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Overview

Daniel De Backer is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across related subfields such as Surgery, Epidemiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, and Emergency Medicine.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy, Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders.

Daniel De Backer has published in several high-profile medical journals, with frequent articles appearing in:

  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Critical Care
  • Annals of Intensive Care
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Among notable recent papers, the following works have been documented:

  • How can assessing hemodynamics help to assess volume status? (2022, Intensive Care Medicine)
  • Current practice and evolving concepts in septic shock resuscitation (2021, Intensive Care Medicine)
  • Pilot trial of high-dose vitamin C in critically ill COVID-19 patients (2021, Annals of Intensive Care)
  • Epidemiology, pathophysiology and contemporary management of cardiogenic shock - a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (2020, European Journal of Heart Failure)
  • ESICM guidelines on acute respiratory distress syndrome: definition, phenotyping and respiratory support strategies (2023, Intensive Care Medicine)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Maurizio Cecconi
  • Jean-Louis Teboul
  • Jean-Louis Vincent
  • Xavier Monnet
  • Glenn Hernández

Best Publications

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016

    Andrew Rhodes;Laura E. Evans;Waleed Alhazzani;Mitchell M. Levy

  • Comparison of Dopamine and Norepinephrine in the Treatment of Shock

    Daniel De Backer;Patrick Biston;Jacques Devriendt;Christian Madl

  • Consensus on circulatory shock and hemodynamic monitoring. Task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

    Maurizio Cecconi;Daniel De Backer;Massimo Antonelli;Richard Beale

  • Microvascular Blood Flow Is Altered in Patients with Sepsis

    Daniel De Backer;Jacques Creteur;Jean-Charles Preiser;Marc-Jacques Dubois

  • Persistent microcirculatory alterations are associated with organ failure and death in patients with septic shock.

    Yasser Sakr;Marc-Jacques Dubois;Daniel De Backer;Jacques Creteur

  • How to evaluate the microcirculation: report of a round table conference

    Daniel De Backer;Steven Hollenberg;Christiaan Boerma;Peter Goedhart

  • Pulse pressure variations to predict fluid responsiveness: influence of tidal volume

    Daniel De Backer;Sarah Heenen;Michaël Piagnerelli;Marc Koch

  • A Unified Theory of Sepsis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury: Inflammation, microcirculatory dysfunction, bioenergetics and the tubular cell adaptation to injury

    Hernando Gomez;Can Ince;Daniel De Backer;Peter Pickkers

  • Microcirculatory alterations in patients with severe sepsis: impact of time of assessment and relationship with outcome.

    Daniel De Backer;Katia Donadello;Yasser Sakr;Gustavo Adolfo Ospina-Tascón

  • The effects of dobutamine on microcirculatory alterations in patients with septic shock are independent of its systemic effects

    Daniel De Backer;Jacques Creteur;Marc-Jacques Dubois;Yasser Sakr

  • Fluid challenges in intensive care: the FENICE study: A global inception cohort study

    Maurizio Cecconi;Christoph Hofer;Jean-Louis Teboul;Ville Pettila

  • Microvascular alterations in patients with acute severe heart failure and cardiogenic shock.

    Daniel De Backer;Jacques Creteur;Marc-Jacques Dubois;Yasser Sakr

  • THE ENDOTHELIUM IN SEPSIS.

    Can Ince;Philip P.R. Mayeux;Trung Nguyen;Hernando Gomez

  • Clinical review: Update on hemodynamic monitoring--a consensus of 16.

    Jean-Louis Vincent;Andrew Rhodes;Azriel Perel;Greg S Martin

  • Effects of dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine on the splanchnic circulation in septic shock: Which is best?*

    Daniel De Backer;Jacques Creteur;Eliézer Silva;Jean Louis Vincent

  • Monitoring the microcirculation in the critically ill patient: current methods and future approaches.

    Daniel De Backer;Gustavo Adolfo Ospina-Tascón;Diamantino Salgado;Raphaël Favory

  • Does dopamine administration in shock influence outcome? Results of the Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely Ill Patients (SOAP) Study

    Yasser Sakr;Konrad Reinhart;Jean-Louis Vincent;Charles L. Sprung

  • The prognostic value of muscle StO2 in septic patients.

    Jacques Creteur;Tiziana Carollo;Giulia Soldati;Gustavo Luiz Büchele

  • Position paper for the organization of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation programs for acute respiratory failure in adult patients

    Alain Combes;Daniel Brodie;Robert Bartlett;Laurent L.J. Brochard

  • Consensus on circulatory shock and hemodynamic monitoring. Task force of the European Society of Intensive Care

    Maurizio Cecconi;Daniel De Backer;Massimo Antonelli;Richard Beale

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Louis Vincent
Jean Louis Vincent Université Libre de Bruxelles
Fabio Silvio Taccone
Fabio Silvio Taccone Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jan Bakker
Jan Bakker New York University
Antoine Vieillard-Baron
Antoine Vieillard-Baron Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Giuseppe Citerio
Giuseppe Citerio University of Milano-Bicocca
Jean-Louis Teboul
Jean-Louis Teboul University of Paris-Saclay
Michael R. Pinsky
Michael R. Pinsky University of Pittsburgh
Andrew Rhodes
Andrew Rhodes St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Göran Hedenstierna
Göran Hedenstierna Uppsala University

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