Improving Patient Care by Integrating Critical Care Systems Knowledge into Practice Behavior
Official Publication of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care and the Society for Complex Acute Illness

The Journal of Critical Care, the official publication of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care (WFICC) and the Society for Complex Acute Illness (SCAI), is a leading international, peer-reviewed journal that aims to improve patient care by publishing manuscripts that contain new or updated information that can be integrated into clinical practice, with the exception of experimental research.

The Editorial Board represents an international cross section of individuals actively involved in the disciplines of Critical Care Medicine.

The Journal welcomes the following paper types:
Original Research
Reviews
Meta-analysis and Narrative Reviews: please follow our requirements article here before submitting your paper
Research Letters: should not exceed 600 words, 5 references or 1 figure and/or table. No supplementary material permitted
Clinical Challenges
Medical Ethics in Intensive Care Medicine
Education in Intensive Care Medicine
Editorials
Letters to Editor: should refer to an article published in Journal of Critical Care no more than three months after the articles "Available Online Date"
Special Issues

research articles and review articles

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Jan Bakker, MD, PhD, FCCM, FCCP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New York, New York, USA
Associate Editors
Professor Eric Hoste, MD, PhD
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Dr. Jan de Waele
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Section Editors
Ethics Section
Dr. Erwin Kompanje
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Education Section
Dr. Charles Gomersall
Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
Dr. Glenn Hernandez
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Cardiovascular
Dr. Bernd Saugel
Germany
Infection-Sepsis
Dr. Jeffrey Lipman
The University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Brisbane, Australia
Dr. Yasser Sakr
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Renal
Dr. Marlies Ostermann
Guy's and Saint Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
Neuro
Dr. Stephan Mayer
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Metabolics-Nutrition
Jean-Charles Preiser, MD, PhD
Brussels, Belgium
Pulmonology
Professor John Laffey, MD, MA, FCAI, JFICMI
National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
Editorial Board
Dr. Hollman Aya
UK
Dr. Sean Bagshaw, MD
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Dr. Satish Bhagwanjee, MB, ChB
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, United States
Assist. Prof. Mark van den Boogaard, RN, PhD
Radboudumc Haemophilia Treatment Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Dr. Alexander Cavalcanti, MD, PhD
HCor-Hospital do Coração, Research Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Mauricio Cecconi
Italy
Dr. Davide Chiumello, MD
Hospital Polyclinic Maggiore, Milano, Italy
Professor Arnaldo Dubin, MD, PhD
National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Dr. Martin Duenser
Austria
Dr. Richard Ferrer
Hospital de Terrassa, Terrassa, Spain
Dr. Heidi Frankel, MD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Dr. Reza Hashemian
Iran
Dr. Judith Jacobi, PharmD, MCCM, FCCP, BCPS, BCCCP
Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, United States
Dr. Mathieu van der Jagt
the Netherlands
Dr. Dimitrios Karakitsos, MD, PhD
Peripheral General Hospital Athens Giorgos Gennimatas, Athens, Greece
Dr. Ashish K. Khanna
USA
Dr. Andrej Michalsen, MD, MPH
Hospital Tettnang, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Dr. Zsolt Molnar
Slovenia
Dr. Sheila N. Myatra
India
Dr. Gustavo Ospina Tascon, MD, PhD
Icesi University, Valle del Lili Foundation, Cali, Colombia
Professor Zhiyong Peng, MD, PhD
Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital, China
Professor Joseph W. Rossano, MD
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Ram Shanmugam, PhD
USA
Professor Robert D. Stevens, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Dr. Joshua M. Tobin, MD
USA
Dr. Tony Yu-Chang Yeh
Taiwan
Senior Editorial Board
Dr. Rinaldo Bellomo
Australia
Dr. Philip D. Lumb
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Dr. Didier Payen
Denis Diderot University, Paris, France
Dr. Michael Pinsky
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Charles L. Sprung
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Jean Louis Vincent
Belgium
World Federation Council Members (WFSICCM)
Dr. Janice L Zimmerman, President
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, United States
Dr. John Myburgh, Secretary-General
Australia
Dr. Arzu Topeli, Treasurer
Turkey
Mrs. Djillali Annane
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Versailles, France
Dr. Llius Blanch
Spain
Dr. Masaji Nishimura
Japan
Dr. Alvaro Rea-Neto
Brazil
Dr. Abdel Razek Assem
Egypt
Dr. Estensorro Elisa
Argentina
Dr. Sung Gene
USA
Dr. Martin-Loeches Ignacio
Ireland
Dr. Zirpe Kapil
India
Dr. Chae-Man Lim
S. Korea
Dr. Obunbiyi Obashina
Nigeria
The Society for Complex Acute Illness
Dr. Timothy George Buchman
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Dr. Andrew J. Seely, MD, PhD
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Professor Yoram Vodovotz, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Statistical Board
Dr. Ricardo Castro
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Dr. Wan-Jie Gu, MD
Medical College of Nanjing University, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nangjing, China
Dr. Lucas Petri Damiani, MSc
HCor Research Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Wim Rietdijk
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands