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Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

medical care subspecialty, treating critically ill

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Most cited

  1. Intravenous Fluids and Acute Kidney Injury

    Xiaoqiang Ding, Zhen Cheng, Qi Qian · 2017 · Blood Purification · 6,843 citations

  2. CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting

    Teresa Horan, Mary Andrus, Margaret A. Dudeck · 2008 · American Journal of Infection Control · 6,700 citations

  3. Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Hospital-acquired, Ventilator-associated, and Healthcare-associated Pneumonia

    Author unknown · 2005 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 5,934 citations

  4. Clarifying Confusion: The Confusion Assessment Method

    Sharon K. Inouye, Christopher H. van Dyck, Cathy A. Alessi, Sharyl Balkin · 1990 · Annals of Internal Medicine · 5,329 citations

  5. Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in US Hospitals: Analysis of 24,179 Cases from a Prospective Nationwide Surveillance Study

    Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Thomas Bischoff, Sandra Tallent, Harald Seifert · 2004 · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 4,546 citations

  6. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU

    John W. Devlin, Yoanna Skrobik, Céline Gélinas, Dale M. Needham · 2018 · Critical Care Medicine · 4,013 citations

Most recent

  1. Association of fluid creep and maintenance fluids on major adverse kidney events in critically ill patients - An observational cohort study.

    Jan Waskowski, Giuseppe M.E.A. Maggisano, Markus Hahn, Debora M. Hofer · 2026 · Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern · 0 citations

  2. Ultrasound learning experiences in a Japanese student-led circle: A descriptive study

    S. Tsuge, Kenji Ohba, Yasushi Matsuyama, Shinnosuke Akeda · 2026 · The Asia Pacific Scholar · 0 citations

  3. Prevalence and Characteristics of Mental Health Interventions Following Pediatric Hospitalization

    Mariah DeSerisy, Julia A. Heneghan, Matt Hall, Daniel Choi · 2026 · Hospital Pediatrics · 0 citations

  4. Defining fever-related discomfort in children: an international Delphi consensus

    Gregorio P. Milani, Edward Purssell, David Martin, François Corrard · 2026 · European Journal of Pediatrics · 0 citations

  5. Wirksamkeit von Blended Learning für Point-of-Care-Ultraschall in der Notfallmedizin

    Sebastian Dercks-Pfaffernoschke, Markus Herbert Lerchbaumer, Thomas Fischer, Saskia Gröhler · 2026 · Notfall + Rettungsmedizin · 0 citations

  6. Neuroinflammation in postoperative cognitive dysfunction: the multi-target potential of esketamine in modulating microglial responses and synaptic integrity

    Hao-Tian Li, Guang-Yong Lin, Wen-Tao Xing, Yu Liu · 2026 · Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience · 0 citations

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