Editorial
A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease which has spread across a substantial part of the world and affects a large number of…
Almost a year ago, the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care published a special COVID-19 edition. In the editorial of that issue I wrote ‘Hopefully, the…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected hundreds of millions of people worldwide, the number of patients in need of intensive care was enormous and…
Sleep is an essential aspect of human life, and evidence is growing that deprivation of sleep leads to an increase in adverse outcomes,[1] for example…
We all realise that blood transfusions can be beneficial but may also potentially harm our patients. Generally accepted restrictive transfusion thresholds for red blood cells…
Patients who experience severe adverse events such as cardiopulmonary arrest, unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and death during their hospital stay show signs of…
The past year will forever be remembered as the year of the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. From the moment the first Dutch patient was…
The role of electroencephalography (EEG) in patients admitted to your intensive care unit (ICU) after cardiac arrest has changed substantially in the last few years.…