Issue 1/2005
Content (36 Articles)
Bench-to-bedside review: Permissive hypercapnia
Donall O' Croinin, Martina Ni Chonghaile, Brendan Higgins, John G Laffey
Clinical review: Treatment of heat stroke: should dantrolene be considered?
Eran Hadad, Yoav Cohen-Sivan, Yuval Heled, Yoram Epstein
Clinical review: Noninvasive ventilation in the clinical setting – experience from the past 10 years
Massimo Antonelli, Mariano Alberto Pennisi, Luca Montini
Bench-to-bedside review: Recruitment and recruiting maneuvers
Stephen E Lapinsky, Sangeeta Mehta
Clinical review: Vasculitis on the intensive care unit – part 1: diagnosis
David Semple, James Keogh, Luigi Forni, Richard Venn
Dantrolene and heatstroke: a good molecule applied in an unsuitable situation
Pierre Hausfater
Roundtable debate: Controversies in the management of the septic patient – desperately seeking consensus
Aaron B Waxman, Nicholas Ward, Taylor Thompson, Craig M Lilly, Alan Lisbon, Nicholas Hill, Stanley A Nasraway, Stephen Heard, Howard Corwin, Mitchell Levy
Bench-to-bedside review: Apoptosis/programmed cell death triggered by traumatic brain injury
Xiaopeng Zhang, Yaming Chen, Larry W Jenkins, Patrick M Kochanek, Robert SB Clark
Science review: The brain in sepsis – culprit and victim
Tarek Sharshar, Nicholas S Hopkinson, David Orlikowski, Djillali Annane
Bispectral index versus COMFORT score to determine the level of sedation in paediatric intensive care unit patients: a prospective study
Andreas E Triltsch, Grit Nestmann, Helmut Orawa, Maryam Moshirzadeh, Michael Sander, Joachim Große, Arka Genähr, Wolfgang Konertz, Claudia D Spies
Bench-to-bedside review: Ethical challenges for those in directing roles in critical care units
Robert W Sibbald, Neil M Lazar
Cellular infiltrates and injury evaluation in a rat model of warm pulmonary ischemia–reperfusion
Bart P Van Putte, Jozef Kesecioglu, Jeroen MH Hendriks, Veerle P Persy, Erik van Marck, Paul EY Van Schil, Marc E De Broe
11 March 2004: The terrorist bomb explosions in Madrid, Spain – an analysis of the logistics, injuries sustained and clinical management of casualties treated at the closest hospital
J Peral Gutierrez de Ceballos, F Turégano-Fuentes, D Perez-Diaz, M Sanz-Sanchez, C Martin-Llorente, JE Guerrero-Sanz
Effect of magnesium sulfate administration on blood–brain barrier in a rat model of intraperitoneal sepsis: a randomized controlled experimental study
Figen Esen, Tulin Erdem, Damla Aktan, Mukadder Orhan, Mehmet Kaya, Haluk Eraksoy, Nahit Cakar, Lutfi Telci
Critical care in the 21st century: preparation, preparation, and preparation
Charlotte England, Kerrie Lapworth, Emdadur Rahman, Jean-Louis Vincent
Differentiating midazolam over-sedation from neurological damage in the intensive care unit
Catherine A McKenzie, William McKinnon, Declan P Naughton, David Treacher, Graham Davies, Gary J Phillips, Philip J Hilton
Determinants of the cuff-leak test: a physiological study
George Prinianakis, Christina Alexopoulou, Eutichis Mamidakis, Eumorfia Kondili, Dimitris Georgopoulos
Pro/con clinical debate: It is acceptable to stop large multicentre randomized controlled trials at interim analysis for futility
David A Schoenfeld, Maureen O Meade
Pro-atrial natriuretic peptide is a prognostic marker in sepsis, similar to the APACHE II score: an observational study
Nils G Morgenthaler, Joachim Struck, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Andreas Bergmann, Beat Müller
Ethics roundtable debate: A patient dies from an ICU-acquired infection related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – how do you defend your case and your team?
Jean-Louis Vincent, Christian Brun-Buisson, Michael Niederman, Christian Haenni, Stephan Harbarth, Dominique Sprumont, Mauricio Valencia, Antoni Torres
Timing of tracheostomy as a determinant of weaning success in critically ill patients: a retrospective study
Chia-Lin Hsu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Chia-Hsuin Chang, Jih-Shuin Jerng, Chong-Jen Yu, Pan-Chyr Yang
Aerosolized colistin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in patients without cystic fibrosis
Argyris Michalopoulos, Sofia K Kasiakou, Zefi Mastora, Kostas Rellos, Anastasios M Kapaskelis, Matthew E Falagas
Aerosolized colistin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in patients without cystic fibrosis
Samira Mubareka, Ethan Rubinstein
Free cortisol levels should not be used to determine adrenal responsiveness
Aditya Dubey, Arthur J Boujoukos
Scanning the horizon: emerging hospital-wide technologies and their impact on critical care
Ganesh Suntharalingam, Jonathan Cousins, David Gattas, Martin Chapman
Recently published papers: A clinical conundrum, new from old and advances in ventilation?
James Sadler, Gareth Williams
A review of 2004, and with the new year comes a new look
Kerrie Lapworth, Emdadur Rahman, Charlotte Hubbard