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Intensive Care Medicine

Issue 7/2007

Content (39 Articles)

Editorial

The “open lung” compromise

John J. Marini

Original

Can dynamic indicators help the prediction of fluid responsiveness in spontaneously breathing critically ill patients?

Stéphane Soubrier, Fabienne Saulnier, Hervé Hubert, Pierre Delour, Hélène Lenci, Thierry Onimus, Saad Nseir, Alain Durocher

Original

Echocardiographic prediction of volume responsiveness in critically ill patients with spontaneously breathing activity

Bouchra Lamia, Ana Ochagavia, Xavier Monnet, Denis Chemla, Christian Richard, Jean-Louis Teboul

Original

Diagnosis of central hypovolemia by using passive leg raising

Julien Maizel, Norair Airapetian, Emmanuel Lorne, Christophe Tribouilloy, Ziad Massy, Michel Slama

Original

Sleep during proportional-assist ventilation with load-adjustable gain factors in critically ill patients

C. Alexopoulou, E. Kondili, E. Vakouti, M. Klimathianaki, G. Prinianakis, D. Georgopoulos

Original

Assist-control ventilation vs. low levels of pressure support ventilation on sleep quality in intubated ICU patients

Bénédicte Toublanc, Dominique Rose, Jean-Charles Glérant, Géraldine Francois, Isabelle Mayeux, Daniel Rodenstein, Vincent Jounieaux

Original

Pseudomonas aeruginosa carriage, colonization, and infection in ICU patients

Antonella Agodi, Martina Barchitta, Rosalba Cipresso, Loredana Giaquinta, Maria Antonietta Romeo, Carmelo Denaro

Original

Safety and efficacy of colistin compared with imipenem in the treatmentof ventilator-associated pneumonia: a matched case–control study

H. Kallel, L. Hergafi, M. Bahloul, A. Hakim, H. Dammak, H. Chelly, C. Ben Hamida, A. Chaari, N. Rekik, M. Bouaziz

Pediatric Original

Detection of Neisseria meningitidis DNA from skin lesion biopsy using real-time PCR: usefulness in the aetiological diagnosis of purpura fulminans

Pierre Staquet, Ludovic Lemee, Eva Verdier, Guy Bonmarchand, Vincent Laudenbach, Christine Michel, Jean-Francois Lemeland, Stephane Marret, Thierry Blanc

Pediatric Original

Insulin glargine supplementation during early management phase of diabetic ketoacidosis in children

Venkat Shankar, Anwarul Haque, Kevin B. Churchwell, William Russell

Brief Report

Glycine and ammonia plasma concentrations during sedation with remifentanil in critically ill patients

Marie-Pierre Bonnet, Vincent Minville, Karim Asehnoune, Delphine Bridoux, Joséphine Poggi-Bach, Jacques Duranteau, Dan Benhamou

Brief Report

Variation in natriuretic peptides and mitral flow indexes during successful ventilatory weaning: a preliminary study

Hafid Ait-Oufella, Pierre-Louis Tharaux, Jean-Luc Baudel, Sophie Vandermeersch, Pascal Meyer, Marc Tonnellier, Jean-Claude Dussaule, Bertrand Guidet, Georges Offenstadt, Eric Maury

Brief Report

Urinary biomarker of oxidative stress correlating with outcome in critically septic patients

Wei-Erh Cheng, Chuen-Ming Shih, Liang-Wen Hang, Kuen-Yuh Wu, Hsin-Ling Yang, Wu-Huei Hsu, Te-Chun Hsia

Brief Report

Noninvasive cardiac output monitoring (NICOM): a clinical validation

Pierre Squara, Dominique Denjean, Philippe Estagnasie, Alain Brusset, Jean Claude Dib, Claude Dubois

Brief Report

Reproducibility of bladder pressure measurements in critically ill patients

Edward J. Kimball, Mary C. Mone, Timothy R. Wolfe, Gabriele K. Baraghoshi, Stephen C. Alder

Brief Report

Insertion/deletion polymorphism in the promoter of NFKB1 influences severity but not mortality of acute respiratory distress syndrome

Michael Adamzik, Ulrich H. Frey, Kathrin Rieman, Stephan Sixt, Martin Beiderlinden, Winfried Siffert, Jürgen Peters

Experimental

Reduction in alveolar macrophages attenuates acute ventilator induced lung injury in rats

Fabien G. Eyal, Charles R. Hamm, James C. Parker

Experimental

Ceftazidime improves hemodynamics and oxygenation in ovine smoke inhalation injury and septic shock

Marc O. Maybauer, Dirk M. Maybauer, John F. Fraser, Lillian D. Traber, Martin Westphal, Robert A. Cox, Ruksana Huda, Yoshimitsu Y. Nakano, Perenlei Enkhbaatar, Hal K. Hawkins, David N. Herndon, Daniel L. Traber

Erratum

Erratum to: Ceftazidime improves hemodynamics and oxygenation in ovine smoke inhalation injury and septic shock

Marc O. Maybauer, Dirk M. Maybauer, John F. Fraser, Lillian D. Traber, Martin Westphal, Robert A. Cox, Ruksana Huda, Yoshimitsu Y. Nakano, Perenlei Enkhbaatar, Hal K. Hawkins, David N. Herndon, Daniel L. Traber

Mini series: basic research-related topics in ICM

Alveolar fluid clearance in acute lung injury: what have we learned from animal models and clinical studies?

Rory E. Morty, Oliver Eickelberg, Werner Seeger

Mini-Series: basic research-related topics in ICM

Introduction to alveolar liquid clearance during lung injury: a crucial function – long ignored

Georges Saumon

Mini-series: basic research-related topics in ICM

Alveolar epithelium and Na,K-ATPase in acute lung injury

István Vadász, Stacy Raviv, Jacob I. Sznajder

Review

Should elderly patients be admitted to the intensive care unit?

Ariane Boumendil, Dominique Somme, Maïté Garrouste-Orgeas, Bertrand Guidet

Pediatric Review

Invasive candidiasis in pediatric intensive care patients: epidemiology, risk factors, management, and outcome

Joanna Filioti, Kleomenis Spiroglou, Emmanuel Roilides

Erratum

Erratum to: Invasive candidiasis in pediatric intensive care patients: epidemiology, risk factors, management, and outcome

Joanna Filioti, Kleomenis Spiroglou, Christos P. Panteliadis, Emmanuel Roilides

Systematic Review

Urinary biomarkers in septic acute kidney injury

Sean M. Bagshaw, Christoph Langenberg, Michael Haase, Li Wan, Clive N. May, Rinaldo Bellomo

Technical note

Semicontinuous intra-abdominal pressure measurement using an intragastric Compliance catheter

Jan J. De Waele, F. Berrevoet, K. Reyntjens, P. Pletinckx, I. De laet, E. Hoste

Correspondence

Diagnostic pitfall: wound botulism in an intoxicated intravenous drug abuser presenting with respiratory failure

Georg Royl, Juri Katchanov, Frank Stachulski, Jörg Schultze, Christoph J. Ploner, Matthias Endres

Correspondence

Intensive insulin therapy in the ICU: benefit versus harm?

F. M. Brunkhorst, K. Reinhart

Open Access Correspondence

Does subarachnoid haemorrhage affect the innate immune response?

Matthijs Kox, Jan Pompe, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Peter Pickkers

Correspondence

Authors' reply to the comment by Kox et al.

S. Naredi, G. Lambert, P. Friberg

Correspondence

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia suspected because of repeated hemofiltration filter clotting

Sigismond Lasocki, Nadine Ajzenberg, Hervé Quintard, Gaetan Plantefève, Jean-Marie Desmonts, Philippe Montravers

Erratum

Erratum to: Effect of an immune-enhancing diet on lymphocyte in head-injured rats: What is the role of arginine?

Djamel Hamani, Christine Charrueau, Marie-José Butel, Valérie Besson, Linda Belabed, Ioannis Nicolis, Servane Le Plénier, Catherine Marchand-Leroux, Jean-Claude Chaumeil, Luc Cynober, Christophe Moinard

Erratum

Erratum to: Intravenous fish oil blunts the physiological response to endotoxin in healthy subjects

Thomas-Thi Pluess, Daniel Hayoz, Mette M. Berger, Luc Tappy, Jean-Pierre Revelly, Burkhard Michaeli, Yvon A. Carpentier, René L. Chioléro

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