Signa Vitae

Print ISSN: 1334-5605 | Online ISSN: 1845-206X

Official journal of the International Women in Intensive and critical care Network (iWIN, https://www.iwinideal.com/home/)

Signa Vitae (SV) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal whose Latin name means “Signs of Life.” It is dedicated to providing an unbiased and permanent academic communication platform in fields related to the recognition, monitoring, intervention, nursing, and improvement of vital signs, with a particular focus on acute conditions requiring immediate intervention to stabilize vital signs (e.g., various sudden-onset acute diseases and acute exacerbations of chronic conditions, such as acute decompensated heart failure, acute exacerbation of COPD, diabetic emergencies, acute kidney injury, acute poisoning, acute abdomen, and others), as well as various traumas and injuries, major public health incidents, and disasters; life-threatening critical states (e.g., septic shock, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, severe trauma, cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, and similar conditions); anesthetic techniques, pharmacological agents, monitoring, perioperative management, and associated complications; and pain assessment, therapeutic strategies, underlying mechanisms, and multimodal pain management, with particular emphasis on acute, critical care, and perioperative settings, while also encompassing severe chronic pain that substantially impair patients’ quality of life and functional outcomes. In addition, submissions of research addressing risk factors, etiology, pathophysiological mechanisms, prognostic assessment, strategies for improving outcomes, and disease management related to these conditions are also encouraged.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Giovanni Landoni, MD

Prof Giovanni Landoni, MD, is currently Full Professor and Residency Program Director of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. He’s also Director of the Center for Intensive Care and Anesthesiology of San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. His strong clinical and research interests in intensive care and anesthesia resulted in more than 700 scientific publications in indexed journals, cited >20,000 times, h-index=75 on Scopus and 95 on Scholar, including randomized trials on NEJM, Lancet, and JAMA, and over 100 invitations in international congresses. He participated to 47 randomized controlled trials. Prof Landoni was Chief Investigator in successfully completed multicenter randomized clinical trials that randomized > 10,000 critically ill or perioperative patients over the last 10 years. He served as reviewer for over 50 journals (NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet among others) and for foreign grant agencies, and he is member of the Editorial Board of several international journals.