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Extracorporeal Blood Purification

Edited by:

Marlies Ostermann, MD, PhD, King’s College London, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, United Kingdom

Submission Status: Open   |  Submission Deadline: 25 June 2026


This Collection in the journal Critical Care highlights research on Extracorporeal blood purification (EBP). EBP plays a critical and evolving role in intensive care medicine, especially in the management of critically ill patients with systemic inflammation, sepsis, multi-organ failure, renal dysfunction or intoxications. Multiple different technologies exist, including renal replacement therapy, hemoadsorption, plasma exchange / plasmapheresis and liver support systems.
Image credit: © Marlies Ostermann

About the Collection

This Collection in the journal of Critical Care highlights research on Extracorporeal blood purification (EBP). EBP plays a critical and evolving role in intensive care medicine, especially in the management of critically ill patients with systemic inflammation, sepsis, multi-organ failure, renal dysfunction or intoxications. Multiple different technologies exist, including renal replacement therapy, hemoadsorption, plasma exchange / plasmapheresis and liver support systems. Their primary purpose is to support or replace failing organ systems by removing harmful substances from the blood using external devices. 

This collection focusses on all aspects related to EBP in critically ill patients, including but not limited to:  

•    Renal replacement therapy, 
•    Role of therapeutic plasma exchange, 
•    EBP in sepsis, 
•    Monitoring during EBP and combination therapy.

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of research and review papers. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Extracorporeal Blood Purification” under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.