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 FUTURE OF INTENSIVE CARE: DELIRIUM SHOULD NO LONGER BE AN ISSUE

In the ideal intensive care unit (ICU) of the future, all patients are free from delirium, a syndrome of brain dysfunction frequently observed in critical illness and associated with worse ICU-related outcomes and long-term cognitive impairment. Although screening for delirium requires limited time and effort, this devastating disorder remains underestimated during routine ICU care. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a catastrophic reduction in delirium monitoring, prevention, and patient care. Katarzyna Kotfis, Irene van Diem-Zaal, Shawniqua Williams Roberson et al. suggest that good sedation practices should be complemented by novel ICU design and connectivity.

EDITOR'S PICK - THE ABCDE APPROACH TO DIFFICULT WEANING FROM VENOARTERIAL EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION

Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO) has been increasingly applied in patients with cardiogenic shock in recent years. Nevertheless, many patients cannot be successfully weaned from VA ECMO support and 1-year mortality remains high. A systematic approach could help to optimize clinical management in favor of weaning by identifying important factors in individual patients. Christiaan L. Meuwese, Daniel Brodie & Dirk W. Donker provide an overview of pivotal factors that potentially prevent successful weaning of VA ECMO. G.P. Castelli et al. here report signs and symptoms related to thromboembolism in a patient recently vaccinated vs SARS-CoV-2.

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE FUTURE OF INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

This new Thematic Series focus on all aspects related to the future of Intensive Care Medicine, including but not limited to: organization, staffing, monitoring systems, new therapies, future organ support systems, ethical aspects.

After so many negative randomized, controlled trials, that have evaluated a number of simplified therapeutic interventions that could be applied to large patient populations, people are turning their interest back to personalized medicine. This new Thematic Series will share thoughts based on scientific data and help the clinician to individualize the different aspects of the patient management.

This will be a series of commentaries focused on a particular aspect that changed in our ICU: the way we make rounds, we allow family presence, we monitor patients, we use echo techniques and apply renal replacement therapy, etc. These comments should bring some guidance to others to improve quality of care.

On this occasion, we are looking back at the great journal’s milestone achievements, highlighting a selection of the most impactful contents from the past 25 years and some authoritative opinions from the closest collaborators who contributed to the journal success.

25 Years of Critical Care

Go through a special selection of 25 Critical Care influential contributions, one per each publication year, starting from the very beginning of our journal's prestigious history.

Selected articles from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2022

Meeting Abstracts - 41st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Critical Care strongly encourages Authors of Research articles and Review articles to submit a Graphical Abstract.

A graphical abstract is a figure that clearly and succinctly conveys the main message of your research (paper).

The goal of a graphical abstract is to attract readers' attention to the article and encourage them to read the whole paper, but also promote interdisciplinary scholarship and help readers quickly identify which papers are most relevant to their research interests.

See the journal Submission Guidelines for more info on how to prepare a Graphical Abstract
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COVID-19 UPDATES

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Announcing In Review

Critical Care, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service during the submission process will be able to:

- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received

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Articles

Optimized diagnosis-based comorbidity measures for all-cause mortality prediction in a national population-based ICU population

Authors: Anna Aronsson Dannewitz, Bodil Svennblad, Karl Michaëlsson, Miklos Lipcsey and Rolf Gedeborg

Content type: Research 6 October 2022
Doppler study of portal vein and renal venous velocity predict the appropriate fluid response to diuretic in ICU: a prospective observational echocardiographic evaluation

Authors: Pierre-Grégoire Guinot, Pierre-Alain Bahr, Stefan Andrei, Bogdan A. Popescu, Vincenza Caruso, Paul-Michel Mertes, Vivien Berthoud, Maxime Nguyen and Belaid Bouhemad

Content type: Research 5 October 2022
Oropharyngeal and intestinal concentrations of opportunistic pathogens are independently associated with death of SARS-CoV-2 critically ill adults

Authors: Juliette Patrier, Khanh Villageois-Tran, Piotr Szychowiak, Stéphane Ruckly, Rémi Gschwind, Paul-Henri Wicky, Signara Gueye, Laurence Armand-Lefevre, Mehdi Marzouk, Romain Sonneville, Lila Bouadma, Marie Petitjean, Fariza Lamara, Etienne de Montmollin, Jean-Francois Timsit and Etienne Ruppé

Content type: Research 3 October 2022
Early intubation and patient-centered outcomes in septic shock

Authors: Jianmin Qu, Yanfei Shen and Huijuan Zhang

Content type: Correspondence 3 October 2022

The original article was published in Critical Care 2022 26:163
The best PEEP or the optimal PEEP or the piece PEEP of the mechanical power puzzle?

Authors: George Briassoulis, Panagiotis Briassoulis and Stavroula Ilia

Content type: Correspondence 3 October 2022

The original article was published in Critical Care 2022 26:214

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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}

Body temperature correlates with mortality in COVID-19 patients

Authors: Serena Tharakan, Koichi Nomoto, Satoshi Miyashita and Kiyotake Ishikawa

Content type: Research Letter 5 June 2020

The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2020 24:460
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
Weaning from mechanical ventilation

Authors: Inmaculada Alía and Andrés Esteban

Content type: Review 18 February 2000

The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2006 10:414
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
36th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Authors: R. M. Bateman, M. D. Sharpe, J. E. Jagger, C. G. Ellis, J. Solé-Violán, M. López-Rodríguez, E. Herrera-Ramos, J. Ruíz-Hernández, L. Borderías, J. Horcajada, N. González-Quevedo, O. Rajas, M. Briones, F. Rodríguez de Castro, C. Rodríguez Gallego, F. Esen…

Content type: Meeting Abstracts 20 April 2016

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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

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

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Latest Supplements

41st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2022

^{Meeting abstracts
Volume 26 Supplement 1
Brussels, Belgium | 22-25 March 2022}

40th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2021

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Volume 25 Supplement 1
Brussels, Belgium | 31 August-3 September 2021}

40th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2020 - Part 2

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Volume 24 Supplement 2
eISICEM 2020 | 15-18 September 2020}

40th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

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Volume 24 Supplement 1
Brussels, Belgium | 24-27 March 2020}

39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

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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

The future of Intensive Care Medicine

_{Edited by Prof Jean-Louis Vincent}

Personalized medicine in the ICU

_{Edited by Prof Jean-Louis Vincent}

How the COVID crisis changed our lives in the ICU

_{Edited by Prof Jean-Louis Vincent}

How I...

_{Edited by Prof Jean-Louis Vincent}

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.

Aims and scope

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE FUTURE OF INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

CALL FOR PAPERS: PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN THE ICU

CALL FOR PAPERS: HOW THE COVID-CRISIS CHANGED OUR LIVES IN THE ICU

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