Publications

Czerwonka AI, Herridge MS, Chan L, Chu LM, Matte A, Cameron JI. Changing support needs of survivors of complex critical illness and their family caregivers across the care continuum: A qualitative pilot study of Towards RECOVER. J Crit Care. 2015;30(2):242-9. PMID: 25466314

Lacroix, J, Hébert, PC, Fergusson, DA, Tinmouth, A, Cook, DJ, Marshall, JC, Clayton, L, McIntyre, L, Callum, J, Turgeon, AF, Blajchman, MA, Walsh, TS, Stanworth, SJ, Campbell, H, Capellier, G, Tiberghien, P, Bardiaux, L, van de Watering, L, van der Meer, NJ, Sabri, E, Vo, D for the ABLE Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Age of Transfused Blood in Critically Ill Adults.N Engl J Med. 2015, 372(15):1410-8. PMID: 25776801 

Parshuram CS, Amaral AC, Ferguson ND, Baker GR, Etchells EE, Flintoft V, Granton J, Lingard L, Kirpalani H, Mehta S, Moldofsky H, Scales DC, Stewart TE, Willan AR, Friedrich JO; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Patient safety, resident well-being and continuity of care with different resident duty schedules in the intensive care unit: a randomized trial. CMAJ. 2015 Mar 17;187(5):321-9. PMID: 25667258

Karam O, Demaret P, Shefler A, Leteurtre S, Spinella P, Stanworth S, Tucci M; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG), Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI), BloodNet, and the PlasmaTV investigators. Indications and Effects of Plasma Transfusions in Critically Ill Children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Jun 15;191(12):1395-402. PMID: 25859890

Fowler RA, Abdelmalik P, Wood G, Foster D, Gibney N, Bandrauk N, Turgeon AF, Lamontagne F, Kumar A, Zarychanski R, Green R, Bagshaw SM, Stelfox HT, Foster R, Dodek P, Shaw S, Granton J, Lawless B, Hill A, Rose L, Adhikari NK, Scales DC, Cook DJ, Marshall JC, Martin C, Jouvet P; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and The Canadian ICU Capacity Group. Critical Care capacity in Canada: results of a national cross-sectional study. Crit Care. 2015 Apr 1;19(1):133. PMID: 25888116

Daneman N, Rishu AH, Xiong W, Bagshaw SM, Cook DJ, Dodek P, Hall R, Kumar A, Lamontagne F, Lauzier F, Marshall JC, Martin CM, McIntyre L, Muscedere J, Reynolds S, Stelfox HT, Fowler RA; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Bacteremia Antibiotic Length Actually Needed for Clinical Effectiveness (BALANCE): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2015 Apr 18;16(1):173. PMID: 25903783

van Beinum A, Hornby L, Ramsay T, Ward R, Shemie SD, Dhanani S. Exploration of Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy in Canadian Intensive Care Units. J Intensive Care Med. 2015 Feb 12. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25680980

Munshi L, Dhanani S, Shemie SD, Hornby L, Gore G, Shahin J. Predicting time to death after withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy. Intensive Care Med. 2015 Jun;41(6):1014-28. PMID: 25944573

Heyland DK, Cook D, Bagshaw SM, Garland A, Stelfox HT, Mehta S, Dodek P, Kutsogiannis J, Burns K, Muscedere J, Turgeon AF, Fowler R, Jiang X, Day AG; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network. The Very Elderly Admitted to ICU: A Quality Finish? Crit Care Med. 2015Jul;43(7):1352-60. PMID: 25901550

Parshuram CS, Dryden-Palmer K, Farrell C, Gottesman R, Gray M, Hutchison JS, Helfaer M, Hunt E, Joffe A, Lacroix J, Nadkarni V, Parkin P, Wensley D, Willan AR; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group .Evaluating processes of care and outcomes of children in hospital (EPOCH): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2015;16(1):245. PMID: 26033094

NICE-SUGAR Study Investigators for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury: long-term follow-up of a subgroup of patients from the NICE-SUGAR study. Intensive Care Med. 2015 Jun;41(6):1037-47. PMID: 26088909

Green RS, Turgeon AF, McIntyre LA, Fox-Robichaud AE, Fergusson DA, Doucette S, Butler MB, Erdogan M; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG). Postintubation hypotension in intensive care unit patients: A multicenter cohort study. J Crit Care. 2015 Oct;30(5):1055-60. PMID: 26117220

Wald, R, Adhikari, NKJ, Smith, OM, Weir, MA, Pope, K, Cohen, A, Thorpe, K, McIntyre, L, Lamontagne, F, Soth, M, Herridge, M, Lapinsky, S, Clark, E, Garg, AX, Hiremath, S, Klein, D, Mazer, CD, Richardson, RMA, Wilcox, EM, Friedrich, JO, Burns, KEA and Bagshaw, SM on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Comparison of standard and accelerated initiation of renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury. Kidney Int. 2015 Oct;88(4):897-904. PMID: 26154928

Lacroix J, Hébert PC, Fergusson D, Tinmouth A, Capellier G, Tiberghien P, Bardiaux L; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. The ABLE study: A randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of fresh red cell units to improve the outcome of transfused critically ill adults. Transfus Clin Biol. 2015 Aug;22(3):107-11. French. PMID: 26049675

Burry L, Cook D, Herridge M, Devlin JW, Fergusson D, Meade M, Steinberg M, Skrobik Y, Olafson K, Burns K, Dodek P, Granton J, Ferguson N, Jacka M, Tanios M, Fowler R, Reynolds S, Keenan S, Mallick R, Mehta S; SLEAP Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Recall of ICU Stay in Patients Managed With a Sedation Protocol or a Sedation Protocol With Daily Interruption. Crit Care Med. 2015 Oct;43(10):2180-90. PMID: 26181221

Arabi YM, Cook DJ, Zhou Q, Smith O, Hand L, Turgeon AF, Matte A, Mehta S, Graham R, Brierley K, Adhikari NK, Meade MO, Ferguson ND; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Characteristics and Outcomes of Eligible Non-Enrolled Patients in a Mechanical Ventilation Trial of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Jul 20. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26192398

D'Aragon F, Belley-Cote EP, Meade MO, Lauzier F, Adhikari NK, Briel M, Lalu M, Kanji S, Asfar P, Turgeon AF, Fox-Robichaud A, Marshall JC, Lamontagne F; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Blood pressure targets for vasopressor therapy: a systematic review. Shock. 2015 Jun;43(6):530-9. PMID: 25895147

McNally JD, O'Hearn K, Lawson ML, Maharajh G, Geier P, Weiler H, Redpath S, McIntyre L, Fergusson D, Menon K; Canadian Critical Care Trials Groups. Prevention of vitamin D deficiency in children following cardiac surgery: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2015 Sep 9;16(1):402. PMID: 26353829

Li G, Cook DJ, Levine MA, Guyatt G, Crowther M, Heels-Ansdell D, Holbrook A, Lamontagne F, Walter SD, Ferguson ND, Finfer S, Arabi YM, Bellomo R, Cooper DJ, Thabane L; PROTECT Investigators for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. Competing Risk Analysis for Evaluation of Dalteparin Versus Unfractionated Heparin for Venous Thromboembolism in Medical-Surgical Critically Ill Patients. Medicine (Baltimore). 2015 Sep;94(36):e1479. PMID: 26356708

McNally JD, Menon K, Lawson ML, Williams K, Doherty DR.1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D Levels in Pediatric Intensive Care Units: Risk Factors and Association With Clinical Course. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Aug;100(8):2942-5.PMID: 26052726

McNally JD, Iliriani K, Pojsupap S, Sampson M, O'Hearn K, McIntyre L, Fergusson D, Menon K. Rapid normalization of vitamin D levels: a meta-analysis. Pediatrics. 2015 Jan;135(1):e152-66. PMID: 25511115

van Beinum A, Hornby L, Ward R, Ramsay T, Dhanani S. Variations in the Operational Process of Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy. Crit Care Med. 2015 Oct;43(10):e450-7. PMID: 26121072

van Zanten AR, Dhaliwal R, Garrel D, Heyland DK. Enteral glutamine supplementation in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care. 2015 Aug 18;19:294. PMID: 26283217

Heyland DK, Garland A, Bagshaw SM, Cook D, Rockwood K, Stelfox HT, Dodek P, Fowler RA, Turgeon AF, Burns K, Muscedere J, Kutsogiannis J, Albert M, Mehta S, Jiang X, Day AG. Recovery after critical illness in patients aged 80 years or older: a multi-center prospective observational cohort study. Intensive Care Med. 2015 Nov;41(11):1911-20. PMID: 26306719