"Critical Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.
| Descriptor ID |
D003422
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.190 N02.421.585.190
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Critical Care".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Critical Care".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Critical Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Critical Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2003 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2004 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2005 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2006 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2008 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2009 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 2010 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2011 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2012 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| 2015 | 14 | 4 | 18 |
| 2016 | 19 | 7 | 26 |
| 2017 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| 2018 | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| 2019 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2020 | 10 | 12 | 22 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| 2022 | 1 | 15 | 16 |
| 2023 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Critical Care" by people in Profiles.
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Women Physicians in Leadership Roles in Critical Care Medicine or Academic Medicine-A Systematic Literature Review. Crit Care Explor. 2025 Apr 01; 7(4):e1249.
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Acute Kidney Injury and Critical Care Nephrology. Adv Kidney Dis Health. 2025 Jan; 32(1):12-23.
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Intracranial multimodal monitoring in neurocritical care (Neurocore-iMMM): an open, decentralized consensus. Crit Care. 2024 Dec 20; 28(1):427.
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Value in acute care surgery, part 4: The economic value of an acute care surgery service to a hospital system. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025 Apr 01; 98(4):667-672.
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Looking to "Level the Field": A Qualitative Study of How Clinicians Operationalize Social Determinants in Critical Care. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 Nov; 21(11):1583-1591.
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UCAN Make a Difference: Over 40 Years of Flying High Above Chicago. Air Med J. 2024 Nov-Dec; 43(6):488-492.
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Tracheal intubation in critically ill adults with a physiologically difficult airway. An international Delphi study. Intensive Care Med. 2024 Oct; 50(10):1563-1579.
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Clinical Prediction Models in Neurocritical Care: An Overview of the Literature and Example Application to Prediction of Hospital Mortality in Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurocrit Care. 2025 Feb; 42(1):32-38.
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Acute Burn Care. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024 Apr 01; 153(4):804e-823e.
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Financial toxicity part II: A practical guide to measuring and tracking long-term financial outcomes among acute care surgery patients. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024 Jun 01; 96(6):986-991.