OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Intensive Care is 14. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Acute myocarditis and multisystem inflammatory emerging disease following SARS-CoV-2 infection in critically ill children	224
Symptoms of burnout in intensive care unit specialists facing the COVID-19 outbreak	223
Bacterial and viral co-infections in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia admitted to a French ICU	212
Ethical dilemmas due to the Covid-19 pandemic	192
COVID-19-associated invasive pulmonary aspergillosis	183
Caution about early intubation and mechanical ventilation in COVID-19	177
Pilot trial of high-dose vitamin C in critically ill COVID-19 patients	157
Pulmonary embolism in patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia: a narrative review	139
Management of critically ill patients with COVID-19 in ICU: statement from front-line intensive care experts in Wuhan, China	134
Intravenous fluid therapy in the perioperative and critical care setting: Executive summary of the International Fluid Academy (IFA)	126
Ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with SARS-CoV-2-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring ECMO: a retrospective cohort study	102
Role of albumin in the preservation of endothelial glycocalyx integrity and the microcirculation: a review	98
Expert consensus-based clinical practice guidelines management of intravascular catheters in the intensive care unit	90
Therapeutic strategies for critically ill patients with COVID-19	85
Prediction of fluid responsiveness. What’s new?	77
Clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a large cohort study	77
Recruitability and effect of PEEP in SARS-Cov-2-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome	76
Post-intensive care syndrome after a critical COVID-19: cohort study from a Belgian follow-up clinic	74
Intensive care management of patients with COVID-19: a practical approach	73
Elevated plasma IL-6 and CRP levels are associated with adverse clinical outcomes and death in critically ill SARS-CoV-2 patients: inflammatory response of SARS-CoV-2 patients	62
Lung ultrasound score predicts outcomes in COVID-19 patients admitted to the emergency department	62
High flow nasal oxygen therapy to avoid invasive mechanical ventilation in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a retrospective study	61
Acute kidney injury in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection	60
Post-resuscitation shock: recent advances in pathophysiology and treatment	60
Energetic dysfunction in sepsis: a narrative review	59

Platelet activation in critically ill COVID-19 patients	59
Reliability of the Clinical Frailty Scale in very elderly ICU patients: a prospective European study	58
Respiratory mechanics and gas exchanges in the early course of COVID-19 ARDS: a hypothesis-generating study	56
Diastolic shock index and clinical outcomes in patients with septic shock	55
High risk of patient self-inflicted lung injury in COVID-19 with frequently encountered spontaneous breathing patterns: a computational modelling study	52
Mental health outcomes of ICU and non-ICU healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak: a cross-sectional study	51
Soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE) as a biomarker of COVID-19 disease severity and indicator of the need for mechanical ventilation, ARDS and mortality	50
Acute kidney injury prevalence, progression and long-term outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a cohort study	50
Chronic critical illness and post-intensive care syndrome: from pathophysiology to clinical challenges	50
Nitric oxide inhalation as an interventional rescue therapy for COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome	46
Predictors of fluid responsiveness in critically ill patients mechanically ventilated at low tidal volumes: systematic review and meta-analysis	45
Increased susceptibility to intensive care unit-acquired pneumonia in severe COVID-19 patients: a multicentre retrospective cohort study	44
Impact of dexamethasone on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia and blood stream infections in COVID-19 patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation: a multicenter retrospective stud	43
P-SILI is not justification for intubation of COVID-19 patients	43
Characteristics, management, and prognosis of elderly patients with COVID-19 admitted in the ICU during the first wave: insights from the COVID-ICU study	42
Management of pharmaceutical and recreational drug poisoning	42
A lactate-targeted resuscitation strategy may be associated with higher mortality in patients with septic shock and normal capillary refill time: a post hoc analysis of the ANDROMEDA-SHOCK study	42
Characteristics and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU: a nationwide cohort study on the comparison between the first and the consecutive upsurges of the second wave of the COVID-19 pand	41
Sustained oxygenation improvement after first prone positioning is associated with liberation from mechanical ventilation and mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients: a cohort study	41
Short-term health-related quality of life, physical function and psychological consequences of severe COVID-19	39
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Can the cytokine adsorber CytoSorb® help to mitigate cytokine storm and reduce mortality in critically ill patients? A propensity score matching analysis	38
Early combination of albumin with crystalloids administration might be beneficial for the survival of septic patients: a retrospective analysis from MIMIC-IV database	37
Characteristics and risk factors associated with critical illness in pediatric COVID-19	37
Microvascular alterations in patients with SARS-COV-2 severe pneumonia	37
The autonomic nervous system in septic shock and its role as a future therapeutic target: a narrative review	36
Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and outcome of candidemia in critically ill patients in Germany: a single-center retrospective 10-year analysis	36
Sepsis and septic shock in France: incidences, outcomes and costs of care	36
Rescue therapy with inhaled nitric oxide and almitrine in COVID-19 patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome	35
Surgical mask on top of high-flow nasal cannula improves oxygenation in critically ill COVID-19 patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure	35
Result of one-year, prospective follow-up of intensive care unit survivors after SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia	35
Current use of inotropes in circulatory shock	34
Pharmacokinetics of high-dose tigecycline in critically ill patients with severe infections	34
Spontaneous breathing, transpulmonary pressure and mathematical trickery	34
Effects of capillary refill time-vs. lactate-targeted fluid resuscitation on regional, microcirculatory and hypoxia-related perfusion parameters in septic shock: a randomized controlled trial	33
Characteristics and outcomes of acute respiratory distress syndrome related to COVID-19 in Belgian and French intensive care units according to antiviral strategies: the COVADIS multicentre observatio	33
Uncertainty in the impact of liver support systems in acute-on-chronic liver failure: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	33
The end-expiratory occlusion test for detecting preload responsiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis	32
Higher anticoagulation targets and risk of thrombotic events in severe COVID-19 patients: bi-center cohort study	32
Best-practice IgM- and IgA-enriched immunoglobulin use in patients with sepsis	31
Progression of regional lung strain and heterogeneity in lung injury: assessing the evolution under spontaneous breathing and mechanical ventilation	31
Risk factors for invasive aspergillosis in ICU patients with COVID-19: current insights and new key elements	31
Clinical performance of lung ultrasound in predicting ARDS morphology	30
Systematic review and literature appraisal on methodology of conducting and reporting critical-care echocardiography studies: a report from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine PRICES exper	30
Mental health and stress among ICU healthcare professionals in France according to intensity of the COVID-19 epidemic	30
Perioperative hemodynamic optimization: from guidelines to implementation—an experts’ opinion paper	29
Retinal blood flow in critical illness and systemic disease: a review	29
The role of the microbiota in the management of intensive care patients	29
Impact of obesity on survival in COVID-19 ARDS patients receiving ECMO: results from an ambispective observational cohort	29
Inter-hospital transport of critically ill patients to manage the intensive care unit surge during the COVID-19 pandemic in France	28

Use of critical care resources during the first 2 weeks (February 24–March 8, 2020) of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy	28
Awake prone position reduces work of breathing in patients with COVID-19 ARDS supported by CPAP	27
Occurrence of pendelluft under pressure support ventilation in patients who failed a spontaneous breathing trial: an observational study	27
Cognitive and psychosocial outcomes of mechanically ventilated intensive care patients with and without delirium	27
Duration of prone position sessions: a prospective cohort study	26
Duration of invasive mechanical ventilation prior to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is not associated with survival in acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by coronavirus disease 2019	26
Practices in sedation, analgesia, mobilization, delirium, and sleep deprivation in adult intensive care units (SAMDS-ICU): an international survey before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Effectiveness of polymyxin B hemoperfusion for sepsis depends on the baseline SOFA score: a nationwide observational study	25
Measurement site of inferior vena cava diameter affects the accuracy with which fluid responsiveness can be predicted in spontaneously breathing patients: a post hoc analysis of two prospective cohort	25
Management and prevention of anemia (acute bleeding excluded) in adult critical care patients	25
Performance of the ROX index to predict intubation in immunocompromised patients receiving high-flow nasal cannula for acute respiratory failure	25
Mucormycosis in intensive care unit: surgery is a major prognostic factor in patients with hematological malignancy	25
Urine NGAL as a biomarker for septic AKI: a critical appraisal of clinical utility—data from the observational FINNAKI study	25
Use, timing and factors associated with tracheal intubation in septic shock: a prospective multicentric observational study	24
The impact of critical illness on the expiratory muscles and the diaphragm assessed by ultrasound in mechanical ventilated children	24
Performances of disseminated intravascular coagulation scoring systems in septic shock patients	24
Long-term survival of mechanically ventilated patients with severe COVID-19: an observational cohort study	24
Immune-related adverse events: a retrospective look into the future of oncology in the intensive care unit	24
Antimicrobial stewardship, therapeutic drug monitoring and infection management in the ICU: results from the international A- TEAMICU survey	23
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiogenic shock: a meta-analysis of mortality and complications	23
Timing of vasoactive agents and corticosteroid initiation in septic shock	23
Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) indicated frailty is associated with increased in-hospital and 30-day mortality in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
The outbreak of COVID-19 in Mulhouse	23
The use of extracorporeal CO2 removal in acute respiratory failure	23
Circadian rhythms in septic shock patients	23
New clinical algorithm including fungal biomarkers to better diagnose probable invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in ICU	23
P/FP ratio: incorporation of PEEP into the PaO2/FiO2 ratio for prognostication and classification of acute respiratory distress syndrome	23
Preemptive ganciclovir for mechanically ventilated patients with cytomegalovirus reactivation	23
Critically ill SARS-CoV-2-infected patients are not stratified as sepsis by the qSOFA	22
One-year survival in acute stroke patients requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicenter cohort study	22
The effect of bed-to-nurse ratio on hospital mortality of critically ill children on mechanical ventilation: a nationwide population-based study	22
Biased and unbiased estimation of the average length of stay in intensive care units in the Covid-19 pandemic	22
Fluid-induced harm in the hospital: look beyond volume and start considering sodium. From physiology towards recommendations for daily practice in hospitalized adults	21
Three broad classifications of acute respiratory failure etiologies based on regional ventilation and perfusion by electrical impedance tomography: a hypothesis-generating study	21
Protracted viral shedding and viral load are associated with ICU mortality in Covid-19 patients with acute respiratory failure	20
Lack of viral clearance by the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin or lopinavir and ritonavir in SARS-CoV-2-related acute respiratory distress syndrome	20
Health-related quality of life of COVID-19 two and 12 months after intensive care unit admission	20
Factors associated with major adverse kidney events in patients who underwent veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation	20
Feasibility, safety, and resource utilisation of active mobilisation of patients on extracorporeal life support: a prospective observational study	20
Ultrasonographic assessment of parasternal intercostal muscles during mechanical ventilation	20
Infectious events in patients with severe COVID-19: results of a cohort of patients with high prevalence of underlying immune defect	20
Diagnosing capillary leak in critically ill patients: development of an innovative scoring instrument for non-invasive detection	20
Relationship between lipoprotein concentrations and short-term and 1-year mortality in intensive care unit septic patients: results from the HIGHSEPS study	20
Impact of ICU transfers on the mortality rate of patients with COVID-19: insights from comprehensive national database in France	20
Pulse oximetry, racial bias and statistical bias	19
Severe liver dysfunction complicating course of COVID-19 in the critically ill: multifactorial cause or direct viral effect?	19
Characteristics and prognosis of bloodstream infection in patients with COVID-19 admitted in the ICU: an ancillary study of the COVID-ICU study	19
Characteristics of resuscitation, and association between use of dynamic tests of fluid responsiveness and outcomes in septic patients: results of a multicenter prospective cohort study in Argentina	19
Acute kidney injury in SARS-CoV2-related pneumonia ICU patients: a retrospective multicenter study	19
Effectiveness of corticosteroids for post-extubation stridor and extubation failure in pediatric patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Corticosteroid treatment and mortality in mechanically ventilated COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients: a multicentre cohort study	18
Intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome in patients admitted to the ICU	18
Long-term cardiovascular complications following sepsis: is senescence the missing link?	18
Monitoring of circulating monocyte HLA-DR expression in a large cohort of intensive care patients: relation with secondary infections	18
Auto-antibodies against type I IFNs in > 10% of critically ill COVID-19 patients: a prospective multicentre study	18
Gasping during refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a prognostic marker for favourable neurological outcome following extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a retrospective study	18
Gender disparity in critical care publications: a novel Female First Author Index	18
Continuous positive airway pressure for respiratory support during COVID-19 pandemic: a frugal approach from bench to bedside	17
Prevalence and prognosis of respiratory pendelluft phenomenon in mechanically ventilated ICU patients with acute respiratory failure: a retrospective cohort study	17
Non-invasive method to detect high respiratory effort and transpulmonary driving pressures in COVID-19 patients during mechanical ventilation	17
Management of late onset urea cycle disorders—a remaining challenge for the intensivist?	17
Case fatality inequalities of critically ill COVID-19 patients according to patient-, hospital- and region-related factors: a French nationwide study	16
Virtual reality vs. Kalinox® for management of pain in intensive care unit after cardiac surgery: a randomized study	16
Adsorption therapy in critically ill with septic shock and acute kidney injury: a retrospective and prospective cohort study	16
The Italian document: decisions for intensive care when there is an imbalance between care needs and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Is hypoxemia explained by intracardiac or intrapulmonary shunt in COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome?	16
Efficacy and safety of IL-6 inhibitors in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of multicentre, randomized trials	16
Association between acute kidney injury and norepinephrine use following cardiac surgery: a retrospective propensity score-weighted analysis	15
Individualization of PEEP and tidal volume in ARDS patients with electrical impedance tomography: a pilot feasibility study	15
Radiological pattern in ARDS patients: partitioned respiratory mechanics, gas exchange and lung recruitability	15
Association between mortality and age among mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients: a Japanese nationwide COVID-19 database study	15
An international survey on aminoglycoside practices in critically ill patients: the AMINO III study	15
Target arterial PO2 according to the underlying pathology: a mini-review of the available data in mechanically ventilated patients	14
Multidisciplinary team approach in acute myocardial infarction patients undergoing veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation	14
Sequential lateral positioning as a new lung recruitment maneuver: an exploratory study in early mechanically ventilated Covid-19 ARDS patients	14
Recruitment pattern of the diaphragm and extradiaphragmatic inspiratory muscles in response to different levels of pressure support	14
Intravenously administered interleukin-7 to reverse lymphopenia in patients with septic shock: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial	14
Patterns of ICU admissions and outcomes in patients with solid malignancies over the revolution of cancer treatment	14
P-SILI as justification for intubation in COVID-19: readers as arbiters	14
Ocular microvascular changes in patients with sepsis: a prospective observational study	14