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A year of impact: the best articles of 2024 in Signa Vitae

  • Fabio Guarracino1
  • Ozgur Karcioglu2
  • Eleni Moka3
  • Orlando Rubén Pérez-Nieto4
  • Matteo Borello5
  • Giovanni Landoni5,6,*,
  • Joseph V. Pergolizzi7
  • Todd C. Lee8
  • Stephanie I. Rizk9,10
  • Rob Mac Sweeney11

1Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and ICU, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, 56100 Pisa, Italy

2Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, 34098 Istanbul, Türkiye

3Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristothele University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

4Intensive Care Unit, Hospital General San Juan del Río, 76804 Querétaro, QT, México

5Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy

6School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, 20132 Milan, Italy

7NEMA Research Group, Naples, FL 34108, USA

8Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada

9Instituto do Coração (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

10Instituto do Câncer (ICESP), Hospital das Clínicas Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

11Regional Intensive Care Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, BT12-6BA Belfast, Northern Ireland

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.139 Vol.21,Issue 10,October 2025 pp.1-5

Submitted: 18 August 2025 Accepted: 27 August 2025

Published: 08 October 2025

*Corresponding Author(s): Giovanni Landoni E-mail: landoni.giovanni@hsr.it

Keywords

Sepsis; Cardioprotection; Neurocognition; Emergency


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Fabio Guarracino,Ozgur Karcioglu,Eleni Moka,Orlando Rubén Pérez-Nieto,Matteo Borello,Giovanni Landoni,Joseph V. Pergolizzi,Todd C. Lee,Stephanie I. Rizk,Rob Mac Sweeney. A year of impact: the best articles of 2024 in Signa Vitae. Signa Vitae. 2025. 21(10);1-5.

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