Six months after the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) published the DIVI Recommendations on the structure, personal, and organization of intensive care units the journal Frontiers in Medicine published a translated English version open access. "We are proud to be able to present the German perspective on intensive care medicine to an international audience of specialists now," says Professor Christian Waydhas, member of the DIVI Presidium and coordinator of the paper. “We aim to provide guidance and recommendations for the requirements of (infra)structure, personal, and organization of intensive care units.”