Critical Care

Year in review 2007: Critical Care– shock

Florian Wagner, Katja Baumgart, Vladislava Simkova, Michael Georgieff, Peter Radermacher, Enrico Calzia

Year in review 2007: Critical Care – multiple organ failure and sepsis

James M O'Brien Jr, Naeem A Ali, Edward Abraham

Year in review 2007: Critical Care – intensive care unit management

Clayton Barbieri, Shannon S Carson, André Carlos Amaral

Year in review 2007: Critical Care – nephrology

Zaccaria Ricci, Claudio Ronco

Year in review 2007: Critical Care – respirology

Lorenzo Del Sorbo, Arthur S Slutsky

Myocardial protection in sepsis

Simon Shakar, Brian D Lowes

Bench-to-bedside review: The initial hemodynamic resuscitation of the septic patient according to Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines – does one size fit all?

Azriel Perel

Pro/con debate: Is the scoop and run approach the best approach to trauma services organization?

Barbara Haas, Avery B Nathens

Clinical review: Critical care in the global context – disparities in burden of illness, access, and economics

Robert A Fowler, Neill KJ Adhikari, Satish Bhagwanjee

Intensive glycemic control in traumatic brain injury: what is the ideal glucose range?

Paul M Vespa

Bench-to-bedside review: Adenosine receptors – promising targets in acute lung injury?

Carsten P Schepp, Jörg Reutershan

Regression modelling in hospital epidemiology: a statistical note

Martin Wolkewitz, Jan Beyersmann, Petra Gastmeier, Martin Schumacher

Bioethics in the clinic: a review of The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics

Leslie M Whetstine

The essential nature of healthcare databases in critical care medicine

Greg S Martin

Clinical review: Balancing the therapeutic, safety, and economic issues underlying effective antipseudomonal carbapenem use

Thomas G Slama

Circuit lifespan during continuous renal replacement therapy: children and adults are not equal

Zaccaria Ricci, Isabella Guzzo, Stefano Picca, Sergio Picardo

Bench-to-bedside review: Optimising emergency reversal of vitamin K antagonists in severe haemorrhage – from theory to practice

Bernard Vigué

Anticoagulant therapy in acute lung injury: a useful tool without proper operating instruction?

Sebastian Rehberg, Perenlei Enkhbaatar, Daniel L Traber

Guidance in sepsis management: navigating uncharted waters?

Michael C Reade, Stephen J Warrillow, John A Myburgh, Rinaldo Bellomo

Effects of inhaled iloprost on right ventricular contractility, right ventriculo-vascular coupling and ventricular interdependence: a randomized placebo-controlled trial in an experimental model of acute pulmonary hypertension

Steffen Rex, Carlo Missant, Piet Claus, Wolfgang Buhre, Patrick F Wouters

Use of T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the optic nerve sheath to detect raised intracranial pressure

Thomas Geeraerts, Virginia FJ Newcombe, Jonathan P Coles, Maria Giulia Abate, Iain E Perkes, Peter JA Hutchinson, Jo G Outtrim, Dot A Chatfield, David K Menon

Year in review 2007: Critical Care – cardiology

Luigi Camporota, Marius Terblanche, David Bennett

Using MRI of the optic nerve sheath to detect elevated intracranial pressure

Heidi Harbison Kimberly, Vicki E Noble

Partial pressure of end-tidal carbon dioxide successful predicts cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the field: a prospective observational study

Miran Kolar, Miljenko Križmarić, Petra Klemen, Štefek Grmec

Pressure support ventilation attenuates ventilator-induced protein modifications in the diaphragm

Emmanuel Futier, Jean-Michel Constantin, Lydie Combaret, Laurent Mosoni, Laurence Roszyk, Vincent Sapin, Didier Attaix, Boris Jung, Samir Jaber, Jean-Etienne Bazin

Influence of enrollment sequence effect on observed outcomes in the ADDRESS and PROWESS studies of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in patients with severe sepsis

Pierre-François Laterre, William L Macias, Jonathan Janes, Mark D Williams, David R Nelson, Amand RJ Girbes, Jean-François Dhainaut, Edward Abraham

Hyperglycemia may alter cytokine production and phagocytosis by means other than hyperosmotic stress

Charles E Wade

Analysis of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and cardiac index in multiple injured patients: a prospective cohort study

Chlodwig Kirchhoff, Bernd A Leidel, Sonja Kirchhoff, Volker Braunstein, Viktoria Bogner, Uwe Kreimeier, Wolf Mutschler, Peter Biberthaler

Establishing the Irish Critical Care Trials Group: 'who wins in battle makes many calculations before the battle is fought'

Brian O'Brien, Dermot Phelan

Entropy and bispectral index for assessment of sedation, analgesia and the effects of unpleasant stimuli in critically ill patients: an observational study

Matthias Haenggi, Heidi Ypparila-Wolters, Christine Bieri, Carola Steiner, Jukka Takala, Ilkka Korhonen, Stephan M Jakob

Dialysis dose in acute kidney injury: no time for therapeutic nihilism – a critical appraisal of the Acute Renal Failure Trial Network study

Claudio Ronco, Dinna Cruz, Helen Oudemans van Straaten, Patrick Honore, Andrew House, Du Bin, Noel Gibney

Strict glycaemic control in patients hospitalised in a mixed medical and surgical intensive care unit: a randomised clinical trial

Gisela Del Carmen De La Rosa, Jorge Hernando Donado, Alvaro Humberto Restrepo, Alvaro Mauricio Quintero, Luis Gabriel González, Nora Elena Saldarriaga, Marisol Bedoya, Juan Manuel Toro, Jorge Byron Velásquez, Juan Carlos Valencia, Clara Maria Arango, Pablo Henrique Aleman, Esdras Martin Vasquez, Juan Carlos Chavarriaga, Andrés Yepes, William Pulido, Carlos Alberto Cadavid

Intensive care for the adult population in Ireland: a multicentre study of intensive care population demographics

Recently published papers: Pseudomonas, brain and bowel injury and novel cardiac therapies

Uma M Bandarupalli, Gareth Williams

Barbiturates for the treatment of intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury

Sarice L Bassin, Thomas P Bleck

The 'cardiac-lung mass' artifact: an echocardiographic sign of lung atelectasis and/or pleural effusion

Andreas Karabinis, Theodosios Saranteas, Dimitrios Karakitsos, Daniel Lichtenstein, John Poularas, Clifford Yang, Christodoulos Stefanadis

Evidence-lost to tight glycemic control?

Marcus J Schultz, Peter E Spronk, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Bekele Afessa, Ognjen Gajic

Readmission to a surgical intensive care unit: incidence, outcome and risk factors

Axel Kaben, Fabiano Corrêa, Konrad Reinhart, Utz Settmacher, Jan Gummert, Rolf Kalff, Yasser Sakr

Frontal EEG for intensive care unit sedation: treating numbers or patients?

Peter V Sackey

The role of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase in ventilator-induced lung injury

Michiel Vaneker, Leo MA Heunks, Johannes G van der Hoeven, Gert Jan Scheffer

Erratum to: A long-term follow-up study investigating health-related quality of life and resource use in survivors of severe sepsis: comparison of recombinant human activated protein C with standard care

Christopher J Longo, Daren K Heyland, Harold N Fisher, Robert A Fowler, Claudio M Martin, Andrew G Day

Acute kidney injury is common, parallels organ dysfunction or failure, and carries appreciable mortality in patients with major burns: a prospective exploratory cohort study

I Steinvall, Z Bak, F Sjoberg

The adenosine deaminase inhibitor erythro-9-[2-hydroxyl-3-nonyl]-adenine decreases intestinal permeability and protects against experimental sepsis: a prospective, randomised laboratory investigation

Nalan Kayhan, Benjamin Funke, Lars Oliver Conzelmann, Harald Winkler, Stefan Hofer, Jochen Steppan, Heinfried Schmidt, Hubert Bardenheuer, Christian-Friedrich Vahl, Markus A Weigand

Pituitary-adrenal function in patients with acute subarachnoid haemorrhage: a prospective cohort study

Stepani Bendel, Timo Koivisto, Esko Ruokonen, Jaakko Rinne, Jarkko Romppanen, Ilkka Vauhkonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Ari Uusaro

Renal failure in the intensive care unit: acute kidney injury compared to end-stage renal failure

Marlies Ostermann, René Chang

Tight glycaemic control in the intensive care unit: pitfalls in the testing of the concept

Dieter Mesotten

So much to teach, so little time: a prospective cohort study evaluating a tool to select content for a critical care curriculum

Adam D Peets, Kevin McLaughlin, Jocelyn Lockyer, Tyrone Donnon

Induction of Bim and Bid gene expression during accelerated apoptosis in severe sepsis

Stefan U Weber, Jens-Christian Schewe, Lutz E Lehmann, Stefan Müller, Malte Book, Sven Klaschik, Andreas Hoeft, Frank Stüber

The impact of the severity of sepsis on the risk of hypoglycaemia and glycaemic variability

Reiner M Waeschle, Onnen Moerer, Reinhard Hilgers, Peter Herrmann, Peter Neumann, Michael Quintel

A quality assessment of genetic association studies supporting susceptibility and outcome in acute lung injury

Carlos Flores, Maria del Mar Pino-Yanes, Jesús Villar

Association between inflammatory mediators and response to inhaled nitric oxide in a model of endotoxin-induced lung injury

Sebastien Trachsel, Ginette Deby-Dupont, Edwige Maurenbrecher, Monique Nys, Maurice Lamy, Göran Hedenstierna

Reliability of continuous cardiac output measurement during intra-abdominal hypertension relies on repeated calibrations: an experimental animal study

Matthias Gruenewald, Jochen Renner, Patrick Meybohm, Jan Höcker, Jens Scholz, Berthold Bein

Memory-enhancing treatments reverse the impairment of inhibitory avoidance retention in sepsis-surviving rats

Lisiane Tuon, Clarissa M Comim, Fabrícia Petronilho, Tatiana Barichello, Ivan Izquierdo, João Quevedo, Felipe Dal-Pizzol