Critical Care

Papers
(The H4-Index of Critical Care is 61. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can artificial intelligence help for scientific writing?316
Corticosteroid use in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis on clinical outcomes242
Predictive values of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio on disease severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis242
Exosomal miR-30d-5p of neutrophils induces M1 macrophage polarization and primes macrophage pyroptosis in sepsis-related acute lung injury225
Ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients with COVID-19205
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis194
Biomarkers for sepsis: more than just fever and leukocytosis—a narrative review193
Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and potential intervention approaches187
The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: sixth edition181
Viral RNA load in plasma is associated with critical illness and a dysregulated host response in COVID-19179
Prone position in intubated, mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19: a multi-centric study of more than 1000 patients176
Effect of timing of intubation on clinical outcomes of critically ill patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of non-randomized cohort studies167
Long-term outcomes after critical illness: recent insights145
High-flow nasal oxygen in patients with COVID-19-associated acute respiratory failure139
Dangers of hyperoxia130
Expert consensus statements for the management of COVID-19-related acute respiratory failure using a Delphi method122
Severe manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: from COVID-19 pneumonia to multisystem inflammatory syndrome: a multicentre study in pediatric intensive care units in Spain119
Awake prone positioning does not reduce the risk of intubation in COVID-19 treated with high-flow nasal oxygen therapy: a multicenter, adjusted cohort study119
Personalized mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome111
The impact of frailty on survival in elderly intensive care patients with COVID-19: the COVIP study104
Large language models and the perils of their hallucinations102
The rate and assessment of muscle wasting during critical illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis99
Markers of endothelial and epithelial pulmonary injury in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 ICU patients99
Risks of ventilator-associated pneumonia and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with viral acute respiratory distress syndrome related or not to Coronavirus 19 disease97
Acute skeletal muscle wasting and dysfunction predict physical disability at hospital discharge in patients with critical illness97
Anakinra treatment in critically ill COVID-19 patients: a prospective cohort study96
Comparison between first and second wave among critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to a French ICU: no prognostic improvement during the second wave?95
Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound for COVID-19 (PoCUS4COVID): international expert consensus94
Awake prone positioning in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19: the PROFLO multicenter randomized clinical trial92
Gut-liver crosstalk in sepsis-induced liver injury91
Machine learning model for early prediction of acute kidney injury (AKI) in pediatric critical care87
Mechanical ventilation parameters in critically ill COVID-19 patients: a scoping review85
Right ventricular-arterial uncoupling independently predicts survival in COVID-19 ARDS84
Epidemiology and microbiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in COVID-19 patients: a multicenter retrospective study in 188 patients in an un-inundated French region83
Prognostic value of bedside lung ultrasound score in patients with COVID-1982
Initial antimicrobial management of sepsis80
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective large cohort multicenter study in Japan79
Immune effects of PI3K/Akt/HIF-1α-regulated glycolysis in polymorphonuclear neutrophils during sepsis79
The impact of COVID-19 critical illness on new disability, functional outcomes and return to work at 6 months: a prospective cohort study78
Thromboembolic complications in critically ill COVID-19 patients are associated with impaired fibrinolysis77
Effect of tranexamic acid on thrombotic events and seizures in bleeding patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis75
Right ventricular failure in septic shock: characterization, incidence and impact on fluid responsiveness74
Hemoperfusion: technical aspects and state of the art74
Virtual and augmented reality in critical care medicine: the patient’s, clinician’s, and researcher’s perspective74
CXCL10 could drive longer duration of mechanical ventilation during COVID-19 ARDS73
The use of venous Doppler to predict adverse kidney events in a general ICU cohort73
Relationship between ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality in COVID-19 patients: a planned ancillary analysis of the coVAPid cohort71
Antifungal prophylaxis for prevention of COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill patients: an observational study71
Timing of antibiotic therapy in the ICU70
Treatment of COVID-19-associated ARDS with mesenchymal stromal cells: a multicenter randomized double-blind trial69
Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care Medicine69
High flow nasal therapy versus noninvasive ventilation as initial ventilatory strategy in COPD exacerbation: a multicenter non-inferiority randomized trial67
Prevalence of post-intensive care syndrome among Japanese intensive care unit patients: a prospective, multicenter, observational J-PICS study66
Insight into ECMO, mortality and ARDS: a nationwide analysis of 45,647 ECMO runs66
A guide to enteral nutrition in intensive care units: 10 expert tips for the daily practice65
Dosing of thromboprophylaxis and mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients64
The effect of higher versus lower protein delivery in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials64
Machine-learning-based COVID-19 mortality prediction model and identification of patients at low and high risk of dying64
Sepsis is associated with mitochondrial DNA damage and a reduced mitochondrial mass in the kidney of patients with sepsis-AKI63
Noninvasive respiratory support outside the intensive care unit for acute respiratory failure related to coronavirus-19 disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis62
Systematic early versus late mobilization or standard early mobilization in mechanically ventilated adult ICU patients: systematic review and meta-analysis62
Association between perioperative fluid administration and postoperative outcomes: a 20-year systematic review and a meta-analysis of randomized goal-directed trials in major visceral/noncardiac surge61
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