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Intensive Care Medicine

Issue 9/2001

Content (21 Articles)

Editorial

The process of intensive care triage

Phillip D. Levin, Charles L

Original

Prospective evaluation of patients refused admission to an intensive care unit: triage, futility and outcome

Gavin Joynt, Charles Gomersall, Peggy Tan, Anna Lee, Claudia Cheng, Elisa Wong

Original

Effects of bystander first aid, defibrillation and advanced life support on neurologic outcome and hospital costs in patients after ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest

Andreas Bur, Harald Kittler, Fritz Sterz, Michael Holzer, Philip Eisenburger, Elisabeth Oschatz, Julia Kofler, Anton N. Laggner

Original

Acute cor pulmonale in massive pulmonary embolism: incidence, echocardiographic pattern, clinical implications and recovery rate

Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Bernard Page, Roch Augarde, Sebastien Prin, Salah Qanadli, Alain Beauchet, Olivier Dubourg, François Jardin

Original

Results of respiratory mechanics analysis in the critically ill depend on the method employed

F. Ruiz-Ferrón, L. Rucabado Aguilar, S. Ruiz Navarro, R. Ramirez Puerta, S. Parra Alonso, J. Muñoz Muñoz

Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care

Evaluating the prognosis of multiple, severely traumatized children in the intensive care unit

E. Cantais, O. Paut, R. Giorgi, L. Viard, J. Camboulives

Experimental

Effects of C1 inhibitor and r-SP-C surfactant on oxygenation and histology in rats with lavage-induced acute lung injury

Burkhard Vangerow, Dietrich Häfner, Horst Rueckoldt, Gernot Marx, Nils Ott, Martin Leuwer, Ilka Frerking, Paul G. Germann

Experimental

Oxygen consumption by lungs with acute and chronic injury in a rabbit model

Tai-Fai Fok, Goldie Gu, Ka-Fai To, Feng Xu, Pak-Cheung Ng, Jane Yin

Brief Report

Report of the Consensus Conference on Diagnostic Criteria of ALI/ARDS at high altitudes in Western China

S. Zhang, S. Lin, W. Gao, H. Liu, Y. Liu, D. Zhang, T. Chen, Y. Guo, Y. Huang

Brief Report

Smoking cessation through comprehensive critical care

C. Jones, R.D. Griffiths, P. Skirrow, G. Humphris

Brief Report

Intra-observer variability in APACHE II scoring

K. Polderman, H. Christiaans, J. Wester, J. Spijkstra, A. Girbes

Correspondence

Gemcitabine-associated diffuse alveolar hemorrhage

Pierre-Louis Carron, Laurent Cousin, Thierry Caps, Evelyne Belle, Didier Pernet, Alain Neidhardt, Gilles Capellier

Correspondence

Extensive coumarin-induced skin necrosis in a patient with acquired protein C deficiency

L. Argaud, C. Guerin, L. Thomas, G. Fournier

Book Review

P. Duvaldestin