Diagnostics in Critical Care
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 947
Special Issue Editor
Interests: critical care; intensive care; ECMO; anaesthesia; emergency medicine; cardiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Early screening and recognition of severe medical and surgical illnesses, advanced and rush prehospital care of urgent conditions, organized immediate care in trauma centers and development of in-hospital rapid response teams has led to an increase of intensive care patients and survival of severe conditions in the last few decades. In the intensive care setting, bedside diagnostic tools are essential for good quality of care, early recognition of complications and treatment of critically ill patients. Due to very unstable patients, complex monitoring and often diverse robust organ support systems (extracorporeal heart, lungs kidneys, liver support, etc.) diagnostics need to be brought to the patient's bed. Intensive care treatment of medical patients, patients after cardiothoracic or major abdominal surgery, polytraumatized and all other critically ill patients is currently incomprehensible without continuously sophisticated monitoring, bedside ultrasonography, diverse radiologic diagnostic techniques, point of care coagulation management and laboratory and other diagnostic modalities. In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the information on the use of different radiologic techniques, on revolutionary use of ultrasonography in lungs investigation, diverse laboratory tests primarily for COVID-19 diagnosis and furthermore for early recognition of potentially fatal complications and their prevention is increasing and should be properly addressed.
Furthermore, diagnostic techniques are rapidly emerging as an important and irreplaceable tool in the hands of intensive care physicians; therefore, the main goal of this second volume Special Issue is to update on and summarize diverse diagnostic modalities and diagnostic approaches in the intensive care setting, specially focusing on the point of care approach.
Dr. Sasa Rajsic
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intensive care
- critical care
- critically ill
- point of care
- bedside
- monitoring
- ultrasonography
- radiologic diagnostic
- coagulation
- COVID-19
- emergency
- prehospital
