Issue 4/2004
Content (34 Articles)
Challenges of mechanical ventilation in unilateral pneumonia: is PEEP the answer?
Alain F. Broccard
Barotrauma during mechanical ventilation: why aren’t we seeing any more?
Jean-Damien Ricard
Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock
R. Phillip Dellinger, Jean M. Carlet, Henry Masur, Herwig Gerlach, Thierry Calandra, Jonathan Cohen, Juan Gea-Banacloche, Didier Keh, John C. Marshall, Margaret M. Parker, Graham Ramsay, Janice L. Zimmerman, Jean-Louis Vincent, M. M. Levy
Adult-population incidence of severe sepsis in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units
Simon Finfer, Rinaldo Bellomo, Jeffrey Lipman, Craig French, Geoffrey Dobb, John Myburgh
Effects of terlipressin on systemic and regional haemodynamics in catecholamine-treated hyperkinetic septic shock
Andrea Morelli, Monica Rocco, Giorgio Conti, Alessandra Orecchioni, Andrea De Gaetano, Giuliana Cortese, Flaminia Coluzzi, Enrico Vernaglione, Paolo Pelaia, Paolo Pietropaoli
Neutrophil chemotaxis and receptor expression in clinical septic shock
Ahmad D. Chishti, Brian K. Shenton, John A. Kirby, Simon V. Baudouin
Incidence, risk factors and outcome of barotrauma in mechanically ventilated patients
Antonio Anzueto, Fernando Frutos–Vivar, Andres Esteban, Inmaculada Alía, Laurent Brochard, Thomas Stewart, Salvador Benito, Martin J. Tobin, Jose Elizalde, Fernando Palizas, Cide M. David, Jorge Pimentel, Marco González, Luis Soto, Gabriel D’Empaire, Paolo Pelosi
Effects of protective and conventional mechanical ventilation on pulmonary function and systemic cytokine release after cardiopulmonary bypass
Ozge Koner, Serdar Celebi, Huriye Balci, Gurkan Cetin, Kamil Karaoglu, Nahit Cakar
Can peripheral venous pressure be interchangeable with central venous pressure in patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
Roger Desjardins, André Y. Denault, Sylvain Bélisle, Michel Carrier, Denis Babin, Sylvie Lévesque, Raymond Martineau
Evaluation of a triple-lumen central venous heparin-coated catheter versus a catheter coated with chlorhexidine and silver sulfadiazine in critically ill patients
M. N. Carrasco, A. Bueno, C. de las Cuevas, S. Jimenez, I. Salinas, A. Sartorius, T. Recio, M. Generelo, F. Ruiz-Ocaña
Outcome of older patients receiving mechanical ventilation
Andrés Esteban, Antonio Anzueto, Fernando Frutos-Vivar, Inmaculada Alía, E. Wesley Ely, Laurent Brochard, Thomas E. Stewart, Carlos Apezteguía, Martin J. Tobin, Peter Nightingale, Dimitrios Matamis, Jorge Pimentel, Freki Abroug
Prognosis of patients aged 80 years and over admitted in medical intensive care unit
Ariane Boumendil, Eric Maury, Ingrid Reinhard, Laurence Luquel, Georges Offenstadt, Bertrand Guidet
Can the experienced ICU physician predict ICU length of stay and outcome better than less experienced colleagues?
Fábio Gusmão Vicente, Frederico Polito Lomar, Christian Mélot, Jean-Louis Vincent
Economies of scale in British intensive care units and combined intensive care/high dependency units
Philip Jacobs, John Rapoport, David Edbrooke
Impaired chemoreflex sensitivity in adult patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome—the potential role of disease severity
Hendrik Schmidt, Ursula Müller-Werdan, Sebastian Nuding, Thomas Hoffmann, Darrel P. Francis, Dirk Hoyer, Mathias Rauchhaus, Karl Werdan
The effect of back-up rate during non-invasive ventilation in young patients with cystic fibrosis
Brigitte Fauroux, Bruno Louis, Nicholas Hart, Sandrine Essouri, Karl Leroux, Annick Clément, Michael Ian Polkey, Frédéric Lofaso
Recombinant activated factor VII in paediatric cardiac surgery
Jonathan R. Egan, Ahti Lammi, David N. Schell, Jonathan Gillis, Graham R. Nunn
Tracheal double-lumen ventilation attenuates hypercapnia and respiratory acidosis in lung injured pigs
Sven Lethvall, Sophie Lindgren, Stefan Lundin, Ola Stenqvist
Infectious and inflammatory dissemination are affected by ventilation strategy in rats with unilateral pneumonia
Frédérique Schortgen, Lila Bouadma, Marie-Laure Joly-Guillou, Jean-Damien Ricard, Didier Dreyfuss, Georges Saumon
Effects of dopexamine in comparison with fenoterol on carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism in healthy volunteers
Wolfgang Geisser, Josef Vogt, Ulrich Wachter, Hannes Hofbauer, Michael Georgieff, Hermann Ensinger
Accuracy of pulse oximetry readings in an animal model of low perfusion caused by emerging pneumonia and sepsis
Helmut D. Hummler, Anja Engelmann, Frank Pohlandt, Josef Högel, Axel R. Franz
Post-pyloric enteral nutrition in septic patients: effects on hepato-splanchnic hemodynamics and energy status
Richard Rokyta Jr, Martin Matejovic, Ales Krouzecky, Vaclav Senft, Ladislav Trefil, Ivan Novak
Hand-held echocardiography with doppler capability for the assessment of critically-ill patients: is it reliable?
Philippe Vignon, Mickaël B. J. Frank, Jérôme Lesage, Frédérique Mücke, Bruno François, Sandrine Normand, Michel Bonnivard, Marc Clavel, Hervé Gastinne
Outbreak of gastric mucormycosis associated with the use of wooden tongue depressors in critically ill patients
Enrique Maraví-Poma, Juan L. Rodríguez-Tudela, Jesús García de Jalón, Alfonso Manrique-Larralde, Luis Torroba, Jesús Urtasun, Blanca Salvador, Marta Montes, Emilia Mellado, Fernando Rodríguez-Albarrán, Antonio Pueyo-Royo
Acridine-orange test in neonates with nosocomial pneumonia
Hande Gülcan, Nuray Duman, Abdullah Kumral, Sibel Caymaz, Zeynep Gülay, Hasan Özkan
Perforation of the colon after administration of neostigmine
R. Mollema, J. Jaap Spijkstra, K. H. Polderman, H. P. M. M. Gelissen, A. R. J. Girbes
Validation of C1-esterase inhibitor therapy in severe capillary leak syndrome by monitoring of extravascular lung water
Stefan Kluge, Georg Kreymann
What did she “really” want?
Jochen Vollmann, Michael Wank, Axel Weidtmann, Frank Michael Reinhardt