Abstract Awards

Abstract winners from last year:

3rd Annual Virtual Critical Care Congress of SCCM Midwest Chapter Aug 13th , 2022

  • 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.