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: Extracorporeal techniques for the treatment of critically ill patients with sepsis beyond conventional blood purification therapy: the promises and the pitfalls

Thematic series: Vasoplegia

Articles

Content type: Review
| 15 November 2018

Aerosolized antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia: a pairwise and Bayesian network meta-analysis

Authors: Feng Xu, Lu-Lu He, Luan-Qing Che, Wen Li, Song-Min Ying, Zhi-Hua Chen and Hua-Hao Shen
Content type: Research
| 14 November 2018

Is goal-directed fluid therapy based on dynamic variables alone sufficient to improve clinical outcomes among patients undergoing surgery? A meta-analysis

Authors: Qi-Wen Deng, Wen-Cheng Tan, Bing-Cheng Zhao, Shi-Hong Wen, Jian-Tong Shen and Miao Xu
Content type: Letter
| 14 November 2018

Comparison between surgical and percutaneous tracheostomy effects on procalcitonin kinetics in critically ill patients

Authors: Maria Vargas, Pasquale Buonanno, Lina Giorgiano, Giovanna Sorriento, Carmine Iacovazzo and Giuseppe Servillo
Content type: Letter
| 14 November 2018

“Think. Check. Submit.” to avoid predatory publishing

Authors: Andrea Cortegiani and Steven L. Shafer
Content type: Editorial
| 14 November 2018

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?

Authors: Brian H. Cuthbertson

The original article was published in Critical Care 2018 22:243

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RESEARCH
Identifying associations between diabetes and acute respiratory distress syndrome in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: an analysis of the LUNG SAFE database
Andrew J. Boyle et al.

RESEARCH
Ventilator-induced lung injury is aggravated by antibiotic mediated microbiota depletion in mice
Sandra-Maria Wienhold et al.

RESEARCH
Early therapeutic plasma exchange in septic shock: a prospective open-label nonrandomized pilot study focusing on safety, hemodynamics, vascular barrier function, and biologic markers
Hannah Knaup et al.

RESEARCH
Electrical impedance tomography in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Anatole Harrois et al.

RESEARCH
Vitamin D deficiency and supplementation in critical illness—the known knowns and known unknowns
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

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

11 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 & Commentaries

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.