Critical Care Science
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Published by: Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira (AMIB) |
Our Mission
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The Critical Care Science (Crit Care Sci), ISSN 2965-2774 has the mission to advance the knowledge on intensive care and improve the outcomes of critically ill patients by disseminating high-quality research and clinician education. |
Submission of Manuscripts
About the Journal
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The journal Critical Care Science – ISSN 2965-2774 (formerly Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva) is a continuous publication of the Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira and the Sociedade Portuguesa de Cuidados Intensivos and has the objective to disseminate high-quality clinical, epidemiological, translational, and health services research related to adult and pediatric critical care medicine. Published since 1989, is indexed in databases: Lilacs, Scielo, Medline, Scopus and PubMed Central. The journal is completely free to access, and there are no fees for processing or publishing articles. |
Open Science Compliance
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Although Critical Care Science supports open science communication practices, the journal will continue to use its current double-blind peer review model and will not require research data to be available in repositories. Authors may be asked to provide the raw data related to an article for editorial review, and they should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers [ALPSP] and International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers [STM] statement on data and databases) if practicable. It is desirable that data be kept for a reasonable period after publication. |
Ethics in Publication
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Critical Care Science endorses the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) - Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. All Critical Care Science content is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CCBY) International Attribution. The authors of articles published in the journal are the copyright owners of the article and may grant any third party the right to use, reproduce or disclose their article under the terms of the CCBY adopted by the journal. The journal Critical Care Science supports the clinical trial registration policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ICMJE, recognizing the importance of these initiatives for the registration and dissemination of trial results to the international community through open access. According to this recommendation and the guidelines of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) / WHO for journals indexed in the Latin American and Caribbean Literature databases (Lilacs) and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Critical Care Science will only accept the publication of clinical trials that have been registered in clinical trials registries that meet the WHO and ICMJE requirements. In addition, it is strongly recommended that authors observe the appropriate EQUATOR guidelines for each type of study in the Equator network. |
COPE-based procedures
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Decision-making is based on the principles of COPE, as well as practical policies to achieve the highest ethical standards in publishing. |
Focus and Scope
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Critical Care Science is aimed to disseminate high-quality clinical, epidemiological, translational, and health services research related to adult and pediatric critical care medicine. |
Digital Preservation
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This journal follows the standards defined in the Política de Preservação Digital do Programa SciELO. The journal is indexing in Scielo platform since 2006. |
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Journal title: Critical Care Science |
Websites and Social Media
Preprints
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Manuscripts submitted to preprint repositories will be published only after the peer review process. |
Peer Review Process
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All manuscripts submitted to Critical Care Science are subject to a rigorous review process. Initial submissions are reviewed by the editorial team to ensure adherence to Critical Care Science guidelines and policies, including ethical requirements for human and animal experimentation. Once the initial evaluation is complete, the article may be returned to the authors for adjustment. Subsequently, the submitted manuscripts will be evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief. Manuscripts without merit, with significant methodological errors or that do not fit the editorial policy of the journal will be rejected, without the formal process of peer review. The average turnaround time for this immediate rejection is one week. Manuscripts approved by the Editor-in-Chief (or a designated editor) will be sent to two or more reviewers. Reviewers will always be from institutions other than the institution of origin of the manuscript, and anonymity will be maintained throughout the editorial process. Our average turnaround time for the first response to the authors is 30 days, although a longer period may be needed. After this evaluation, the editors will decide on acceptance, minor review, major review, rejection and resubmission or rejection. After receiving the reviewers’ feedback, the authors must submit the revised version within 60 days, including the suggested changes and a point-by-point response to each reviewer suggestion. The authors may contact Critical Care Science (ccs@amib.org.br) if they need an extension. If the manuscript it is not submitted within six months, it will be removed from the database, and any resubmission will follow the process of an initial submission. After resubmission, editors may choose to send the manuscript to external reviewers or make a decision based on their expertise. The opinions expressed in the articles, including the changes requested by the reviewers, will solely be the responsibility of the authors. |
Open Data
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Although Critical Care Science supports open science communication practices, the journal will continue to use its current double-blind peer review model and will not require research data to be available in repositories. Authors may be asked to provide the raw data related to an article for editorial review, and they should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers [ALPSP] and International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers [STM] statement on data and databases) if practicable. It is desirable that data be kept for a reasonable period of time after publication. |
Fees
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The journal is completely free to access, and there are no fees for sending, processing or publishing articles. |
Financial Sustainability
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Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira (AMIB) maintains Critical Care Science and will retain the responsibility for the maintenance of it journal. This journal has no financial support or sponsorship. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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In relation to ethical issues and misconduct the journal relies on the EQUATOR guide of Good Practices and Integrity, as well as the guide of good practices of Scielo. For erratum, the journal follows the guidelines according to the guide provided by Scielo. For the procedures of registration and retractions of articles published by the journal are adopted the guidelines of SciELO. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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Declaration of conflict of interest - The conflicts of interest of all authors must be disclosed on the title page of the manuscript. Authors should download the appropriate form download it here) and, after signing, the authors should upload it during the submission process. |
Adoption of similarity software
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Any contributions submitted to Critical Care Science must be original, and the manuscript nor any part of it, must not be under consideration by any other journal. In addition, authors should not submit the same manuscript in different languages to different journals. Authors must declare any publications that may coincide at the time of submission for appreciation and evaluation by the editor. We submit the manuscripts to plagiarism detection tools to detect any duplication, redundant publication or misconduct. Whenever any of these situations are detected, the Editor-in-Chief will contact the authors and their institutions. If the editor identifies a situation of plagiarism, the authors will be subject to immediate rejection of the submitted manuscript. If the editor is unaware of the situation when accepting the manuscript, there will be a retraction in subsequent edition of the journal. |
Gender and Sex Issues
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Critical Care Science observes a policy of gender equity in the formation of its editorial board. It has an average of 20% female, which takes into account the nature of the area where there is male predominance. |
Ethics Committee
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When reporting a study involving humans, their data or biological material, the authors must include a statement confirming that the study was approved (or that approval exemption was granted) by the institution’s Research Ethics Committee and/or the Ethics Committee for National Research, including the name of the committee, and certify that the study was conducted according to the ethical standards established in the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and its subsequent amendments or equivalent ethical standards. For studies conducted in Brazil, registration on the Plataforma Brasil and the Certificate of Presentation of Ethical Assessment (CAAE - Certificado de Apresentação de Apreciação Ética) is mandatory. When reporting experiments on animals, the authors must indicate whether the institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed and whether the experiments were approved by the competent Ethics Committee. In any clinical or experimental study, human or animal, this information should be included in the Methods section. The ethics statements of Critical Care Science can be found on our website. |
Copyright
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All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY. The authors of articles published in the journal are the copyright owners of the article and may grant any third party the right to use, reproduce or disclose their article under the terms of the CC-BY adopted by the journal. The journal has open and free access. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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CopyrightÓ by the Associação de medicina Intensiva Brasileira and Sociedade Portuguesa de Cuidados Intensivos. All rights reserved. Designated as Cabo Verde. |
Author response:
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The authors of articles published in the journal are the copyright owners of the article and may grant any third party the right to use, reproduce or disclose their article under the terms of the CC-BY adopted by the journal. |
License adopted by the journal
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All contents published by Critical Care Science are licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira (AMIB) maintains Critical Care Science. This journal has no financial support or sponsorship. |
Editor-in-Chief
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Deputy (and Associate) Editor
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Associate Editors
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Section Editors
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Epidemiology, Research Methods, and Artificial Intelligence
Hemodynamics
Intensive Care Unit Organization and Management
Mechanical Ventilation
Hospital de Santo Antonio, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto - Porto, Portugal; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto - Porto, Portugal. Neonatology and Pediatrics
Neurointensive Care
Post-Intensive Care Unit Care, Quality of Life, and Humanization
Sedation, Analgesia and Delirium
Sepsis and Infection
Social Media
Translational and Experimental Medicine
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Junior Editor
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Editorial Board
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Africa, Asia, Australia
Europe
North America
South America
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Editorial Board, Statistics, Data science, Evidence-based medicine and Epidemiology advisors
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Types of Documents Accepted
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Editorial After the editor's invitation, comments on articles published in the magazine with up to 1,000 words (excluding references), 1 figure or table, 3 authors and 5 references. Guidelines and Consensus The purpose of a guideline is to standardize activities based on best practices and on the best available research evidence. Up to 5,000 words; up to 6 tables or figures; and up to 120 references. Original Article Full-length reports of original research, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Maximum 3,000 words (excluding abstracts, references, and legends). Structured abstracts up to 350 words and up to 60 references. Clinical Reports (protocol papers and statistical analysis plans) Articles describing the objectives and experimental design of clinical and epidemiological research studies in critical care medicine. Up to 3,000 words (excluding abstract, references, and legends); an unstructured abstract; and up to 250 words. Research Letter Brief research reports with up to 600 words (excluding references and legends), up to 1 figure and/or 1 table, and up to 10 references. Narrative Review Only after invitation by the editor OR submitted after query to the editor (by e-mail); evidence-based, narrative reviews that offer a tightly focused synthesis of current knowledge regarding a clinical problem or disease. The review will include 2,000 to 4,000 words; and unstructured abstract up to 250 words; 5 figures and/or tables; and 80 references. Case Report Case reports of unusual clinical presentations and/or management related to critical illness with up to 600 words (excluding references and legends), up to 1 figure and 1 table and up to 10 references. Viewpoint After invitation by the editor OR submitted after query to the editor. A viewpoint is a short commentary on a topic relating to critical care medicine of up to 1,000 words; 5 authors; only 1 figure or table; and up to 15 references. Correspondence Comments or responses to articles recently published in Critical Care Science Of up to 500 words (excluding references); up to 5 authors; and up to 5 references. No figures or tables. Preprints Manuscripts submitted to preprint repositories will be published only after the peer review process. Supplementary Material The authors may submit materials supporting the manuscript for publication as a Data Supplement to a Critical Care Science manuscript. Videos, audio files, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint files (as well as other file types) may be included in this section. Additional text, tables (and supporting information), and figures (and supporting information) may also be included. The supplementary material must be submitted simultaneously with the rest of the manuscript and will undergo peer review and be judged by the same criteria as the rest of the manuscript. The cover sheet of the material being submitted as supplementary material should give only the manuscript title, list the authors (not affiliations), and include the title "Supplementary Material." The Editorial Office staff is not responsible for extracting supplementary material from the main manuscript for publication as supplementary material. The information included in the Data Supplement will not be copyedited or proofread by the journal staff. The figures and tables in the Supplementary Material should be labeled Figure 1S, Table 1S, and so on. To indicate the presence of these items, the author must make a statement in the main manuscript, such as "see Figure 1S in the Supplementary Material." |
Authors' Contribution
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The authors' contribution must be recognized to provide transparency regarding their participation in the study design, experimental design/planning, data collection, analysis of results, writing of the first draft, review of the final version and approval. Number of authors: There is no limit on the number of authors, as long as they all meet the contribution criteria (CREdiT). In cases of articles where the number of authors is greater than 20 (multicenter studies, for example), the authors must be grouped into a Study Group. At the end of the manuscript text, the name of the group and all its components and institutions will be indicated. |
Preparation of manuscripts
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All articles must include the following: Title page The title page must contain the full title of the article, full names of all authors, institutional affiliation of all authors (only the main affiliation, i.e., the affiliation with the institution where the study was developed), ORCIDs, author's full address for correspondence (including telephone, fax and e-mail), institution responsible for sending the article, source of funding for the project. Abstracts Abstracts must be presented in the same language as the manuscript, either in Portuguese or in English. Abstracts of original articles are limited to 350 words. The use of abbreviations should be avoided as much as possible. The abstract must be structured (objective, methods, results and conclusion) and accurately reflect the main content of the text. In the case of a brief Clinical Report and Review, a structured abstract is not required. Editorial, Research Letter and Viewpoint must not have a summary. Keywords Six terms defining the subject of the work must be provided. The authors should base their approach on the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the National Library of Medicines, or in the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) of the Virtual Health Library. Body of text The articles must be submitted in an MS Word® file, Times New Roman 12 font, double spaced, including tables, legends and references. In all categories of articles, citations must be numerical, superscripted and sequential (Vancouver style). Acknowledgments Authors should use this section to recognize possible research funding and support from academic organizations, funding agencies, colleagues and other collaborators who are not part of the authorship. References References should be updated, preferably containing the most relevant articles published on the subject in the past 5 years. They must not contain articles that are not mentioned in the text, unpublished work or work deposited in prepress repositories. They must be numbered consecutively according to the citation sequence in the text and identified with Arabic numerals. The presentation must follow the Vancouver style format. Article Submission Format Critical Care Science requires a specific format for submission of Original Research manuscripts. The requirements include a title page, author names, author affiliations, ORCIDs, and contact information for the corresponding author; abstract in English with its keywords; source of funding, if any; declaration of approval by the institutional ethics committee. The manuscript must include: Figures and Tables All figures and tables must be numbered according to the order mentioned in the text. Tables and figures should be inserted after the references, only one on each page, and the figures should preferably be prepared in MS Excel®, or editable format, in 300 DPI files. They must also receive a title. Figures that require higher resolution should be sent in separate files. Figures with text must be provided in open files for translation. If this is not possible, the author must provide a translation. Quantities, units and symbols used must comply with the rules in force in the country. Figures should have captions explaining the results, allowing for understanding without consulting the text. The legends of tables and figures should be concise, but self-explanatory, allowing comprehension without consulting the text. The units must be within the table and the statistical tests must be indicated in the legend. Figures that have already been published must be accompanied by the authorization of the author/editor. Reproduction of figures, graphs, diagrams or tables that do not originally belong to the article must refer to the source. Abbreviations The use of acronyms should be avoided in the title of the article, abstract and titles of tables and figures. The use of acronyms should be minimized throughout the text. They must be preceded by the full name when mentioned for the first time in the text. Abbreviations, symbols and other meanings of signs must be provided in the footnotes of figures and tables. Citations and References References should be updated, preferably containing the most relevant articles published on the subject in the past 5 years. They must not contain articles that are not mentioned in the text, unpublished work or work deposited in preprint repositories. They must be numbered consecutively according to the citation sequence in the text and identified with Arabic numerals. The presentation must follow the Vancouver Style format, as in the following templates. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the National Library of Medicine, available in the List of Journal Indexed in Index Medicus. For all references, cite up to six authors. In the case of more than six authors, mention the first six followed by the expression “et al.” Printed articles Emanuel EJ, Persad G, Upshur R, Thome B, Parker M, Glickman A, et al. Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2020;382(21):2049-55. Zhou F, Yu T, Du R, Fan G, Liu Y, Liu Z, et al. Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet. 2020;395(10229):1054-62. Electronic articles World Health Organization (WHO). Conceptual framework for the international classification for patient safety version 1.1: final technical report January 2009. Geneva: WHO; 2009 [cited 2022 Dec 12]. Available from: https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/70882. São Paulo. Government of the State of São Paulo. Secretary of State for Health. Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo School of Medicine. Activity report. Management Result Brightness in the Eyes. Years 2015 and 2016. [cited 2022 Jul 30]. Available in: https://www.hc.fm.usp.br/hc/conteudo/apresentacoes/Relatorio_Atividades_2015_2016_1.pdf Supplements Chawla R, Dixit SB, Zirpe KG, Chaudhry D, Khilnani GC, Mehta Y, et al. ISCCM Guidelines for the Use of Non-invasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure in Adult ICUs. Indian J Crit Care Med. 2020;24(Suppl 1):S61-S81. Books Hall JE. Guyton and Hall textbook of medical physiology. 13th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016. Book chapters Ricci Z, Romagnoli S. Technical complications of continuous renal replacement therapy. In: Bellomo R, Kellum JA, La Manna G, Ronco C, Editors. 40 years of continuous renal replacement therapy. Contributions to Nephrology. Basel: Karger; 2018. vol. 194, p. 99-108. Additional Information Authors must submit to the journal: Cover letter - Must contain a statement attesting that the article is original and that it has not been and is not being submitted for publication in another journal. When applying, authors must declare that the study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee (REC). If necessary, during the peer review process, authors may be asked to send a copy of the CEP approval. Declaration of conflicts of interest - The conflicts of interest of all authors must be disclosed on the title page of the manuscript. Authors should download the appropriate form download it here) and, after signing, the authors should upload it during the submission process. Funding - Information on possible sources of funding for the research will be required during the submission process, as well as on the title page of the manuscript. Patient information - The written consent signed by the patient(s) or their guardians must be sent in the case of manuscripts that include clinical information or photographs, in which the patients may be individually identified. Clinical Trials - Submission of the clinicaltrials.gov registration number (NCT) is mandatory. |
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