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: Prognostication after cardiac arrest

Thematic series: Vasoplegia

Articles

Content type: Review
| 13 September 2018

Ethical aspects of sudden cardiac arrest research using observational data: a narrative review

Authors: Marieke A. R. Bak, Marieke T. Blom, Hanno L. Tan and Dick L. Willems
Content type: Editorial
| 11 September 2018

We should avoid the term “fluid overload”

Authors: Jean-Louis Vincent and Michael R. Pinsky
Content type: Letter
| 11 September 2018

Massive increase in monocyte HLA-DR expression can be used to discriminate between septic shock and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis-induced shock

Authors: Solenn Remy, Morgane Gossez, Alexandre Belot, Jack Hayman, Aurelie Portefaix, Fabienne Venet, Etienne Javouhey and Guillaume Monneret
Content type: Research
| 10 September 2018

Women in Intensive Care study: a preliminary assessment of international data on female representation in the ICU physician workforce, leadership and academic positions

Authors: Bala Venkatesh, Sangeeta Mehta, Derek C. Angus, Simon Finfer, Flavia R. Machado, John Marshall, Imogen Mitchell, Sandra Peake and Janice L. Zimmerman
Content type: Research
| 21 August 2018

Value of variation index of inferior vena cava diameter in predicting fluid responsiveness in patients with circulatory shock receiving mechanical ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors: Haijun Huang, Qinkang Shen, Yafen Liu, Hua Xu and Yixin Fang

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RESEARCH
Early application of continuous high-volume haemofiltration can reduce sepsis and improve the prognosis of patients with severe burns
Bo You et al.

RESEARCH
Improved empirical antibiotic treatment of sepsis after an educational intervention: the ABISS-Edusepsis study
Ricard Ferrer et al.

RESEARCH
Early fibrinogen concentrate therapy for major haemorrhage in trauma (E-FIT 1): results from a UK multi-centre, randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial
Nicola Curry et al.

RESEARCH
Acute kidney injury is associated with a decrease in cortical renal perfusion during septic shock
Anatole Harrois et al.

RESEARCH
Immunocompromised patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: secondary analysis of the LUNG SAFE database
Andrea Cortegiani et al.

Content type: Research
| 19 April 2013

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: Review
| 18 March 2014

Ventilator-associated pneumonia in the ICU

Authors: Atul Ashok Kalanuria, Wendy Zai and Marek Mirski

The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:29
Content type: Review
| 9 April 2015

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

The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2017 21:40
Content type: Research
| 24 May 2004

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
| 12 April 2016

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

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Latest blogs

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

13 September 2018
Using social media in medicine to your advantage, with care!

11 June 2018
Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM): the new way to keep up-to-date

08 June 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

Future of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) 2016

Selected articles from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018

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

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

Meeting abstracts
São Paulo, Brasil. June 14-17, 2017

37th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Meeting abstracts
Brussels, Belgium. 21-24 March 2017

Sepsis 2016 Paris

Meeting abstracts
Paris, France. 6-8 December 2016

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

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.