Issue 2/2010
Content (107 Articles)
Clinical review: Practical recommendations on the management of perioperative heart failure in cardiac surgery
Alexandre Mebazaa, Antonis A Pitsis, Alain Rudiger, Wolfgang Toller, Dan Longrois, Sven-Erik Ricksten, Ilona Bobek, Stefan De Hert, Georg Wieselthaler, Uwe Schirmer, Ludwig K von Segesser, Michael Sander, Don Poldermans, Marco Ranucci, Peter CJ Karpati, Patrick Wouters, Manfred Seeberger, Edith R Schmid, Walter Weder, Ferenc Follath
Pitfalls in haemodynamic monitoring based on the arterial pressure waveform
Luigi Camporota, Richard Beale
Choosing patient-tailored hemodynamic monitoring
Cornelis Slagt, Rose-Marieke BGE Breukers, AB Johan Groeneveld
New and conventional strategies for lung recruitment in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Paolo Pelosi, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Patricia RM Rocco
Weaning failure of cardiac origin: recent advances
Jean-Louis Teboul, Xavier Monnet, Christian Richard
Prevention of central venous catheter-related infection in the intensive care unit
Denis Frasca, Claire Dahyot-Fizelier, Olivier Mimoz
Venous oxygen saturation as a physiologic transfusion trigger
Benoit Vallet, Emmanuel Robin, Gilles Lebuffe
Patient safety and acute care medicine: lessons for the future, insights from the past
Peter G Brindley
Novel representation of physiologic states during critical illness and recovery
Timothy G Buchman
Relatives' evaluation in older patient's quality of life
Jean-Pierre Tourtier, Ghislain Edjo Nkilly, Karim Tazarourte
Patients with diabetes in the intensive care unit; not served by treatment, yet protected?
Sarah E Siegelaar, J Hans Devries, Joost B Hoekstra
Fish oil-containing lipid emulsions in patients with sepsis
Konstantin Mayer, Werner Seeger
Non-invasive ventilation for critically ill patients with pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus infection
Silvio A Ñamendys-Silva, Marisol Hernández-Garay, Eduardo Rivero-Sigarroa
Goal-directed or goal-misdirected - how should we interpret the literature?
Anthony M Roche, Timothy E Miller
The role of noninvasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema
Ashar Salman, Eric B Milbrandt, Michael R Pinsky
Prolonged mechanical ventilation in a respiratory-care setting: a comparison of outcome between tracheostomized and translaryngeal intubated patients
Yao-Kuang Wu, Ying-Huang Tsai, Chou-Chin Lan, Chun-Yao Huang, Chih-Hsin Lee, Kuo-Chin Kao, Jui-Ying Fu
Bench-to-bedside review: Vaccine protection strategies during pandemic flu outbreaks
Joel V Chua, Wilbur H Chen
Bench-to-bedside review: Bacterial pneumonia with influenza - pathogenesis and clinical implications
Koenraad F van der Sluijs, Tom van der Poll, René Lutter, Nicole P Juffermans, Marcus J Schultz
Disaster medicine: the caring contradiction
David Crippen, Charles Krin, Dean Lorich, Ken Mattox
Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure related to 2009 pandemic Influenza A/H1N1 virus infection
João Carlos Winck, Anabela Marinho
The kinetics of T regulatory cells in shock: beyond sepsis
Eirini Christaki, Eleni Patrozou
Gram-negative bacteremia induces greater magnitude of inflammatory response than Gram-positive bacteremia
Ryuzo Abe, Shigeto Oda, Tomohito Sadahiro, Masataka Nakamura, Yo Hirayama, Yoshihisa Tateishi, Koichiro Shinozaki, Hiroyuki Hirasawa
Influence of Factor V Leiden on susceptibility to and outcome from critical illness: a genetic association study
Thomas Benfield, Karen Ejrnæs, Klaus Juul, Christian Østergaard, Jannik Helweg-Larsen, Nina Weis, Lea Munthe-Fog, Gitte Kronborg, Marianne Ring Andersen, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Børge G Nordestgaard, Peter Garred
Preadmission statin use and one-year mortality among patients in intensive care - A cohort study
Steffen Christensen, Reimar W Thomsen, Martin B Johansen, Lars Pedersen, Reinhold Jensen, Kim M Larsen, Anders Larsson, Else Tønnesen, Henrik Toft Sørensen
Dividing intensive care specialists according to their backgrounds is not useful to improve quality in intensive care
Jan-Peter Braun, Claudia Spies
Where does the lactate come from? A rare cause of reversible inhibition of mitochondrial respiration
Bruno Levy, Pierre Perez, Jessica Perny
Thrombolysis during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a lesson in the law of diminishing returns
James M Dargin, Lillian L Emlet
Intensive care unit-acquired infection as a side effect of sedation
Saad Nseir, Demosthenes Makris, Daniel Mathieu, Alain Durocher, Charles-Hugo Marquette
Ischemia as a possible effect of increased intra-abdominal pressure on central nervous system cytokines, lactate and perfusion pressures
Athanasios Marinis, Eriphili Argyra, Pavlos Lykoudis, Paraskevas Brestas, Kassiani Theodoraki, Georgios Polymeneas, Efstathios Boviatsis, Dionysios Voros
Infections of respiratory or abdominal origin in ICU patients: what are the differences?
Elena Volakli, Claudia Spies, Argyris Michalopoulos, AB Johan Groeneveld, Yasser Sakr, Jean-Louis Vincent
Intensivists: don't quit your day job...yet!
Gregory A Watson, Louis H Alarcon
The diagnostic value of serum leptin monitoring and its correlation with tumor necrosis factor-α in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
Ayman Abd Al-Maksoud Yousef, Yasser Mohamed Amr, Ghada Abdulmomen Suliman
Regional lung aeration and ventilation during pressure support and biphasic positive airway pressure ventilation in experimental lung injury
Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Maximiliano Cuevas, Peter M Spieth, Alysson R Carvalho, Volker Hietschold, Christian Stroszczynski, Bärbel Wiedemann, Thea Koch, Paolo Pelosi, Edmund Koch
Eicosapentaenoic acid preserves diaphragm force generation following endotoxin administration
Gerald S Supinski, Jonas Vanags, Leigh Ann Callahan
Alveolar fluid clearance in healthy pigs and influence of positive end-expiratory pressure
Manuel García-Delgado, Ángel Touma-Fernández, Virginia Chamorro-Marín, Antonio Ruiz-Aguilar, Eduardo Aguilar-Alonso, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar
Bedside adherence to clinical practice guidelines for enteral nutrition in critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation: a prospective, multi-centre, observational study
Jean-Pierre Quenot, Gaetan Plantefeve, Jean-Luc Baudel, Isabelle Camilatto, Emmanuelle Bertholet, Romain Cailliod, Jean Reignier, Jean-Philippe Rigaud
Effect of dexmedetomidine versus lorazepam on outcome in patients with sepsis: an a priori-designed analysis of the MENDS randomized controlled trial
Pratik P Pandharipande, Robert D Sanders, Timothy D Girard, Stuart McGrane, Jennifer L Thompson, Ayumi K Shintani, Daniel L Herr, Mervyn Maze, E Wesley Ely
Leptin in sepsis: a well-suited biomarker in critically ill patients?
Rodolfo Leonel Bracho-Riquelme, Miguel Arturo Reyes-Romero
Cytokine profiles of suction pulmonary secretions from children infected with pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009
Hisashi Kawashima, Soken Go, Yasuyo Kashiwagi, Yasuyuki Morishima, Taro Miura, Masanobu Ushio, Shigeo Nishimata, Kouji Takekuma
Mechanical ventilation with high tidal volume induces inflammation in patients without lung disease
Roselaine Pinheiro de Oliveira, Marcio Pereira Hetzel, Mauro dos Anjos Silva, Daniele Dallegrave, Gilberto Friedman
Resuscitation with low volume hydroxyethylstarch 130 kDa/0.4 is not associated with acute kidney injury
Nicolas Boussekey, Raphaël Darmon, Joachim Langlois, Serge Alfandari, Patrick Devos, Agnes Meybeck, Arnaud Chiche, Hugues Georges, Olivier Leroy
Enoxaparin, effective dosage for intensive care patients: double-blinded, randomised clinical trial
Sian Robinson, Aleksander Zincuk, Thomas Strøm, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen, Bjarne Rasmussen, Palle Toft
Clinical review: What is the role for autopsy in the ICU?
Greet Yvonne Agnes De Vlieger, Elien Marie Jeanne Lia Mahieu, Wouter Meersseman
Clinical features of H1N1 2009 infection in critically ill immunocompromised patients
Laurent Camous, Virginie Lemiale, Emmanuel Canet, Adeline Max, David Schnell, Jerome Le Goff, Antoine Rabbat, Benoit Schlemmer, Élie Azoulay
Pulmonary edema and blood volume after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective observational study
Reinier G Hoff, Gabriel JE Rinkel, Bon H Verweij, Ale Algra, Cor J Kalkman
Prediction of hospital outcome in septic shock: a prospective comparison of tissue Doppler and cardiac biomarkers
David J Sturgess, Thomas H Marwick, Chris Joyce, Carly Jenkins, Mark Jones, Paul Masci, David Stewart, Bala Venkatesh
Renal hypoperfusion and impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation in an animal model of VILI: the role of the peroxynitrite-PARP pathway
Rosanna Vaschetto, Jan W Kuiper, René JP Musters, Etto C Eringa, Francesco Della Corte, Kanneganti Murthy, AB Johan Groeneveld, Frans B Plötz
Cost of acute renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: results from The Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Study
Nattachai Srisawat, Loredo Lawsin, Shigehiko Uchino, Rinaldo Bellomo, John A Kellum
Prognostic value of cell-free plasma DNA in patients with cardiac arrest outside the hospital: an observational cohort study
Francisco Arnalich, Marta Menéndez, Verónica Lagos, Enrique Ciria, Angustias Quesada, Rosa Codoceo, Juan José Vazquez, Eduardo López-Collazo, Carmen Montiel
Elderly patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in and out of intensive care units: a comparative, prospective study of 579 ventilations
David Lieberman, Liat Nachshon, Oleg Miloslavsky, Valery Dvorkin, Avi Shimoni, Julian Zelinger, Michael Friger, Devora Lieberman
Wet lungs, broken hearts and difficult therapies after subarachnoid hemorrhage
Nino Stocchetti
Freeze dried plasma: a French army specialty
Jean Louis Daban, Patrick Clapson, Sylvain Ausset, Anne V Deshayes, Anne Sailliol
Matrix-metalloproteinase-2, -8 and -9 in serum and skin blister fluid in patients with severe sepsis
Fiia P Gäddnäs, Meeri M Sutinen, Marjo Koskela, Taina Tervahartiala, Timo Sorsa, Tuula A Salo, Jouko J Laurila, Vesa Koivukangas, Tero I Ala-Kokko, Aarne Oikarinen
Impaired cerebrovascular reactivity in sepsis-associated encephalopathy studied by acetazolamide test
Szilárd Szatmári, Tamás Végh, Ákos Csomós, Judit Hallay, István Takács, Csilla Molnár, Béla Fülesdi
Is albumin use SAFE in patients with traumatic brain injury?
Christopher R Brackney, Luis A Diaz, Eric B Milbrandt, Ali Al-Khafaji, Joseph M Darby
Prospective monitoring of cefepime in intensive care unit adult patients
Thomas M Chapuis, Eric Giannoni, Paul A Majcherczyk, René Chioléro, Marie-Denise Schaller, Mette M Berger, Saskia Bolay, Laurent A Décosterd, Denis Bugnon, Philippe Moreillon
Management of bleeding following major trauma: an updated European guideline
Rolf Rossaint, Bertil Bouillon, Vladimir Cerny, Timothy J Coats, Jacques Duranteau, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar, Beverley J Hunt, Radko Komadina, Giuseppe Nardi, Edmund Neugebauer, Yves Ozier, Louis Riddez, Arthur Schultz, Philip F Stahel, Jean-Louis Vincent, Donat R Spahn
Vacuum-assisted closure device in intensive care unit patients and dissemination of Gram-negative bacteria
Metaxia N Papanikolaou, Margarita Balla, Panagiotis G Drimousis, Anna Xanthaki, Athanasia Tsirigga, Aikaterini A Charalambous
Revisiting the loading dose of amikacin for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock
Fabio Silvio Taccone, Pierre-François Laterre, Herbert Spapen, Thierry Dugernier, Isabelle Delattre, Brice Layeux, Daniel De Backer, Xavier Wittebole, Pierre Wallemacq, Jean-Louis Vincent, Frédérique Jacobs
Ave, CESAR, morituri te salutant! (Hail, CESAR, those who are about to die salute you!)
David J Wallace, Eric B Milbrandt, Arthur Boujoukos
Drotrecogin alfa (activated) may attenuate severe sepsis-associated encephalopathy in clinical septic shock
Herbert Spapen, Duc Nam Nguyen, Joris Troubleyn, Luc Huyghens, Johan Schiettecatte
Goal-directed coagulation management of major trauma patients using thromboelastometry (ROTEM®)-guided administration of fibrinogen concentrate and prothrombin complex concentrate
Herbert Schöchl, Ulrike Nienaber, Georg Hofer, Wolfgang Voelckel, Csilla Jambor, Gisela Scharbert, Sibylle Kozek-Langenecker, Cristina Solomon
Statins for acutely hospitalized patients: randomized controlled trials are long overdue
Gordon R Bernard
A novel effect of eicosapentaenoic acid: improved diaphragm strength in endotoxemia
Philip C Calder
The effect of carbon dioxide on near-death experiences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors: a prospective observational study
Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, Janko Kersnik, Stefek Grmec
Association between length of storage of red blood cell units and outcome of critically ill children: a prospective observational study
Oliver Karam, Marisa Tucci, Scot T Bateman, Thierry Ducruet, Philip C Spinella, Adrienne G Randolph, Jacques Lacroix
Nicotine withdrawal and agitation in ventilated critically ill patients
Olivier Lucidarme, Amélie Seguin, Cédric Daubin, Michel Ramakers, Nicolas Terzi, Patrice Beck, Pierre Charbonneau, Damien du Cheyron
A systematic review of the impact of sedation practice in the ICU on resource use, costs and patient safety
Daniel L Jackson, Clare W Proudfoot, Kimberley F Cann, Tim Walsh
One-year mortality, quality of life and predicted life-time cost-utility in critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure
Rita Linko, Raili Suojaranta-Ylinen, Sari Karlsson, Esko Ruokonen, Tero Varpula, Ville Pettilä
Differential down-regulation of HLA-DR on monocyte subpopulations during systemic inflammation
Oh Yoen Kim, Antoine Monsel, Michèle Bertrand, Pierre Coriat, Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Minou Adib-Conquy
Effects of different fibrinogen concentrations on blood loss and coagulation parameters in a pig model of coagulopathy with blunt liver injury
Oliver Grottke, Till Braunschweig, Dietrich Henzler, Mark Coburn, Rene Tolba, Rolf Rossaint
Low hemoglobin is associated with poor functional outcome after non-traumatic, supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage
Jennifer Diedler, Marek Sykora, Philipp Hahn, Kristin Heerlein, Marion N Schölzke, Lars Kellert, Julian Bösel, Sven Poli, Thorsten Steiner
Inter-rater reliability of the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness score and the Glasgow Coma Scale in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
Michael Fischer, Stephan Rüegg, Adam Czaplinski, Monika Strohmeier, Angelika Lehmann, Franziska Tschan, Patrick R Hunziker, Stephan C Marsch
Activated protein C ameliorates coagulopathy but does not influence outcome in lethal H1N1 influenza: a controlled laboratory study
Marcel Schouten, Koenraad F van der Sluijs, Bruce Gerlitz, Brian W Grinnell, Joris JTH Roelofs, Marcel M Levi, Cornelis van 't Veer, Tom van der Poll
Effects of earplugs and eye masks on nocturnal sleep, melatonin and cortisol in a simulated intensive care unit environment
Rong-fang Hu, Xiao-ying Jiang, Yi-ming Zeng, Xiao-yang Chen, You-hua Zhang
Pre-existing disease: the most important factor for health related quality of life long-term after critical illness: a prospective, longitudinal, multicentre trial
Lotti Orwelius, Anders Nordlund, Peter Nordlund, Eva Simonsson, Carl Bäckman, Anders Samuelsson, Folke Sjöberg
Febrile neutropenia in French emergency departments: results of a prospective multicentre survey
Stéphanie André, Pierre Taboulet, Caroline Elie, Noël Milpied, Michel Nahon, Gérald Kierzek, Mariève Billemont, Franck Perruche, Sandrine Charpentier, Hélène Clément, Jean-Louis Pourriat, Yann-Erick Claessens
Mild therapeutic hypothermia alters neuron specific enolase as an outcome predictor after resuscitation: 97 prospective hypothermia patients compared to 133 historical non-hypothermia patients
Ingo G Steffen, Dietrich Hasper, Christoph J Ploner, Joerg C Schefold, Ekkehart Dietz, Frank Martens, Jens Nee, Anne Krueger, Achim Jörres, Christian Storm
Inhaled activated protein C protects mice from ventilator-induced lung injury
Nikolaos A Maniatis, Eleftheria Letsiou, Stylianos E Orfanos, Matina Kardara, Ioanna Dimopoulou, Georgios Nakos, Marilena E Lekka, Charalambos Roussos, Apostolos Armaganidis, Anastasia Kotanidou
Inhaled activated protein C: a new therapy for the prevention of ventilator-induced lung injury?
Edward Abraham
Effect of an analgo-sedation protocol for neurointensive patients: a two-phase interventional non-randomized pilot study
Ingrid Egerod, Malene Brorsen Jensen, Suzanne Forsyth Herling, Karen-Lise Welling
Prophylactic anticoagulation to prevent venous thromboembolism in traumatic intracranial hemorrhage: a decision analysis
Damon C Scales, Jay Riva-Cambrin, Dave Wells, Valerie Athaide, John T Granton, Allan S Detsky
Re-inspiration of CO2 from ventilator circuit: effects of circuit flushing and aspiration of dead space up to high respiratory rate
Edoardo De Robertis, Leif Uttman, Björn Jonson
Electrical muscle stimulation prevents critical illness polyneuromyopathy: a randomized parallel intervention trial
Christina Routsi, Vasiliki Gerovasili, Ioannis Vasileiadis, Eleftherios Karatzanos, Theodore Pitsolis, Elli Tripodaki, Vasiliki Markaki, Dimitrios Zervakis, Serafim Nanas
Insulin like growth factor-I in acute subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective cohort study
Stepani Bendel, Timo Koivisto, Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, Esko Ruokonen, Jarkko Romppanen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Ari Uusaro
A recruitment maneuver increases oxygenation after intubation of hypoxemic intensive care unit patients: a randomized controlled study
Jean-Michel Constantin, Emmanuel Futier, Anne-Laure Cherprenet, Gérald Chanques, Renaud Guerin, Sophie Cayot-Constantin, Mathieu Jabaudon, Sebastien Perbet, Christian Chartier, Boris Jung, Dominique Guelon, Samir Jaber, Jean-Etienne Bazin
Delta inflation: a bias in the design of randomized controlled trials in critical care medicine
Scott K Aberegg, D Roxanne Richards, James M O'Brien
Enhanced protein-energy provision via the enteral route in critically ill patients: a single center feasibility trial of the PEP uP protocol
Daren K Heyland, Naomi E Cahill, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Miao Wang, Andrew G Day, Ahmed Alenzi, Fiona Aris, John Muscedere, John W Drover, Stephen A McClave
4G/5G polymorphism of PAI-1 gene is associated with multiple organ dysfunction and septic shock in pneumonia induced severe sepsis: prospective, observational, genetic study
Krisztina Madách, István Aladzsity, Ágnes Szilágyi, George Fust, János Gál, István Pénzes, Zoltán Prohászka
Early fiberoptic bronchoscopy during non-invasive ventilation in patients with decompensated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to community-acquired-pneumonia
Raffaele Scala, Mario Naldi, Uberto Maccari