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Every few years, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign publishes a document that most of critical care medicine will lean on, argue about, and quietly ignore in equal measure. The 2026 update is no exception: 88 pages, 69 authors, and 129 recommendations distilled from a literature base no single clinician could realistically keep up with alone. On…

It took The Critical Care Commute 100 episodes to invite a registered nurse onto the show. We acknowledged that directly on air, because it deserved acknowledgment. S5E20 corrects the record. Sonia Hoag is a clinical nurse educator in the General Systems ICU at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, where she leads preparation and…

With a growing Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — and the usual diagnostic testing failing to detect this strain in early weeks — the question is no longer theoretical: what should clinicians actually know about Ebola? We put that question to Dr. Rob Fowler, Professor of Critical Care…

When a Dutch couple set off on a bird-watching excursion in Patagonia, they could not have anticipated that their holiday would spark an international outbreak — 9 confirmed cases aboard a cruise ship, 3 deaths, passengers quarantined across Europe, North America, and beyond. The pathogen at the center of it all: Andes virus, a South…

Category: Public Health & Communication | Tags: Vaccine Hesitancy, Dr. Craig Spencer, Health Communication, Anti-Vaccine Movement, FOAMcc, Critical Care Estimated read: 4 minutes | Suggested slug: anti-vaccine-conference-craig-spencer-critical-care-commute What do you actually find when you walk into an anti-vaccine conference and pay attention? Dr. Craig Spencer, Professor of Public Health and Emergency Medicine at Brown University,…

Introduction Antimicrobial resistance is one of the defining public health challenges of our time. And yet, one of the most effective responses available to clinicians is not a new drug — it’s using an existing one more wisely. In Episode 15 of The Critical Care Commute, Leon and Peter sit down with Dr. George Zhanel,…

Introduction The word ‘unprecedented’ has been used to describe the 2026 meningitis outbreak centred on the University of Kent. An entire university community affected. A Canterbury nightclub identified as a transmission hub. Young people in intensive care units across the UK. For critical care clinicians, this is not a surprise. Meningitis has always been capable…

The concept of the “difficult airway” is often framed from the physician’s perspective, focusing on the technical challenges of securing the airway. However, a patient-centered approach reframes this to consider the physiological difficulties that place the patient at risk for complications. This blogpost explores the difficult airway, emphasizing a physiological approach. The term “difficult airway”…