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.

INSIGHT INTO ECMO, MORTALITY AND ARDS

ECLS has become an integral part of modern intensive therapy. Various pulmonary and cardiac conditions are indications for the use of ECLS and the choice of support mode depends largely on the indication. ARDS is one of the most severe clinical indications for the use of ECLS with a high mortality rate despite the extracorporeal support.
B. Friedrichson et al. analyzed 45,647 ECMO runs in Germany and reported the mortality rate associated with the treatment duration and ARDS patient’s age distribution.

COVID-19 UPDATES

We collect here all most recent research updates on COVID-19 epidemics published in the journal to make them easily discoverable to the research community

HAVE A LOOK AT MONTHLY MOST TRENDING ARTICLES

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
Research articles
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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

See the full range of benefits in choosing In Review and how to opt in here and how the platform looks like here

Articles

Predicting neurological outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with cumulative information; development and internal validation of an artificial neural network algorithm

Authors: Peder Andersson, Jesper Johnsson, Ola Björnsson, Tobias Cronberg, Christian Hassager, Henrik Zetterberg, Pascal Stammet, Johan Undén, Jesper Kjaergaard, Hans Friberg, Kaj Blennow, Gisela Lilja, Matt P. Wise, Josef Dankiewicz, Niklas Nielsen and Attila Frigyesi

Content type: Research

25 February 2021
Long-term health-related quality of life and burden of disease after intensive care: development of a patient-reported outcome measure

Authors: Johan Malmgren, Ann-Charlotte Waldenström, Christian Rylander, Elias Johannesson and Stefan Lundin

Content type: Research

25 February 2021
Computed tomography assessment of PEEP-induced alveolar recruitment in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia

Authors: Lorenzo Ball, Chiara Robba, Lorenzo Maiello, Jacob Herrmann, Sarah E. Gerard, Yi Xin, Denise Battaglini, Iole Brunetti, Giuseppe Minetti, Sara Seitun, Antonio Vena, Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Matteo Bassetti, Patricia R. M. Rocco, Maurizio Cereda, Lucio Castellan…

Content type: Research

24 February 2021
Helmet CPAP to treat hypoxic pneumonia outside the ICU: an observational study during the COVID-19 outbreak

Authors: Andrea Coppadoro, Annalisa Benini, Robert Fruscio, Luisa Verga, Paolo Mazzola, Giuseppe Bellelli, Marco Carbone, Giacomo Mulinacci, Alessandro Soria, Beatrice Noè, Eduardo Beck, Riccardo Di Sciacca, Davide Ippolito, Giuseppe Citerio, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Andrea Biondi…

Content type: Research

24 February 2021
Causes and timing of death in critically ill COVID-19 patients

Authors: Damien Contou, Radj Cally, Florence Sarfati, Paul Desaint, Megan Fraissé and Gaëtan Plantefève

Content type: Research Letter

23 February 2021

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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}

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
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
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
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
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

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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.

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Editorials & Commentaries

Future of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) 2016

Selected articles from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2020

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

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Latest Supplements

40th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

^{Meeting abstracts
Volume 24 Supplement 1
Brussels, Belgium | 15-18 March 2020}

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

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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.