Senior Editors
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E. Benjamin
Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Department of Surgery
Mt Sinai School of Medicine
New York - USA -
Chen Dechang
Professor Of Surgery
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Beijing - China -
PSK Tan
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia -
GJ Dobb
Intensive Care Unit, Royal Perth Hospital School of Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Western Australia
Perth, Australia -
Y. Koh
College of Medicine, University of Ulsan
Asan Medical Center
Seoul - Korea -
Dessmon YH Tai
Senior Consultant, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Associate Editors
Americas
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Robert E. Fromm
Cardiology Section, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
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Paul Marik
Jefferson University School of Medicine. Philadelphia, USA.
Asia and Pacific
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Anthony McLean
Department of Intensive Care. Nepean Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
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Dessmon YH Tai
Senior Consultant, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. -
Ross Freebairn
Medical Director, Intensive Care Services, Hawke’s Bay Hospital, Hasting NZ.
Europe
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Santiago Herrero Fernandez
Department of Intensive Care and Coronary Unit, Hospital de Cabueñes, Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Middle East
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Mahmoud ElBarbary
Department of Cardiac Sciencies. King Abdul Aziz Medical City, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia.
Director of the National and Gulf Center for Evidenced Based Medicine. -
Abdullah Al-Shimemeri
Department of Intensive Care. King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Editor-in-Chief
Joseph Varon, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Chief of Critical Care Services
University General Hospital
Houston, Texas 77030
Clinical Professor of Medicine
The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
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About us
Critical Care and Shock has its origin in the regular discussions of a small circle of intensivists from the US, Europe, Japan, and Indonesia who pioneered the international conference of critical care medicine, better known as the Indonesian-International Symposium on Shock and Critical Care, which is held annually in Indonesia since 1994. It was thought at that time that it would be worthwhile to publish a journal in critical care medicine as part of the effort to support and promote the annual conference and to share the latest advances in critical care with the potential readers in Western Pacific region that might complement favorably to the conference.
The first issue of Critical Care and Shock appeared in June 1998 featuring the articles mostly from the guest speakers of the annual Indonesian-International Symposium on Shock and Critical Care.
From its beginning Critical Care and Shock has been the official journal of the Indonesian Society of Critical Care Medicine.
By 1999, at the Council meeting of Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (WPACCM), it was approved to adopt Critical Care and Shock as the official journal of WPACCM. Also, as of the February issue of 2001, Critical Care and Shock has become the official journal the Philippines Society of Critical Care Medicine.
At present, Critical Care and Shock is enjoying increasing readership in the countries of the Western Pacific region, and welcome the submission of manuscripts from intensivists and other professionals in critical care around the globe to be published in its future issues.