Availability and access to emergency and critical care is expanding in low and middle income countries. With it, ICU research from low-resource settings is seeing an unprecedented acceleration in most fields of the discipline.
Yet still the majority of clinical and translational evidence comes from critical care research performed in high income countries, which is then applied or adapted to low and middle income countries. Recent evidence has shown how certain aspects of critical care (e.g. fluid management in shocked adult and pediatric patients or even ARDS diagnoses) may present context-specific challenges. These challenges may benefit from epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches designed and tested in low and middle income countries. Similarly, there is an increased interest for the validation of critical care techniques and interventions in high income settings with a goal of testing feasibility, scalability, effectiveness and safety in low and middle income countries.
The scope of the current research topic is to present novel data and insights on critical care applications coming from low and middle income countries. Studies from high income settings with a specific interest or applicability in low-resourced ICUs are also welcome. No limitations are set to the specific area of interest, which includes imaging and diagnostics applications; fluid and vasopressor management; outcome studies; management acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation; ICU registries analyses; infectious diseases management; quality improvement and implementation research studies. We welcome manuscripts included, but not limited to, review articles, clinical trials, cohort or case control studies, diagnostic accuracy studies, registry based or registry-embedded studies, point prevalence observational studies. Secondary analyses of previous clinical trials or observational studies are also eligible, if they provide a novel insight on critical care applications applicable to low and middle income countries.
Availability and access to emergency and critical care is expanding in low and middle income countries. With it, ICU research from low-resource settings is seeing an unprecedented acceleration in most fields of the discipline.
Yet still the majority of clinical and translational evidence comes from critical care research performed in high income countries, which is then applied or adapted to low and middle income countries. Recent evidence has shown how certain aspects of critical care (e.g. fluid management in shocked adult and pediatric patients or even ARDS diagnoses) may present context-specific challenges. These challenges may benefit from epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches designed and tested in low and middle income countries. Similarly, there is an increased interest for the validation of critical care techniques and interventions in high income settings with a goal of testing feasibility, scalability, effectiveness and safety in low and middle income countries.
The scope of the current research topic is to present novel data and insights on critical care applications coming from low and middle income countries. Studies from high income settings with a specific interest or applicability in low-resourced ICUs are also welcome. No limitations are set to the specific area of interest, which includes imaging and diagnostics applications; fluid and vasopressor management; outcome studies; management acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation; ICU registries analyses; infectious diseases management; quality improvement and implementation research studies. We welcome manuscripts included, but not limited to, review articles, clinical trials, cohort or case control studies, diagnostic accuracy studies, registry based or registry-embedded studies, point prevalence observational studies. Secondary analyses of previous clinical trials or observational studies are also eligible, if they provide a novel insight on critical care applications applicable to low and middle income countries.