Call for Analytic Reviews

The practice of intensive care medicine crosses many medical specialties and disciplines — anesthesiology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, immunology, infectious disease, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, nursing, pediatrics, pharmacology, psychiatry, pulmonology, radiology, rheumatology, surgery, toxicology, transplantation, and trauma—and presents many complex and difficult challenges.

The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine is the only journal that offers all medical and surgical clinicians in adult and pediatric intensive care state-of-the-art, broad-based analytic reviews and updates, original articles, reports of large clinical series, techniques and procedures, topic-specific electronic resources, book reviews, and editorials on all aspects of intensive/critical/ coronary care.

Superbly edited, the journal includes authoritative, peer-reviewed reviews of:

• Disease progression and treatment in intensive care
• Common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and techniques for a variety of organ systems 
• New and experimental approaches to disease treatment
• Patient evaluation and management
• End of life issues

The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine also discusses the essential principles, protocols, clinical presentations, guidelines, indications, contraindications, complications, necessary equipment, priorities, ethical and legal issues, changes, and recommendations for ongoing care for every aspect of ICU patient care.

Some of the "hot" topics (right out of the latest headlines!) from recent issues include:

• Genetic predisposition toward critical illness
• Temporary cardiac pacing and defibrillation
• Medical aspects of biological and chemical agents of mass destruction
• Evaluation and management of poisoning
• Serial APACHE III scoring for acute renal failure in the ICU

Other major clinical practice and research topics include:

• Acute Liver Failure
• Acute Renal Failure
• Adult Respiratory Disease Syndrome (ARDS)
• Cost-Effective Procedures
• Critical Illness of the Elderly
• External Forces Shaping Intensive Care such as Organizational Quality, Health Care Reform, Ethics, and Law
• Intensive Care of Organ Transplant Recipients
• Intensive Care of Patients with HIV Disease
• Non-Invasive Ventilation
• Nutritional Support in the ICU
• Outcomes: Long term Survival; Quality of Life
• Reperfusion Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Shock
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Technology in the ICU
• Traumas: Brain Injury; Burns; Spinal Cord Injury; Abdominal Injury; Pediatric; Thoracic Injury; Multiple Organ

For the best coverage of the whole field of intensive care medicine in a scholarly review format, subscribe today to the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine!

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