Issue 7/2004
Content (44 Articles)
Evaluation of left ventricular performance: an insolvable problem in human beings? The Graal quest
Alain Nitenberg
Year in review in intensive care medicine: 2003. II. Brain injury, hemodynamics, gastrointestinal tract, renal failure, metabolism, trauma, and postoperative
Edward Abraham, Peter Andrews, Massimo Antonelli, Laurent Brochard, Christian Brun-Buisson, Geoffrey Dobb, Jean-Yves Fagon, Johan Groeneveld, Jordi Mancebo, Philipp Metnitz, Stefano Nava, Michael Pinsky, Peter Radermacher, Marco Ranieri, Christian Richard, Robert Tasker, Benoit Vallet
Hyperemia following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: incidence, diagnosis, clinical features, and outcome
Ralf Dirk Rothoerl, Chris Woertgen, Alexander Brawanski
Noninvasive vs invasive ventilation in COPD patients with severe acute respiratory failure deemed to require ventilatory assistance
Enzo Squadrone, Pamela Frigerio, Claudio Fogliati, Cesare Gregoretti, Giorgio Conti, Massimo Antonelli, Roberta Costa, Paola Baiardi, Paolo Navalesi
Pattern of lung emptying and expiratory resistance in mechanically ventilated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Eumorfia Kondili, Christina Alexopoulou, George Prinianakis, Nectaria Xirouchaki, Dimitris Georgopoulos
Blind and bronchoscopic sampling methods in suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia
Hervé Mentec, Laetitia May-Michelangeli, Antoine Rabbat, Emmanuelle Varon, Françoise Le Turdu, Gérard Bleichner
Efficacy of adequate early antibiotic therapy in ventilator-associated pneumonia: influence of disease severity
Christophe Clec’h, Jean-François Timsit, Arnaud De Lassence, Elie Azoulay, Corinne Alberti, Maite Garrouste-Orgeas, Bruno Mourvilier, Gilles Troche, Muriel Tafflet, Olivier Tuil, Yves Cohen
Neurologic status, cough, secretions and extubation outcomes
Adil Salam, Lisa Tilluckdharry, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong, Constantine A. Manthous
Assessment of peri-extubation pain by visual analogue scale in the adult intensive care unit: a prospective observational study
Arnaud Gacouin, Christophe Camus, Yves Le Tulzo, Sylvain Lavoue, Jérome Hoff, Thomas Signouret, Arnaud Person, Rémi Thomas
Development of a risk assessment tool for deliberate self-extubation in intensive care patients
Philip Moons, Kristine Sels, Wilfried De Becker, Sabina De Geest, Patrick Ferdinande
Fluid resuscitation with colloids of different molecular weight in septic shock
Zsolt Molnár, András Mikor, Tamás Leiner, Tamás Szakmány
Effect of large volume infusion on left ventricular volumes, performance and contractility parameters in normal volunteers
Anand Kumar, Ramon Anel, Eugene Bunnell, Kalim Habet, Alex Neumann, David Wolff, Robert Rosenson, Mary Cheang, Joseph E. Parrillo
Transcardiac conductance for continuous measurement of left ventricular volume: validation vs. angiography in patients
Eva M. Staal, Jan Baan, J. Wouter Jukema, Ernst E. van der Wall, Paul Steendijk
Estimation of left ventricular systolic function by single transpulmonary thermodilution
Alain Combes, Jean-Baptiste Berneau, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Jean-Louis Trouillet
Practices in non-neutropenic ICU patients with Candida-positive airway specimens
Elie Azoulay, Yves Cohen, Jean-Ralph Zahar, Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Christophe Adrie, Pierre Moine, Arnaud de Lassence, Jean-François Timsit
Identifying the potential organ donor: an audit of hospital deaths
Helen Ingrid Opdam, William Silvester
Introducing Critical Care Outreach: a ward-randomised trial of phased introduction in a general hospital
George Priestley, Wendy Watson, Arash Rashidian, Caroline Mozley, Daphne Russell, Jonathan Wilson, Judith Cope, Dianne Hart, Diana Kay, Karen Cowley, Jayne Pateraki
Heat shock protein 72 and apoptosis indicate cardiac decompensation during early multiple organ failure in sheep
Hideo A. Baba, Jeremias Wohlschlaeger, Henning D. Stubbe, Florian Grabellus, Hugo Van Aken, Klaus J. Schmitz, Friedrich Otterbach, Kurt W. Schmid, Christian August, Bodo Levkau, Frank Hinder
Differential reversal of drug-induced small bowel paralysis by cerulein and neostigmine
Sonja Fruhwald, Eva Herk, Heinz F. Hammer, Peter Holzer, Helfried Metzler
Role of PARP on iNOS pathway during endotoxin-induced acute lung injury
Rainer Kiefmann, Kai Heckel, Martina Doerger, Sonja Schenkat, Christian Kupatt, Mechthild Stoeckelhuber, Józefa Wesierska-Gadek, Alwin E. Goetz
Crystalloid strong ion difference determines metabolic acid–base change during acute normovolaemic haemodilution
Thomas J. Morgan, Balasubramanian Venkatesh, Jonathan Hall
Increased incidence and severity of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in patients deficient in mannose-binding lectin
Katy J. Fidler, Peter Wilson, Jane C. Davies, Malcolm W. Turner, Mark J. Peters, Nigel J. Klein
Incomplete protection by prophylactic surfactant against the adverse effects of large lung inflations at birth in immature lambs
Jónas Ingimarsson, Lars J. Björklund, Tore Curstedt, Saemundur Gudmundsson, Anders Larsson, Bengt Robertson, Olof Werner
Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein in critically ill neonates and children with suspected infection: comparison with procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein
Maja Pavcnik-Arnol, Sergej Hojker, Metka Derganc
Reproducibility of the respiratory dead space measurements in mechanically ventilated children using the CO2SMO monitor
Y. Riou, F. Leclerc, V. Neve, L. Dupuy, O. Noizet, S. Leteurtre, A. Sadik
Increased levels of soluble ST2 protein and IgG1 production in patients with sepsis and trauma
Markus Brunner, Claus Krenn, Georg Roth, Bernhard Moser, Martin Dworschak, Erika Jensen-Jarolim, Andreas Spittler, Thomas Sautner, Nico Bonaros, Ernst Wolner, George Boltz-Nitulescu, Hendrik Jan Ankersmit
Liver transplantation in exertional heat stroke: a medical dilemma
Eran Hadad, Ziv Ben-Ari, Yuval Heled, Daniel S. Moran, Yoav Shani, Yoram Epstein
Cortisol dynamics following acute severe brain injury
Terence Savaridas, Peter J. D. Andrews, Bridget Harris
Maternal brain death: medical, ethical and legal issues
Alan Lane, Andrew Westbrook, Deirdre Grady, Rory O’Connor, Timothy J. Counihan, Brian Marsh, John G. Laffey
Automatic calculation of the nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score (NEMS) using a patient data management system
Axel Junger, Florian Brenck, Bernd Hartmann, Joachim Klasen, Lorenzo Quinzio, Matthias Benson, Achim Michel, Rainer Röhrig, Gunter Hempelmann
Mucociliary function deteriorates in the clinical range of inspired air temperature and humidity
Emma Kilgour, Nigel Rankin, Stuart Ryan, Rodger Pack
Looking at subgroups in an inhomogeneous population does not make these subgroups more homogeneous
Jean Carlet
Severe myocardial depression following intravenous nimodipine for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage
Kandasamy Subramani, Murad Ghrew
Author’s reply to the comments by de Rooij and de Jonge
Nicolas Bergeron, Yoanna Skrobik
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and low tidal volume ventilation: the debate about weight
Elisa P. Y. Kam, Guy D. Eslick, Anitha James, Jonathan P. Benson