Issue 2/2008
Content (30 Articles)
A brief history of tracheostomy and tracheal intubation, from the Bronze Age to the Space Age
Peter Szmuk, Tiberiu Ezri, Shmuel Evron, Yehudah Roth, Jeffrey Katz
Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine, 2007. I. Experimental studies. Clinical studies: brain injury and neurology, renal failure and endocrinology
Massimo Antonelli, Elie Azoulay, Marc Bonten, Jean Chastre, Giuseppe Citerio, Giorgio Conti, Daniel De Backer, François Lemaire, Herwig Gerlach, Johan Groeneveld, Goran Hedenstierna, Duncan Macrae, Jordi Mancebo, Salvatore M. Maggiore, Alexandre Mebazaa, Philipp Metnitz, Jerôme Pugin, Jan Wernerman, Haibo Zhang
Echocardiography in the intensive care unit: from evolution to revolution?
Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Michel Slama, Bernard Cholley, Gérard Janvier, Philippe Vignon
Cardiac morphological and functional changes during early septic shock: a transesophageal echocardiographic study
Caroline Etchecopar-Chevreuil, Bruno François, Marc Clavel, Nicolas Pichon, Hervé Gastinne, Philippe Vignon
Continuous and intermittent cardiac output measurement in hyperdynamic conditions: pulmonary artery catheter vs. lithium dilution technique
Maria Gabriella Costa, Giorgio Della Rocca, Paolo Chiarandini, Silvia Mattelig, Livia Pompei, Mauricio Sainz Barriga, Toby Reynolds, Maurizio Cecconi, Paolo Pietropaoli
Are daily routine chest radiographs useful in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients? A randomized study
Christophe Clec’h, Paul Simon, Aïcha Hamdi, Lilia Hamza, Philippe Karoubi, Jean-Philippe Fosse, Frédéric Gonzalez, François Vincent, Yves Cohen
Reasons, considerations, difficulties and documentation of end-of-life decisions in European intensive care units: the ETHICUS Study
Charles L. Sprung, Thomas Woodcock, Peter Sjokvist, Bara Ricou, Hans-Henrik Bulow, Anne Lippert, Paulo Maia, Simon Cohen, Mario Baras, Seppo Hovilehto, Didier Ledoux, Dermot Phelan, Elisabet Wennberg, Wolfgang Schobersberger
Quality assessment in intensive care units: proposal for a scoring system in terms of structure and process
Josette Najjar-Pellet, Olivier Jonquet, Patrick Jambou, Jacques Fabry
Do antibiotics administered at the time of central venous catheter removal interfere with the evaluation of colonization?
Bertrand Souweine, Anne Elisabeth Heng, Claire Aumeran, Fabrice Thiollière, Nicole Gazuy, Patrice Deteix, Ousmane Traoré
Candidemia and candiduria in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units in France: incidence, molecular diversity, management and outcome
Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, Guillaume Kac, Philippe Aegerter, Christophe d’Enfert, Jean-Yves Fagon
Association between urokinase haplotypes and outcome from infection-associated acute lung injury
John Arcaroli, Jeff Sankoff, Nianjun Liu, David B. Allison, James Maloney, Edward Abraham
An assessment of the validity of spectral entropy as a measure of sedation statein mechanically ventilated critically ill patients
Timothy S. Walsh, Pamela Ramsay, T. Petteri Lapinlampi, Mika O. K. Särkelä, Hanna E. Viertiö-Oja, Pekka T. Meriläinen
Non-invasive neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in rabbits with acute lung injury
Jennifer Beck, Lukas Brander, Arthur S. Slutsky, Maureen C. Reilly, Michael S. Dunn, Christer Sinderby
The mechanics of breathing in children with acute severe croup
Andrew C. Argent, Christopher J. L. Newth, Max Klein
Ultrasound evaluation of central veinsin the intensive care unit:effects of dynamic manoeuvres
Santhi Samy Modeliar, Marie-Antoinette Sevestre, Bertrand de Cagny, Michel Slama
Heparinized solution vs. saline solution in the maintenance of arterial catheters: a double blind randomized clinical trial
Mercedes Del Cotillo, Núria Grané, Maria Llavoré, Salvador Quintana
Stress doses of hydrocortisone in septic shock: beneficial effects on opsonization-dependent neutrophil functions
Ines Kaufmann, Josef Briegel, Florian Schliephake, Alwin Hoelzl, Alexander Chouker, Theresia Hummel, Gustav Schelling, Manfred Thiel
Short-term beneficial effects of methylene blue on kidney damage in septic shock patients
Suzanne Heemskerk, Frank M. P. van Haren, Norbert A. Foudraine, Wilbert H. M. Peters, Johannes G. van der Hoeven, Frans G. M. Russel, Rosalinde Masereeuw, Peter Pickkers
Smart Bag vs. Standard bag in the temporary substitution of the mechanical ventilation
Robin Lovat, Christine Watremez, Michel Van Dyck, Olivier Van Caenegem, Franck Verschuren, Philippe Hantson, Luc-Marie Jacquet
High dose antithrombin III inhibits HMGB1 and improves endotoxin-induced acute lung injury in rats
Satoshi Hagiwara, Hideo Iwasaka, Shigekiyo Matsumoto, Takayuki Noguchi
Intravenous tezosentan improves gas exchange and hemodynamics in acute lung injury secondary to meconium aspiration
Ralf Geiger, Axel Kleinsasser, Stephan Meier, Nikolaus Neu, Werner Pajk, Victoria Fischer, Benedict Treml, Joerg I. Stein, Alexander Loeckinger
Pattern of inspiratory gas delivery affects CO2 elimination in health and after acute lung injury
Elisabet Åström, Leif Uttman, Lisbet Niklason, Jerome Aboab, Laurent Brochard, Björn Jonson
On-line measurement of systolic pressure variation and pulse pressure variation on a multiparametric monitor
Michele Umbrello, Paolo Formenti, Andrea Galimberti, Moreno Curti, Matteo Zaniboni, Gaetano Iapichino
Fatal community-acquired pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus carrying Panton–Valentine leukocidin genes after a stay in Africa
Bassam Beilouny, Adrian Ciupea, Clarence Eloy, Georges Simon
Continuous terlipressin infusion in patients with persistent septic shock and cirrhosis of the liver
Andreas Umgelter, Wolfgang Reindl, Roland M. Schmid, Wolfgang Huber
Reasons, considerations, difficulties and documentation of end-of-life decisions in European intensive care units: the ETHICUS Study
Charles L. Sprung, Thomas Woodcock, Peter Sjokvist, Bara Ricou, Hans-Henrik Bulow, Anne Lippert, Paulo Maia, Simon Cohen, Mario Baras, Seppo Hovilehto, Didier Ledoux, Dermot Phelan, Elisabet Wennberg, Wolfgang Schobersberger