Year in review in journal of clinical monitoring and computing 2014: cardiovascular and hemodynamic monitoring.

Hemodynamic instability is a common sign in critically ill patients and its importance has been increasingly recognized during the last 20 years. Indeed, It is now appreciated that an adequate hemodynamic monitoring associated to reactive vigorous therapy is able to decrease the present ominous prognostic sign. In this regard, the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing (JCMC) has become an ideal platform for publishing cardiovascular and hemodynamic monitoring-related research, as reflected by an increasing number of articles related to this topic and published in the recent years. To highlight this new progress, the journal decided to print a review on some papers published last year in the JCMC and related to cardiac output monitoring and cardiovascular functions.