Neurocritical Care - CALL FOR PAPERS: TOPICAL COLLECTIONS
Neurocritical Care publishes special/guest-edited issues and topical collections. The peer review process for articles included in topical collections/special issues is the same as the peer review process of the journal in general. Additionally, if the Guest Editors author an article in their topical collection/special issue, they will not handle the peer review process.
TC: "Lessons Learned"
Guest Editor:
Ofer Sadan
Emory University, Atlanta, USA
The "Lessons learned" topical collection is dedicated to providing space for trainees, early- and mid-career practitioners in neurocritical care to share a teachable moment. These lessons should provide an insightful observation on a translation between the textbook and real life. The publication should contain a clear teaching point(s) in a concise manner.
Such teachable moments could be an interesting differential diagnosis, treatment decision making, stretching the common limits of use of certain diagnostic or treatment tools etc. A teachable moment may also raise awareness among trainees at all levels about the potential harms resulting from the misuse (either under- or overuse) of diagnostic tests or interventions. The primary objective is to educate clinicians and to aid them in providing high-quality, high-value care in the practice of neurocritical care.
We are seeking common clinical scenarios that lend themselves to thoughtful discussions surrounding appropriate care. Note that this series is not intended to publish case reports (rare presentations of common conditions or common presentations of rare conditions). Using a real-life experience, this section is meant to deliver a clear teaching point to a reader who is at their first steps in neurocriticical care.
Lessons Learned articles should focus on case presentations that provide an opportunity to explore teachable moments among early career practitioners. They should discuss an interesting differential diagnosis, treatment decision making, stretching the common limits of use of diagnostic or treatment tools, or risks associated with overuse or underuse of diagnostic tests or interventions. This series is not intended to publish case reports (rare presentations of common conditions or common presentations of rare conditions.
Article main features
1. ≤1,500 Words
2. Requires use of relevant reporting guideline and extension, if applicable
3. Requires information on research ethics and informed consent, and consent to disclose
4. No abstract.
5. Maximum number of authors: 5
6. Include the following elements (as appropriate):
a. Describe the scenario that frames the issue
b. Frame the dilemma/lesson to be learned
c. Review the clinical reasoning and decision making applied
d. Present the outcome of the decision made or lesson learned
e. Suggest how to apply the lesson in the future
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Lessons learned” theme and will be subject to regular peer review.
TC: "Neuroprognostication"
Guest Editors:
Venkatakrishna Rajajee
Neurosurgery and Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,USA
Theresa Human
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals & co-chair for the Neurocritical Care Guidelines Committee, USA
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Prognostication of neurological outcome is among the most challenging tasks for healthcare professional who care for critically-ill patients with neurological disease. In this context, prognostication of outcome by a healthcare provider typically precedes decisions by patient surrogates on continuation or withdrawal of life sustaining therapy. It is therefore of the greatest importance that prognostication be based on the best validated clinical variables and prediction models available, since an inaccurate prediction of poor outcome may lead to withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy in a patient who may have otherwise had a good outcome. This collection includes a series of guidelines for healthcare professionals to provide best practice statements for prognostication while counseling patients and surrogates of critically-ill patients with acute neurological illness. The guidelines also provide recommendations on the reliability of individual clinical variables and prediction models available to the clinician for prognostication in this high-stakes clinical situation.
This topic collection includes guidelines for neuroprognostication from the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) and German Society for Neurointensive and Emergency Medicine (DGNI)
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Neuroprognostication” theme and will be subject to regular peer review.
TC: "Common Data Elements for Disorders of Consciousness"
Guest Editors:
Jan Claassen
Critical Care Neurology, Columbia University, New York, USA
Brian Edlow
Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Jose Suarez
Division of Neurocritical Care, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
In 2020, the Neurocritical Care Society’s Curing Coma Campaign launched an international initiative to create common data elements (CDEs) for disorders of consciousness (DoC). This CDE initiative is motivated by the recognition that ongoing progress in our field depends on the development of harmonized and uniform data elements.
We formed multidisciplinary Work Groups with expertise in
1. Behavioral Phenotyping
2. Hospital Course/Confounders/Medications
3. Neuroimaging
4. Electrophysiology
5. Biospecimens
6. Physiologic Data/Big Data
7. Therapeutic Interventions
8. Outcomes/Endpoints
9. Goals of Care/Family Data.
Here, we disseminate the initial recommendations of this CDE development process, along with links to case report forms (CRFs) with CDEs that can be used in DoC studies.
We aim for these CDEs to support progress in the field of DoC research and to facilitate multi-institutional collaboration.
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Common Data Elements for Disorders of Consciousness” theme and will be subject to regular peer review.
TC: "Extracranial Complications after Traumatic Brain Injury"
Guest Editor:
Chiara Robba
Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Policlinico San Martino di Genova, Italy
Submissions are open for the Journal Topical Collection on “Extracranial Complications after Traumatic Brain Injury (this opens in a new tab)”
We are calling for original submissions covering all aspects of brain-body crosstalk following a traumatic brain injury episode: Some themes for scientific papers may include:
• Experimental studies exploring the pathophysiology of brain-peripheral organs cross-talk
• Clinical studies evaluating the prevalence and the effect on outcome of extracranial complications after traumatic brain injury
• Research on the management and challenges consequent to peripheral organs dysfunction following traumatic brain injury.
If you are interested, we suggest submitting a brief proposal/abstract to the editors, at kiarobba@gmail.com.
Relevant papers can be submitted via Editorial Manager (this opens in a new tab) by selecting the Special issue T.C.: “Extracranial complications after traumatic brain injury”.
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Extracranial complications after traumatic brain injury” theme and will be subject to regular peer review.
TC: Pediatric Neurocritical Care and Neuromonitoring
Guest Editors:
Matthew P. Kirschen
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Brian L. Appavu
Neurocritical Care Research, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Submissions are open for the Journal Topical Collection on Pediatric Neurocritical Care and Neuromonitoring (this opens in a new tab)
This topical collection overviews neuromonitoring modalities in children with a special attention to traumatic brain injury and system issues. We report some recommended subtopics for authors to include in manuscripts.
(1) Review of neuromonitoring modalities
• How does the monitor work and what does it measure
• What devices are clinically available and pros/cons of each device/technology
• Indications for use
• How to use clinically in patient care and evidence for use
• Future directions.
(2) Neuromonitoring in patients with acute brain injury
• Pathophysiology review of the type of brain injury
• Evidence for use/management
• Pragmatic clinical suggestions
• Associations of monitoring with outcomes
• Future directions.
(3) Systems issues
• Building a neuromonitoring program
• Reporting of data
• Training of providers
• Database management
• Separating or integrating clinical care and research.
Papers can be submitted via Editorial Manager (this opens in a new tab) by selecting the the relevant Topical Collection title.
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the theme and undergo a regular peer review process.
TC: "Big Data in Neurocritical Care"
Guest Editors:
Rajat Dhar
Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Campus Box 8111, 660 S Euclid Avenue Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63139, USA
Geert Meyfroidt
Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium
Submissions are open for the Journal Topical Collection on “Big Data in Neurocritical Care (this opens in a new tab)”
We are calling for original submissions covering all aspects of how big data methodologies can impact research and promote scientific advances in the field of Neurocritical care. Some themes for scientific papers may include:
- Data harmonization and data curation in the neuro-intensive care unit
- Data sharing to aid big data research for brain injury and coma
- Extraction of relevant phenotypes from electronic health records, physiology/waveforms, and imaging
- Integration of genomic and other biologic data with clinical outcomes to understand brain injury incl. applied bioinformatics
- Application of big datasets to aid in prediction and prognostication after coma and brain injury
Papers can be submitted via Editorial Manager (this opens in a new tab) by selecting the the relevant Topical Collection title.
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Big Data in Neurocritical Care” theme and undergo a regular peer review process.
Instructions to authors are available here (this opens in a new tab)
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TC: “Spreading Cortical Depolarizations'
Guest Editors:
Ramani Balu
Neurocritical Care Division, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA
Brandon Foreman
Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Collaborative for Research on Acute Neurological Injuries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
We call for papers covering all aspects of these profound disruptions of cellular homeostasis in the brain tissue and their importance in the pathophysiology of acute brain injury. Some examples of review or original research papers that would be responsive to this call include:
- Mechanisms of initiation and maintenance
- Mitochondrial involvement and effects
- Relationship to inflammation
- Non-CNS involvement and effects
- Long-term effects/Neural networks
Papers can be submitted via Editorial Manager (this opens in a new tab) by selecting the the relevant Topical Collection title.
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Spreading Cortical Depolarization” theme and undergo a regular peer review process.
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TC: “Curing Coma Campaign'
Submissions are open for the new Journal Topical Collection on “Curing Coma Campaign”
In 2019 the Neurocritical Care Society launched Curing Coma® as a clinical, scientific, and public health effort.
Curing Coma® is the first global public health initiative to tackle the unifying concept of coma as a treatable medical entity. The goal of Curing Coma® is to develop and implement coma treatment strategies that improve human lives.
We are calling for original submissions covering all aspects of curing coma and improving the quality of life.
Papers can be submitted via Editorial Manager (this opens in a new tab) by selecting the relevant Topical Collection title.
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Curing coma campaign” theme and undergo a regular peer review process.
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TC: Neurocritical Care in LMIC's (this opens in a new tab)
Guest Editors:
Hemanshu Prabhakar, MD, PhD, FSNCC(Hon)
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India
Gentle Shrestha, MD, FNCS, FSNCC(Hon), FRCP Edin
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital
Kathmandu, Nepal
Neurocritical Care in LMIC's (this opens in a new tab) is planned to collect studies exploring topics such as:
- Management of TBI in LMIC's
- New technology needs for LMIC's
- The urban rural divide in neurocritical care in LMIC's
- Challenges in the management of stroke in ICUs in LMIC's
- Applicability and translation of ICU practices and guidelines developed in low resource settings
- Strategies for specialty training of healthcare professionals in low-resource settings
- Do prognostic models apply in LMIC's?
Other related studies will be considered and are invited to be submitted via Editorial Manager (this opens in a new tab) by selecting the Special issue T.C.: “Neurocritical Care in LMIC's”.
Please note: all submissions will be evaluated for relevance to the “Care in LMIC's” theme and will be subject to regular peer review.
Instructions to authors are available here.
Go through the topical collection available contents here