Editors’ Note: The evolution of critical care content in the Journal and a “special” Special Issue

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Since 2017, the Journal—in addition to being the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society’s scholarly publication since 1954—has also served as the official scientific journal of the Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS).¹ The last years have seen a steady growth in the Journal’s critical care submissions and published articles, and the collaboration agreement between both societies was renewed in December 2021. As a reflection of the success of this partnership, we established a second dedicated Associate Editor position for the Journal’s critical care portfolio in 2022, and we are delighted and honoured to have Drs Patricia Fontela from McGill University and Alexis Turgeon from Université Laval as outstanding members of the Journal’s Senior Editorial Board to represent the CCCS. (At the same time, these appointments have served to strengthen the important representation of the Province of Quebec at the Journal, where we proudly embrace the two official languages and vibrant multicultural fabric of Canada.) Also as of 2022, at the level of the Editorial Board-at-large, the Journal now has three dedicated CCCS members—Drs Kimia Honarmand from Western University, Bourke Tillman from the University of Toronto, and Stephen Yang from McGill University; this is in addition to three international Editorial Board members who are intensivists-anesthesiologists—Professors André Coetzee from the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), Sina Coldewey from the University of Jena (Germany), and Sheila Myatra from Tata Memorial Hospital/Homi Bhabha National Institute in Mumbai (India). And while the practice of many Canadian anesthesiologists includes a component of (frequently, post-cardiac surgery) critical care, the latter three individuals serve as a reflection of the fact that outside of North America (where typical critical care base specialties are internal medicine and pediatrics), anesthesiology and critical care are tightly linked and commonly combined under the umbrella of one department. A recent example to visibly illustrate this is the renaming of the former European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) to “European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care” (ESAIC).¹ …