Skip to main content

Imaging in Critical Care

Edited by:

Lorenzo Ball, MD, PhD, University of Genoa, Italy

Submission Status: Open |  Submission Deadline: 16 August 2025 
 

Critical Care is calling for submissions to our Collection titled Imaging in Critical Care. This collection aims to offer readers cutting-edge insights into the diverse applications of imaging in the management of critically ill patients, with a particular focus on how imaging is being applied to improve diagnostic accuracy, guide therapeutic interventions, and ultimately, enhance patient outcomes in the ICU.

Image credit: © sudok1 / stock.adobe.com

New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being.

About the Collection

Critical Care is calling for submissions to our Collection titled “Imaging in Critical Care”. Articles in this collection focuses on the role of different imaging techniques in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Over the past few decades, the application of advanced imaging technologies has profoundly transformed our pathophysiological understanding of critical illness. These advancements have woven imaging into the clinical workflow of ICU patients, enhancing the assessment and management of respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, and neurological functions.

This collection aims to offer readers cutting-edge insights into the diverse applications of imaging in the management of critically ill patients, with a particular focus on how imaging is being applied to improve diagnostic accuracy, guide therapeutic interventions, and ultimately, enhance patient outcomes in the ICU.

We are particularly interested in original research that presents novel data in this dynamic field. However, top-quality reviews and meta-analyses could also be considered.

  2. The clinical presentation of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) can range from mild symptoms to severe shock, circulatory arrest and even death, thereby presenting with a significant high mortality when undiagnosed...

    Authors: Rafael Hortêncio Melo, Luciana Gioli-Pereira, Igor Dovorake Lourenço, Rogério Da Hora Passos, Adriana Tumba Bernardo and Giovanni Volpicelli
    Citation: Critical Care 2025 29:162
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Assessing and quantifying recruitability are important for characterizing ARDS severity and for reducing or preventing the atelectrauma caused by the cyclic opening and closing of pulmonary units. Over the yea...

    Authors: Stefano Giovanazzi, Domenico Nocera, Giulia Catozzi, Francesca Collino, Massimo Cressoni, Lorenzo Ball, Onnen Moerer, Michael Quintel, Luigi Camporota and Luciano Gattinoni
    Citation: Critical Care 2025 29:64
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. Loss of hemodynamic coherence is a phenomenon in critically ill patients. Due to inflammatory events and endothelial remodeling, macro- and microhemodynamics are decoupled from each other, resulting in microci...

    Authors: Sebastian Kintrup, Lukasz Listkiewicz, Philip-Helge Arnemann and Nana-Maria Wagner
    Citation: Critical Care 2024 28:400
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an emerging technology for the non-invasive monitoring of regional distribution of ventilation and perfusion, offering real-time and continuous data that can greatly en...

    Authors: Gaetano Scaramuzzo, Bertrand Pavlovsky, Andy Adler, Walter Baccinelli, Dani L. Bodor, L. Felipe Damiani, Guillaume Franchineau, Juliette Francovich, Inéz Frerichs, Juan A. Sánchez Giralt, Bartłomiej Grychtol, Huaiwu He, Bhushan H. Katira, Alette A. Koopman, Steffen Leonhardt, Luca S. Menga…
    Citation: Critical Care 2024 28:377
    Content type: Review Published on:

Submission Guidelines

Back to top

This Collection welcomes submission of original research that presents novel data in this dynamic field. However, top-quality reviews and meta-analyses could also be considered. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Imaging in Critical Care” under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.