Abstract Awards

First Place
Impact of Steroids on Outcomes of hospitalized children with Non-MISC-COVID-19: Analysis from
the SCCM Discovery Network VIRUS
Meghana Nadiger, Aaron A. Harthan, Jeremy S. McGarvey, Monica Y. Lombardo, Varsha P.
Gharpure, Nicholas Perkins, Kathleen Chiotos, Rahul Kashyap, Vishakha K. Kumar, Allan J. Walkey,
Sandeep Tripathi. The Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory
Illness Universal Study (VIRUS): COVID-19 Registry Investigator Group.

Second Place (Tie)
Early combination therapy with immunoglobulin and steroids is associated with shorter ICU
length of stay in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) associated with
COVID19: A retrospective cohort analysis from 28 U.S Hospitals
Aaron Harthan, Jeremy McGarvey, Keith Hanson, Varsha Gharpure, Erica Bjornstad, Kathleen
Chiotos, Aaron Miller, Ronald Reikoff, Ognjen Gajic, Vishakha Kumar, Allan Walkey, Rahul
Kashyap, Sandeep Tripathi. The Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection and
Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS): COVID-19 Registry Investigator Group.
Development of a Risk Stratification Predictive Tool for Unplanned Readmissions to a
Neurointensive Care Unit
Osvaldo Laurido-Soto,Michael Binkley, Nudrat Tasneem, Rajat Dhar, Peter Kang.

Third Place(Tie)
Comparing Illness Severity and Outcomes between different Pediatric Age Groups Hospitalized
for Covid-19-related Illness
Sree Balasu, Sandeep Tripathi, and The Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral
Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS): COVID-19 Registry Investigator
Group.
Viral DNAemia and Viral Seropositivity are Associated with Mortality in Pediatric Patients with
Severe Sepsis:
Stephanie Cabler, Gregory Storch, Jason Weinberg, Andrew. Walton, Karen Brengel-Pesce,
Zachary Aldewereld, Russell Banks, Joseph Carcillo.