Editorial The future of COVID-19: A pivotal role for intensivists Babivigasan Gunasegaran, Ann Mary Behanan, Joseph Varon As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare professionals, particularly intensivists, find…
Editorial Transthoracic echocardiography findings in critically ill COVID-19 patients Joseph Varon, Mohamed Ziad-M. Said In this issue of Critical Care and Shock, Gerhardy and colleagues present a study that utilized trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE)…
Editorial Artificial intelligence in critical care Joseph Varon, Najia Hussaini Introduction Critical care medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with managing patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries….
Editorial Albumin is a prognostic marker for COVID-19 infection Luciana Sutanto Since the first reported coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) case in Wuhan on December 31, 2019, more than 2 years…
Editorial From the Editors: Introducing our New Website Joseph Varon, Simon Nanlohy Dear Readers and Authors, Critical Care and Shock started as a peer-reviewed journal in 1998 by Dr. Iqbal…
Editorial Treatment of COVID-19 is critically phase specific Joseph Varon, Paul E. Marik, Pierre Kory A number of beneficial (corticosteroids and remdesivir), and potentially beneficial therapies, exist for the treatment of COVID-19. What is…
Editorial On becoming a COVIDologist: An intensivist tale Joseph Varon Who would think that I would consider myself an expert on an illness, that I knew almost nothing about…
Editorial Psychological dependence to mechanical ventilation Cynthia Ocegueda-Pacheco, Samantha Fernandez Hernandez In the last 50 years, medicine in intensive care units has focused in improving quality and safety processes involved…
Editorial From Wallenberg’s to SIRS: A tale of a critically ill physician Joseph Varon Who knows more about a disease than the one who suffers it? That’s the repeated phrase that my anatomy…
Editorial Therapeutic hypothermia: Myths and controversies Joseph Varon, Cynthia Ocegueda-Pacheco The use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in critical care medicine is no longer a rarity. (1-3) This technique is…