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Critical Care

Issue 1/2005

Content (36 Articles)

Review

Bench-to-bedside review: Permissive hypercapnia

Donall O' Croinin, Martina Ni Chonghaile, Brendan Higgins, John G Laffey

Review

Clinical review: Treatment of heat stroke: should dantrolene be considered?

Eran Hadad, Yoav Cohen-Sivan, Yuval Heled, Yoram Epstein

Review

Clinical review: Evidence-based perioperative medicine?

Hanif Meeran, Michael PW Grocott

Review

Bench-to-bedside review: Recruitment and recruiting maneuvers

Stephen E Lapinsky, Sangeeta Mehta

Review

Clinical review: Vasculitis on the intensive care unit – part 1: diagnosis

David Semple, James Keogh, Luigi Forni, Richard Venn

Commentary

Roundtable debate: Controversies in the management of the septic patient – desperately seeking consensus

Aaron B Waxman, Nicholas Ward, Taylor Thompson, Craig M Lilly, Alan Lisbon, Nicholas Hill, Stanley A Nasraway, Stephen Heard, Howard Corwin, Mitchell Levy

Review

Bench-to-bedside review: Apoptosis/programmed cell death triggered by traumatic brain injury

Xiaopeng Zhang, Yaming Chen, Larry W Jenkins, Patrick M Kochanek, Robert SB Clark

Review

Science review: The brain in sepsis – culprit and victim

Tarek Sharshar, Nicholas S Hopkinson, David Orlikowski, Djillali Annane

Open Access Research

Bispectral index versus COMFORT score to determine the level of sedation in paediatric intensive care unit patients: a prospective study

Andreas E Triltsch, Grit Nestmann, Helmut Orawa, Maryam Moshirzadeh, Michael Sander, Joachim Große, Arka Genähr, Wolfgang Konertz, Claudia D Spies

Open Access Research

Cellular infiltrates and injury evaluation in a rat model of warm pulmonary ischemia–reperfusion

Bart P Van Putte, Jozef Kesecioglu, Jeroen MH Hendriks, Veerle P Persy, Erik van Marck, Paul EY Van Schil, Marc E De Broe

Review

11 March 2004: The terrorist bomb explosions in Madrid, Spain – an analysis of the logistics, injuries sustained and clinical management of casualties treated at the closest hospital

J Peral Gutierrez de Ceballos, F Turégano-Fuentes, D Perez-Diaz, M Sanz-Sanchez, C Martin-Llorente, JE Guerrero-Sanz

Commentary

Terrorist bombings in Madrid

Eric R Frykberg

Open Access Research

Effect of magnesium sulfate administration on blood–brain barrier in a rat model of intraperitoneal sepsis: a randomized controlled experimental study

Figen Esen, Tulin Erdem, Damla Aktan, Mukadder Orhan, Mehmet Kaya, Haluk Eraksoy, Nahit Cakar, Lutfi Telci

Editorial

Critical care in the 21st century: preparation, preparation, and preparation

Charlotte England, Kerrie Lapworth, Emdadur Rahman, Jean-Louis Vincent

Open Access Research

Differentiating midazolam over-sedation from neurological damage in the intensive care unit

Catherine A McKenzie, William McKinnon, Declan P Naughton, David Treacher, Graham Davies, Gary J Phillips, Philip J Hilton

Open Access Research

Determinants of the cuff-leak test: a physiological study

George Prinianakis, Christina Alexopoulou, Eutichis Mamidakis, Eumorfia Kondili, Dimitris Georgopoulos

Open Access Research

Pro-atrial natriuretic peptide is a prognostic marker in sepsis, similar to the APACHE II score: an observational study

Nils G Morgenthaler, Joachim Struck, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Andreas Bergmann, Beat Müller

Commentary

Ethics roundtable debate: A patient dies from an ICU-acquired infection related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – how do you defend your case and your team?

Jean-Louis Vincent, Christian Brun-Buisson, Michael Niederman, Christian Haenni, Stephan Harbarth, Dominique Sprumont, Mauricio Valencia, Antoni Torres

Letter

Letter to the editor

Viktor Rosival

Open Access Research

Timing of tracheostomy as a determinant of weaning success in critically ill patients: a retrospective study

Chia-Lin Hsu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Chia-Hsuin Chang, Jih-Shuin Jerng, Chong-Jen Yu, Pan-Chyr Yang

Commentary

Another piece in the puzzle

Thomas S Maxey, William B Keeling

Open Access Research

Aerosolized colistin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in patients without cystic fibrosis

Argyris Michalopoulos, Sofia K Kasiakou, Zefi Mastora, Kostas Rellos, Anastasios M Kapaskelis, Matthew E Falagas

Commentary

The cuff-leak test: what are we measuring?

Daniel De Backer

Journal club critique

Free cortisol levels should not be used to determine adrenal responsiveness

Aditya Dubey, Arthur J Boujoukos

Review

Statistics review 14: Logistic regression

Viv Bewick, Liz Cheek, Jonathan Ball

Commentary

Scanning the horizon: emerging hospital-wide technologies and their impact on critical care

Ganesh Suntharalingam, Jonathan Cousins, David Gattas, Martin Chapman

Editorial

A review of 2004, and with the new year comes a new look

Kerrie Lapworth, Emdadur Rahman, Charlotte Hubbard