Collection

Severe infections in the critically ill

Severe infections and related complications are a significant aspect of the intensive care setting. In this topical collection, world-renowned experts share their knowledge and expertise to provide critical care specialists with updated and appropriate guidance on how to diagnose and treat severe infections.

Editors

  • Pedro Povoa

    Prof. Pedro Póvoa Medical training in Internal Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. Coordinator of the Intensive Care Unit 4, Department of Intensive Care, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, CHLO, Lisbon, Portugal. Full Professor of Medicine, NOVA Medical School, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Adjunct Professor, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Research Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, OUH Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark. Chair of CoBa Faculty, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Section Editor of ICM, and Associate Editor of the Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva.

  • Manu Shankar-Hari

    Prof. Manu Shankar-Hari Chair of Translational Critical Care Medicine, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Prof. SHankar-Hari offers an unusual combination of translational research skills, allied to formal research training in basic science (PhD in Immunology), and in health services research (MSc in Epidemiology). His research goal is to enable precision immunomodulation in critically ill adults, with a core hypothesis that modifiable biological networks generate clinical phenotypes, and such networks could be determined by integration of clinical and immunobiology data.

Articles (24 in this collection)

  1. Scorpion envenomation: state of the art

    Authors (first, second and last of 4)

    • Fekri Abroug
    • Lamia Ouanes-Besbes
    • Souheil Elatrous
    • Content type: Narrative Review
    • Published: 03 March 2020
    • Pages: 401 - 410
  2. Understanding resistance in Pseudomonas

    Authors (first, second and last of 4)

    • George Dimopoulos
    • Murat Akova
    • Garyphalia Poulakou
    • Content type: Understanding the Disease
    • Published: 20 January 2020
    • Pages: 350 - 352