This Week in Critical Care — May 28, 2026

Welcome to This Week in Critical Care. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning cardiovascular dynamics in the ICU, the long-term systemic effects of critical illness, and practical questions around ICU procedures and interventions. Let's d… This week's papers: 1. Magnesium Sulfate to Prevent Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — Critical care medicine 2026 2. Reducing Physical Restraint in the ICU: Multicenter Phase II Randomized Trial of a Novel Device Versus Traditional Wrist Restraints. — Critical care medicine 2026 3. US Air Quality Index and respiratory health outcomes: background, knowledge gaps, and research prioritization. — American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2026 4. Time course of energy expenditure in persistent critical illness: a prospective multicentre study. — Critical care (London, England) 2026 5. Human haematopoietic stem cells remember inflammatory stress. — Nature 2026 6. Airway management with a supraglottic airway device during resuscitation by basic life support providers: a systematic review. — Resuscitation 2026 7. Sequential chemo-immunotherapy followed by standard versus reduced thoracic radiotherapy for older and/or frail stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A randomi… — PLoS medicine 2026 8. Visual Right Ventricular Assessment in ICU: A Multicenter International Study. — Critical care medicine 2026 9. Cardiovascular Subphenotypes in Sepsis. — Critical care medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/9bw8dexr4j