Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2014: I. Cardiac dysfunction and cardiac arrest, ultrasound, neurocritical care, ICU-acquired weakness, nutrition, acute kidney injury, and miscellaneous

Intensive Care Medicine is changing. New types of pa pers, such as “What’s New in Intensive Care?”, “Understanding the Disease” and “My Paper 20 Years Later”, form a stable proportion of the articles published in the 2014 issues. This diversification has been received with an extraordinary enthusiasm and appreciation by the worldwide readership, as evidenced by the massive number of hits and downloads. In this first of three 2014 “Year in Review” articles, we cover those papers published in Intensive Care Medicine during the past year which focus on cardiac arrest, ultrasonography in critically ill patients, neurocritical care, ICU-acquired weakness, nutrition, acute kidney injury, as well as a number of miscellaneous topics.