The primary objective of the study is to assess the rate of frequent information (more than 50% of cases) received by the relatives of adult surgical patients during the surgery.
The secondary objective is to assess the determinants of frequent information provided by anaesthesiologists to relatives of adult surgical patients during the surgery.

Steering Committee members:
Pr Samir JABER, Montpellier, France
Dr Manuel Guerrero, Tijuana, Mexico
Dr Natacha Kapandji, Paris, France
Dr Yvan Pouzeratte, Montpellier, France
Dr Clara Penne, Montpellier, France

Contact: Pr Audrey De Jong Montpellier University Hospital
Montpellier, France  a-de_jong [@] chu-montpellier.fr

Central venous catheters, the anaesthetist´s and intensivist´s choice of Insertion site and use of ultrasound.

The purpose of this study is to describe central venous catheter placement patterns in Europe and possible differences between levels of training, hospital type, regions and countries. We also wish to describe the physician’s choice of placement site, including placement of multiple catheters and the use of ultrasound for insertion and position control.

The participation in the study is confidential and the result will be presented on a group level to assure integrity.

Steering Committee:
Anna Bandert, Antoine Schneider, Miklós Lipcsey, Sten Rubertsson, Robert Frithiof, Ing-Marie Larsson, Ewa Wallin, David Smekal

The Current Acute Brain Injury Monitoring Practices within Intensive Care survey is an initiative of the ESICM NIC Section. Its primary objective is to capture and describe current Neurological ICU monitoring practices across ESICM members. Its secondary objectives include:  To establish the availability and use of Multi-Modality Monitors (MMM) in patients with ABI admitted to Intensive Care Units of ESICM members; to establish key barriers to MMM use currently; to establish current MMM practice and variation within major sub-types of ABI; to establish common factors influencing MMM use and to establish if and how MMM are affecting clinical care.

Steering Committee members:
Dr Vivek Muralidharan, UK; Dr Florian Gessler, Germany; Dr Adrian Wong, UK
Dr Laura Galarza, Spain; Professor Fabio Taccone, Belgium; Professor Aarti Sarwal, USA; Dr Virginia Newcombe, UK; Professor Chiara Robba, Italy.

Contact: Dr Richard Cashmore, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, richard.cashmore [@] nhs.net

The Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Blood Purification Therapy Survey is an initiative of the ESICM AKI Section. The primary objective is to determine differences in AKI management practice across ICU. The secondary objective include description on (1) demographics of units (2) AKI incidence, recognition, work force burden, (3) RRT implementation and resourcing.

Steering Committee members:
Silvia De Rosa, Bairbre McNicholas, Antoine Schneider, John Prowle

Contact: Silvia De Rosa, Centre for Medical Sciences – CISMed, University of Trento, Via S. Maria Maddalena 1, 38122 Trento, Italy
silvia.derosa [@] unitn.it

The survey will present the same question as the survey in the paper published in 2017 [PMID: 28787293].

Several factors have been advocated for their importance in the management of patients in ICU settings including delirium, pain and analgesia, early mobility, and family involvement. In 2018 the PADIS (Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU) guidelines were published to provide clinicians with specific indications for the management of pain, analgesia, and delirium. In 2017 we conducted a survey to assess the knowledge and use of the ABCDEF (Assessing Pain, Both Spontaneous Awakening and Breathing Trials, Choice of Drugs, Delirium monitoring/management, Early exercise/mobility, and Family Empowerment) bundle worldwide and we found wide variability on its application across individual countries. After 6 years, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to implement a new release of the survey to have a new picture of the ABCDEF bundle application worldwide. We think that this could offer interesting insights into the implementation of the ABCDEF bundle and possibly identify specific barriers and targets for further quality improvement and adoption of the bundle.

Our focus is to explore the knowledge about the ABCDEF bundle and the grade of its implementation worldwide, including, in this new release, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

The primary endpoint is to evaluate the use of vasopressin as a vasopressor in the management of patients with septic shock (selection of patients, triggers for vasopressin administration, timing of vasopressin administration). The secondary endpoints are to evaluate the modalities of vasopressin administration in patients with septic shock: Dose of vasopressin (initial dose, maximal dose and titration) during resuscitation; Duration of vasopressin administration; Discontinuation of vasopressin administration.

Steering Committee members:
Pr Michelle CHEW, Dept. of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Linköping, Sweden
Pr Xavier MONNET, Intensive Care Medicine, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Pr Daniel DE BACKER, Intensive Care Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Dr Antonio MESSINA, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – Rozzano (Milano), Italy

Contact: Mathieu JOZWIAK, University Hospital of Nice, MICU, Nice, France ( jozwiak.m@chu-nice.fr)

This survey will help to prioritize strategies to address discrimination and increase equity within ESICM.

Period: starting on 21 October at LIVES 2023. This survey is now open.

Co-leaders:

Michelle Chew, Chair-elect of the ESICM CD Section.
Olfa Hamzaoui, member of the CD Section and National Representative for France in the ESICM Council.

Training and implementation of Critical Care Ultrasonography (CCUS): a survey

The primary objective of this study is to get insight into the current status and experiences of CCUS use and certification. Secondary objective is to determine possible causes for the lack of implementation of CCUS.

This survey has been designed after consultation with the EDEC, Clinical Training and NEXT Committee of the ESICM and have their support.

With this survey we will provide an overview of the current status of CCUS use in the ICU for use and training. In addition, we want to determine which factors have the most influence on the (lack of) use of CCUS in clinical practice and certification.

Steering committee: Adrian Wong, Amne Mousa, Laura Galarza, Philippe Vignon, Pieter Roel Tuinman

The primary objective is to determine the influence of relevant physiologic variables on the decision to intubate and ventilate in the context of hypoxemic respiratory failure.

The secondary objective is to evaluate the probability of recommending intubation among patients who meet physiologic thresholds that could be tested in randomized clinical trials.

This survey has been endorsed by ESICM. It should take no more than 15 minutes to complete.

Steering Committee:

Giacomo Bellani, Rob Fowler, Sangeeta Mehta, Kim Lewis, Georgiana Roman-Sarita, Harm-Jan De Grooth, Federico Angriman, Hannah Wozniak, Thiago Bassi, Jariya Sereeyotin, Idunn Morris, Peter Reardon, Baoli Li, Ewan Goligher, Takeshi Yoshida