Cardiac Intensive Care: Clinical Insights and Advances
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Intensive Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 716
Editors
Interests: cardiac anesthesia; anesthetic pharmacology; intensive care; cardiopulmonary bypass; mechanical circulatory support; palliative care; end of life; cardiothoracic anesthesia; thoracic anesthesia; vascular anesthesia; minimal invasive extracorporeal circula
Interests: artificial intelligence; cardiac anesthesia; critical care; deep learning; machine learning; perioperative medicine; precision medicine; postanesthesia care
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) has evolved into a highly specialized environment dedicated to caring for patients with increasingly complex cardiovascular disease, often complicated by multi-organ dysfunction, advanced therapies, and high illness acuity. Despite major advances in interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery, and critical care, morbidity and mortality remain substantial, highlighting persistent gaps in risk stratification, hemodynamic management, organ support, and long-term outcomes.
This Special Issue, “Cardiac Intensive Care: Clinical Insights and Advances”, aims to showcase contemporary research that addresses these core challenges and advances the science and practice of cardiac critical care. We invite contributions spanning acute coronary syndromes, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, mechanical circulatory support, perioperative and postcardiotomy care, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, and multidisciplinary models of CICU care. Particular emphasis will be placed on clinical studies focused on improving patient-centered outcomes, optimizing rehabilitation pathways, addressing quality-of-life challenges, and integrating palliative and end-of-life care principles across the continuum of cardiac intensive care. Moreover, recognizing the rapid digital transformation of medicine, we also welcome work exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the CICU, including their applications in prediction, decision support, phenotyping, and personalized therapy.
We welcome submissions of high-quality scholarly work, including (but not limited to) original research, narrative reviews, scoping reviews, state-of-the-art reviews, and innovative clinical insights that will stimulate discussion, inform practice, and shape future directions in cardiac intensive care.
We look forward to your valuable contributions.
Dr. Jacopo D’Andria Ursoleo
Prof. Dr. Elena G. Bignami
Dr. Valentina Bellini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- acute heart failure
- artificial intelligence
- cardiac intensive care
- cardiogenic shock
- cardiac surgery
- extracorporeal life support
- hemodynamic monitoring
- machine learning
- mechanical circulatory support
- outcomes and prognostication
- palliative care
- postcardiotomy care
- precision medicine
- resuscitation science
- shock management
- ventricular assist devices
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