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10th Anniversary of JCM—Evolution of Critical Care Cardiology—Time Is Now
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10th Anniversary of JCM—Evolution of Critical Care Cardiology—Time Is Now

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Intensive Care".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 May 2022) | Viewed by 4825

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Karim Bendjelid

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CardioVascular Unit, Intensive Care Division, Geneva University Hospitals, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Interests: physiology; cardiology; anesthesiology; intensive care; hemodynamic; echocardiography; ECMO
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

No longer is the cardiac ICU purely a heart observation unit for peri-STEMI diseases and complications. To a certain degree, the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit of the 21TH Century is an intensive care unit for complex patients with cardiovascular diseases who become critically ill and who are more prone to inflammation, renal failure, respiratory failure, liver failure, severe infections and multiorgan dysfunction. For instance, the recent COVID-19 pandemic period highlighted how SARS-CoV2 attacks the heart and the ways to prevent all damages it causes. In this regard, the editorial office of Journal of Clinical Medicine believe that original articles that describe the recent evolution of the coronary care unit and its associated temporal trends in patients outcome represent one of the most important opportunities to improve knowledge of the present revolution.

To facilitate discussion on this topic, the Journal of Clinical Medicine calls for papers for the present Special Issue to be guest edited by Prof Karim Bendjelid. We are seeking submissions of original research that discuss the reality of the cardiovascular ICU; discuss fundamental and clinical research in areas related to this topic; or provide select examples for novel treatments, paradigms, and concepts that have emerged over the past decade.

Authors should review the Journal’s current Instructions for Authors at https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/jcm/instructions.

Publication of the “Evolution of Critical Care Cardiology—Time is Now" Special Issue is planned for early 2022.

Interested authors can contact Prof. Dr. Karim Bendjelid, [email protected], for additional information or to discuss specific topic proposals for the “Evolution of Critical Care Cardiology—The Time is Now" Thematic Issue.

Prof. Dr. Karim Bendjelid
Guest Editor

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Clinical Medicine is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • shock
  • ECMO
  • IABP
  • rhythmic storm
  • STEMI
  • heart surgery
  • TAVI

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Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate Reduces the Need for Antiarrhythmics during Acute-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Emergency and Critical Care
by Emanuele Gilardi, Fulvio Pomero, Enrico Ravera, Andrea Piccioni, Michele Cosimo Santoro, Nicola Bonadia, Annamaria Carnicelli, Luca Di Maurizio, Luca Sabia, Yaroslava Longhitano, Angela Saviano, Veronica Ojetti, Gabriele Savioli, Christian Zanza and Francesco Franceschi
J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11(19), 5527; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jcm11195527 - 21 Sep 2022
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Several studies have suggested the potential role of Magnesium Sulfate (MgSO4) for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) but, in clinical practice, the use of magnesium is not standardized although it is largely used for the treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias. Objectives. [...] Read more.
Several studies have suggested the potential role of Magnesium Sulfate (MgSO4) for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) but, in clinical practice, the use of magnesium is not standardized although it is largely used for the treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias. Objectives. We evaluated the role of MgSO4 infusion in association with flecainide in cardioversion of patients presenting in ED with symptomatic AF started less than 48 h before. We retrospectively searched for all patients presented in ED from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 requiring pharmacological cardioversion with flecainide 2 mg/kg. Ninety-seven patients met these criteria, 46 received the administration of intravenous MgSO4 2 gr (Group A), and 51 did not (Group B). Among the 97 patients, the overall cardioversion rate was 85.6%, 91.3% in Group A and 80.4% in Group B. In 27 patients out of 97, the Flecainide was not administered because of spontaneous restoration of sinus rhythm of 9 pts (Group B) and 18 pts (Group A). We also found a statistical significance in the HR at the time of cardioversion between Group A (77.8 ± 19.1 bpm) and Group B (87 ± 21.7 bpm). No complications emerged. The association between MgSO4 and Flecainide has not yielded statistically significant results. However, in consideration of its high safety profile, MgSO4 administration may play a role in ED cardioversion of acute onset AF, reducing the need for antiarrhythmic medications and electrical cardioversion procedures, relieving symptoms reducing heart rate, and reducing the length of stay in the ED. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of JCM—Evolution of Critical Care Cardiology—Time Is Now)
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Volume-Outcome Relationship in Surgical and Cardiac Transcatheter Interventions with a Focus on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
by Sarah Mauler-Wittwer and Stephane Noble
J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11(13), 3806; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jcm11133806 - 30 Jun 2022
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“Practice makes perfect” is an old saying that can be true for complex interventions. There is a strong and persistent relationship between high volume and better outcomes with more than 300 studies being reported on the subject. The more complex the procedure, the [...] Read more.
“Practice makes perfect” is an old saying that can be true for complex interventions. There is a strong and persistent relationship between high volume and better outcomes with more than 300 studies being reported on the subject. The more complex the procedure, the greater the volume-outcome relationship is. Failure to rescue was shown to be one of the factors explaining higher mortality rates post complex surgery. High-volume centers provide a better safety net, thanks to the structure and better protocols, and low-volume operators have better results at high-volume centers than at low-volume centers. Finally, effort should be made to regroup complex procedures in high-volume centers, but without compromising patient access to the procedures. Adaptation to local and geographic constraints is important. Full article
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