Issue 8/2011
Content (32 Articles)
Forced oscillation technique: an alternative tool to define the optimal PEEP?
Vito Fanelli, Peter Spieth, Haibo Zhang
Acquired hemophilia: a rare but life-threatening potential cause of bleeding in the intensive care unit
Aryeh Shander, Christopher E. Walsh, Caroline Cromwell
Palliative noninvasive ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure
Élie Azoulay, Alexandre Demoule, Samir Jaber, Achille Kouatchet, Anne-Pascale Meert, Laurent Papazian, Laurent Brochard
Prognostic models for predicting mortality in elderly ICU patients: a systematic review
Lilian Minne, Jeroen Ludikhuize, Evert de Jonge, Sophia de Rooij, Ameen Abu-Hanna
Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation superimposed on spontaneous breathing: a physiological study in patients at risk for extubation failure
Saoussen Dimassi, Frédéric Vargas, Aissam Lyazidi, Ferran Roche-Campo, Jean Dellamonica, Laurent Brochard
Brain temperature in volunteers subjected to intranasal cooling
L. Covaciu, J. Weis, C. Bengtsson, M. Allers, A. Lunderquist, H. Ahlström, S. Rubertsson
Dyskalaemia associated with thiopentone barbiturate coma for refractory intracranial hypertension: a case series
Shin Yi Ng, Ki Jinn Chin, Tong Kiat Kwek
End-of-life attitudes of intensive care physicians in Poland: results of a national survey
Andrzej Kübler, Barbara Adamik, Malgorzata Lipinska-Gediga, Jaroslaw Kedziora, Lukasz Strozecki
Continuous arterial pressure waveform monitoring in pediatric cardiac transplant, cardiomyopathy and pulmonary hypertension patients
Sarena Teng, Jon Kaufman, Zhaoxing Pan, Angela Czaja, Heather Shockley, Eduardo da Cruz
Impact of hypoxic hepatitis on mortality in the intensive care unit
Valentin Fuhrmann, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Harald Herkner, Gottfried Heinz, Mariam Nikfardjam, Anja Bojic, Peter Schellongowski, Bernhard Angermayr, Maximilian Schöniger-Hekele, Christian Madl, Peter Schenk
Do centrally pre-prepared solutions achieve more reliable drug concentrations than solutions prepared on the ward?
Carola Dehmel, Stephan A. Braune, Georg Kreymann, Michael Baehr, Claudia Langebrake, Heike Hilgarth, Axel Nierhaus, Dorothee C. Dartsch, Stefan Kluge
Adult patients are more catabolic than children during acute phase after burn injury: a retrospective analysis on muscle protein kinetics
Demidmaa Tuvdendorj, David L. Chinkes, Xiao-Jun Zhang, Arny A. Ferrando, Itoro E. Elijah, Ronald P. Mlcak, Celeste C. Finnerty, Robert R. Wolfe, David N. Herndon
Transfer of take-home messages in graduate ICU education
Alexandre Lautrette, Carole Schwebel, Didier Gruson, R. W. Talbot, Jean-François Timsit, Bertrand Souweine
On the utility of diagnostic instruments for pediatric delirium in critical illness: an evaluation of the Pediatric Anesthesia Emergence Delirium Scale, the Delirium Rating Scale 88, and the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised R-98
Nathalie J. J. F. Janssen, Eva Y. L. Tan, Marian Staal, Eveline P. C. J. Janssen, Piet L. J. M. Leroy, Richel Lousberg, Jim van Os, Jan N. M. Schieveld
Safety and clinical findings of BiPAP utilization in children 20 kg or less for asthma exacerbations
Abby M. Williams, Thomas J. Abramo, Malee V. Shah, Renee A. Miller, Cheryl Burney-Jones, Samantha Rooks, Cristina Estrada, Donald H. Arnold
Effects of esmolol on systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics and on oxygenation in pigs with hypodynamic endotoxin shock
Jerome Aboab, Veronique Sebille, Mercé Jourdain, Jacques Mangalaboyi, Miloud Gharbi, Arnaud Mansart, Djillali Annane
Variable ventilation improves ventilation and lung compliance in preterm lambs
J. Jane Pillow, Gabrielle C. Musk, Carryn M. McLean, Graeme R. Polglase, Richard G. B. Dalton, Alan H. Jobe, Béla Suki
Apocynin attenuates ventilator-induced lung injury in an isolated and perfused rat lung model
Chi-Huei Chiang, Chiao-Hui Chuang, Shiou-Ling Liu, Tzong-Shyuan Lee, Yu Ru Kou, Haibo Zhang
Levosimendan attenuates pulmonary vascular remodeling
M. Revermann, M. Schloss, A. Mieth, A. Babelova, K. Schröder, S. Neofitidou, J. Buerkl, T. Kirschning, R. T. Schermuly, C. Hofstetter, R. P. Brandes
Lung sound analysis correlates to injury and recruitment as identified by computed tomography: an experimental study
Antonio Vena, Christian Rylander, Gaetano Perchiazzi, Rocco Giuliani, Göran Hedenstierna
Unblinding plan of PROWESS-SHOCK trial
V. Marco Ranieri, B. Taylor Thompson, Simon Finfer, Philip S. Barie, Jean-François Dhainaut, Ivor S. Douglas, Bengt Gårdlund, John C. Marshall, Andrew Rhodes
Acute renal failure due to tobramycin intoxication during selective digestive tract decontamination
D. Ramnarain, D. W. de Lange, J. Meulenbelt
Effect of statin therapy on plasma adiponectin concentrations in patients with the sepsis syndrome: a preliminary investigation
Katherine Robinson, Peter Kruger, Liza K. Phillips, John Prins, Bala Venkatesh
Drug use patterns for the prevention of paediatric low cardiac output syndrome in Europe
Winnie Vogt, Stephanie Läer
Modern medicine and the Hippocratic tradition of medicine: restoring professional values
Mohamed Y. Rady, Joseph L. Verheijde
A national survey of Italian physicians’ attitudes towards end-of-life decisions following the death of Eluana Englaro: reply to M.Y. Rady
Biagio Solarino, Francesco Bruno, Giacomo Frati, Alessandro Dell’Erba, Paola Frati
Comment on Tusman et al.: Validation of Bohr dead space measured by volumetric capnography
Jerónimo Graf
Validation of Bohr dead space measured by volumetric capnography: reply to Graf
Gerardo Tusman, Fernando Suarez Sipmann, Joao B. Borges, Göran Hedenstierna, Stephan H. Bohm
Bispectral index and suppression ratio during hypothermia after cardiac arrest
Mayuki Aibiki
Bispectral index and suppression ratio during hypothermia after cardiac arrest: reply to Aibiki
David B. Seder, Richard R. Riker