Critical Care

Aims and scope

Critical Care is a high-quality, peer-reviewed, international clinical medical journal. Critical Care aims to improve the care of critically ill patients by acquiring, discussing, distributing, and promoting evidence-based information relevant to intensivists. Critical Care aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the intensive care field.

Editor's Pick: The early identification of disease progression in patients with suspected infection presenting to the emergency department: a multi-centre derivation and validation study

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Exogenous vasopressin dose-dependently modulates gastric microcirculatory oxygenation in dogs via V1A receptor

Authors: Richard Truse, Steven Grewe, Anna Herminghaus, Jan Schulz, Andreas P. M. Weber, Tabea Mettler-Altmann, Inge Bauer, Olaf Picker and Christian Vollmer

Content type: Research

12 November 2019
Long-term cognitive impairment after acute respiratory distress syndrome: a review of clinical impact and pathophysiological mechanisms

Authors: Cina Sasannejad, E. Wesley Ely and Shouri Lahiri

Content type: Review

12 November 2019
Early lactate measurement is associated with better outcomes in septic patients with an elevated serum lactate level

Authors: Hui Chen, Chenyan Zhao, Yao Wei and Jun Jin

Content type: Research

11 November 2019
Effects of a swallowing and oral care intervention for patients following endotracheal extubation: a pre- and post-intervention study

Authors: Chung-Pei Wu, Yu-Juan Xu, Tyng-Guey Wang, Shih-Chi Ku, Ding-Cheng Chan, Jang-Jaer Lee, Yu-Chung Wei, Tzu-Yu Hsiao and Cheryl Chia-Hui Chen

Content type: Research

9 November 2019
Obituary: Professor Claude Martin

Authors: Marc Leone and Jean-Louis Vincent

Content type: Editorial

6 November 2019

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_{Editorial | 06 August 2019}
Is this patient really “(un)stable”? How to describe cardiovascular dynamics in critically ill patients
_{Jean-Louis Vincent, Maurizio Cecconi and Bernd Saugel}

_{Research | 01 August 2019}
Vitamin A deficiency in critically ill children with sepsis
_{Xuepeng Zhang, Kaiying Yang, Linwen Chen, Xuelian Liao, Liping Deng, Siyuan Chen and Yi Ji}

_{Letter | 30 July 2019}
Vitamin C administration in the critically ill: a summary of recent meta-analyses
^{Anitra C. Carr}

_{Research | 24 July 2019}
Association of sublingual microcirculation parameters and endothelial glycocalyx dimensions in resuscitated sepsis
^{Alexandros Rovas, Laura Mareen Seidel, Hans Vink, Timo Pohlkötter, Hermann Pavenstädt, Christian Ertmer, Michael Hessler and Philipp Kümpers}

_{Editorial | 04 July 2019}
How I manage intracranial hypertension
^{Chiara Robba and Giuseppe Citerio}

Management of bleeding and coagulopathy following major trauma: an updated European guideline

Authors: Donat R Spahn, Bertil Bouillon, Vladimir Cerny, Timothy J Coats, Jacques Duranteau, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar, Daniela Filipescu, Beverley J Hunt, Radko Komadina, Giuseppe Nardi, Edmund Neugebauer, Yves Ozier, Louis Riddez, Arthur Schultz, Jean-Louis Vincent and Rolf Rossaint

Content type: Research

19 April 2013
Ventilator-associated pneumonia in the ICU

Authors: Atul Ashok Kalanuria, Wendy Zai and Marek Mirski

Content type: Review

18 March 2014

The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:29
Hemodynamic consequences of severe lactic acidosis in shock states: from bench to bedside

Authors: Antoine Kimmoun, Emmanuel Novy, Thomas Auchet, Nicolas Ducrocq and Bruno Levy

Content type: Review

9 April 2015

The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2017 21:40
The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fourth edition

Authors: Rolf Rossaint, Bertil Bouillon, Vladimir Cerny, Timothy J. Coats, Jacques Duranteau, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar, Daniela Filipescu, Beverley J. Hunt, Radko Komadina, Giuseppe Nardi, Edmund A. M. Neugebauer, Yves Ozier, Louis Riddez, Arthur Schultz, Jean-Louis Vincent and Donat R. Spahn

Content type: Research

12 April 2016
Acute renal failure – definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group

Authors: Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco, John A Kellum, Ravindra L Mehta and Paul Palevsky

Content type: Research

24 May 2004

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Latest blogs

The psychological impact of intensive care

06 December 2018
The gender gap in critical care medicine: how are we doing globally?

04 October 2018
Big data, big ethics: how to handle research data from medical emergency settings?

13 September 2018

Celebrating Critical Care's 20th Anniversary

2017 marked the 20th anniversary of Critical Care. To celebrate, we put together a page to celebrate the great milestones of the journal, including a timeline, opinions from those in the field, links to some of our most popular articles and more.

Editorials & Commentaries

Future of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) 2016

Selected articles from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2019

Video Abstract: The digestive tract as the origin of systemic inflammation

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Latest Supplements

39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

^{Meeting abstracts
Volume 23 Supplement 2
Brussels, Belgium | 19-22 March 2019}

38th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

^{Meeting abstracts
Volume 22 Supplement 1
Brussels, Belgium | 20-23 March 2018}

Future of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) 2016

^{Reviews
Volume 21 Supplement 3}

9th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine for Latin America

^{Meeting abstracts
Volume 21 Supplement 2
São Paulo, Brazil | June 14-17 2017}

Expedited peer review

We recognise that scientifically sound, high quality manuscripts are often turned away from broad-scope "high-impact" journals based on the issue of "general interest." Critical Care will consider rapid publication of such manuscripts if they are submitted together with the original peer reviewer reports, letter of rejection, and a rebuttal. Please also mention this in your cover letter.

Additional peer review may be necessary and the final decision will be made by the Editor.

Thematic Series

Acute Stroke Management

^{Edited by Prof Marek Mirski}

Influenza: A Decade After the 2009 Pandemic

^{Edited by Prof Adrienne Randolph}

Vasoplegia

^{Edited by Prof Lui Forni}

CPR

^{Edited by Prof Jerry Nolan}

The future of critical care

^{Edited by Prof Jean-Louis Vincent}

Physiology of the circulation

^{Edited by Prof Sheldon Magder}

Echography in critically ill patients

^{Edited by Prof Daniel De Backer}

Pyrexia in the ICU

^{Edited by Prof Lui Forni}

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

^{Edited by Prof Michael Joannidis}

Neurocritical care

^{Edited by Prof Fabio Taccone}

Prof Jean-Louis Vincent, Editor-in-Chief

Prof Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the University of Brussels and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at the Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. He is President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and a Past-President of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS) and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is member of the Royal Medical Academy of Belgium.