Andreas Valentin Editor

Bertrand Guidet is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Saint Antoine Hospital, Paris, and past president of the French Intensive Care Society (SRLF). Andreas Valentin is Head of Internal Medicine at Kardinal Schwarzenberg Hospital, Schwarzach, Austria, Chair of the ESICM working group on quality improvement, and founding president of the Federation of Austrian Societies of Intensive Care Medicine. Hans Flaatten is Professor and Senior Consultant in the Intensive Care Unit at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, and Chair of the ESICM outcomes section.