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Call for Papers - COVID‐19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome

Guest Editors:
Daniele Guerino Biasucci: Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
Yalim Dikmen: Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
Longxiang Su: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 1 November 2023


BMC Anesthesiology is calling for submissions to our Collection on COVID‐19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome. In the early days of the pandemic, due to poor knowledge of the disease and a shortage of medical resources, many infected patients were found to have developed severe lung injury that led to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The treatment of these patients requires special medical support, including ECMO, which is currently known to be effective. Special care is also needed after cured because of the sequelae of severe lung injury. To recognize the anesthesiologists’ efforts to improve the management of infected patients with ARDS, we have decided to launch a BMC Anesthesiology collection, “COVID‐19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome”.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Daniele Guerino Biasucci:  Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy 
Daniele Guerino Biasucci completed his medical degree and residency in Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. He has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology at the ‘Tor Vergata’ University in Rome, Italy, and he has also obtained Italian National Qualification as Associate Professor. He has research interests in ultrasound in critical care and emergency medicine, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, pediatric critical care, neurocritical care, and cerebral microcirculation during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. As a member of the taskforce of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) for PERSEUS guidelines, Dr. Biasucci is one of the main authors of ESA guidelines on ultrasound guidance for vascular access. He is also author and co-author of more than 60 published papers. He has participated in more than 40 national and international meetings as an invited lecturer.

Yalim Dikmen: Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
Yalim Dikmen is Professor of Anesthesiology and Reanimation in Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical School. He earned degrees in Medicine and Anesthesiology and Reanimation in Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical School. Now he is working as head of the department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation. He has served in the Society of Turkish Society of Intensive Care and Turkish Society of Anesthesiology and Reanimation as president and secretary. He also works in the editorial advisory boards of Nutrition, Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Medicine and BMC Anesthesiology. Former editor in chief of Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation.
 

Longxiang Su:  Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China 
Dr. Su is good at the diagnosis and treatment of critical respiratory diseases and hemodynamics. The main research directions are the clinical and basic studies of critical hemodynamics, organ crosstalk and interaction multi-organ function injury, critical care big data and artificial intelligence.                                                                  
    

 


About the collection

BMC Anesthesiology is calling for submissions to our Collection on COVID‐19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome.  

The coronavirus is the biggest outbreak of the century so far. At present, we have a variety of measures to deal with this epidemic, including vaccines, regular testing, designated isolation, and so on. These measures have effectively reduced the risk of infection and severe illness. But we must not forget what we tried and the cost, during the exploratory phase, to limit the spread and improve survival at the beginning of the pandemic.

In the early days of the pandemic, due to poor knowledge of the disease and a shortage of medical resources, many infected patients were found to have developed severe lung injury that led to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The treatment of these patients requires special medical support, including ECMO, which is currently known to be effective. Special care is also needed after cured because of the sequelae of severe lung injury.

To recognize the anesthesiologists’ efforts to improve the management of infected patients with ARDS, we have decided to launch a BMC Anesthesiology collection, “COVID‐19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome”. 

We invite submissions from all aspects of this developing field including, but not limited to:

  • The role of lung and whole-body bedside ultrasound;
  • COVID-19 related ARDS: pathophysiology and phenotypes;
  • COVID-19 related ARDS: management, outcomes and long-term sequelae;
  • ECMO in COVID-19 related ARDS;
  • How to assess recruitability in COVID-19 related ARDS;
  • Assessment and Monitoring of Lung Mechanics in COVID-19-related ARDS;
  • Critical hemodynamic monitoring and heart-lung interaction;
  • Management of COVID-19 related ARDS in low and middle resource settings.


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  1. To develop and assess a system for shared ventilation using clinically available components to individualize tidal volumes.

    Authors: David M. Hannon, Tim Jones, Jack Conolly, Conor Judge, Talha Iqbal, Atif Shahzad, Michael Madden, Frank Kirrane, Peter Conneely, Brian H. Harte, Martin O’Halloran and John G. Laffey
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:239
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Despite evidence suggesting a higher risk of barotrauma during COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) compared to ARDS due to other causes, data are limited about possible associations wit...

    Authors: Nicolas Serck, Michael Piagnerelli, Jean Loup Augy, Filippo Annoni, Gregoire Ottavy, Romain Courcelle, Giuseppe Carbutti, Francois Lejeune, Christophe Vinsonneau, Bertrand Sauneuf, Laurent Lefebvre, Julien Higny, David Grimaldi and Jean-Baptiste Lascarrou
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:138
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:212

  3. Our aim in this observational prospective study is to determine whether the prone position has an effect on intracranial pressure, by performing ultrasound-guided ONSD (Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter) measurement...

    Authors: Ufuk Demir, Öztürk Taşkın, Ayşe Yılmaz, Veysel G. Soylu and Zahide Doğanay
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2023 23:79
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select “COVID‐19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome” from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.