Intensive care patients are at risk of developing complications. Therefore, the opportunities offered by critical care monitoring are fundamental in the management of critically ill patients. Although an opinion leader rightly pointed out that “a monitoring device per se has never cured anybody ...,” new monitoring technologies developed in the past decade significantly changed our approach to conceive and treat critically ill patients' diseases. Indeed, intensive care medicine is not an evidence-based medicine but a pathophysiology-based medicine, where monitoring physiological abnormalities is of high importance to treat the patient.

We are particularly interested in manuscripts reporting research articles, clinical studies, or review articles on critical care monitoring. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Neuromonitoring
• Cardiovascular monitoring (macro-microcirculation)
• Respiratory monitoring
• Renal function monitoring
• Metabolic monitoring
• Haemostasis monitoring

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