List of works by David Pilcher

A Positive Response to a Recruitment Maneuver With PEEP Titration in Patients With ARDS, Regardless of Transient Oxygen Desaturation During the Maneuver

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

A cluster randomised, crossover, registry-embedded clinical trial of proton pump inhibitors versus histamine-2 receptor blockers for ulcer prophylaxis therapy in the intensive care unit (PEPTIC study): study protocol

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

A donor history of smoking affects early but not late outcome in lung transplantation

scientific article published in August 2004

A practical approach to clinical lung transplantation from a Maastricht Category III donor with cardiac death

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

A randomised controlled trial of an open lung strategy with staircase recruitment, titrated PEEP and targeted low airway pressures in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

scientific article published on 2 June 2011

A simple tool for mortality prediction in burns patients: APACHE III score and FTSA.

scientific article published on 21 May 2010

Active surveillance for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 22 August 2015

Acute Risk Change for Cardiothoracic Admissions to Intensive Care (ARCTIC index): a new measure of quality in cardiac surgery

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Acute risk change (ARC) identifies outlier institutions in perioperative cardiac surgical care when the standardized mortality ratio cannot

scientific article published on August 2016

Admission high serum sodium is not associated with increased intensive care unit mortality risk in respiratory patients.

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Admission time to hospital: a varying standard for a critical definition for admissions to an intensive care unit from the emergency department

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Arterial carbon dioxide tension and outcome in patients admitted to the intensive care unit after cardiac arrest

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Arterial oxygen tension and mortality in mechanically ventilated patients

Aspergillus sp. isolated in critically ill patients with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support.

scientific article published on 9 June 2013

AspiriN To Inhibit SEPSIS (ANTISEPSIS) randomised controlled trial protocol

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Association between early peak temperature and mortality in neutropenic sepsis

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

Associations of hospital characteristics with nosocomial pneumonia after cardiac surgery can impact on standardized infection rates.

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Buying time: The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplantation in pediatric patients

scientific article published on 6 October 2013

Central line-associated bloodstream infections in Australian ICUs: evaluating modifiable and non-modifiable risks in Victorian healthcare facilities.

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

Changes in Temperature Management of Cardiac Arrest Patients Following Publication of the Target Temperature Management Trial*

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Characterising risk of in-hospital mortality following cardiac arrest using machine learning: A retrospective international registry study

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Characteristics and Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Australia and New Zealand

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Characteristics and Outcomes of Critically Ill Trauma Patients in Australia and New Zealand (2005-2017)

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Characteristics and outcome of patients with the ICU Admission diagnosis of status epilepticus in Australia and New Zealand

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

Characteristics, incidence and outcome of patients admitted to intensive care because of pulmonary embolism.

scientific article published on 11 September 2016

Characteristics, incidence, and outcome of patients admitted to the intensive care unit with myasthenia gravis

scientific article published on 7 January 2018

Cluster randomised crossover trials with binary data and unbalanced cluster sizes: application to studies of near-universal interventions in intensive care

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Common laboratory tests predict imminent death in ward patients.

scientific article published on August 2012

Common laboratory tests predict imminent medical emergency team calls, intensive care unit admission or death in emergency department patients.

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Comparison of Critical Care Occupancy and Outcomes of Critically ill Patients during the 2020 COVID-19 Winter Surge and 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic in Australia

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Critically ill Indigenous Australians and mortality: a complex story: For most patients, life continues beyond the intensive care unit, and this is where action is needed

scientific article published on 13 June 2020

Danger at every rung: Epidemiology and outcomes of ICU-admitted ladder-related trauma.

scientific article published on 29 December 2015

Data linkage: a powerful research tool with potential problems

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Declining mortality in critically ill patients with cirrhosis in Australia and New Zealand between 2000 and 2015.

scientific article published on 09 August 2017

Definitions of primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation: differences between bilateral and single lung transplantation

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Deteriorating patients managed with end-of-life care following Medical Emergency Team calls

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Duration of platelet storage and outcomes of critically ill patients.

scientific article published on March 2017

Duration of red blood cells storage and outcome in critically ill patients.

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

ECMO Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR), trends in survival from an international multicentre cohort study over 12-years.

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Early glycemia and mortality in critically ill septic patients: Interaction with insulin-treated diabetes.

scientific article published on 3 March 2018

Early peak temperature and mortality in critically ill patients with or without infection

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Early temperature and mortality in critically ill patients with acute neurological diseases: trauma and stroke differ from infection

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Effect of Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis With Proton Pump Inhibitors vs Histamine-2 Receptor Blockers on In-Hospital Mortality Among ICU Patients Receiving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: The PEPTIC Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Effects of Hypercapnia and Hypercapnic Acidosis on Hospital Mortality in Mechanically Ventilated Patients.

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Equity for Indigenous Australians in intensive care

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Erratum to: The impact of disability in survivors of critical illness

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Estimating the Number of Organ Donors in Australian Hospitals--Implications for Monitoring Organ Donation Practices

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Evaluation of the oxygenation ratio in the definition of early graft dysfunction after lung transplantation

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Factors associated with increased risk of readmission to intensive care in Australia.

scientific article published on 16 August 2011

Frailty in very old critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand: a population-based cohort study

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Frailty status, timely goals of care documentation and clinical outcomes in older hospitalised medical patients

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

French Intensive Care Society, International congress - Réanimation 2016

scientific article published in June 2016

Gastrointestinal Carriage Is a Major Reservoir of Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection in Intensive Care Patients

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Glycaemic control in Australia and New Zealand before and after the NICE-SUGAR trial: a translational study

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High central venous pressure is associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation and increased mortality after lung transplantation

scientific article published in April 2005

High donor age, low donor oxygenation, and high recipient inotrope requirements predict early graft dysfunction in lung transplant recipients

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How should we interpret hospital infection statistics?

scientific article published in December 2013

ICU Admissions for Sepsis or Pneumonia in Australia and New Zealand in 2017

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

ICU beds: less is more? No

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

ICU mortality is increased with high admission serum osmolarity in all patients other than those admitted with pulmonary diseases and hypoxia

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Idle central venous catheter-days pose infection risk for patients after discharge from intensive care.

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Impact of fluid balance on outcome of adult patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Improved outcomes from acute severe asthma in Australian intensive care units (1996 2003).

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Incidence and outcome of adults with diabetic ketoacidosis admitted to ICUs in Australia and New Zealand

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Infections acquired by adults who receive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: risk factors and outcome.

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Insurance status and mortality in critically ill patients

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Intensive care discharge delay is associated with increased hospital length of stay: A multicentre prospective observational study

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Introduction of universal prestorage leukodepletion of blood components, and outcomes in transfused cardiac surgery patients

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Is platelet transfusion associated with hospital-acquired infections in critically ill patients?

scientific article published on 06 January 2017

Long-term survival of adults with cardiogenic shock after venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Mean perfusion pressure deficit during the initial management of shock--an observational cohort study.

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Mechanical ventilation management during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective international multicenter study.

scientific article published on March 2015

Modelling risk-adjusted variation in length of stay among Australian and New Zealand ICUs

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Mortality related to after-hours discharge from intensive care in Australia and New Zealand, 2005-2012.

scientific article published on 15 August 2014

Mortality related to severe sepsis and septic shock among critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand, 2000-2012.

scientific article published in April 2014

Need for intensive care in patients admitted for asthma: Red flags from the social history

scientific article published on 19 June 2016

Non-English speaking is a predictor of survival after admission to intensive care

scientific article published on 18 April 2014

O2, do we know what to do?

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Omission of Early Thromboprophylaxis and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

scientific article published on 22 September 2011

Outcomes, cost and long term survival of patients referred to a regional weaning centre.

scientific article published on March 2005

Patient physiological status at the emergency department-ward interface and emergency calls for clinical deterioration during early hospital admission

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Patient physiological status during emergency care and rapid response team or cardiac arrest team activation during early hospital admission

scientific article published on 01 October 2017

Percutaneous Cannulation in Predominantly Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by Intensivists.

scientific article published in December 2015

Postoperative hypothermia and patient outcomes after elective cardiac surgery

scientific article published on 21 June 2011

Postoperative hypothermia and patient outcomes after major elective non-cardiac surgery.

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Predicting survival after ECMO for refractory cardiogenic shock: the survival after veno-arterial-ECMO (SAVE)-score

scientific article published on June 2015

Predicting survival after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe acute respiratory failure. The Respiratory Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Survival Prediction (RESP) score

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Prediction of pediatric sepsis mortality within 1 h of intensive care admission.

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Predictive factors of bleeding events in adults undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

scientific article published on 06 October 2016

Predictors of independent lung ventilation: an analysis of 170 single-lung transplantations

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Proceedings of Réanimation 2017, the French Intensive Care Society International Congress

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Prognostic Accuracy of the SOFA Score, SIRS Criteria, and qSOFA Score for In-Hospital Mortality Among Adults With Suspected Infection Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on January 2017

Prognostic models based on administrative data alone inadequately predict the survival outcomes for critically ill patients at 180 days post-hospital discharge

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Randomised, Double Blind, Controlled Trial of the Provision of Information about the Benefits of Organ Donation during a Family Donation Conversation

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Readmissions to Intensive Care: A Prospective Multicenter Study in Australia and New Zealand.

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Reduction of in hospital Cardiac arrest rates in Intensive care equipped NSW hospitals in association with Implementation of Between the Flags Rapid Response System

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Retrieval of Adult Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by an Intensive Care Physician Model.

scientific article published on 19 November 2017

Risk prediction of hospital mortality for adult patients admitted to Australian and New Zealand intensive care units: Development and validation of the Australian and New Zealand Risk of Death model

scientific article published on 26 September 2013

Self harm is an independent predictor of mortality in trauma and burns patients admitted to ICU.

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

Sepsis incidence and mortality are underestimated in Australian intensive care unit administrative data

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Simple translational equations to compare illness severity scores in intensive care trials.

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Single-centre experience of donation after cardiac death

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Single-centre experience of donation after cardiac death.

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Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients Admitted to Intensive Care in Australia and New Zealand: A Multicenter Cohort Analysis of In-Hospital Mortality Over 15 Years

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

Surge capacity of intensive care units in case of acute increase in demand caused by COVID-19 in Australia

scientific article published on 19 April 2020

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria in defining severe sepsis

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The Association Between Discharge Delay from Intensive Care and Patient Outcomes

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

The Association Between Low Admission Peak Plasma Creatinine Concentration and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care in Australia and New Zealand

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The Burns Evaluation and Mortality Study (BEAMS): predicting deaths in Australian and New Zealand burn patients admitted to intensive care with burns

scientific article published in August 2013

The association between early arterial oxygenation and mortality in ventilated patients with acute ischaemic stroke.

scientific article published in March 2012

The association between peri-operative acute risk change (ARC) and long-term survival after cardiac surgery

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The effects of the introduction of an adult ECMO program on statewide referral patterns, casemix and outcomes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome or pneumonia

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

The financial cost of intensive care in Australia: a multicentre registry study

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

The impact of an alcohol floor price on critical care admissions in Central Australia

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

The impact of disability in survivors of critical illness.

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

The influence of intensive care unit-acquired central line-associated bloodstream infection on in-hospital mortality: A single-center risk-adjusted analysis

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The systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria and their differential association with mortality.

scientific article published on 7 April 2018

The timing of discharge from the intensive care unit and subsequent mortality. A prospective, multicenter study.

scientific article published on May 2015

Timing of onset and burden of persistent critical illness in Australia and New Zealand: a retrospective, population-based, observational study

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Treatment limitations at admission to intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand: prevalence, outcomes, and resource use*.

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Understanding the cluster randomised crossover design: a graphical illustraton of the components of variation and a sample size tutorial.

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Unprofessional behaviour on social media by medical students

scientific article published in December 2015

Untapped potential in Australian hospitals for organ donation after circulatory death

scientific article published in September 2017

Viral pneumonitis is increased in obese patients during the first wave of pandemic A(H1N1) 2009 virus

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What can paper-based clinical information systems tell us about the design of computerized clinical information systems (CIS) in the ICU?

scientific article published on 25 March 2010

What's new with survival prediction models in acute respiratory failure patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Women are more than twice as likely to die from burns as men in Australia and New Zealand: an unexpected finding of the Burns Evaluation And Mortality (BEAM) Study

scientific article published on 2 April 2014