OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Critical Care is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Adherence to Guidelines for Managing Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children	99
Proper Titration Orders Are Essential for Patient Safety	33
Clinical Pearls	26
Lactate Level and Clearance as Predictors of Neurologic Outcome After Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation	23
Associations Between Core Temperature Disorders and Outcomes of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients	22
Mental Health Symptoms in Parents of Infants 3 Months After Discharge Following Neonatal Cardiac Surgery	22
Response	21
Response	20
An Intensive Care Unit Team Reflects on End-of-Life Experiences With Patients and Families in Chile	20
Transient Cardiac Rhythm Changes	18
Discussion Guide for the Bazan Article	18
Refractory Angina Confounded by Preexcitation Syndrome	18
Narrative Reflection in Critical Care	17
Improving Pressure Injury Prevention by Using Wearable Sensors to Cue Critical Care Patient Repositioning	17
Liberty, Justice, and Intensive Care Unit Recovery	17
Utility of a “Lavender Lounge” to Reduce Stress Among Critical Care Registered Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study	15
Prevention of Endotracheal Tube–Related Pressure Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	15
Caring for Patients and Families After Unplanned Transfers to an Intensive Care Unit	14
Simulation Training to Increase Holding of Fragile Infants in Cardiac Intensive Care Units	13
Words Matter: Describing Major Medical Treatments	13
Calling Attention to the Practice of Acute and Critical Care Nursing	13
Nursing Care at End of Life in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation	12
Individualized Numeric Rating Scale to Assess Pain in Critically Ill Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities	12
Climate Change and the Intensive Care Unit	12
Discussion Guide for the Laures Article	11

Skin Pigmentation and Accuracy of Pulse Oximetry Values	11
Clinical Pearls	11
Hyperoxemia Induced by Oxygen Therapy in Nonsurgical Critically Ill Patients	11
Nurses’ Lived Experience, Part 2: Lessons From Nurses for Guiding Future Emergent Situations	10
Describing Anisocoria in Neurocritically Ill Patients	10
Delivering Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Post–Intensive Care Syndrome–Family via a Mobile Health App	9
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Early Prediction of Pressure Injury Risk	9
The “8 D’s” of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Risk: A Scoping Review	9
Fluid Resuscitation and Sepsis Management in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease or End-Stage Renal Disease: Scoping Review	8
Interprofessional, Interdisciplinary, or Multidisciplinary?	8
Examining Burnout in Interprofessional Intensive Care Unit Clinicians Using Qualitative Analysis	8
AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Standards: Why They Matter	8
Discussion Guide for the Greenberg Article	7
Clinical Pearls	7
Nurses as Essential Clinical Leaders in Sepsis Care	7
Electrocardiographic Waveform Abnormalities in Patients With Structural Heart Disease	6
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in Women vs Men: Analysis of 1496 Cases at a Single Site	6
2024 National Teaching Institute Research Abstracts	6
Pulmonary-Focused Verticalization Therapy in Patients Experiencing Respiratory Failure	6
Characteristics and Outcomes of US Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19	6
Clinical Pearls	6
Human Suffering and Armed Conflict	6
“It Haunts Me”: Impact of COVID-19 Deaths on Frontline Clinicians In Acute Care Settings—A Qualitative Study	6
Impact of a Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Coach on Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Resuscitation Teams	5
Courage to Soar in Clinical Research	5
Discussion Guide for the Krupp Article	5
Perceptions of Interprofessional Practitioners Regarding Pediatric Palliative Transports	5
Limb Necrosis in the Setting of Vasopressor Use	5
Discussion Guide for the Rathbun Article	5
ABCDEF Bundle	5
The Lived Experiences of Telemedicine Intensive Care Unit Nurses	5
Prognostic Conversations Between Parents and Physicians in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit	5
Unplanned Transfers From Intermediate Care Units to Intensive Care Units: A Cohort Study	4
Integrating Perspectives on Family Caregiving After Critical Illness: A Qualitative Content Analysis	4
Anxiety Sensitivity in the Intensive Care Unit	4
Heart-Brain Connection: Role of the Central Nervous System	4
Brief Narrative Writing Program Implemented in a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Cardiac Arrhythmias After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery	4
Clinical Pearls	4
Caring for Rural Patients at End of Life: Perceptions of Critical Access Hospital Nurses	3
Moral Distress in the Critical Care Setting	3
Intrapulmonary Feeding Tube Placements While Using an Electromagnetic Placement Device: A Review (2019–2021)	3
Assessing Discomfort in American Adult Intensive Care Patients	3
Time to Talk Money? Intensive Care Unit Clinicians’ Perspectives on Addressing Patients’ Financial Hardship	3
Alarm Fatigue	3
Using Telehealth to Improve the Accuracy of Delirium Screening by Bedside Critical Care Nurses	3
Use of Machine Learning Models to Predict Microaspiration Measured by Tracheal Pepsin A	3
Declarations on Patient and Family Engagement	3
Patient- and Family-Centered Outcomes After Intensive Care Unit Admission	3
Response:	3

Clinical Pearls	3
Residual Psychomotor Skills of Orderlies After a Novel Chest Compression Training Intervention	3
Clinical Pearls	3
Discussion Guide for the Kim Article	3
Temporal Trends in Sepsis Incidence and Mortality in Patients With Cancer in the US Population	3
Future Nurses	3
Discussion Guide for the Wool Article	3
The Sky’s the Limit: Expanding Nursing’s Contribution to Acute Stroke Science	3
Association of Lack of Fear of Dying With New Organ Failure: Results of a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study	3
Admission Glasgow Coma Scale Score as a Predictor of Outcome in Patients Without Traumatic Brain Injury	3
Use of Music for Newborns After Cardiac Surgery: A Pilot Study	3
COVID-19 and Moral Distress: A Pediatric Critical Care Survey	3
Healthy Aging Brain Care Monitor, Caregiver Version: Screening for Post–Intensive Care Syndrome	3
Changing Unit Culture One Bite at a Time	3
A 12-Lead Electrocardiography Patch for Continuous Arrhythmia Monitoring: A Case Example	2
Pressure Gradient as a Predictor of Time Needed to Drain Cerebrospinal Fluid Via an External Ventricular Drain	2
The Intensive Care Unit: Tomorrow and Beyond	2
Impact of Virtual Reality Simulation on New Nurses’ Assessment of Pediatric Respiratory Distress	2
Managing Coagulation Using the Sonoclot Analyzer in Patients With Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation	2
Implementing AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Framework in an Intensive Care Unit	2
Using the Evidence for Palliative Care to Improve Outcomes for Patients With Heart Failure	2
Measuring Acuity and Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Workload by Using ICU CAMEO III	2
Skilled Communication and the Pursuit of Perfect Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation	2
Recognizing 12-Lead Electrocardiographic Patterns in Patients at Risk for Lethal Arrhythmias	2
Circadian Rhythmicity of Vital Signs at Intensive Care Unit Discharge and Outcome of Traumatic Brain Injury	2
The Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy: Sustainability of Impact	2
Cumulative Stress Debriefings to Combat Compassion Fatigue in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit	2
Discussion Guide for the Botsch Article	2
Transforming Moral Suffering by Cultivating Moral Resilience and Ethical Practice	2
Quality Of Life and Coping With Stress in Relatives of Patients in Intensive Care Units During COVID-19	2
The Sky’s the Limit: Expanding Nursing’s Contribution to Acute Stroke Science	2
Transforming Moral Suffering by Cultivating Moral Resilience and Ethical Practice	2
Meeting the Challenges of Establishing Intensive Care Unit Follow-up Clinics	2
Talk of Personalization in Health Care	2
Discussion Guide for the Pecanac Article	1
Benefits of a Safe Pandemic Visitation Policy	1
Hospital-Based Electrocardiographic Monitoring: The Good, the Not So Good, and Untapped Potential	1
Critical Care Nurses’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A US National Survey	1
Patient, Practice, and Organizational Factors Associated With Early Mobility Performance in Critically Ill Adults	1
Current Trends in Critical Care Nursing Research	1
Noninvasive Ventilation and Mortality During COVID-19: What Could Have Been Wrong?	1
Thoracic Impedance Pneumography–Derived Respiratory Alarms and Associated Patient Characteristics	1
Narrow vs Wide QRS Complex Tachycardia in a Patient With Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome	1
Early Guided Palliative Care Communication for Patients With COVID-19 Receiving ECMO	1
Cognitive Impairment, Physical Impairment, and Psychological Symptoms in Intensive Care Unit Survivors	1
Ethics Is Essential	1
Does a Gratitude Self-Care Practice Improve Nurses’ Well-Being?	1
Longitudinal Evaluation of Implementation of AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Framework in an Intensive Care Unit	1
Inflammatory Cardiac Disease in a Young Adult With Syncope	1
Clinical Pearls	1
Effects of Natural Sound Therapy on Pain and Agitation Induced by Endotracheal Suctioning: A Real-World Study	1
Interpretation of Telemetry Among Patients With a Left Ventricular Assist Device	1
Interprofessional Team Collaboration and Work Environment Health in 68 US Intensive Care Units	1
Clinical Pearls	1
Evaluating Patients for “Light Sedation”	1
Correction	1
Identifying Comorbid Subtypes of Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure	1
Prospective Validation of Sedation Scale Scores That Identify Light Sedation: A Pilot Study	1
Hospital-Based Electrocardiographic Monitoring: The Good, the Not So Good, and Untapped Potential	1
Exploring the Risks of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy: What You Should Know	1
Nurses’ Perceptions of Barriers to Out-of-Bed Activities Among Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation	1
Virtual Reality Simulation to Improve Postoperative Cardiothoracic Surgical Patient Outcomes	1
Recognizing Patterns on a Resting 12-Lead Electrocardiogram	1
Factors Affecting Psychological Distress in Family Caregivers of Critically Ill Patients: A Qualitative Study	1
Tracheostomies of Patients With COVID-19: A Survey of Infection Reported by Health Care Professionals	1
Documentation, Data, and Decision-Making	1
Clinical Pearls	1
Acute Symptom Onset During Exercise Stress Testing	1
Meta-analysis of ICU Delirium Biomarkers and Their Alignment With the NIA-AA Research Framework	1
Listening to Our Readers	1
Discussion Guide for the McDermott Article	1
Sources of Sound Exposure in Pediatric Critical Care	1
Factors Influencing CAM-ICU Documentation and Inappropriate “Unable to Assess” Responses	1
Perceptions and Behaviors of Nurses and Physicians During Bedside Rounds in Medical-Surgical Units	1
Assessing Pain in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Not as Easy as the 1-10 Scale	1
Point-of-Care Potassium Measurement vs Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Electrocardiography for Hyperkalemia Detection	1
Clinical Pearls	1
Clinical Pearls	1
Correction	1
Written Communication, Visitation Policies, and Awareness of Medical Issues Among Intensive Care Unit Families	1

A Practical Approach to Hospital Visitation During a Pandemic: Responding With Compassion to Unjustified Restrictions	0
Discussion Guide for the Rushton Article	0
E Is for Early Mobility and Improved Patient Outcomes	0
Thematic Analysis of Nurses’ Experiences With The Joint Commission’s Medication Management Titration Standards	0
On Low-Value Nursing Care: Part 2, De-implementing Practices in Your Unit	0
Managing Thirst in the Critically Ill	0
Factors Associated With Function-Focused Care Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Dementia	0
Evaluation of Nurse-Driven Management of Hypoglycemia In Critically Ill Patients	0
A Pediatric Intensive Care Checklist for Interprofessional Rounds: The R-PICniC Study	0
How Patients and Families Describe Major Medical Treatments: “They are No Longer Living, Just Existing”	0
Preventing Pressure Injury Related to Personal Protective Equipment	0
Variation in Mentions of Race and Ethnicity in Notes in Intensive Care Units Across a Health Care System	0
Bereavement Experiences of Families in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit	0
Critical Care Nurses’ Moral Resilience, Moral Injury, Institutional Betrayal, and Traumatic Stress After COVID-19	0
Discussion Guide for the Hua Article	0
Serum Albumin Level at Intensive Care Unit Admission and Delirium Duration and Severity in Critically Ill Adults	0
Transitioning to Palliative Care in an Italian Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Network	0
Risk Factors Associated With Pressure Injury in Critically Ill Children With Congenital Heart Disease	0
Self-Care Mental Health App Intervention for Post–Intensive Care Syndrome–Family: A Randomized Pilot Study	0
Oral Microbiome Changes During Hospitalization in Older Adults Not Receiving Mechanical Ventilation	0
Reducing Readmission for Sepsis by Improving Risk Prediction Algorithms	0
The Refractory Period in Cardiac Physiology	0
Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care Practice and Research	0
Barriers to and Facilitators of Family Caregiving of Patients With COVID-19 Early in the Pandemic	0
When Stakes Are High and Stress Soars: Addressing Health Literacy in the Critical Care Environment	0
Clinical Pearls	0
Discussion Guide for the Amorim Article	0
Clinical Pearls	0
Evaluation of an Intensive Care Unit Sepsis Alert in Critically Ill Medical Patients	0
Longitudinal Associations Among Symptoms of Family Intensive Care Unit Syndrome	0
Psychometric Evaluation of the Family Willingness for Caregiving Scale	0
Performance of Automated Telemetry in Diagnosing QT Prolongation in Critically Ill Patients	0
Measuring the QT/QTc Interval in the Presence of Wide QRS Complexes	0
The Sooner the Better: Initiating Palliative Care in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation	0
An Online Training Program to Improve Clinicians’ Skills in Communicating About Serious Illness	0
Starting Now: The Power of Research Stories	0
Effect of Sepsis-3 Definition on the Classification of Patients with Sepsis or Septic Shock in South Korea	0
I’ve Got the Power: Nurses’ Moral Distress and Perceptions of Empowerment	0
Picturing Empathy in the Intensive Care Unit: Patient Photographs at an Urban Community Teaching Hospital	0
Discussion Guide for the Petrinec Article	0
Clinical Pearls	0
Resilience Through Growth	0
Understanding and Improving Bereavement Support in the Intensive Care Unit	0
Cardiac Symptoms After Recent Orthopedic Surgery	0
Exercise-Induced Arrhythmias	0
Addressing Pandemic Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: Beyond Intrapersonal Wellness Programming	0
Use of Video Technology in End-of-Life Care for Hospitalized Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Discussion Guide for the van Nieuw Amerongen Article	0
Nurses’ Understanding and Practice of Minimal Stimulation in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit	0
Use of Noninvasive vs Invasive Ventilation for Patients Hospitalized With Acute Exacerbation of COPD, 2010 to 2019	0
Effect of Live Versus Recorded Music on Children Receiving Mechanical Ventilation and Sedation	0
Enhancing New Nurses’ Pediatric Respiratory Assessment Skills	0
A Daily Dose of Communication to Improve Quality and Safety Outcomes	0
Discussion Guide for the Ernst Article	0
Standardized Change-of-Shift Handoff: Nurses’ Perspectives and Implications for Evidence-Based Practice	0
Noninvasive Ventilation for Moderate to Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Due to COVID-19	0
Discussion Guide for the Moale Article	0
Nurses’ Professional Quality of Life and Self-Care: A Mixed-Methods Study	0
Clinical Pearls	0
Mobile Monitoring Technologies for Remote Detection of Arrhythmias	0
Bed Rest Reduction Following Cardiac Catheterizations Using Vascular Closure Devices	0
Wide QRS Complex Rhythm in an Unresponsive Community-Based Patient	0
Discussion Guide for the Woods Article	0
Outcomes of Sepsis in Patients With and Without HIV Infection: A Retrospective Study	0
Mindfulness Bundle Toolkit’s Impact on Nurse Burnout	0
A Descriptive Study of Chaplains’ Code Blue Responses	0
Adaptation and Testing of a Military Version of the Measure of Moral Distress for Healthcare Professionals	0
Moral Distress in Clinicians Caring for Critically Ill Patients Who Require Mechanical Circulatory Support	0
Utility of Screening for Cognitive Impairment at Hospital Discharge in Adult Survivors of Critical Illness	0
Health Care Professionals’ Views and Practices Regarding Bereavement Support	0
Discussion Guide for the Brogan Article	0
Readmissions in Sepsis Survivors: Discharge Setting Risks	0
Family Communication Models	0
Critical Access Hospital Nurses’ Perceptions of Obstacles to End-of-Life Care: A Qualitative Study	0
Discussion Guide for the Golino Article	0
Value of a 12-Lead Electrocardiogram for Assessing P Waves	0
Discussion Guide for the May Article	0
Fasting Versus a Heart-Healthy Diet Before Cardiac Catheterization: A Randomized Controlled Trial	0
From Open to Closed: COVID-19 Restrictions on Previously Unrestricted Visitation Policies in Adult Intensive Care Units	0
The State of the Journal in the Infodemic Age	0
Clinical Pearls	0
Sacramental Moments: Presence as Spiritual Care in the Intensive Care Unit	0
Video Game Therapy in a Neurosciences Critical Care Unit: A Pilot Study	0
Decreased Incidence of Rib Fractures in Pregnant Patients After Motor Vehicle Collisions	0
Family Caregivers’ Experience of Patients With Delirium in Critical Care Units: A State-of-the-Science Integrative Review	0
Characteristics of Young Adults Admitted to Intensive Care Units at an Academic Health System	0
Temperature Profile and Adverse Outcomes After Discharge From the Intensive Care Unit	0
COVID-19 Transmission to Health Care Personnel During Tracheostomy Under a Multidisciplinary Safety Protocol	0
Rapid Critical Care Training for Nurses Deployed to Intensive Care Units During the COVID-19 Surge	0
Bloodstream Infections in Infants and Children With Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Cardiac Surgery	0
Acute Care Resource Use After Elective Surgery in the United States: Implications During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Medical Decision-Making and Bereavement Experiences After Cardiac Arrest: Qualitative Insights From Surrogates	0
Arterial Monitoring System Leveling Method, Transducer Location, and Accuracy of Blood Pressure Measurements	0
Implementation and Modification of Developmental Care Rounds in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit	0
Receptive Music Therapy for Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit	0