Editorial Research Advances in Critical Care: Targeting Patients’ Physiological and Psychological Outcomes

Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Critical illness is an immensely complex entity, affecting simultaneously cellular, neurohormonal, immune, endothe-lial, and organ system responses and at the same time entailing intricate psychosocial and cognitive correlates [1]. Outcomes in critical illness largely depend on the interplay among these response systems, rather than on any specific factor. Hence, critical illness and its consequent complica-tions continue to challenge clinicians throughout the world. Recent developments in critical care show that collabora-tive interdisciplinary interventions targeting patients ’ needs as well as focusing on care have the potential to improve survival outcomes, as well as longer-term physiological and psychological outcomes in many critically ill individuals [2]