Publications
Adhikari NK
Crit Care Med
2011
Adhikari NK, Bashir A, Lamontagne F, Mehta S, Ferguson ND, Zhou Q, Hand L, Czarnecka K, Cook DJ, Granton JT, Friedrich JO, Freitag A, Watpool I, Meade MO for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. High frequency oscillation in adults: a utilization review. Crit Care Med. 2011 Dec;39(12):2631-44. PMID: 21765359
Katsios C
Crit Care
2011
Katsios C, Griffith L, Spinella P, Lacroix J, Crowther M, Hebert P, Meade M, Geerts W, Rabbat C, Cook D for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Red blood cell transfusion and increased length of storage are not associated with deep vein thrombosis in medical-surgical critically ill patients: a prospective observational cohort study. Crit Care 2011; 15:R263. PMID: 22044745
PROTECT Investigators
N Engl J Med
2011
PROTECT Investigators for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group & the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. A Randomized Trial of Dalteparin versus Unfractionated Heparin in Critically Ill Patients. N Engl J Med 2011;364(14):1305-1314. PMID: 21417952
Cook DJ
J Crit Care
2011
Cook DJ, Meade M, Guyatt G, Walter SD, Heels-Ansdell D, Geerts W, Warkentin T, Cooper DJ, Zytaruk N, Vallance S, Berwanger O, Rocha M, Qushmaq I, Crowther MA for the PROTECT Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. PROTECT (Prophylaxis for ThromboEmbolism in Critical Care Trial) Protocol and Analysis Plan. J Crit Care 2011;26(2); e223.e9 & doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2011.02.010) PMID: 21482348
Turgeon AF
CMAJ
2011
Turgeon AF, Lauzier F, Simard JF, Scales DC, Burns KEA, Moore L, Zygun DA, Bernard F, Meade MO, Dung TC, Ratnapalan M, Todd S, Harlock J, Fergusson DA for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Mortality associated with withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a Canadian multicentre cohort study. CMAJ October 4, 2011 vol. 183 no. 14 First published August 29, 2011. PMID: 21876014
Karam O
Pediatr Crit Care Med
2011
Karam O, Tucci M, Ducruet T, Hume HA, Lacroix J, Gauvin F; for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the PALISI Network. Red blood cell transfusion thresholds in pediatric patients with sepsis. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 Sep;12(5):512-518. PMID: 21057356
Sud S
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
2011
Sud S, Mittmann N, Cook DJ, Geerts W, Chan B, Dodek P, Gould MK, Guyatt G, Arabi Y, Fowler RA; On Behalf of the E-PROTECT Investigators and for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Screening and Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Critically Ill Patients: A Decision Analysis and Economic Evaluation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Aug 25. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21868500
Lacroix J
Transfusion Medicine Reviews
2011
Lacroix J, Hébert PC, Fergusson D, Tinmouth A, Blajchman MA, Callum J, Cook D, Marshall J, McIntyre L, Turgeon A, for the ABLE study group, and for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. The age of blood evaluation (ABLE) randomized controlled trial: Study design. Transfusion Medicine Reviews 2011;25:197-205. PMID: 21550205
Herridge MS
N Engl J Med
2011
Herridge MS, Tansey CM, Matté A, Tomlinson G, Diaz-Granados N, Cooper A, Guest CB, Mazer CD, Mehta S, Stewart TE, Kudlow P, Cook D, Slutsky AS, Cheung AM; for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Functional disability 5 years after acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 7;364(14):1293-304. PMID: 21470008
Burns KEA
Trials
2011
Burns KEA, Chant C, Smith O, Cuthbertson B, Fowler R, Cook DJ, Kruger P, Webb S, Alhashemi J, Dominguez-Cherit G, Zala C, Rubenfeld GD, Marshall JC for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. A Canadian Critical Care Trials Group project in collaboration with the international forum for acute care trialists - Collaborative H1N1 Adjuvant Treatment pilot trial (CHAT): study protocol and design of a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2011 Mar 9;12:70. PMID: 21388549
Heyland DK
Crit Care
2011
Heyland DK, Muscedere J, Drover J, Jiang X, Day AG for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Persistent organ dysfunction plus death: a novel, composite outcome measure for critical care trials. Crit Care. 2011;15(2):R98. Epub 2011 Mar 18. PMID: 21418560
Keenan SP
Can Med Assoc J
2011
Keenan SP, Sinuff T, Burns K, Muscedere J, Kutsogiannis J, Sangeeta M, Dodek P, Cook DJ, Ayas N, Adhikari N, Hand L, Scales D, Pagnotta R, Lazosky L, Rocker G, Dial S, Laupland K, Sanders K for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and Canadian Critical Care Society. Noninvasive Ventilation Guidelines Group. Clinical practice guidelines for noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) and noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) in the acute care setting. Can Med Assoc J 2011 Feb 22;183(3):E195-214. Epub 2011 Feb 14. PMID: 21324867
Ethier C
J of Crit Care
2011
Ethier C, Burry L, Martinez-Motta C, Tirgari S, Jiang D, McDonald E, Granton J, Cook D, Mehta S, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Recall of ICU stay in patients managed with a Sedation Protocol or a Sedation Protocol with Daily Sedative Interruption: A Pilot Study. J of Crit Care 2011;26:127-132. Epub Oct 1, 2010. PMID: 20889289
Delisle MS
Can Respir J
2011
Delisle MS, Williamson DR, Albert M, Perreault MM, Jiang X, Day AG, Heyland DK. Impact of Candida species on clinical outcomes in patients with suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia. Can Respir J. 2011;18(3):131-6. PMID: 21766075
Williamson DR
Can J Anaesth.
2011
Williamson DR, Albert M, Perreault MM, Delisle MS, Muscedere J, Rotstein C, Jiang X, Heyland DK. The relationship between Candida species cultured from the respiratory tract and systemic inflammation in critically ill patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia. Can J Anaesth. 2011;58(3):275-84. PMID: 2128730
Stiff D
Pediatr Crit Care Med
2011
Stiff D1, Kumar A, Kissoon N, Fowler R, Jouvet P, Skippen P, Smetanin P, Kesselman M, Veroukis S. Potential pediatric intensive care unit demand/capacity mismatch due to novel pH1N1 in Canada. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 Mar;12(2):e51-7. PMID: 20473239
Karvellas CJ
Crit Care
2011
Karvellas CJ, Farhat MR, Sajjad I, Mogensen SS, Leung AA, Wald R, Bagshaw SM. A comparison of early versus late initiation of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care. 2011;15(1):R72. PMID: 21352532
Daneman N
Int J Antimicrob Agents
2011
Daneman N, Shore K, Pinto R, Fowler R.. Antibiotic treatment duration for bloodstream infections in critically ill patients: a national survey of Canadian infectious diseases and critical care specialists.Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2011 Dec;38(6):480-5. PMID: 21982833
Havey TC
Crit Care
2011
Havey TC, Fowler RA, Daneman N.Duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteremia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care. 2011;15(6):R267. PMID: 22085732
Gauvin F
Transfusion
2010
Gauvin F, Spinella PC, Lacroix J, Choker G, Ducruet T, Karam O, Hébert PC, Hutchison JS, Hume HA, Tucci M, on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Association between length of storage of transfused red blood cells and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in pediatric intensive care patients. Transfusion. 2010 Sep;50(9):1902-13 PMID: 20456697
Rouette J
Annals of Surgery
2010
Rouette J, Trottier H, Ducruet T, Beaunoyer M, Lacroix J, Tucci M for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and PALISI. Red blood cell transfusion threshold in post-surgical pediatric intensive care patients: a randomized clinical trial. Annals of Surgery 2010; 251:421-7. PMID: 20118780
Willems A
Crit Care Med
2010
Willems A, Harrington K, Lacroix J, Biarent D, Joffe ARI, Wensley D, Ducruet T, Hébert PC, Tucci M, on behalf of the TRIPICU investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Comparison of two red-cell transfusion strategies after pediatric cardiac surgery: a subgroup analysis. Crit Care Med 2010;38(2):649-56. PMID: 19789443
Hutchison JS
Dev Neurosci
2010
Hutchison JS, Frndova H, Lo TY, Guerguerian AM for the Hypothermia Pediatric Head Injury Trial Investigators and for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Impact of hypotension and low cerebral perfusion pressure on outcomes in children treated with hypothermia therapy following severe traumatic brain injury: A post hoc analysis of the hypothermia pediatric head injury trial. Dev Neurosci 2010;32:406-412. PMID: 21252486
Freed DH
Can J Anaesth
2010
Freed DH, Henzler D, White CW, Fowler R, Zarychanski R, Hutchison J, Arora RC, Manji RA, Legare JF, Drews T, Veroukis S, Kesselman M, Guerguerian AM, Kumar A; for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Extracorporeal lung support for patients who had severe respiratory failure secondary to influenza A (H1N1) 2009 infection in Canada. Can J Anaesth 2010;57(3):240-7. PMID: 20082167