Publications

Effect of Reduced Exposure to Vasopressors on 90-Day Mortality in Older Critically Ill Patients With Vasodilatory Hypotension: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Lamontagne F, Richards-Belle A, Thomas K, Harrison DA, Sadique MZ, Grieve RD, Camsooksai J, Darnell R, Gordon AC, Henry D, Hudson N, Mason AJ, Saull M, Whitman C, Young JD, Rowan KM, Mouncey PR; 65 trial investigators. JAMA. 2020 Feb 12. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.0930. PMID: 32049269

Garcia Guerra G, Joffe A, Sheppard C, Hewson K, Dinu IA, de Caen A, Jou H, Hartling L, Vohra S; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Music Use for Sedation in Critically ill Children (MUSiCC trial): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2020 Feb 25;6:31. doi: 10.1186/s40814-020-0563-x. eCollection 2020.. PMID: 32128249

STARRT-AKI Investigators; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group; Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group; United Kingdom Critical Care Research Group; Canadian Nephrology Trials Network; Irish Critical Care Trials Group, Bagshaw SM, Wald R, Adhikari NKJ, Bellomo R, da Costa BR, Dreyfuss D, Du B, Gallagher MP, Gaudry S, Hoste EA, Lamontagne F, Joannidis M, Landoni G, Liu KD, McAuley DF, McGuinness SP, Neyra JA, Nichol AD, Ostermann M, Palevsky PM, Pettilä V, Quenot JP, Qiu H, Rochwerg B, Schneider AG, Smith OM, Thomé F, Thorpe KE, Vaara S, Weir M, Wang AY, Young P, Zarbock A.Timing of Initiation of Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 16;383(3):240-251.

Chornenki JN, Liaw P, Bagshaw S, Burns K, Dodek P, English S, Fan E, Ferrari N, Fowler R, Fox-Robichaud A, Garland A, Green R, Hebert P, Kho M, Martin C, Maslove D, McDonald E, Menon K, Murthy S, Muscedere J, Scales D, Stelfox HT, Wang HT, Weiss M; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) and Canadian Critical Care Translational Biology Group (CCCTBG). Data initiatives supporting critical care research and quality improvement in Canada: an environmental scan and narrative review. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Apr;67(4):475-484.

Weiss MJ, English SW, D'Aragon F, Lauzier F, Turgeon AF, Dhanani S, McIntyre L, Carvalho LP, Yu M, Shemie SD, Knoll G, Fergusson DA, Anthony SJ, Haj-Moustafa A, Hartell D, Mohr J, Chassé M; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.Survey of Canadian critical care physicians' knowledge and attitudes towards legislative aspects of the deceased organ donation system. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Oct;67(10):1349-1358.

Ghandour EK, Lelaidier Hould L, Fortier FA, Gélinas V, Melnick ER, Hess EP, Lang ES, Gravel J, Perry JJ, Le Sage N, Truchon C, LeBlanc A, Dubrovsky AS, Gagnon MP, Ouellet MC, Gagnon I, McKenna S, Légaré F, Sauvé L, van de Belt TH, Kavanagh É, Paquette L, Verrette AC, Plante P, Riopelle RJ, Archambault PM; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium and the Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers. Adapting two American Decision Aids for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury to the Canadian Context Using the Nominal Group Technique. Patient. 2020 Oct 20. doi: 10.1007/s40271-020-00459-y.

KC Noël, J Papenburg, J Lacroix, C Quach, S O'Donnell, M Gonzales, DF Willson, E Gilfoyle, JD McNally, S Reynolds, Y Kazzaz, A Kawaguchi, M Sato, L Kongkiattikul, S Leteurtre, F Dubos, Y Karaca, F Chiusolo, J Piva, N Dendukuri, PS Fontela, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) and the Pediatric Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. International Survey on Determinants of Antibiotic Duration and Discontinuation in Pediatric Critically Ill Patients. Pediatr. Crit Care Med. 2020; Sep;21(9):e696-e706 PMID: 32639469

Williamson DR, Cherifa SI, Frenette AJ, Mitjans MS, Charbonney E, Cataford G, Williams V, Palacios JL, Burry L, Mehta S, Arbour C & F. Bernard for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Agitation, confusion, and aggression in critically ill traumatic brain injury-a pilot cohort study (ACACIA-PILOT). Pilot and Feasibility Studies volume 6, Article number: 193 (2020)

McNally JD, O’Hearn K, Fergusson DA, Lougheed J, Doherty DR, Maharajh G, Weiler H, Jones G, Khamessan A, Redpath S, Geier P, McIntyre L, Lawson ML, Girolamo T & Kusum Menon on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Prevention of post-cardiac surgery vitamin D deficiency in children with congenital heart disease: a pilot feasibility dose evaluation randomized controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies volume 6, Article number: 159 (2020)

Weiss MJ, English SW, D'Aragon F, Lauzier F, Turgeon AF, Dhanani S, McIntyre L, Shemie SD, Knoll G, Fergusson DA, Anthony SJ, Haj-Moustafa A, Hartell D, Mohr J, Chassé M; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Survey of Canadian intensivists on physician non-referral and family override of deceased organ donation. Can J Anaesth. 2019, 67(3):313-323. PMID: 31768789

Masse MH, Battista MC, Wilcox ME, Pinto R, Marinoff N, D'Aragon F, St-Arnaud C, Mayette M, Leclair MA, Quiroz Martinez H, Grondin-Beaudoin B, Poulin Y, Carbonneau É, Seely AJE, Watpool I, Porteous R, Chassé M, Lebrasseur M, Lauzier F, Turgeon AF, Bellemare D, Mehta S, Charbonney E, Belley-Côté É, Botton É, Cohen D, Lamontagne F, Adhikari NKJ; OVATION-65 team members; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Optimal VAsopressor TitraTION in patients 65 years and older (OVATION-65): protocol and statistical analysis plan for a randomised clinical trial. BMJ Open. 2020 Nov 14;10(11):e037947

Griesdale DEG, Sekhon MS, Wood MD, Cardim D, Brasher PMA, McCredie V, Sirounis D, Foster D, Krasnogolova Y, Smielewski P, Scales DC, Ainslie PN, Menon DK, Boyd JG, Field TS, Dorian P; Cerebral Oximetry to Assess Cerebral Autoregulation in Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury (CONCEPT) Research Group, on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Assess Cerebral Autoregulation and Optimal Mean Arterial Pressure in Patients With Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury: A Prospective Multicenter Feasibility Study. Crit Care Explor. 2020 Sep 25;2(10):e0217. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000217. PMID: 33063026; PMCID: PMC7523861

Mack J, Kahn SR, Tinmouth A, Fergusson D, Hébert PC, Lacroix J; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.Volume-dependent effect of stored red blood cells: A secondary analysis of the Age of Blood Evaluation trial. Transfusion. 2020 Sep;60(9):1929-1939. doi: 10.1111/trf.15933. Epub 2020 Aug 28. PMID: 32856734 Clinical Trial.

D'Aragon F, Lamontagne F, Cook D, Dhanani S, Keenan S, Chassé M, English S, Burns KEA, Frenette AJ, Ball I, Boyd JG, Masse M, Breau R, Akhtar A, Kramer A, Rochwerg B, Lauzier F, Kutsogiannis DJ, Ibrahim Q, Hand L, Zhou Q, Meade MO, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program. Variability in deceased donor care in Canada: a report of the Canada-DONATE cohort study. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Aug;67(8):992-1004.  doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01692-7

Kho ME, Molloy AJ, Clarke FJ, et al. Multicentre pilot randomised clinical trial of early in-bed cycle ergometry with ventilated patients. BMJ Open Resp Res 2019;6:e000383. doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2018-000383.

Schlosser K, Wang JP, Dos Santos C, Walley KR, Marshall J, Fergusson DA, Winston BW, Granton J, Watpool I, Stewart DJ, McIntyre LA, Mei SHJ; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Canadian Critical Care Translational Biology Group.Effects of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Treatment on Systemic Cytokine Levels in a Phase 1 Dose Escalation Safety Trial of Septic Shock Patients. Crit Care Med. 2019 Feb 1. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003657. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30720538

Weiss MJ, Domínguez-Gil B, Lahaie N, Nakagawa TA, Scales A, Hornby L, Green M, Gelbart B, Hawkins K, Dhanani S, Dipchand AI, Shemie SD; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Development of a multinational registry of pediatric deceased organ donation activity. Pediatr Transplant. 2019 Feb 5:e13345. doi: 10.1111/petr.13345. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30724003

Bagshaw SM, Adhikari NKJ, Burns KEA, Friedrich JO, Bouchard J, Lamontagne F, McIntrye LA, Cailhier JF, Dodek P, Stelfox HT, Herridge M, Lapinsky S, Muscedere J, Barton J, Griesdale D, Soth M, Ambosta A, Lebovic G, Wald R; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.Selection and Receipt of Kidney Replacement in Critically Ill Older Patients with AKI. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Apr 5;14(4):496-505. PMID: 30898872

Ruel-Laliberté J, Lessard Bonaventure P, Fergusson D, Lacroix J, Zarychanski R, Lauzier F, Tinmouth A, Hébert PC, Green R, Griesdale D, Fowler R, Kramer A, McIntyre LA, Zygun D, Walsh T, Stanworth S, Capellier G, Pili-Floury S, Samain E, Clayton L, Marshall J, Pagliarello G, Sabri E, Neveu X, Léger C, Turgeon AF; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.Effect of age of transfused red blood cells on neurologic outcome following traumatic brain injury (ABLE-tbi Study): a nested study of the Age of Blood Evaluation (ABLE) trial. Can J Anaesth. 2019 Feb 26. doi: 10.1007/s12630-019-01326-7. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30809776

Burns KEA, Wong JTY, Dodek P, Cook DJ, Lamontagne F, Cohen A, Mehta S, Kho ME, Hebert PC, Aslanian P, Friedrich JO, Brochard L, Rizvi L, Hand L, Meade MO, Amaral AC, Seely AJ; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Frequency of Screening for Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation: Two Contemporaneous Proof-of-Principle Randomized Controlled Trials. Crit Care Med. 2019 Jun;47(6):817-825. PMID: 30920411

Lessard Bonaventure P, Lauzier F, Zarychanski R, Boutin A, Shemilt M, Saxena M, Zolfagari P, Griesdale D, Menon DK, Stanworth S, English S, Chassé M, Fergusson DA, Moore L, Kramer A, Robitaille A, Myburgh J, Cooper J, Hutchinson P, Turgeon AF; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium. Red blood cell transfusion in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury: an international survey of physicians' attitudes. Can J Anaesth. 2019 Sep;66(9):1038-1048. PMID: 31012052

Hamilton M, Tomlinson G, Chu L, Robles P, Matte A, Burns S, Thomas C, Lamontagne F, Adhikari NK, Ferguson N, Friedrich JO, Rudkowski JC, Skrobik Y, Meggison H, Cameron J, Herridge M; RECOVER Program Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Determinants of Depressive Symptoms at One Year after Intensive Care Unit Discharge in Survivors of ≥7 Days of Mechanical Ventilation: Results from the RECOVER Program - a Secondary Analysis of a Prospective Multi-Centre Cohort Study. Chest. 2019 May 15. pii: S0012-3692(19)31046-3. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.04.104. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 31102611

Tlayjeh H, Arabi YM, Ferguson ND, Zhou Q, Lamontagne F, Arroliga A, Danesh V, Dominguez-Cherit G, Jimenez E, Mullaly A, Staub B, Meade MO; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.Body Mass Index and Mortality in Subjects With ARDS: Post-hoc Analysis of the OSCILLATE Trial. Respir Care. 2019 May 28. pii: respcare.06675. doi: 10.4187/respcare.06675. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 31138733

Garcia Guerra G, Almeida L, Zorzela L, King-Jones S, Joffe AR, Hartling L, Jou H, Vohra S; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Efficacy of music on sedation, analgesia and delirium in critically ill patients. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. J Crit Care. 2019 Jun 4;53:75-80. PMID: 31202161