Besides to its vasopressor activity, low-doses of vasopressin through V1 receptors activation also decrease pulmonary artery pressure and improve the renal function by inducing efferent vasoconstriction, resulting in a theoretical increase in glomerular renal perfusion pressure and thus higher glomerular filtration.

The last Surviving Sepsis Campaign suggested adding vasopressin to current vasopressor support in patients with septic shock with persistent shock. Current literature only gives low-quality evidence on such practice. The threshold for adding vasopressin remains unclear, and vasopressin could increase the risk of ischemia. Therefore, the place of vasopressin in the management of patients with septic shock is still debated with significant heterogeneity between ICUs, as the appropriate timing, dosage and duration of vasopressin therapy remain subjects of clinical debate

The Assessing Critical Care Provider’s Thoughts on ICU Liberation Bundle in Resource-Limited Settings (ACCEPT-ICU) survey aims to identify common beliefs about the ICU Liberation Bundle in LMICs. The knowledge gained from this project will be valuable to the future preparedness of critical care delivery in LMICs. Data gathered from this research project will allow the compilation of best practice recommendations for successful critical care practice in LMICs.

If you work in or have experience in resource-limited settings and have been involved in implementing the ICU Liberation Bundle, please complete this brief survey.

Participation is voluntary and will help develop strategies to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospital costs, and create effective ICU care structures.

Thank you, in advance, for your valuable time and effort in participating in this survey. Your contribution is instrumental in our collective efforts to improve patient outcomes. We truly appreciate your support.

We are doing a research study about pediatric cardiac intensive care nurse education and training. As a nurse working with critically ill children with congenital or acquired heart disease, we would like you to participate in this study (work in the ICU or stepdown/high dependency unit).

If you choose to be in the study, you will complete an online survey. It will take about 10 minutes to complete.

You can skip questions that you do not want to answer or stop the survey at any time. The survey is anonymous, and no one will be able to link your answers back to you. Please do not include your name or other information that could be used to identify you in the survey responses.

Please contact Sandy Staveski with questions about this study. If you have questions or concerns about your rights as a research participant, you can call the UCSF Institutional Review Board at 01-415-476-1814.

Being in this study is optional. If you want to participate, read the consent below and click on the “I consent” button and then the language of choice and then you will get to the survey. After you have given your consent, you will need to go onto to the next section.  Please feel free to forward this to your nurse colleagues. Your help is very important.

A survey of paediatric critical care physicians.

As you know, fluid management in critical illness remains controversial. While fluid resuscitation is a cornerstone of the management of hypovolaemic shock, it is less clear what fluid management strategy should be pursued in the post-resuscitation phase when fluid accumulation is common.

Our clinical research collaboration aims to investigate whether active fluid removal (de-escalation) impacts clinical outcomes in critically ill children.

We would be grateful to medical members for 10-15 minutes of your time to complete this online PSG endorsed survey. Its purpose is to understand the perspectives of intensivists regarding fluid management in critically ill children.

Your views will help to inform the design of future trials.

The survey has been endorsed by ANZICS-PSG, PCCS-SG, ESPNIC, PALISI and PACCMAN, and will be distributed internationally. It is administered anonymously, however if you would like to be part of this collaboration and/or receive a copy of the survey results, please leave us your email address at the end.

Please contact Angela Aramburo with any queries – Paediatric Intensivist Consultant, Queensland Children’s Hospital; Australia angela.aramburo@health.qld.gov.au

Are you a provider of emergency and/or critical care to paediatric patients in a resource limited setting? You are invited to participate in a research survey to determine emergency and critical care paediatric resource needs in resource limited settings (RLS) as determined by providers in those settings.  Please consider participating and/or sharing with providers who may fulfill participation criteria.

To participate in this study, you must be a doctor, nurse, paramedic, or other medical professional providing medical care to acutely and critically ill paediatric patients in a RLS. For the purposes of this study, RLS will be defined as a hospital setting with limited access to medication, equipment, supplies, devices, less developed infrastructure, and fewer trained personnel relative to patient volume.

Your participation in this study will require the completion of two consecutive surveys. Each survey will take approximately 20 minutes of your time. If you participate in both survey rounds, will have the option of being added to our list of collaborators or in the annex (depending on publication) in any potential publications of our survey findings. Please contact the study team if you do not wish to be added to the list of collaborators.  Your decision to participate in this research study will not affect your employment or academic standing.

We are inviting you to participate in a survey about the newly developed EQ-TIPS (EuroQol Toddler and Infant Populations) questionnaire, formerly known as the Toddler and Infant (TANDI) Health-Related Quality of Life measure. The aim of this survey is to obtain feedback on the content, acceptability, appropriateness and scoring system of the EQ-TIPS to inform further international development.

The EQ-TIPS was developed for children aged 0-3 years, to be completed by proxy. The EQ-TIPS is similar in format to the EQ-5D instruments which measure the health of older children and adults across five dimensions with three or five levels of severity. They further measure general health on a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). The EQ-TIPS was developed from the ground up and was not merely an adaptation of the EQ-5D instruments. Thus the EQ-TIPS consists of six dimensions, measured on three levels of severity, and a Visual Analogue Scale measuring general health. The six dimensions include movement, play, pain, communication, social interaction, and eating.

We would value your expert input on the EQ-TIPS descriptive system and a potential scoring system. With your consent, this information will be collated, presented and discussed within a smaller group of experts to inform further development of the instrument and for publication. For further information on the EQ-TIPS and this study, please watch the introductory presentation video below.

Participation in this online survey should take 20-25 minutes. Your participation in the study is voluntary and there will be no reimbursement for your time. Your responses will be anonymous and no identifying information will be captured, unless you leave your contact details to be contacted for further EQ-TIPS research.

Please only complete this survey if you are working in an European PICU.

We are a working group from different PICUs in Germany and would like to assess the current state of analgesia, sedation, withdrawal and delirium management in Europe. We would like to identify difficulties and challenges emerging with analgosedation and delirium to provide data promoting further improvement in the ever-evolving care for our critical ill pediatric patients.

For this purpose we designed a short (10 minutes) survey, which we would like to share with as many PICUs and NICUs all over Europe as we can reach.

Please contact us for questions and further suggestions: Florian von Borell florian.vonborell@uniklinik-dresden.de

The WHO has initiated a comprehensive gap analysis of the most needed medicines for children in view of its upcoming review of the Essential Medicines List for children (EMLc).

To date, the WHO Model EMLc has included 336 essential medicines, which patients should have immediate access to at all times and in all public health care facilities.   Still, many medicines of major clinical importance are missing, or have not been readily tested, officially approved for use, or appropriately formulated for children, especially for the very young.

The Global Accelerator for Paediatric formulations (GAP-f) is a WHO-led network focused on achieving Universal Health Coverage by providing better medicines for children in need.  Its mission is to prioritize, evaluate, develop and deliver high-quality medicines in optimal formulations for children. Currently, GAP-f is working on accelerating the development of paediatric formulations in the fields of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C. In the near future it will extend the scope of its activities to other therapeutic areas covered by the EMLc, based on the review of the list and the identification of missing essential paediatric formulations.

To support the WHO review of the Essential Medicines List for children, we are gathering the opinion of experts and health care specialists on which paediatric formulations are missing. Your help would be fundamental.

We would be very grateful if you complete this survey, that should not take more than 20 minutes of your time. You can send your feedback only once, but you can edit your responses until the survey is closed on December 31st, 2020.

Please do not hesitate to share the link with other colleagues who you think may provide a knowledgeable opinion. We remain available to clarify any doubt you may have on the survey and will be happy to assist and receive your questions at the following email address: elisa.barbieri(at)pentafoundation.org

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), has assembled a task force to investigate and publish a definition for pediatric sepsis. The World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) has agreed to assist by conducting an international survey to provide as much data as possible in this effort. Data sources for the definition must come from diversified care settings from across the globe and hence we are seeking your help.

Please assist us in this data gathering effort by sharing the survey link provided herein to appropriate organizations for dissemination. It would be helpful to notify the task force chairs co-chairs (Luregn Schlapbach and Scott Watson) and Co-Vice-Chairs (Lauren Sorce and Andrew Argent) of the organizations that you send the opportunity to for tracking purposes.

Survey Instructions (Completion of this anonymous survey should take approximately 15 minutes). The survey is available in English,  Français / French,  Español / Spanish,  Português / Portuguese,  中文 / Chinese