Issue 8/2019
Content (32 Articles)
Expiratory muscle dysfunction in critically ill patients: towards improved understanding
Zhong-Hua Shi, Annemijn Jonkman, Heder de Vries, Diana Jansen, Coen Ottenheijm, Armand Girbes, Angelique Spoelstra-de Man, Jian-Xin Zhou, Laurent Brochard, Leo Heunks
Intensive care unit length of stay is reduced by protocolized family support intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Hyun Woo Lee, Yeonkyung Park, Eun Jin Jang, Yeon Joo Lee
Identification of respiratory microbiota markers in ventilator-associated pneumonia
Stéphane Emonet, Vladimir Lazarevic, Corinne Leemann Refondini, Nadia Gaïa, Stefano Leo, Myriam Girard, Valérie Nocquet Boyer, Hannah Wozniak, Lena Després, Gesuele Renzi, Khaled Mostaguir, Elise Dupuis Lozeron, Jacques Schrenzel, Jérôme Pugin
Continual hemodynamic monitoring with a single-use transesophageal echocardiography probe in critically ill patients with shock: a randomized controlled clinical trial
Tobias M. Merz, Luca Cioccari, Pascal M. Frey, Andreas Bloch, David Berger, Bjoern Zante, Stephan M. Jakob, Jukka Takala
Functional outcomes in adult patients with herpes simplex encephalitis admitted to the ICU: a multicenter cohort study
P. Jaquet, E. de Montmollin, C. Dupuis, C. Sazio, M. Conrad, V. Susset, S. Demeret, J. M. Tadie, L. Argaud, F. Barbier, B. Sarton, R. Chabane, D. Daubin, N. Brulé, N. Lerolle, M. Alves, D. Da Silva, A. El Kalioubi, S. Silva, P. Bailly, M. Wolff, L. Bouadma, J. F. Timsit, R. Sonneville
Understanding the renal response to brain injury
Matthieu Legrand, Romain Sonneville
Eight things we would never do regarding end-of-life care in the ICU
E. Wesley Ely, Elie Azoulay, Charles L. Sprung
Dealing with internet-based information obtained by families of critically ill patients
Yên-Lan Nguyen
Point-of-care ultrasound in the critically ill pregnant or postpartum patient: what every intensivist should know
Pablo Blanco, Anselmo Abdo-Cuza
Focus on infection
Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Garyphallia Poulakou, Saad Nseir
Focus on ethics of admission and discharge policies and conflicts of interest
Sharon Einav, Dominique D. Benoit
Changes in lung microbiome do not explain the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Lieuwe D. J. Bos, Andre C. Kalil
Micronutrient deficiency in critical illness: an invisible foe?
Michael P. Casaer, Rinaldo Bellomo
ECMO for immunosuppressed patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: drawing a line in the sand
Matthieu Schmidt, Alain Combes, Kiran Shekar
Transcranial color-coded duplex sonography for bedside monitoring of central nervous system infection as a consequence of decompressive craniectomy after traumatic brain injury
Chiara Robba, Francesca Simonassi, Lorenzo Ball, Paolo Pelosi
A patient with dermo-chondro-corneal dystrophy (François syndrome) and acute dyspnea
Gerrit Jansen, Rainer Borgstedt, Eric Lang, Sebastian Rehberg
Traumatic occipitoatlantal dissociation: high index of suspicion should be kept in mind
Margarida Viana Coelho, Isabel Jesus Pereira, Francisco Arroyo, Cristina Granja
A rare cause of laryngeal stenosis
Mutlu Uysal Yazici, Ebru Azapagasi, Selcuk Mulazimoglu
Mechanical thrombectomy for a cerebral fat embolism
Benjamin Maïer, Neesmah Badat, Grégoire Boulouis, Mathieu Zuber
Emergency craniotomy in semi-lateral position for posterior fossa hemorrhage evacuation under venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Grégory Papin, Romain Sonneville, Partick Nataf, Lila Bouadma
Modulators of systemic inflammatory response syndrome presence in patients admitted to intensive care units with acute infection: a Bayesian network approach
Fernando G. Zampieri, Fernanda J. Aguiar, Fernando A. Bozza, Jorge I. F. Salluh, Marcio Soares
Angiotensin-converting enzymes in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Filippo Annoni, Diego Orbegozo, Lokmane Rahmania, Mariam Irazabal, Manuel Mendoza, Daniel De Backer, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Jacques Creteur, Jean-Louis Vincent
Reverse triggering with breath stacking during mechanical ventilation results in large tidal volumes and transpulmonary pressure swings
Henry K. Su, Stephen H. Loring, Daniel Talmor, Elias Baedorf Kassis
Post-resuscitation EQ-5D-3L scoring by the patient or caregiver/legal guardian versus the medical professional: a sub-study of the Jerusalem District Resuscitation Study
Yigal Helviz, Gal Pachys, Sharon Einav
Confirmation of brain death on VA-ECMO should mandate simultaneous distal arterial and post-oxygenator blood gas sampling
Joshua Ihle, Aidan Burrell
High flow nasal cannula compared with conventional oxygen therapy for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure
Meng-Si Luo, Guan-Jiang Huang, Lun Wu
Effect of high flow nasal cannula therapy may be modified by PaO2/FiO2 ratio in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure
Yanfei Shen, Guolong Cai, Jing Yan
High-flow nasal cannula compared with conventional oxygen therapy for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: author's reply
Bram Rochwerg, D. Granton, D. X. Wang, S. Einav, K. E. A. Burns
Prognostic relevance of serum lactate kinetics should be approached with caution
Piotr Knapik, Ewa Trejnowska, Małgorzata Knapik, Szymon Skoczyński, Paweł Cyprys, Daniel Cieśla
Prognostic relevance of serum lactate kinetics: a powerful predictor but not Chuck Norris in Intensive Care Medicine
Maryna Masyuk, Bernhard Wernly, Christian Jung
Correction to: Variability in functional outcome and treatment practices by treatment center after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: analysis of International Cardiac Arrest Registry
Teresa L. May, Christine W. Lary, Richard R. Riker, Hans Friberg, Nainesh Patel, Eldar Søreide, John A. McPherson, Johan Undén, Robert Hand, Kjetil Sunde, Pascal Stammet, Sten Rubertsson, Jan Belohlvaek, Allison Dupont, Karen G. Hirsch, Felix Valsson, Karl Kern, Farid Sadaka, Johan Israelsson, Josef Dankiewicz, Niklas Nielsen, David B. Seder, Sachin Agarwal