Issue 5/2003
Content (25 Articles)
Simplified Acute Physiology Score III: a project for a new multidimensional tool for evaluating intensive care unit performance
Guillermo Vazquez, Salvador Benito, Ricardo Rivera
Pro/con clinical debate: Antibiotics are important in the management of patients with pancreatitis with evidence of pancreatic necrosis
Graham Ramsay, Paul Breedveld, Lorne H Blackbourne, Stephen M Cohn
Recent progress in sepsis epidemiology – have we learned enough?
Herwig Gerlach, Didier Keh
Clinical review: High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in adults – a review of the literature and practical applications
Frank V Ritacca, Thomas E Stewart
Critical Care's move to fund open access
Elizabeth Slade, Pritpal S Tamber, Jean-Louis Vincent
Ethics roundtable debate: should a sedated dying patient be wakened to say goodbye to family?
Anna Batchelor, Leslie Jenal, Farhad Kapadia, Stephen Streat, Leslie Whetstine, Brian Woodcock
Does the tube-compensation function of two modern mechanical ventilators provide effective work of breathing relief?
Yoshiko Maeda, Yuji Fujino, Akinori Uchiyama, Nobuyuki Taenaka, Takashi Mashimo, Masaji Nishimura
The limited utility of electrocardiography variables used to predict arrhythmia in psychotropic drug overdose
Nicholas A Buckley, Stephan Chevalier, I Anne Leditschke, Dianne L O'Connell, James Leitch, Susan M Pond
Bronchospasm and laryngeal stridor as an adverse effect of oxytocin treatment
David Cabestrero, Carmen Pérez-Paredes, Ramón Fernández-Cid, Miguel A Arribas
Bench-to-bedside review: Microvascular dysfunction in sepsis –hemodynamics, oxygen transport, and nitric oxide
Ryon M Bateman, Michael D Sharpe, Christopher G Ellis
Albert RK, Spio SG, Jett JR (Eds): Comprehensive Respiratory Medicine. St Louis, MO: Mosby Inc; 1999. 752 pp
Robert M Kacmarek
Intravenous colistin in the treatment of sepsis from multiresistant Gram-negative bacilli in critically ill patients
Nikolaos Markou, Haralampos Apostolakos, Christiana Koumoudiou, Maria Athanasiou, Alexandra Koutsoukou, Ioannis Alamanos, Leonidas Gregorakos
Diagnostic ability of hand-held echocardiography in ventilated critically ill patients
Philippe Vignon, Catherine Chastagner, Bruno François, Jean-François Martaillé, Sandrine Normand, Michel Bonnivard, Hervé Gastinne
Air embolism as a cause of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome: a case report
Tarun Kapoor, Guillermo Gutierrez
Comparison of sufentanil with sufentanil plus magnesium sulphate for sedation in the intensive care unit using bispectral index
Dilek Memiş, Alparslan Turan, Beyhan Karamanlıoğlu, Nihal Oğuzhan, Zafer Pamukçu
Estimation of energy requirements for mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients using nutritional status
Mee-Nin Kan, Han-Hsin Chang, Woei-Fen Sheu, Chien-Hsiang Cheng, Bor-Jen Lee, Yi-Chia Huang
Endotracheal tubes and imposed work of breathing: what should we do about it, if anything?
Richard D Branson
Assessment of six mortality prediction models in patients admitted with severe sepsis and septic shock to the intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study
Yaseen Arabi, Nehad Al Shirawi, Ziad Memish, Srinivas Venkatesh, Abdullah Al-Shimemeri