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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.

Articles | Critical Care - BioMed Central
Cytomegalovirus end-organ disease in immunocompromised critically ill patients: key concerns demanding attention. Authors: Zhihui Zhang, Junlu Sun, Xuesong Liu, Rong Zhang, Yimin Li and Xiaoqing Liu. Citation:Critical Care 2024 28:298. Content type: Matters ArisingPublished on: 10 September 2024.

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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 ...

Submission guidelines | Critical Care - BioMed Central
Before you submit. Now you’ve identified a journal to submit to, there are a few things you should be familiar with before you submit. Make sure you are submitting to the most suitable journal - Aims and scope. Understand the costs and funding options - Fees and funding. Make sure your manuscript is accurate and readable - Language editing ...

The use of checklists in the intensive care unit: a scoping review
Conclusions. Checklists are commonly used in the intensive care unit and appear in many clinical guidelines. Delirium screening checklists and rounding checklists are well implemented and validated in the literature. Clinical and process of care outcomes associated with checklist use are predominantly positive.

Use of artificial intelligence in critical care: opportunities and ...
Background Perhaps nowhere else in the healthcare system than in the intensive care unit environment are the challenges to create useful models with direct time-critical clinical applications more relevant and the obstacles to achieving those goals more massive. Machine learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to define states and predict future events are commonplace activities ...

The future of intensive care: delirium should no longer be an issue
In the ideal intensive care unit (ICU) of the future, all patients are free from delirium, a syndrome of brain dysfunction frequently observed in critical illness and associated with worse ICU-related outcomes and long-term cognitive impairment. Although screening for delirium requires limited time and effort, this devastating disorder remains underestimated during routine ICU care. The COVID ...

The continuum of critical care | Critical Care | Full Text - BioMed Central
Once on the ICU, the management received can impact considerably on post-ICU long-term outcomes. Critical illness therefore needs to be seen as a continuum, a continuous sequence of interlinked events from the very early moments of illness, through the ICU stay, and into recovery and rehabilitation (Fig. 1). For the purposes of this text, and ...