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Bram Rochwerg
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Latest papers
Clinical Criteria for the Definition of Refractory Septic Shock: A Joint Delphi Consensus from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
Critical Care Medicine · 2026
Clinical criteria for the definition of refractory septic shock: a joint Delphi consensus from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
Intensive Care Medicine · 2026
The diagnostic accuracy of serum procalcitonin for sepsis in critically ill adults. A systematic review and diagnostic meta-analysis
Journal of Critical Care · 2026
Latest funding
- $543,150
Adjunctive Methylene Blue in Septic Shock (BLUSH) - A Multicentre Pilot Feasibility Trial
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $286,876
PROVE-ICU: Anti-Xa-guided, weight-based low-molecular-weight heparin thromboprophylaxis versus fixed dosing in critically ill adults - a multicentre pilot randomized trial
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $25,000
Interdisciplinary Team Excellence to complete the International, Multi-centre CYCLE RCT of early rehabilitation with cycle ergometry in mechanically ventilated patients
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
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Jennifer Tsang
Department of Medicine
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Kimia Honarmand
Department of Medicine
Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
Dipayan Chaudhuri
Department of Medicine
Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
Gloria Vazquez-Grande
Department of Medicine
Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
Paul Hosek
Department of Medicine
Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
Erick Duan
Department of Medicine
Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
From the 150 most recent of 514 publications.
Clinical Criteria for the Definition of Refractory Septic Shock: A Joint Delphi Consensus from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
Leone M, Myatra SN, Dugar S, Wieruszewski PM, Russell L, Evans L, Delamarre L, Sharif S, Chew MS, Gong MN
Clinical criteria for the definition of refractory septic shock: a joint Delphi consensus from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
Leone M, Myatra SN, Dugar S, Wieruszewski PM, Russell L, Evans L, Delamarre L, Sharif S, Chew MS, Gong MN
The diagnostic accuracy of serum procalcitonin for sepsis in critically ill adults. A systematic review and diagnostic meta-analysis
Ghatak T, Pal A, Rochwerg B, Samanta S, Kumar A, Sajjad SA, Das A, Singh RK
Noninvasive respiratory support for adult patients with acute respiratory failure: an official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
Goel NN, Ferreyro BL, Pitre T, Lewis K, Homer-Bouthiette C, Angriman F, Dourado LK, Drake MG, Eaton TL, Esbrook CL
What every intensivist should know about…methylene blue in septic shock
Fernando SM, Soliman K, Tran A, Kanji S, Rochwerg B
Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Evidence-based Recommendations for the Treatment of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, and Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Critically Ill Patients: A GRADE-guided Approach
Todi SK, Jagiasi BG, Juneja D, Gopaldas JA, Soni KD, Karanth S, Singh R, Kharbanda M, Bhardwaj A, Sahoo TK
Optimal Cutoffs for the Ratio of Arterial Oxygen Partial Pressure to Inspired Oxygen Fraction in Categorizing Respiratory Impairment Severity in Organ Failure Scores
Pölkki A, Reinikainen M, Rochwerg B, Jung C, Sendagire C, Chaudhuri D, Martin GS, Selander T, Rhodes A, Moreno R
Randomised controlled trials for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients: A systematic review of sample size methodologies
Bitonti TM, Durr KM, Fernando SM, Rochwerg B, Carrier M, Siegal DM, Tran A
Prognostic Factors for Long-Term Risk of Stroke After Transient Ischemic Attack or Minor Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Khan F, Yogendrakumar V, Lun R, Marx CE, Rochwerg B, Tran A, Fernando SM, Ganesh A, Barber PA, Ögren J
Understanding the Determinants That Influence the Development and Implementation of Evidence‐Based Practice Guidelines During Health Emergencies: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed‐Methods Study Protocol
Bravo‐Soto G, Li S, Guyatt G, Santesso N, Jack SM, Agoritsas T, Lamontagne F, Lavis J, Mustafa RA, Rochwerg B
Adjunctive Methylene Blue in Septic Shock (BLUSH) - A Multicentre Pilot Feasibility Trial
Principal investigators: Fernando, Shannon M; Rochwerg, Bram N; Soliman, Karim
Keywords: Critical Illness; Methylene Blue; Septic Shock
PROVE-ICU: Anti-Xa-guided, weight-based low-molecular-weight heparin thromboprophylaxis versus fixed dosing in critically ill adults - a multicentre pilot randomized trial
Principal investigators: Tran, Alexandre; Carrier, Marc
Keywords: Critical Care / Intensive Care Unit (Icu); Venous Thromboembolism (Vte) Prophylaxis
Interdisciplinary Team Excellence to complete the International, Multi-centre CYCLE RCT of early rehabilitation with cycle ergometry in mechanically ventilated patients
Principal investigators: Kho, Michelle E
Keywords: Mechanical Ventilation; Muscle Weakness; Physiotherapy; Rehabilitation
Precision medicine Adaptive Network platform Trial in Hypoxemic acutE respiratory failuRe (PANTHER)
Principal investigators: Ferguson, Niall D; Calfee, Carolyn; McAuley, Danny
Keywords: Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure; Platform Trial; Precision Medicine
IMPACT-CC: Increasing Meaningful Participation and Access to Critical Care Trials in Community Intensive Care Units
Principal investigators: Tsang, Jennifer L; Orlando, Elaina; Binnie, Alexandra; O'Grady, Heather
Keywords: Clinical Trials; Community Icu; Critical Care; Equity; Platform Trials; Research Capacity Building
OVATION-CEPEC: Optimal VAsopressor titraTION within the Canadian Critical Care Comparative Effectiveness Platform(e) d'Évaluation Clinique Comparée en soins Critiques (CEPEC)
Principal investigators: Lamontagne, Francois; Adhikari, Neill K; Slessarev, Marat
Keywords: Randomized Controlled Trial; Supportive Care; Usual Care; Vasopressor Therapy
Best Effective Antibiotic Treatment for Community Acquired Pneumonia (BEAT-CAP): A pilot feasibility domain of the GUARD-Resp platform trial
Principal investigators: Lother, Sylvain
Keywords: Antibiotic; Pneumonia
Family-partnered delirium prevention, detection, and management in ICU: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial
Principal investigators: Fiest, Kirsten M
Keywords: Anxiety; Critical Care; Delirium; Depression; Icu; Patient And Family Engagement; Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial
Precision medicine Adaptive Network platform Trial in Hypoxemic acutE respiratory failuRe (PANTHER)
Principal investigators: Ferguson, Niall D; Calfee, Carolyn; McAuley, Danny
Keywords: Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure; Platform Trial; Precision Medicine
Effects of donor-recipient sex-matched versus sex-mismatched red blood cell transfusion on outcomes in critically ill adult patients
Principal investigators: Zeller, Michelle P; Fergusson, Dean A
Keywords: Adults; Blood Donor Characteristics; Intensive Care Unit; Mortality; Red Blood Cell Transfusions; Sex-Matched
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Courses taught
2- Graduate
Fundamentals of Health Research and Evaluation Methods
HTHRSM 721 · last taught 2026
- Graduate
Independent Study in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Research Methods
HTHRSM 705 · last taught 2024
Frequent collaborators
- Deborah Cook and Gordon Guyatt: 344 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Maureen Meade: 240 shared papers
- Romina Brignardello and Gordon Guyatt: 164 shared papers
- Gordon Guyatt and Diane Heels-Ansdell: 158 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Gordon Guyatt: 155 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Diane Heels-Ansdell: 115 shared papers
- Gordon Guyatt and Maureen Meade: 101 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Bram Rochwerg: 96 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Karen Burns: 94 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Michelle Kho: 81 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Diane Heels-Ansdell: 81 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Erick Duan: 73 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Gordon Guyatt: 73 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Karen Burns: 64 shared papers
- Maureen Meade and Karen Burns: 63 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Lehana Thabane: 61 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Sangeeta Mehta: 58 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Alison Fox-Robichaud: 57 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Timothy A Karachi: 53 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Joanna Dionne: 47 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Emilie Belley-Cote: 45 shared papers
- Peter Tanuseputro and Kwadwo Kyeremanteng: 45 shared papers
- Karen Burns and Sangeeta Mehta: 44 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Alexandre Tran: 43 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Maureen Meade: 40 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Kwadwo Kyeremanteng: 40 shared papers
- Eddy Fan and Laveena Munshi: 39 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Dipayan Chaudhuri: 38 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Francois Lamontagne: 35 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Alison Fox-Robichaud: 35 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Michelle Kho: 34 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Timothy A Karachi: 34 shared papers
- Gordon Guyatt and Emilie Belley-Cote: 34 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Erick Duan: 32 shared papers
- Michelle Kho and Karen Burns: 32 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Sangeeta Mehta: 30 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Romina Brignardello: 29 shared papers
- Alison Fox-Robichaud and Karen Burns: 29 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Diane Heels-Ansdell: 28 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Kimia Honarmand: 28 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Francois Lamontagne: 28 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Eddy Fan: 28 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Emilie Belley-Cote: 27 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Sameer Sharif: 27 shared papers
- Kimberley Lewis and Dipayan Chaudhuri: 26 shared papers
- Kimberley Lewis and Bram Rochwerg: 25 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Joanna Dionne: 25 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Laveena Munshi: 25 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Bram Rochwerg: 24 shared papers
- Bram Rochwerg and Peter Tanuseputro: 24 shared papers
- Diane Heels-Ansdell and Timothy A Karachi: 23 shared papers
- Karen Burns and Francois Lamontagne: 23 shared papers
- Diane Heels-Ansdell and Joanna Dionne: 22 shared papers
- Erick Duan and Emilie Belley-Cote: 22 shared papers
- Dipayan Chaudhuri and Karen Burns: 21 shared papers
- Sangeeta Mehta and Laveena Munshi: 21 shared papers
- Alexandre Tran and Kwadwo Kyeremanteng: 21 shared papers
- Deborah Cook and Kimberley Lewis: 17 shared papers
- Emilie Belley-Cote and Kimia Honarmand: 17 shared papers
- Kimberley Lewis and Sameer Sharif: 14 shared papers
- Kimberley Lewis and Kimia Honarmand: 14 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Romina Brignardello: 13 shared papers
- Eddy Fan and Peter Tanuseputro: 12 shared papers
- Eddy Fan and Alexandre Tran: 10 shared papers
- Emilie Belley-Cote and Sameer Sharif: 8 shared papers
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
- Rehabilitation Science
- Médecine interne
- Critical Care Medicine
- Other
Co-authors at McMaster University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Deborah Cook
Department of Medicine
96 shared papers, latest 2026
Gordon Guyatt
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
73 shared papers, latest 2026
Karen Burns
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
64 shared papers, latest 2026
Emilie Belley-Cote
Department of Medicine
45 shared papers, latest 2025
Alexandre Tran
Faculty
43 shared papers, latest 2026
Maureen Meade
Department of Medicine
40 shared papers, latest 2025
Kwadwo Kyeremanteng
Department of Medicine
40 shared papers, latest 2025
Dipayan Chaudhuri
Department of Medicine
38 shared papers, latest 2026
Alison Fox-Robichaud
Department of Medicine
35 shared papers, latest 2026
Michelle Kho
Rehabilitation Science
34 shared papers, latest 2026
Timothy A Karachi
Department of Medicine
34 shared papers, latest 2026
Erick Duan
Department of Medicine
32 shared papers, latest 2025
Sangeeta Mehta
Faculty
30 shared papers, latest 2025
Romina Brignardello
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
29 shared papers, latest 2026
Francois Lamontagne
Médecine interne
28 shared papers, latest 2026
Kimia Honarmand
Department of Medicine
28 shared papers, latest 2026
Diane Heels-Ansdell
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
28 shared papers, latest 2026
Eddy Fan
Department of Medicine
28 shared papers, latest 2025
Sameer Sharif
Department of Medicine
27 shared papers, latest 2026
Laveena Munshi
Critical Care Medicine
25 shared papers, latest 2026
Joanna Dionne
Department of Medicine
25 shared papers, latest 2025
Kimberley Lewis
Department of Medicine
25 shared papers, latest 2026
Lehana Thabane
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
24 shared papers, latest 2024
Jennifer Tsang
Department of Medicine
23 shared papers, latest 2025
Dena Zeraatkar
Department of Anesthesia
22 shared papers, latest 2026
Reem Adel Mustafa
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
17 shared papers, latest 2026
Behnam Sadeghirad
Department of Anesthesia
11 shared papers, latest 2026
Jan Brozek
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
10 shared papers, latest 2021
Elie Akl
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
9 shared papers, latest 2022
Richard Whitlock
Department of Surgery
9 shared papers, latest 2023
Andrea Darzi
Department of Anesthesia
8 shared papers, latest 2022
Michelle Zeller
Department of Medicine
8 shared papers, latest 2025
Donald Arnold
Department of Medicine
8 shared papers, latest 2023
Feng Xie
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
7 shared papers, latest 2025
Wojtek Wiercioch
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
7 shared papers, latest 2026
Karen Li-mei Choong
Department of Pediatrics
6 shared papers, latest 2023
Jessica Spence
Department of Anesthesia
6 shared papers, latest 2024
Sheila Ann Sprague
Department of Surgery
6 shared papers, latest 2023
Mark Crowther
Department of Medicine
6 shared papers, latest 2023
Mark Loeb
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
6 shared papers, latest 2021
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