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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Critically ill patients treated in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) often develop a pronounced macronutrient deficit because of the inability to feed orally and because nutrition administered via nasogastric tubes is poorly tolerated. In critically ill children, omitting early use of parenteral nutrition (late-PN versus early-PN) reduced infections, accelerated weaning from mechanical ventilation, and shortened PICU stay.
Does fasting-induced ketogenesis mediate these benefits?

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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Medical Research Council-sumscore: a tool for evaluating muscle weakness in patients with post-intensive care syndrome

Authors: Zeynep Turan, Mahir Topaloglu and Ozden Ozyemisci Taskiran

Content type: Letter

18 September 2020
Thrombotic and haemorrhagic complications in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a multicentre observational study

Authors: Akshay Shah, Killian Donovan, Anna McHugh, Manish Pandey, Louise Aaron, Charlotte A. Bradbury, Simon J. Stanworth, Raza Alikhan, Stephen Von Kier, Keith Maher, Nicola Curry, Susan Shapiro, Matthew J. Rowland, Matt Thomas, Richard Mason, Matthew Holland…

Content type: Research

18 September 2020
Comparison of published guidelines for management of coagulopathy and thrombosis in critically ill patients with COVID 19: implications for clinical practice and future investigations

Authors: Adam Flaczyk, Rachel P. Rosovsky, Clay T. Reed, Brittany K. Bankhead-Kendall, Edward A. Bittner and Marvin G. Chang

Content type: Review

16 September 2020
Failure of target attainment of beta-lactam antibiotics in critically ill patients and associated risk factors: a two-center prospective study (EXPAT)

Authors: Alan Abdulla, Annemieke Dijkstra, Nicole G. M. Hunfeld, Henrik Endeman, Soma Bahmany, Tim M. J. Ewoldt, Anouk E. Muller, Teun van Gelder, Diederik Gommers and Birgit C. P. Koch

Content type: Research

15 September 2020
40th International Symposium on Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine 2020 – Part 2

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Content type: Meeting abstracts

14 September 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}

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
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
RIFLE criteria for acute kidney injury are associated with hospital mortality in critically ill patients: a cohort analysis

Authors: Eric AJ Hoste, Gilles Clermont, Alexander Kersten, Ramesh Venkataraman, Derek C Angus, Dirk De Bacquer and John A Kellum

Content type: Research

12 May 2006

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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

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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.