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 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak is drammatically spreading worldwide, and to date, no specific treatment has convincingly demonstrated its efficacy. Lecronier et al. compare the effects of two therapeutic options with potential interest: lopinavir/ritonavir and hydroxychloroquine

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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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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Benefit of hydrocortisone, thiamine, and vitamin C for patients with sepsis or septic shock? Too early to draw conclusions

Authors: Rui Shi and Hongtao Tie

Content type: Research Letter

14 July 2020
Nurse-performed ultrasound: a new weapon against COVID-19

Authors: Jianhua Sun, Qi Li, Xinjuan Wu, Xiaoting Wang and Dawei Liu

Content type: Letter

14 July 2020
Atorvastatin associated with decreased hazard for death in COVID-19 patients admitted to an ICU: a retrospective cohort study

Authors: Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava, Daniela Patricia Trelles-Garcia, Maria Adriana Yanez-Bello, Chul Won Chung, Valeria Patricia Trelles-Garcia and Harvey J. Friedman

Content type: Research Letter

14 July 2020
Prone positioning under VV-ECMO in SARS-CoV-2-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome

Authors: Bruno Garcia, Nicolas Cousin, Claire Bourel, Mercé Jourdain, Julien Poissy and Thibault Duburcq

Content type: Research Letter

14 July 2020
Obesity paradox for critically ill patients may be modified by age: a retrospective observational study from one large database

Authors: Dawei Zhou, Zhimin Li, Guangzhi Shi and Jianxin Zhou

Content type: Research Letter

13 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}

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
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
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.