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Ben White

@benrwhite.bsky.social

Pediatric Intensivist at University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital

Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jan 2026 #5 Reproducibility of Mechanical Power Equations in Ventilated Critically Ill Children journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/... Always love reading more about mechanical power.

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jan 2026 #4 Effect of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure on Cardiac Index and Right Ventricular Performance in Ventilated Children Post-Cardiac Surgery journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/... Turns out using appropriate PEEP in cardiac kids may actually help their heart by getting them to optimal FRC.

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jan 2026 #3 An IV Sodium Bicarbonate Shortage in the Critically Ill: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/f... More evidence that we may not need as much bicarb in our lives as we think

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jan 2026 #2 Return-to-Care After Discharge Directly Home From the PICU: A Propensity-Matched Cohort Study journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/... TLDR: It's OK to discharge from the PICU

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jan 2026 #1 journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/f... Great editorial by Joe Tonna on ECMO candidacy.

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Starting a new thing for my fellows. What new articles are we reading each month?

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We create medical miracles and then take them away. Medical Luddism will be a sad result of a post-truth world.

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I think you're hitting on a key theme. Prevention, access, and education. Where it's better, asthma will be better, where it's worse asthma will be worse. Hard to know whose constellation of adjuncts are better when these factors aren't controlled for.

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Also have my own theories on why we have big practice differences and have a hunch that is related to how we define critical asthma. Hopefully this new definition is a starting place to help standardize our approaches nationally and internationally.

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Michael thanks for the great comments and sharing your experience! One of the biggest take aways from this work is how much more work we have to do. We're looking to show how very different approaches can be with the CATCHUP study. We'll have an international arm with ANZICS sites too!

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Samer Abu-Sultaneh, MD, FAAP, FCCM @abusultaneh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Very excited to share the great work from @benrwhite.bsky.social @chriscarrollmd.com and the great experts @aarc-community.bsky.social @palisinet.bsky.social pediatric critical asthma CPG #PedsICU www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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AARC and PALISI Clinical Practice Guideline: Pediatric Critical Asthma | Respiratory Care

To address the lack of guidance for clinicians in their care of children with critical asthma, a multidisciplinary team of medical providers used Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, a...

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fascists try to control truth. It has a way of getting out anyway. Happy Good Friday to those who do not compromise in the face of repression.

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thanks Guillaume! I'm bad at social media but trying to be better at this one. Hopefully this paper helps continue the discussion in our field about giving critical bronchiolitis the attention necessary to develop better treatment strategies. Agree with the PCCM suggestion too!

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So wonderful to reach the finish line with all of you!

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Ben White @benrwhite.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Thanks Chris! This may actually get me to use social media again. Very excited to have our first CATCHUP study patients enrolled this week!

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