Nearly 5,000 critical care professionals attend the Society for Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) annual Congress to discover the latest solutions and developments, medical advances, cutting-edge treatments, and breakthroughs in intensive care unit (ICU) administration and management. At this year’s 49th Congress –which took place February 16-19, 2020, in Orlando, FL. – six University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics faculty and staff presented the following abstracts:
- “Estradiol increase only in the female hippocampi following hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in mice” – by Margaret Hackett (Department of Pediatrics student researcher; mentor: Pelin Cengiz, MD)
- “Go Run That Code” – by Sushant Srinivasan, MD (Assistant Professor, Fellowship Program Director)
- “The Interrater Reliability of Pediatric Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in the PICU” – by Ryan DeSanti, DO (PGY 6 Fellow)
- “Transcutaneous Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Congenital Heart Disease Patients” – by Scott Hagen, MD (Associate Professor)
- “Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Diagnose the Etiology of Acute Respiratory Failure in the PICU” – by Ryan DeSanti, DO(PGY 6 Fellow)
- “Volumetric Capnography Monitoring and Effects of Epinephrine on Volume of Carbon Dioxide Elimination During Resuscitation” – by Awni Al-Subu, MD (Assistant Professor, PICU Medical Director, Associate Fellowship Program Director)