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.

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The rational use of antibiotics is one of the main strategies to limit the development of bacterial resistance. I. Borges et al. illustrate a C-reactive protein-based protocol that may reduce antibiotic treatment time in critically ill patients.

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

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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.

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Identification, collection, and reporting of harms among non-industry-sponsored randomized clinical trials of pharmacologic interventions in the critically ill population: a systematic review

Authors: Ari Moskowitz, Lars W. Andersen, Mathias J. Holmberg, Anne V. Grossestreuer, Katherine M. Berg and Asger Granfeldt

Content type: Research

8 July 2020
Prone positioning in severe ARDS requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Authors: Jonathan Rilinger, Viviane Zotzmann, Xavier Bemtgen, Carin Schumacher, Paul M. Biever, Daniel Duerschmied, Klaus Kaier, Peter Stachon, Constantin von zur Mühlen, Manfred Zehender, Christoph Bode, Dawid L. Staudacher and Tobias Wengenmayer

Content type: Research

8 July 2020
Clarifying the controversial risk-benefit profile of soluble ACE2 in COVID-19

Authors: Melvin Khee Shing Leow

Content type: Letter

6 July 2020

The original article was published in Critical Care 2020 24:221
COVID-19: a hypothesis regarding the ventilation-perfusion mismatch

Authors: Mario G. Santamarina, Dominique Boisier, Roberto Contreras, Martiniano Baque, Mariano Volpacchio and Ignacio Beddings

Content type: Editorial

6 July 2020
Clinical course and predictors of 60-day mortality in 239 critically ill patients with COVID-19: a multicenter retrospective study from Wuhan, China

Authors: Jiqian Xu, Xiaobo Yang, Luyu Yang, Xiaojing Zou, Yaxin Wang, Yongran Wu, Ting Zhou, Yin Yuan, Hong Qi, Shouzhi Fu, Hong Liu, Jia’an Xia, Zhengqin Xu, Yuan Yu, Ruiting Li, Yaqi Ouyang…

Content type: Research

6 July 2020

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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
How low is too low? Cardiac risks with anemia

Authors: Samir M Fakhry and Paola Fata

Content type: Review

14 June 2004
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

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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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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

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Volume 23 Supplement 2
Brussels, Belgium | 19-22 March 2019}

38th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

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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.