Top 10 publications of Intensive Care Medicine journal 2020
COVID-19 pandemic provoked an increasing interest in recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of critical care patients. Among the main problems are the lack of evidence-based guidelines and a growing number of patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Therefore, indications for the use of previously uncommon intensive care approaches are expanding. These reasons, along with a large pool of non-systematic literature, dictate the need in the narrative review of top 10 recent publications which provide a snapshot of the most relevant research in critical care. These papers overview evidence-based information on the control of acute kidney injury, ventilator-associated pneumonia and sepsis in critically ill patients including those with COVID-19, principles of proper haemodynamic and ventilatory support, timely cessation of antimicrobial therapy, efficient prevention of gastrointestinal bleeding, and the use of the prone position in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.