Celebrating exceptional research!

The Editor’s Choice Award recognizes special articles published in Intensive Care Medicine Paediatric and Neonatal (ICMpn). These articles recognize international collaboration resulting in new points of view and/or guideline development on one hand and true interdisciplinary collaboration on the other hand. 

The corresponding author of the selected papers will receive a €250 award. In addition, the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) will provide a full waiver for the publication costs of the author's next accepted article in ICMpn.

Discover articles that earned this year's distinction

We are happy to announce he winners of the Editor’s Choice Award 2026 that were selected from among the authors who contributed to Intensive Care Medicine – Paediatrics and Neonatal in 2025.
 
1. Practices, perceptions and attitudes of paediatric critical care practitioners in the evaluation of critically ill children for bacteraemia in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a BrighT STAR survey

^{Jessica A. Green, Beatriz Larru, Lyvonne N. Tume, Danielle W. Koontz, Anna C. Sick-Samuels, Aaron M. Milstone, Charlotte Z. Woods-Hill & Conjunction with the Paediatric Critical Care Society}
 

2. Proning and HFOV as strategies for lung recruitment in patients with PARDS: the current view across European paediatric intensive care units

^{Elisa Poletto, Marco Daverio, Robert George Theodoor Blokpoel, Gloria Brigiari, Dario Gregori, Marti Pons Odena, Alvise Tosoni & The Country Representatives Consortia Authorship with the endorsement of the ESPNIC Respiratory Critical Care Section}

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