Issue 3/2014
Content (103 Articles)
Body cell mass evaluation in critically ill patients: killing two birds with one stone
Enrico Fiaccadori, Santo Morabito, Aderville Cabassi, Giuseppe Regolisti
Deeper understanding of mechanisms contributing to sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction
Keith R Walley
The nutritional energy to clinical outcome relation revisited
Michael P Casaer
Hypovitaminosis D and morbidity in critical illness: is there proof beyond reasonable doubt?
Bala Venkatesh, Priya Nair
Platelet membrane potential: unable to pull the plug on sepsis
Daniel A Schaer, James Penn, Sugeet Jagpal, Amay Parikh
Using procalcitonin to guide antimicrobial duration in sepsis: asking the same questions will not bring different answers
Jorge IF Salluh, Vandack Nobre, Pedro Povoa
The furosemide stress test to predict renal function after continuous renal replacement therapy
Peter HJ van der Voort, E Christiaan Boerma, Peter Pickkers
Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal for patients with acute respiratory failure secondary to the acute respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review
Marianne Fitzgerald, Jonathan Millar, Bronagh Blackwood, Andrew Davies, Stephen J Brett, Daniel F McAuley, James J McNamee
Glutamine supplementation in the critically ill: friend or foe?
Heleen M Oudemans-van Straaten, Arthur RH van Zanten
Evaluation of a protocol for resuscitation in burn patients
Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez, Abelardo Garcia-de-Lorenzo, Eva Herrero, Beatriz Galván, Maria J Asensio, Lucia Cachafeiro
Imaging opens possibilities both to target and to evaluate nutrition in critical illness
Olav Rooyackers, Jan Wernerman
Savoring every drop – Vampire or Mosquito?
Dania Patricia Fischer, Kai D Zacharowski, Patrick Meybohm
Severe and early quadriceps weakness in mechanically ventilated patients
Isabelle Vivodtzev, Andrée-Anne Devost, Didier Saey, Sophie Villeneuve, Geneviève Boilard, Philippe Gagnon, Steeve Provencher, Mathieu Simon, Richard Baillot, François Maltais, François Lellouche
Management of anticoagulant-related intracranial hemorrhage: an evidence-based review
Bappaditya Ray, Salah G Keyrouz
Time from admission to initiation of surgery for source control is a critical determinant of survival in patients with gastrointestinal perforation with associated septic shock
Takeo Azuhata, Kosaku Kinoshita, Daisuke Kawano, Tomonori Komatsu, Atsushi Sakurai, Yasutaka Chiba, Katsuhisa Tanjho
Hyperglycemia-induced diaphragm weakness is mediated by oxidative stress
Leigh A Callahan, Gerald S Supinski
High dose tigecycline in critically ill patients with severe infections due to multidrug-resistant bacteria
Gennaro De Pascale, Luca Montini, Mariano Alberto Pennisi, Valentina Bernini, Riccardo Maviglia, Giuseppe Bello, Teresa Spanu, Mario Tumbarello, Massimo Antonelli
Early fluid loading in acute respiratory distress syndrome with septic shock deteriorates lung aeration without impairing arterial oxygenation: a lung ultrasound observational study
Fabiola Prior Caltabeloti, Antoine Monsel, Charlotte Arbelot, Hélène Brisson, Qin Lu, Wen-Jie Gu, Guang-Ju Zhou, José O C Auler Jr, Jean-Jacques Rouby
Erythrocyte selenium concentration predicts intensive care unit and hospital mortality in patients with septic shock: a prospective observational study
Nara Aline Costa, Ana Lúcia Gut, José Alexandre Coelho Pimentel, Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino, Paula Schmidt Azevedo, Ana Angélica Henrique Fernandes, Bertha Furlan Polegato, Suzana Erico Tanni, Rafael Dezen Gaiolla, Leonardo Antonio Mamede Zornoff, Sergio Alberto Rupp de Paiva, Marcos Ferreira Minicucci
Efficacy of ultrasound-guided radial artery catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Wan-Jie Gu, Hong-Tao Tie, Jing-Chen Liu, Xian-Tao Zeng
Multilevel competing risks in the evaluation of nosocomial infections: time to move on from proportional hazards and even from hazards altogether
Alvaro Muñoz, Nicole Mongilardi, William Checkley
‘To prone or not to prone’ in severe ARDS: questions answered, but others remain
Seema S Tekwani, Raghavan Murugan
Current practice in the management of tetanus
Geeta M Govindaraj, Arakkal Riyaz
Fetal outcome in the critically ill pregnant woman
Kazuyoshi Aoyama, P Gareth Seaward, Stephen E Lapinsky
Acute kidney injury due to rhabdomyolysis and renal replacement therapy: a critical review
Nadezda Petejova, Arnost Martinek
Safety of percutaneous tracheostomy in NeuroICU patients with intracranial pressure monitoring
Irene K Louh, William D Freeman
Epinephrine, vasopressin and steroids for in-hospital cardiac arrest: the right cocktail therapy?
Jaya P Buddineni, Clifton Callaway, David T Huang
It’s not just the antibiotics, it’s the treatment
Christopher A Guidry, Robert G Sawyer
The diagnostic challenge of myocardial infarction in critically ill patients: do high-sensitivity troponin measurements add more clarity or more confusion?
Kada Klouche, Olivier Jonquet, Jean Paul Cristol
Quantification of IgM molecular response by droplet digital PCR as a potential tool for the early diagnosis of sepsis
Eduardo Tamayo, Raquel Almansa, Elena Carrasco, Ana Ávila-Alonso, Ana Rodríguez-Fernández, John Wain, María Heredia, Esther Gomez-Sanchez, Susana Soria, Lucia Rico, Verónica Iglesias, Ángel Martínez-Martínez, David Andaluz-Ojeda, Jose Ignacio Gómez Herreras, Jose Maria Eiros, Jesús F Bermejo-Martin
Polymyxin B hemoperfusion: a mechanistic perspective
Claudio Ronco, David J Klein
Hyperglycemia, oxidative stress, and the diaphragm: a link between chronic co-morbidity and acute stress?
Sebastian Hafner, Peter Radermacher, Manfred Frick, Paul Dietl, Enrico Calzia
Monitoring prognosis in severe traumatic brain injury
Andrew IR Maas, Ewout W Steyerberg
Plasma antioxidant capacity in critical polytraumatized patients?: methods, severity, and anatomic location
Luis Serviá, Javier Trujillano, José Carlos Enrique Serrano, Reinald Pamplona, Mariona Badia, Mariona Jové, Margarida Justes, Joana Domingo, Manuel Portero-Otin
High-frequency oscillation in early adult respiratory distress syndrome
Kahoko Taki, David T Huang
New insights into the mechanisms involved in B-type natriuretic peptide elevation and its prognostic value in septic patients
John Papanikolaou, Demosthenes Makris, Maria Mpaka, Eleni Palli, Paris Zygoulis, Epaminondas Zakynthinos
Timing of vasopressor initiation and mortality in septic shock: a cohort study
Vance Beck, Dan Chateau, Gregory L Bryson, Amarnath Pisipati, Sergio Zanotti, Joseph E Parrillo, Anand Kumar
Does contemporary vancomycin dosing achieve therapeutic targets in a heterogeneous clinical cohort of critically ill patients? Data from the multinational DALI study
Stijn Blot, Despoina Koulenti, Murat Akova, Matteo Bassetti, Jan J De Waele, George Dimopoulos, Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen, Claude Martin, Philippe Montravers, Jordi Rello, Andrew Rhodes, Therese Starr, Steven C Wallis, Jeffrey Lipman, Jason A Roberts
Elevated plasma thrombomodulin and angiopoietin-2 predict the development of acute kidney injury in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Kuan-Liang Liu, Kuang-Tso Lee, Chih-Hsiang Chang, Yung-Chang Chen, Shu-Min Lin, Pao-Hsien Chu
Efficacy and adverse events of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a meta-analysis
Chun-Ta Huang, Hsien-Ho Lin, Sheng-Yuan Ruan, Meng-Sui Lee, Yi-Ju Tsai, Chong-Jen Yu
Coagulopathy following major trauma hemorrhage: lytic, lethal and a lack of fibrinogen
Ross Davenport
Porcine blood and surrogate markers do not prove benefit of aDabi-Fab
Nicholas J Connors, Justin Gill, Allison Nakanishi, Robert S Hoffman
Inflammation biomarkers and delirium in critically ill patients: new insights?
Shokoufeh Cheheili Sobbi, Mark van den Boogaard
Low plasma selenium concentrations in critically ill children: the interaction effect between inflammation and selenium deficiency
Simone Brasil de Oliveira Iglesias, Heitor Pons Leite, Ângela Tavares Paes, Susyane Vieira de Oliveira, Roseli Oselka Saccardo Sarni
Inflammation biomarkers and delirium in critically ill patients
Cristiane Ritter, Cristiane D Tomasi, Felipe Dal-Pizzol, Bernardo Bollen Pinto, Alex Dyson, Aline S de Miranda, Clarissa M Comim, Márcio Soares, Antonio L Teixeira, João Quevedo, Mervyn Singer
Acute coagulopathy in trauma: with or without shock? That is the question
Juan José Egea-Guerrero, Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez, María Dolores Freire-Aragón
Measuring biomarkers of acute kidney injury during renal replacement therapy: wisdom or folly?
Marlies Ostermann, Lui G Forni
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy for pulmonary decompression illness
Yutaka Kondo, Masataka Fukami, Ichiro Kukita
Renal recovery after acute kidney injury: choice of initial renal replacement therapy modality still matters
Antoine G Schneider, Sean M Bagshaw
Age and decisions to limit life support for patients with acute lung injury: a prospective cohort study
Alison E Turnbull, Bryan M Lau, A Parker Ruhl, Pedro A Mendez-Tellez, Carl B Shanholtz, Dale M Needham
A 10-second fluid challenge guided by transthoracic echocardiography can predict fluid responsiveness
Yunfan Wu, Shusheng Zhou, Zhihua Zhou, Bao Liu
The effect of prone positioning on mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Shu Ling Hu, Hong Li He, Chun Pan, Ai Ran Liu, Song Qiao Liu, Ling Liu, Ying Zi Huang, Feng Mei Guo, Yi Yang, Hai Bo Qiu
The role of CXCL10 in the pathogenesis of experimental septic shock
Daniela S Herzig, Liming Luan, Julia K Bohannon, Tracy E Toliver-Kinsky, Yin Guo, Edward R Sherwood
Beta-lactam dosing in critically ill patients with septic shock and continuous renal replacement therapy
Marta Ulldemolins, Sergi Vaquer, Mireia Llauradó-Serra, Caridad Pontes, Gonzalo Calvo, Dolors Soy, Ignacio Martín-Loeches
Antibiotic dosing in critically ill patients with septic shock and on continuous renal replacement therapy: can we resolve this problem with pharmacokinetic studies and dosing guidelines?
Jason A Roberts, Darren M Roberts
High dose of tigecycline for extremely resistant Gram-negative pneumonia: yes, we can
José Garnacho-Montero, Carmen Ferrándiz-Millón
The prognostic value of concomitant assessment of NT-proCNP, C-reactive protein, procalcitonin and inflammatory cytokines in septic patients
Ryszard Tomasiuk, Malgorzata Mikaszewska-Sokolewicz, Stanislaw Szlufik, Piotr Rzepecki, Tomasz Lazowski
Beta-lactam antibiotic dosing during continuous renal replacement therapy: how can we optimize therapy?
Jan J De Waele, Mieke Carlier
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous tracheostomy: a feasible alternative for tetanus patients
Daniel Joelsons, Yeh-Li Ho, Marcelo Park
Continuous glucose control in the ICU: report of a 2013 round table meeting
Jan Wernerman, Thomas Desaive, Simon Finfer, Luc Foubert, Anthony Furnary, Ulrike Holzinger, Roman Hovorka, Jeffrey Joseph, Mikhail Kosiborod, James Krinsley, Dieter Mesotten, Stanley Nasraway, Olav Rooyackers, Marcus J Schultz, Tom Van Herpe, Robert A Vigersky, Jean-Charles Preiser
Treatment for infections with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: what options do we still have?
Michele Yamamoto, Aurora E Pop-Vicas
Tight glycemic control in the ICU - is the earth flat?
Garry M Steil, Michael SD Agus
Ventilation during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult respiratory distress syndrome
Markus Kredel, Dominik Bierbaum, Christopher Lotz, Julian Kuestermann, Norbert Roewer, Ralf M Muellenbach
Revisiting therapeutic hypothermia for severe traumatic brain injury… again
Donald W Marion, Lemma E Regasa
Detection of ‘best’ positive end-expiratory pressure derived from electrical impedance tomography parameters during a decremental positive end-expiratory pressure trial
Paul Blankman, Djo Hasan, Groot Jebbink Erik, Diederik Gommers
β-lactam antibiotic concentrations during continuous renal replacement therapy
Marjorie Beumier, Giuseppe Stefano Casu, Maya Hites, Lucie Seyler, Frederic Cotton, Jean-Louis Vincent, Frédérique Jacobs, Fabio Silvio Taccone
Serum cystatin C predicts vancomycin trough levels better than serum creatinine in hospitalized patients: a cohort study
Erin N Frazee, Andrew D Rule, Sandra M Herrmann, Kianoush B Kashani, Nelson Leung, Abinash Virk, Nikolay Voskoboev, John C Lieske
Weighted-incidence syndromic combination antibiograms to guide empiric treatment of critical care infections: a retrospective cohort study
Varinder Randhawa, Syed Sarwar, Sandra Walker, Marion Elligsen, Lesley Palmay, Nick Daneman
Prognostic and diagnostic value of eosinopenia, C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, and circulating cell-free DNA in critically ill patients admitted with suspicion of sepsis
Jose Garnacho-Montero, María J Huici-Moreno, Antonio Gutiérrez-Pizarraya, Isabel López, Juan Antonio Márquez-Vácaro, Hada Macher, Juan Manuel Guerrero, Antonio Puppo-Moreno
Standard operating procedures for antibiotic therapy and the occurrence of acute kidney injury: a prospective, clinical, non-interventional, observational study
Irit Nachtigall, Sascha Tafelski, Karsten Günzel, Alexander Uhrig, Robert Powollik, Andrey Tamarkin, Klaus D Wernecke, Claudia Spies
Predicting outcomes after blunt chest wall trauma: development and external validation of a new prognostic model
Ceri Elisabeth Battle, Hayley Hutchings, Simon Lovett, Omar Bouamra, Sally Jones, Aruni Sen, James Gagg, David Robinson, Jake Hartford-Beynon, Jeremy Williams, Adrian Evans
Is pentobarbital safe and efficacious in the treatment of super-refractory status epilepticus: a cohort study
Deborah Pugin, Brandon Foreman, Gian Marco De Marchis, Andres Fernandez, J Michael Schmidt, Barry M Czeisler, Stephan A Mayer, Sachin Agarwal, Christine Lesch, Hector Lantigua, Jan Claassen
Is high-frequency oscillatory ventilation more effective and safer than conventional protective ventilation in adult acute respiratory distress syndrome patients? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Xiao-ling Gu, Guan-nan Wu, Yan-wen Yao, Dong-hong Shi, Yong Song
Higher clinical success in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus treated with linezolid compared with vancomycin: results from the IMPACT-HAP study
Paula Peyrani, Timothy L Wiemken, Robert Kelley, Marcus J Zervos, Daniel H Kett, Thomas M File Jr, Gary E Stein, Kimbal D Ford, Ernesto G Scerpella, Verna Welch, Julio A Ramirez
Midazolam and propofol used alone or sequentially for long-term sedation in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients: a prospective, randomized study
Yongfang Zhou, Xiaodong Jin, Yan Kang, Guopeng Liang, Tingting Liu, Ni Deng
Veno-venous extracorporeal CO2 removal for the treatment of severe respiratory acidosis: pathophysiological and technical considerations
Christian Karagiannidis, Kristin Aufm Kampe, Fernando Suarez Sipmann, Anders Larsson, Goran Hedenstierna, Wolfram Windisch, Thomas Mueller
Long-term outcome of delirium during intensive care unit stay in survivors of critical illness: a prospective cohort study
Annemiek E Wolters, Diederik van Dijk, Wietze Pasma, Olaf L Cremer, Marjolein F Looije, Dylan W de Lange, Dieuwke S Veldhuijzen, Arjen JC Slooter
Impact of appropriate antimicrobial treatment on transition from ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis to ventilator-associated pneumonia
Saad Nseir, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Demosthenes Makris, Emmanuelle Jaillette, Marios Karvouniaris, Jordi Valles, Epaminondas Zakynthinos, Antonio Artigas
The biological effects of higher and lower positive end-expiratory pressure in pulmonary and extrapulmonary acute lung injury with intra-abdominal hypertension
Cíntia Lourenco Santos, Lillian Moraes, Raquel Souza Santos, Cynthia dos Santos Samary, Johnatas Dutra Silva, Marcelo Marcos Morales, Vera Lucia Capelozzi, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Alberto Schanaider, Pedro Leme Silva, CristianeSousaNascimento Baez Garcia, Paolo Pelosi, PatriciaRieken Macedo Rocco
Surfactant protein A genetic variants associate with severe respiratory insufficiency in pandemic influenza A virus infection
Estefanía Herrera-Ramos, Marta López-Rodríguez, José Juan Ruíz-Hernández, Juan Pablo Horcajada, Luis Borderías, Elisabeth Lerma, José Blanquer, María Carmen Pérez-González, María Isabel García-Laorden, Yanira Florido, Virginia Mas-Bosch, Milagro Montero, José María Ferrer, Luisa Sorlí, Carlos Vilaplana, Olga Rajas, Marisa Briones, Javier Aspa, Eduardo López-Granados, Jordi Solé-Violán, Felipe Rodríguez de Castro, Carlos Rodríguez-Gallego
Persistent inflammation and T cell exhaustion in severe sepsis in the elderly
Shigeaki Inoue, Kodai Suzuki, Yukako Komori, Yukiko Morishita, Kyoko Suzuki-Utsunomiya, Katsuto Hozumi, Sadaki Inokuchi, Takehito Sato
Comparison of risk prediction scoring systems for ward patients: a retrospective nested case-control study
Shun Yu, Sharon Leung, Moonseong Heo, Graciela J Soto, Ronak T Shah, Sampath Gunda, Michelle Ng Gong
Circulating cytokines in predicting development of severe acute pancreatitis
Anne Nieminen, Mikael Maksimow, Panu Mentula, Lea Kyhälä, Leena Kylänpää, Pauli Puolakkainen, Esko Kemppainen, Heikki Repo, Marko Salmi
Evaluation of simplified acute physiology score 3 performance: a systematic review of external validation studies
Antonio Paulo Nassar Junior, LuizMarcelo Sa Malbouisson, Rui Moreno
Nitroglycerin reverts clinical manifestations of poor peripheral perfusion in patients with circulatory shock
Alexandre Lima, Michel E van Genderen, Jasper van Bommel, Eva Klijn, Tim Jansem, Jan Bakker
Automatic protective ventilation using the ARDSNet protocol with the additional monitoring of electrical impedance tomography
Anake Pomprapa, David Schwaiberger, Philipp Pickerodt, Onno Tjarks, Burkhard Lachmann, Steffen Leonhardt
Impairment of cardiac metabolism and sympathetic innervation after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a nuclear medicine imaging study
Bertrand Prunet, Mathieu Basely, Erwan D’Aranda, Pierre Cambefort, Frédéric Pons, Sébastien Cimarelli, Arnaud Dagain, Nicolas Desse, Jean-Brice Veyrieres, Christophe Jego, Guillaume Lacroix, Pierre Esnault, Henry Boret, Philippe Goutorbe, Emmanuel Bussy, Gilbert Habib, Eric Meaudre
Decision tree model for predicting long-term outcomes in children with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide, population-based observational study
Yoshikazu Goto, Tetsuo Maeda, Yumiko Nakatsu-Goto
Continuous versus bolus intermittent loop diuretic infusion in acutely decompensated heart failure: a prospective randomized trial
Alberto Palazzuoli, Marco Pellegrini, Gaetano Ruocco, Giuseppe Martini, Beatrice Franci, Maria Stella Campagna, Marilyn Gilleman, Ranuccio Nuti, Peter A McCullough, Claudio Ronco
Presence of Candida cell wall derived polysaccharides in the sera of intensive care unit patients: relation with candidaemia and Candida colonisation
Julien Poissy, Boualem Sendid, Sébastien Damiens, Ken Ichi Ishibashi, Nadine François, Marie Kauv, Raphaël Favory, Daniel Mathieu, Daniel Poulain
Systemic glucose variability predicts cerebral metabolic distress and mortality after subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective observational study
Pedro Kurtz, Jan Claassen, Raimund Helbok, J Michael Schmidt, Luis Fernandez, Mary Presciutti, R Morgan Stuart, E Sander Connolly, Kiwon Lee, Neeraj Badjatia, Stephan A Mayer
Implementing a multifaceted tailored intervention to improve nutrition adequacy in critically ill patients: results of a multicenter feasibility study
Naomi E Cahill, Lauren Murch, Deborah Cook, Daren K Heyland
Clinical assessment of peripheral perfusion to predict postoperative complications after major abdominal surgery early: a prospective observational study in adults
Michel E van Genderen, Jorden Paauwe, Jeroen de Jonge, Ralf JP van der Valk, Alexandre Lima, Jan Bakker, Jasper van Bommel
Intensive care unit admission in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: patient information and the physician’s decision-making process
Matthieu Schmidt, Alexandre Demoule, Emmanuelle Deslandes-Boutmy, Marine Chaize, Sandra de Miranda, Nicolas Bèle, Nicolas Roche, Elie Azoulay, Thomas Similowski
Higher brain extracellular potassium is associated with brain metabolic distress and poor outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Ana Patrícia Antunes, Alois Josef Schiefecker, Ronny Beer, Bettina Pfausler, Florian Sohm, Marlene Fischer, Anelia Dietmann, Peter Lackner, Werner Oskar Hackl, Jean-Pierre Ndayisaba, Claudius Thomé, Erich Schmutzhard, Raimund Helbok
Rescue bedside laparotomy in the intensive care unit in patients too unstable for transport to the operating room
Joerg Schreiber, Axel Nierhaus, Eik Vettorazzi, Stephan A Braune, Daniel P Frings, Yogesh Vashist, Jakob R Izbicki, Stefan Kluge
Higher platelet cytochrome oxidase specific activity in surviving than in non-surviving septic patients
Leonardo Lorente, María M Martín, Esther López-Gallardo, Ruth Iceta, José Blanquer, Jordi Solé-Violán, Lorenzo Labarta, César Díaz, Alejandro Jiménez, Julio Montoya, Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini
Erratum to: The effect of glutamine therapy on outcomes in critically ill patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Qi-Hong Chen, Yi Yang, Hong-Li He, Jian-Feng Xie, Shi-Xia Cai, Ai-Ran Liu, Hua-Ling Wang, Hai-Bo Qiu