Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
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!
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine is intended for all clinicians and researchers interested in intensive/critical care. The Journal publishes authoritative, peer-reviewed reviews of disease progression and treatments in intensive care; common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and techniques for a variety of organ systems; new and experimental approaches to disease management; and end-of-life issues.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
| James M. Rippe, MD | Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Shrewsbury, MA, USA; UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Nicholas Smyrnios, MD | University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Elizabeth A. Grady | Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Shrewsbury, MA, USA |
| Gordon B. Avery, MD | Washington, DC, USA |
| Ronald Miller, MD | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Jay H. Stein, MD | Oklahoma City, OK, USA |
| Ali Al-Khafaji, MD, MPH | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA |
| Lisa Bebell, MD | Mass General Hospital, USA |
| Kamal Bhusal, MD, FACE, DABOM | LSU Health Science Center- Shreveport, USA |
| Eric H. Bradburn, DO | Penn Medicine Lancaster General, USA |
| Paul F. Dellaripa, MD | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA |
| David Dudzinski, MD | Mass General Hospital, USA |
| Eric Eichenwald, MD | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Joseph Frassica, MD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Heather Gordish-Dressman, PhD | George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, USA |
| Neil A. Halpern, MD | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
| Seth J. Koenig, MD | Montefiore Health System, USA |
| Kiwon Lee, MD, FACP, FAHA, FCCM | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA |
| Fred A. Luchette, MD, FACS, FCCM | Burn Shock Trauma Institute, Loyola University, USA |
| Justin Lui, MD | Boston University, USA |
| Barry Markovitz, MD | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, USA |
| Christopher Marshall, MD | UMass Chan Medical School, USA |
| Richard A. Matthay, MD | Yale University, School of Medicine, USA |
| John McIlwaine, DO, FCCP | Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA |
| Cristina Montalvo, MD | Tufts University School of Medicine, Medford, MA, USA |
| Zab Mosenifar, MD, FACP, FCCP | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA |
| Paul M. Palevsky, MD | VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, USA |
| Edward P Richards, JD, MPH | Law and Ethics, LSU Law, USA |
| F. Rincon, MD, MSc, MB.Ethics, FACP, FCCP, FCCM | Thomas Jefferson University, USA |
| Todd Sarge, MD | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA |
| F. Marc Stewart, MD | City of Hope, USA |
| Eric vanSonnenberg, MD | University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, USA |
| Louis Voigt, MD | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
| Rade Vukmir, MD, JD | Emergency Consultants, Inc., USA |
| Jeffrey Williams, MD, FCCP | George Washington University, USA |
| Luke Yip, MD | Denver Health, Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, USA |
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