About Intensivmedizin up2date

Intensivmedizin up2date

Intensivmedizin up2date is the special-interest continuing-education journal for intensive-care medicine in the renowned Thieme publishing group, published in Stuttgart for the intensive-care physicians of the German-speaking hospitals. Appearing quarterly, the journal delivers the continuing education contributions from the entire intensive-care medicine: updated systematically so the readers stay current automatically, and collecting up to 60 CME points per year with the certified articles. In its 22nd volume in 2026, the journal serves the intensive-care physicians with the evidence-based specialist knowledge they can apply directly.

Overview

Intensivmedizin up2date is the CME journal for the intensive-care physicians: the Special-Interest title in the AINS (anesthesia, intensive-care, emergency, and pain medicine) specialty area. The quarterly journal delivers the continuing education across the whole intensive-care medicine: the CME articles, the step-by-step instructions, the concrete case examples, and the SOPs and workflows for the quality assurance. The readers collect up to 60 CME points per year: the continuing education that the specialty's certification demands.

The journal's didactic concept is the systematic updating: "we update systematically, you stay current automatically." The clear language and design provide the high reading comfort: the contents are easier to understand and to remember. The free collection folder with the topic register organizes the continuing-education articles: the journal becomes the reference library for the ICU practice. The print run of 2,700 copies reaches the intensive-care physicians in the hospitals.

The Systematic Updating

The intensivmedizin up2date's promise is the systematic updating: the continuing education that keeps the entire specialty in view and delivers the directly applicable practice knowledge. The intensivists work in the medicine's high-risk area: making the right decisions quickly in the extreme situations and acting safely requires, beyond the practical experience, the first-class specialist knowledge. The journal delivers the professional continuing education: current, practice-oriented, and reliable.

The systematic concept addresses the specialty's breadth: the intensivists must know the general intensive care, the internal intensive care, the operative intensive care, the neuro intensive care, and the pediatric intensive care. The quarterly issues cycle through the subspecialties: the readers build the complete knowledge systematically, not randomly. The 60 CME points per year quantify the educational value: the journal is the continuing-education engine.

The Intensivists' High-Risk Area

The intensive-care physicians that the journal serves work in the medicine's high-risk area: the intensive-care units where the critically ill depend on the immediate, correct decisions, where the extreme situations are the everyday, and where the patient care around the clock in the highly specialized environment involves the many staff changes that make the information handover vulnerable. The journal's aim and scope captures this: making the right decisions quickly in the extreme situations and acting safely requires, beyond the practical experience, the first-class specialist knowledge.

The handover's vulnerability illustrates the journal's practical relevance: the structured handover with the SBAR schema (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation), the communication culture lived by the leaders, and the established error culture increasing the patient safety in the high-risk areas. The journal's articles address such topics: the structured processes that the quality management demands, the certifications that the hospitals pursue, and the SOPs that the stations implement. In the ICU, the knowledge is not academic: it is the patient safety.

History

Intensivmedizin up2date's history began in the mid-2000s: in its 22nd volume in 2026, the journal was founded around 2005 as Thieme expanded the up2date continuing-education family. The up2date concept, pioneered across the specialties, applies the systematic CME model: the quarterly journals that update the specialty's knowledge comprehensively. The intensivmedizin up2date became the AINS family's special-interest title: alongside the generalist AINS journal, the Journal Club AINS, the Notaufnahme up2date, and the OP-Management up2date.

The journal's development tracked the intensive-care medicine's evolution: the guidelines' proliferation, the quality-assurance movement, and the digital continuing education. The "Intensivmedizin 4.0" rubric reflects the digital transformation: the AI, the telemedicine, and the data-driven care. The pandemic's ICU crisis underscored the journal's mission: the intensivists needed the current knowledge urgently, and the journal delivered.

Coverage and Content

The rubric structure organizes the intensive-care medicine: the Allgemeine Intensivmedizin with the cross-cutting topics; the Internistische Intensivmedizin with the medical ICU; the Operative Intensivmedizin with the surgical ICU; the Neuro-Intensivmedizin with the neurological intensive care; and the Pädiatrische Intensivmedizin with the children's intensive care. The Leitlinienkommentar comments the guidelines: the DIVI, the DGAI, and the international standards explained for the practice. The Studienreferate present the studies: the current research summarized for the clinicians.

The didactic rubrics serve the practice: the "Schritt für Schritt" (step-by-step) instructions guide the procedures; the "Ask the Expert" answers the readers' questions; and the SOP/Arbeitsablauf presents the standard operating procedures for the frequent intensive-care processes, as templates for the stations' own SOPs. The Intensivmedizin 4.0 addresses the digital: the new technologies reshaping the ICU. The case examples make the knowledge concrete: the real patients, the real decisions.

The CME Engine

The 60 CME points per year are the journal's engine: the intensivists earn their continuing-education credits through the journal's certified articles. The CME system requires the physicians to document their continuing education: the journal provides the convenient, high-quality path. The articles' clear language and design serve the learning: the contents are easier to understand and to retain, the didactic quality that the busy intensivists need.

The digital integration extends the CME: all articles available in the eRef, Thieme's intelligent knowledge platform, with the eRef app and the digital collection folder. The subscribers read and research anytime, digitally: the journal becomes the always-available knowledge base. The free collection folder with the topic register organizes the print: the continuing-education articles filed by topic, the reference library for the ICU.

Organization and Ownership

Intensivmedizin up2date is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Oswald-Hesse-Straße 50, 70469 Stuttgart. The bibliographic data: ISSN 1614-4856, 22nd volume in 2026. The business model is the CME-publishing model: the subscriptions with the standard annual price of 290 euros including shipping (Germany), the institutional annual price of 453 euros including VAT with the online access for one location, and the trial-issue marketing. The advertising from the intensive-care industry's manufacturers reaches the ICU decision-makers: the ventilator makers, the monitor producers, and the pharmaceutical companies.

Digital Presence

The thieme-connect.com E-Journals platform carries the journal digitally: the articles with the DOIs (e.g., 10.1055/a-2297-0346), the abstracts, and the publication histories. The eRef platform integrates the articles: the intelligent knowledge platform with the app, making the journal's content searchable and accessible. The lp.thieme.de subscription pages present the journal: the description, the rubrics, the trial issue, and the institutional licensing.

For the intensive-care physicians, the Intensivmedizin up2date is the systematic continuing education: the quarterly journal with the CME articles across the entire intensive-care medicine, the step-by-step instructions, the concrete case examples, and the SOPs and workflows for the quality assurance, delivering up to 60 CME points per year with the free collection folder and the digital eRef integration. In the medicine's high-risk area, where the right decisions in the extreme situations demand the first-class knowledge beyond the practical experience, the journal keeps the intensivists current: updated systematically, automatically current, directly applicable, in the clear language and design that makes the contents easier to understand and to remember, since the mid-2000s, into the future, every quarter.