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CHEST^® Critical Care

As part of the CHEST^® journal portfolio, CHEST Critical Care advances the care of patients served by multidisciplinary clinicians across critical care medicine. As an open access publication, CHEST Critical Care features content that is permanently and freely available online for all. To date, the journal has been indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals, Scopus, and Web of Science (Clarivate).

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ARDS AND ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE

Temporal Nomenclature and Definitions for Prolonged Course ARDS: A Scoping Review
What nomenclature and time-based definitions have been used in the ARDS literature over the past three decades to describe patients with a prolonged course of ARDS?

END-OF-LIFE CARE

A Thematic Analysis of Family Perspectives on Traumatic Stress and Critical Illness of a Loved One
How do family members with traumatic stress experience ICU care of a loved one?

INJURY

One-Year Effects of the Composite Allocation Score on Lung Transplantation in Critically Ill Patients
What are the waitlist and posttransplant outcomes for patients in the ICU within the first year of the Composite Allocation Score era?

SHOCK

Reflective Biomarker or Independent Risk Predictor? Assessing Lactate Clearance in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Outcomes
Do lactate dynamics provide incremental value beyond established risk models in predicting outcomes for patients who have undergone cardiac surgery?

Submit your research to CHEST Critical Care

CHEST Critical Care accepts submissions of original research, which includes early-phase clinical trials, implementation science, health service delivery, medical decision-making, cost-effectiveness analyses, quality improvement, database analyses, artificial intelligence applications, clinical education research, methodology/study design descriptions, region-specific reports, and secondary analysis of published data or data subsets.

Note about article publishing charges: After acceptance, authors of CHEST Critical Care will be asked to pay an article publishing charge. CHEST strives to make open-access publishing accessible for all. Learn about opportunities for discounted or waived article publication charges, including a 20% discount for CHEST members.

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Listen to the CHEST^® Critical Care podcast, where we host a discussion with the authors of important articles from the journal, adding context and commentary to the challenges facing clinicians in the field of critical care medicine.

The impact of CHEST Critical Care

CHEST Critical Care expands the focus of the CHEST journal portfolio to more comprehensively cover the unique challenges faced every day by clinicians treating patients with critical illness.

A new home for critical care

Going well beyond pulmonary medicine, CHEST Critical Care offers clinicians working in every area of critical care a new home within the CHEST community for leading-edge research and insights relevant to their practice.

New publishing opportunities

As more institutions mandate publication in open-access journals, and the number of submissions to the flagship journal continues to increase, CHEST Critical Care offers more opportunities for clinicians to publish their research and impact the way we deliver patient care.

Greater access to research

With an open-access model, any reader anywhere can access the findings published in CHEST Critical Care, helping more clinicians across the world deliver more informed patient care.

MEET THE EDITOR

Hayley Gershengorn, MD, FCCP

Dr. Gershengorn, the Editor in Chief of CHEST Critical Care, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, where she works as a medical intensivist. She serves as Medical Director of Data Quality Analytics and Critical Care Quality for the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics. Dr. Gershengorn’s research program focuses on the allocation of ICU resources and the impact such allocation has on the outcomes of critically ill patients.

Browse CHEST scholarly journals

CHEST Critical Care is part of the CHEST family of journals. Learn about our other publications:

CHEST Journal, our flagship journal, features the best in peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in the multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine.

CHEST Pulmonary advances the care of patients served by multidisciplinary clinicians across pulmonary and sleep medicine.

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