About Intensive Care Medicine

Description

Intensive Care Medicine is the publication platform for the communication and exchange of current work and ideas in intensive care medicine. It is intended for all those who are involved in intensive medical care, physicians, anaesthetists, surgeons, pediatricians, as well as those concerned with pre-clinical subjects and medical sciences basic to these disciplines.

The journal publishes: review articles reflecting the present state of knowledge in special areas or summarizing limited themes in which discussion has led to clearly defined conclusions; original papers reporting progress and results in all areas of intensive care medicine and its related fields; educational articles giving information on the progress of a topic of particular interest; discussion on technology, methods, new apparatus and modifications of standard techniques; brief reports of uncommon and interesting disorders; correspondence concerning matters of topical interest or relating to published material; and book reviews, reports of meetings, and announcements

Official journal of The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and The European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care.

Impact factor: 4.623 (2007)
Section "Critical care medicine": Rank 3 of 19
Abstracted/Indexed in: PubMed/Medline, Science Citation Index/Journal Citation Report

Aims and scope

The journal Intensive Care Medicine provides a medium for the communication and exchange of current work and ideas in this field. It is intended for all involved in intensive medical care, physicians, anaesthetists, surgeons, pediatricians, and all concerned with the pre-clinical subjects and medical sciences basic to these disciplines.

It publishes

• Review articles reflecting the present state of knowledge in special areas or summarizing limited Themes in which discussion has led to clearly defined conclusions
• Original papers reporting progress and results in all areas of intensive care medicine and its related fields
• Educational articles giving information on the progress of a topic of particular interest
• Discussion on technology, methods, new apparatus and modifications of standard techniques
• Brief reports of uncommon and interesting disorders
• Correspondence concerning matters of topical interest or relating to published material
• Book reviews
• Reports of meetings
• Announcements

The journal is open for publication of supplements and for publishing abstracts of scientific meetings. Conditions can be obtained from the Editor-in-Chief or the publisher.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement

Please download the Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form.

Types of papers

All manuscripts are submitted to peer review.

Review articles

Review articles are usually submitted after prior consultation with the editors and are subject to the peer review process. They should contain a maximum of 4,000 words and 75 references. Different types of review articles are published in the journal. This must be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief or one of the associate editors. Proposals for topics are best submitted in the form of a two-page outline of the planned manuscript in order to discuss its content at an early stage.

Among the different types of review articles, some have a more specific format or purpose, such as Mini-series: Basic research-related reviews in intensive care medicine, Legal and ethical issues in clinical research, Seminal studies in intensive care, Clinical commentary, Report from a round table, Report from a workshop, Statement of working group of ESICM, Special article, etc.

Physiolgical notes

Physiological notes are short review articles with no more than ten references. The section editor for the series is G. Hedenstierna. For more information see: Brochard L (2003) New series in Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 29(1): DOI 10.1007/s00134-002-1588-8.

Original papers

Original papers must not exceed 3,000 words and should not include more than 6 illustrations and tables. Note that each separate part of a figure (a, b, etc …) counts as an illustration. Up to 40 references are permitted. When reporting the results of a randomized controlled trial, author(s) should use the CONSORT statement as a guide in preparing the manuscript (please use the link below the chapter). If the authors consider that their manuscript needs to be longer than the mentioned limit or contain more figures or tables, they can explain their reasons in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief.

For Pediatric original papers the authors are encouraged to propose some potential reviewers.

Brief reports or technical notes

Brief reports or Technical notes should comprise brief original studies or important observational reports. Authors with interesting original studies but with a limited scope or a preliminary nature are encouraged to submit their work to this section. Reports of single cases are discouraged and are accepted only if they are of exceptional interest. They should not exceed 1,500 words; 1 or 2 illustrations and up to 20 references are permitted.

Editorials

Editorials are usually commissioned by the editors and comment on one or more articles in the same issue. However, uncommissioned editorials may be submitted and undergo the peer review process. Editorials consist of up to 1,000 words and up to 20 references.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor (Correspondence) address published articles or contain interesting case studies. They must not exceed 500 words, 5 references and 1 figure or table and should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief. Correspondence addressing a previously published article is usually sent to the authors for response. The final decision on publication of this correspondence is taken at the end of this process. Letters submitted may be subject to shortening and editorial revision.

News

News items are commentaries on recent events of interest for the medical community regarding sociological, legal or political aspects of medicine or science, for instance. The section editor is François Lemaire. These articles are not submitted to peer-review.

Editorial Procedure

If you have any questions please contact:

Editorial Office:
Mr. Emiliano Simone Tizi
Tel.: + 39 06 30 15 4386
Fax: + 39 06 30 13 450
journal.icm@rm.unicatt.it

or

Editor-in-Chief:
Professor Massimo Antonelli
Intensive Care Medicine
Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo A. Gemelli, 8
00168 Rome, Italy

Tel:
+ 39 06 30 15 4889 (ICU)
+ 39 06 30 15 4386 (office)
+ 39 06 30 15 3226 (direct)
Fax: + 39 06 23 32 6978
e-mail: m.antonelli@rm.unicatt.it