SCCM Guideline Update: Steroids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia, ARDS, Septic Shock

SCCM updates its recommendations for steroids in critically ill patients, alone

Steroids are good medicine in the ICU, U.S. critical care professional societies agree.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) expanded its prior 2017 guidance, now recommending strongly that corticosteroids be given for severe community-acquired pneumonia, and also suggesting steroids for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) a…