Current Challenges in Prognostic Assessment and Intervention Strategies in Acute and Critical Care
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Interests: stroke; traumatic brain injury; epilepsy; critical care; surgery; rehabilitation; biomarkers; carbon monoxide poisoning; post-intensive care syndrome; toxicology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Current Challenges in Prognostic Assessment and Intervention Strategies in Acute and Critical Care”, addresses the difficulty of translating prognostic assessments into timely and appropriate interventions across heterogeneous conditions such as sepsis, trauma, cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, neurocritical illness, and multi-organ dysfunction. Despite advances in monitoring, imaging, biomarkers, and therapeutic approaches, uncertainty in prognosis continues to affect treatment selection, timing, resource allocation, and recovery after critical illness.
We welcome studies that examine how prognostic assessment informs intervention strategies and their outcomes. Submissions may include clinical investigations of antimicrobial stewardship and source control in sepsis; transfusion, anticoagulation, and damage control approaches in trauma; temperature management and sedation/analgesia after cardiac arrest; ventilatory management and liberation practices in ARDS/respiratory failure; neuroprotective practices and seizure control in neurocritical care; and bundle-based complication prevention. We encourage the submission of papers on biomarkers (blood, CSF, and imaging-derived) that guide clinical actions and particularly seek implementation research, pragmatic trials, cohort studies, protocolized care pathways, and quality improvement projects focusing on patient-centered outcomes.
Dr. Hidetaka Onda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- acute and critical care
- prognostic assessment
- biomarkers
- therapeutic strategies
- sepsis
- trauma
- cardiac arrest
- respiratory failure/ARDS
- neurocritical care
- implementation
- patient-centered outcomes keyword
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