Collections and calls for papers

Management of Acute Stroke has been forever a challenging clinical practice. Acute Stroke is too often a catastrophic neurological and life event, especially when a patient requires an ICU setting. Time, of ...

• Prof Marek Mirski

In this thematic series of articles, the focus is on important recent developments and state-of-the art practice in the field of cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is a major public health problem. Many thousand...

Despite the improvement in the management of coronary artery disease, cardiogenic shock remains a frequent condition. The number of patients with cardiogenic shock increases following cardio-pulmonary resusc...

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Ten years ago, a novel strain of influenza virus caused panic as it spread worldwide, filling emergency rooms and hospitals beyond capacity. Starting April 2009, for one year at least 150,000 and up to 575,0...

• Prof Adrienne Randolph

After so many negative randomized, controlled trials, that have evaluated a number of simplified therapeutic interventions that could be applied to large patient populations, people are turning their interes...

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Articles in this series have been selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2023 by Critical Care’s Editor-in-Chief. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2023...

This series focus on all aspects related to the future of intensive care medicine, including but not limited to: organization, staffing, monitoring systems, new therapies, future organ support systems, ethic...

• Jean-Louis Vincent

This Collection of articles will summarize the current state of the art of trauma resuscitation and imagine the evolution and challenges for the 21st century: dealing with shock, trauma systems, demographic ...

Current management of patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, sepsis, and even general critical illness are subject to requiring therapeutics that often involve complex neurological assessment, monitor...

• Marek Mirski

Fact: Sepsis kills 37,000 a year in the UK alone. This is more than bowel cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. It affects all groups of people from infants to the elderly and kills 1 in 3 of t...