Publications

Airway management and mechanical ventilation

Karamchandani K, Nasa P, Jarzebowski M, … Jabaley C, Myatra S, for the SOCCA Physiologically Difficult Airway Task Force. Tracheal intubation in critically ill adults with a physiologically difficult airway: an international Delphi study. Intensive Care Med. 2024;50(10):1563–1579.

Informing a common clinical problem with consensus guidance from an international panel; co-chaired the workgroup.

Jabaley C. Managing the physiologically difficult airway in critically ill adults. Crit Care. 2023;27(1):91.

Sole-author review that set up the Delphi.

Smischney N, Williams G, Jabaley C, et al. Outcomes of sedative hypnotic agents used for endotracheal intubation in critically ill adults: a systematic review with exploratory meta-analysis. J Intensive Care Med. 2025.

What the induction agent evidence does and does not support.

Jabaley C, Pendergrast T, Aslakson R, Deutschman C. Video laryngoscopy in critically ill adults: nascent, evolving, or established? Crit Care Med. 2024;52(11):1793–1796.

Editorial viewpoint.

Critical care organization, workforce, and design

Hamilton K, Gary J, Scruth E, … Jabaley C, … Society of Critical Care Medicine 2024 Guidelines on Adult ICU Design. Crit Care Med. 2025;53(3):e690–e700.

Guideline panel member; the evidence base for unit design, informed by personal experiences with ICU design efforts.

Flynn B, Hicks M, Jabaley C, et al. Sustainability of the subspecialty of anesthesiology critical care: an expert consensus and review of the literature. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024;38(8):1753–1759.

What it takes to keep anesthesiology critical care staffed and viable as a career.

Shaefi S, Pannu A, Mueller A, … Jabaley C, et al. Nationwide clinical practice patterns of anesthesiology critical care physicians: a survey to members of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists. Anesth Analg. 2023;136(2):295–307.

The national picture of how the subspecialty actually practices nationwide.

Jabaley C, Nunnally M, Flynn B. Medical society guideline writing: the why and how. Anesth Analg. 2026;143(3):514–520.

Why and how professional societies should produce clinical guidance.

Jabaley C, Coopersmith C. A perspective on ICU leadership and administration. In: Adult Comprehensive Critical Care, 3rd ed. Society of Critical Care Medicine; 2022:603–614.

Book chapter on running a unit.

Dissemination and uptake of clinical information

Jabaley C, Blum J, Groff R, O'Reilly-Shah V. Global trends in the awareness of sepsis: insights from search engine data between 2012 and 2017. Crit Care. 2018;22(1):7.

Public attention to sepsis, measured from online search trends.

Jabaley C, Groff R, Barnes T, Caridi-Scheible M, Blum J, O'Reilly-Shah V. Sepsis information-seeking behaviors via Wikipedia between 2015 and 2018: a mixed methods retrospective observational study. PLOS ONE. 2019;14(8):e0221596.

Where the public seeks information about critical illness.

Jabaley C, Groff R, Stentz M, et al. Highly visible sepsis publications from 2012 to 2017: analysis and comparison of altmetrics and bibliometrics. J Crit Care. 2018;48:357–371.

Whether attention and citation measure the same thing (they do not).

O'Reilly-Shah V, Easton G, Jabaley C, Lynde G. Variable effectiveness of stepwise implementation of nudge-type interventions to improve provider compliance with intraoperative low tidal volume ventilation. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018;27(12):1008–1018.

Measuring what changes clinician behavior.

Moll V, Mariano E, Kitzman J, O'Reilly-Shah V, Jabaley C. Regional anesthesia educational material utilization varies by World Bank income category: a mobile health application data study. PLOS ONE. 2021;16(2):e0244860.

Who uses free educational resources, by country income.

Jabaley C, Lynde G, Caridi-Scheible M, O'Reilly-Shah V. The human-machine interface in anesthesiology: corollaries and lessons learned from aviation and crewed spaceflight. Anesth Analg. 2020;130(5):1255–1260.

Human factors, borrowed carefully from two other fields.

ECMO and mechanical circulatory support

Dave S, Chan J, Maberry D, … Jabaley C. Venovenous ECMO cannulation by intensivists and surgeons: a single-center retrospective noninferiority analysis of complications and outcomes from 2018 to 2023. Crit Care Med. 2025;53(11):e2233–e2245.

Who can safely cannulate, with implications for how programs are staffed.

Dave S, Leiendecker E, Creel-Bulos C, … Jabaley C, Caridi-Scheible M. Outcomes following additional drainage during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a single-center retrospective study. Perfusion. 2025;40(3):647–656.

A practical circuit question answered from program data.

Stentz M, Kelley M, Jabaley C, et al. Trends in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation growth in the United States, 2011–2014. ASAIO J. 2019;65(7):712–717.

National growth of ECMO from billing data.

Stentz M, Wiepking M, Hodge K, Ramonell R, Jabaley C. Checklists improve team performance during simulated ECMO emergencies: a randomized trial. Crit Care Explor. 2021;3(4):e0404.

A randomized test of a simple tool.

Machine learning and clinical data

Song J, Dave S, Yang Y, … Jabaley C, Kamaleswaran R. rECMOmender: reinforcement learning for decision support in veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation management. Crit Care Explor. 2026;8(2):e1369.

Retrospective, offline reinforcement learning on ECMO management data.

Song J, Sridhar R, Rogers D, … Jabaley C, Gullatte M, Kamaleswaran R. Clinicians' perceptions and potential applications of robotics for task automation in critical care: qualitative study. J Med Internet Res. 2025;27:e62957.

What ICU clinicians would actually delegate to machines .

Liu D, Bouvier M, Bold D, Jabaley C, et al. MIMIC-III-Ext-Notes (version 1.0.0). PhysioNet. 2026. doi:10.13026/9tfx-yx07.

Peer-reviewed annotated dataset for evaluating language models on critical care notes.

Liu D, Bold D, Bouvier M, … Jabaley C, … Hu X. Evaluation of general large language models in contextually assessing semantic concepts extracted from adult critical care electronic health record notes. arXiv 2401.13588 [preprint]. 2024.

Preprint. Can general-purpose models read an ICU note the way a clinician does?

Kataria S, Wu Y, Chen Z, … Jabaley C, … Hu X. Generalist vs specialist time series foundation models: investigating potential emergent behaviors in assessing human health using PPG signals. arXiv 2510.14254 [preprint]. 2025.

Preprint. Time-series foundation models on physiologic signals.

Potpourri

O'Reilly-Shah V, Lynde G, Jabaley C. Is it time to start using the emoji in biomedical literature? BMJ. 2018;363:k5033. (Christmas issue)