Diagnosis and Management of Critically Ill Children
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Emergency Medicine & Intensive Care Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiple organ dysfunction (MODS); septic shock resuscitation; therapeutic-related toxicities
Interests: pediatric critical care medicine
Interests: pediatric burn patients; traumatically injured children; hemodynamic instability; multiorgan failure including the liver and kidney; pain management in pediatric patients; pediatric sedation; respiratory failure
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The pediatric critical care landscape is changing rapidly. As a subspecialty, established guidelines for several disease states affecting critically ill children have been developed. However, new challenges are emerging in the diagnosis and management of critically ill children. There is also an increased prevalance of chronically ill and chronically critically ill children, which each pose their own unique challenges.
The discipline of pediatric critical care itself is rapidly diversifying, with further subspecialization into subfields such as pediatric cardiac critical care, pediatric neurocritical care, pediatric oncologic critical care, and pediatric hepatic critical care. Each of these subfields serve a distinct patient population, each with their own unique diagnostic and management considerations.
This Special Issue aims to compile articles addressing these unique diagnostic and management considerations in the care of critically ill children. The scope of this Special Issue includes all pediatric subspecialties related to the diagnosis and management of critically ill children.
We are soliciting clinical and translational research original articles, metanalysis, systematic analysis, and review articles on the diagnosis and management of critically ill children. Summary articles explaining the recent advances in understanding the pathophysiologic mechanisms of critical illnesses affecting children are also welcome. Articles exploring new and innovative ideas about methods and technologies to improve the diagnosis and management of critically ill children and articles are welcome.
Dr. Ali H. Ahmad
Dr. Sonali Basu
Guest Editors
Dr. Keisha G. Bell
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- children
- pediatric
- critical care
- critical illness
- chronic illness
- equitable care
- injury
- organ failure
- organ support
- quality improvement
- global health
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