Pharmacy to Dose: The Critical Care Podcast

Andrea Nei, Guideline Vice Chair, joins us to highlight the “2024 Focused Update: Guidelines on Use of Corticosteroids in Sepsis, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and Community-Acquired Pneumonia”

We go into the history of corticosteroid treatment guidelines, who the panel consists of, unexpected challenges, dealing with biases/anecdotal preferences, and how authorship is decided.

Then we review the 5 PICO guideline questions and review the recommendations, focusing on 3 specific disease states: Sepsis, CAP, and ARDS. We review what specific verbage means, defining high-dose corticosteroids, most difficult question to gain consensus, GRADE methodology in everyday, working with your spouse, and much more!

ARDS Pt II episode as referenced in the episode is available on iTunes and Spotify now