Issue 4/2009
Content (73 Articles)
Bench-to-bedside review: Nitric oxide in critical illness – update 2008
Steven M Hollenberg, Ismail Cinel
Pro/con debate: Do the benefits of regionalized critical care delivery outweigh the risks of interfacility patient transport?
Jeffrey M Singh, Russell D MacDonald
Bench-to-bedside review: Mobilizing patients in the intensive care unit – from pathophysiology to clinical trials
Alex D Truong, Eddy Fan, Roy G Brower, Dale M Needham
Bench-to-bedside review: The promise of rapid infection diagnosis during sepsis using polymerase chain reaction-based pathogen detection
Paul M Dark, Paul Dean, Geoffrey Warhurst
Bench-to-bedside review: Carbon monoxide – from mitochondrial poisoning to therapeutic use
Inge Bauer, Benedikt HJ Pannen
Intensity of renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury: perspective from within the Acute Renal Failure Trial Network Study
Paul M Palevsky, Theresa Z O'Connor, Glenn M Chertow, Susan T Crowley, Jane Hongyuan Zhang, John A Kellum
Central venous oxygen saturation and emergency intubation – another piece in the puzzle?
Wolfgang Stahl, Peter Radermacher, Michael Georgieff, Hendrik Bracht
When once is not enough – further evidence of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic stewardship
Stephan Harbarth, Werner C Albrich, Beat Müller
Intensive care unit acquired muscle weakness: when should we consider rehabilitation?
Zudin Puthucheary, Nicholas Hart
B-type natriuretic levels in critically ill patients: critically misleading?
Hisham Dokainish
Advanced glycation endproducts in sepsis and mechanical ventilation: extra or leading man?
Marcus Baumann
Serum Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 are early biomarkers of acute kidney injury and predict prolonged mechanical ventilation in children undergoing cardiac surgery: a case-control study
Kathleen D Liu, Christopher Altmann, Gerard Smits, Catherine D Krawczeski, Charles L Edelstein, Prasad Devarajan, Sarah Faubel
Changes in serum adiponectin concentrations in critical illness: a preliminary investigation
Bala Venkatesh, Ingrid Hickman, Janelle Nisbet, Jeremy Cohen, John Prins
Who is at increased risk for acute kidney injury following noncardiac surgery?
Patrick Murray
Reliability issues in human brain temperature measurement
Charmaine Childs, Graham Machin
Targeting the ubiquitin proteasome pathway for the treatment of septic shock in patients
Jan Brun, Douglas A Gray
Comparison of three methods of extravascular lung water volume measurement in patients after cardiac surgery
Benjamin Maddison, Christopher Wolff, George Findlay, Peter Radermacher, Charles Hinds, Rupert M Pearse
Unfractionated heparin and enoxaparin reduce high-stretch ventilation augmented lung injury: a prospective, controlled animal experiment
Li-Fu Li, Chung-Chi Huang, Horng-Chyuan Lin, Ying-Huang Tsai, Deborah A Quinn, Shuen-Kuei Liao
Thoracic epidural anesthesia time-dependently modulates pulmonary endothelial dysfunction in septic rats
Stefan Lauer, Hendrik Freise, Martin Westphal, Alexander Zarbock, Manfred Fobker, Hugo K Van Aken, Andreas W Sielenkämper, Lars G Fischer
Shetty N, Tang JW, Andrews J: Infectious Disease: Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Case Studies. 1st edition. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009
Walter Zingg, Stephan Harbarth
The relation between the incidence of hypernatremia and mortality in patients with severe traumatic brain injury
Umberto Maggiore, Edoardo Picetti, Elio Antonucci, Elisabetta Parenti, Giuseppe Regolisti, Mario Mergoni, Antonella Vezzani, Aderville Cabassi, Enrico Fiaccadori
Vasopressin and ischaemic heart disease: more than coronary vasoconstriction?
Pierre Asfar, Peter Radermacher
Non-invasive stroke volume measurement and passive leg raising predict volume responsiveness in medical ICU patients: an observational cohort study
Steven W Thiel, Marin H Kollef, Warren Isakow
Adiponectin, retinol-binding protein 4, and leptin in protracted critical illness of pulmonary origin
Lies Langouche, Sarah Vander Perre, Jan Frystyk, Allan Flyvbjerg, Troels Krarup Hansen, Greet Van den Berghe
Comparison of cardiac, hepatic, and renal effects of arginine vasopressin and noradrenaline during porcine fecal peritonitis: a randomized controlled trial
Florian Simon, Ricardo Giudici, Angelika Scheuerle, Michael Gröger, Pierre Asfar, Josef A Vogt, Ulrich Wachter, Franz Ploner, Michael Georgieff, Peter Möller, Régent Laporte, Peter Radermacher, Enrico Calzia, Balázs Hauser
Cognitive dysfunction after critical illness: measurement, rehabilitation, and disclosure
Cheryl Misak
DHEA-dependent and organ-specific regulation of TNF-α mRNA expression in a murine polymicrobial sepsis and trauma model
Tanja Barkhausen, Frank Hildebrand, Christian Krettek, Martijn van Griensven
Determinants of mortality in non-neutropenic ICU patients with candidaemia
Deborah JE Marriott, E Geoffrey Playford, Sharon Chen, Monica Slavin, Quoc Nguyen, David Ellis, Tania C Sorrell
Thoracic epidural anesthesia reverses sepsis-induced hepatic hyperperfusion and reduces leukocyte adhesion in septic rats
Hendrik Freise, Fritz Daudel, Christina Grosserichter, Stefan Lauer, Juergen Hinkelmann, Hugo K Van Aken, Andreas W Sielenkaemper, Martin Westphal, Lars G Fischer
Cell death in sepsis: a matter of how, when, and where
Heike Bantel, Klaus Schulze-Osthoff
A randomized trial of chlorhexidine gluconate on oral bacterial pathogens in mechanically ventilated patients
Frank A Scannapieco, Jihnhee Yu, Krishnan Raghavendran, Angela Vacanti, Susan I Owens, Kenneth Wood, Joseph M Mylotte
The change and effect of endothelial progenitor cells in pig with multiple organ dysfunction syndromes
Tian Hang Luo, Yao Wang, Zheng Mao Lu, Hong Zhou, Xu Chao Xue, Jian Wei Bi, Li Ye Ma, Guo En Fang
Phenotype changes and impaired function of dendritic cell subsets in patients with sepsis: a prospective observational analysis
Holger Poehlmann, Joerg C Schefold, Heidrun Zuckermann-Becker, Hans-Dieter Volk, Christian Meisel
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor, infection, the brain, and corticosteroids
Madelijn Geldhoff, Barry B Mook-Kanamori, Diederik van de Beek
Pharmacokinetics of epinephrine in patients with septic shock: modelization and interaction with endogenous neurohormonal status
Imad Abboud, Nicolas Lerolle, Saik Urien, Jean-Marc Tadié, Françoise Leviel, Jean-Yves Fagon, Christophe Faisy
S-100B and neuron-specific enolase as predictors of neurological outcome in patients after cardiac arrest and return of spontaneous circulation: a systematic review
Koichiro Shinozaki, Shigeto Oda, Tomohito Sadahiro, Masataka Nakamura, Yo Hirayama, Ryuzo Abe, Yoshihisa Tateishi, Noriyuki Hattori, Tadanaga Shimada, Hiroyuki Hirasawa
Midregional pro-Adrenomedullin in addition to b-type natriuretic peptides in the risk stratification of patients with acute dyspnea: an observational study
Mihael Potocki, Tobias Breidthardt, Tobias Reichlin, Nils G Morgenthaler, Andreas Bergmann, Markus Noveanu, Nora Schaub, Heiko Uthoff, Heike Freidank, Lorenz Buser, Roland Bingisser, Michael Christ, Alexandre Mebazaa, Christian Mueller
Challenging the rationale of routine vasopressor therapy for management of hypotension
Max Harry Weil, Wanchun Tang
Critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency in patients with severe acute biliary pancreatitis: a prospective cohort study
Yun-Shing Peng, Cheng-Shyong Wu, Yung-Chang Chen, Jau-Min Lien, Ya-Chung Tian, Ji-Tseng Fang, Chun Yang, Yun-Yi Chu, Chien-Fu Hung, Chih-Wei Yang, Pang-Chi Chen, Ming-Hung Tsai
Detecting volume responsiveness and unresponsiveness in intensive care unit patients: two different problems, only one solution
Jean-Louis Teboul, Xavier Monnet
Translocation of bacterial NOD2 agonist and its link with inflammation
Oh Yoen Kim, Antoine Monsel, Michèle Bertrand, Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Pierre Coriat, Minou Adib-Conquy
Comparison of monitoring performance of Bioreactance vs. pulse contour during lung recruitment maneuvers
Pierre Squara, Dominique Rotcajg, Dominique Denjean, Philippe Estagnasie, Alain Brusset
Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events
Akshai Iyengar, Alan Baxter, Alan J Forster
School children sufficiently apply life supporting first aid: a prospective investigation
Roman Fleischhackl, Alexander Nuernberger, Fritz Sterz, Christina Schoenberg, Tania Urso, Tanja Habart, Martina Mittlboeck, Nisha Chandra-Strobos
Arginine vasopressin in septic shock: supplement or substitute for norepinephrine?
Sebastian Rehberg, Perenlei Enkhbaatar, Daniel L Traber
CORTICUS: The end of unconditional love for steroid use?
Phillip E Mason, Ali Al-Khafaji, Eric B Milbrandt, Brian P Suffoletto, David T Huang
Epinephrine kinetics in septic shock – a means to understand variable catecholamine efficiency?
Enrico Calzia, Michael Georgieff, Markus Huber-Lang, Peter Radermacher
Landmark survival as an end-point for trials in critically ill patients – comparison of alternative durations of follow-up: an exploratory analysis
Gopal Taori, Kwok M Ho, Carol George, Rinaldo Bellomo, Steven AR Webb, Graeme K Hart, Michael J Bailey
Short-term outcomes of cadaveric lung transplantation in ventilator-dependent patients
Hsao-Hsun Hsu, Jin-Shing Chen, Wen-Je Ko, Shu-Chien Huang, Shuenn-Wen Kuo, Pei-Ming Huang, Nai-Hsin Chi, Chin-Chih Chang, Robert J Chen, Yung-Chie Lee
Continuous terlipressin versus vasopressin infusion in septic shock (TERLIVAP): a randomized, controlled pilot study
Andrea Morelli, Christian Ertmer, Sebastian Rehberg, Matthias Lange, Alessandra Orecchioni, Valeria Cecchini, Alessandra Bachetoni, Mariadomenica D'Alessandro, Hugo Van Aken, Paolo Pietropaoli, Martin Westphal
Implementation of a delirium assessment tool in the ICU can influence haloperidol use
Mark van den Boogaard, Peter Pickkers, Hans van der Hoeven, Gabriel Roodbol, Theo van Achterberg, Lisette Schoonhoven
Optimal nutrition during the period of mechanical ventilation decreases mortality in critically ill, long-term acute female patients: a prospective observational cohort study
Rob JM Strack van Schijndel, Peter JM Weijs, Rixt H Koopmans, Hans P Sauerwein, Albertus Beishuizen, Armand RJ Girbes
Transpulmonary thermodilution-derived cardiac function index identifies cardiac dysfunction in acute heart failure and septic patients: an observational study
Simon Ritter, Alain Rudiger, Marco Maggiorini
Comparison of two non-bronchoscopic methods for evaluating inflammation in patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure
Giuseppe Colucci, Guido Domenighetti, Roberto Della Bruna, Josè Bonilla, Costanzo Limoni, Michael A Matthay, Thomas R Martin
Development and initial validation of the Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System score
Christopher S Parshuram, James Hutchison, Kristen Middaugh
Sedation improves early outcome in severely septic Sprague Dawley rats
Hong Qiao, Robert D Sanders, Daqing Ma, Xinmin Wu, Mervyn Maze
Admission factors associated with hospital mortality in patients with haematological malignancy admitted to UK adult, general critical care units: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database
Peter A Hampshire, Catherine A Welch, Lawrence A McCrossan, Katharine Francis, David A Harrison
Extracorporeal life support in severe drug intoxication: a retrospective cohort study of seventeen cases
Cédric Daubin, Philippe Lehoux, Calin Ivascau, Marine Tasle, Mehdi Bousta, Olivier Lepage, Charlotte Quentin, Massimo Massetti, Pierre Charbonneau
Effects of inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibition or norepinephrine on the neurovascular coupling in an endotoxic rat shock model
Bernhard Rosengarten, Stephanie Wolff, Sabine Klatt, Ralf T Schermuly
Glucose absorption and gastric emptying in critical illness
Marianne J Chapman, Robert JL Fraser, Geoffrey Matthews, Antonietta Russo, Max Bellon, Laura K Besanko, Karen L Jones, Ross Butler, Barry Chatterton, Michael Horowitz
Kidney retrieval after sudden out of hospital refractory cardiac arrest: a cohort of uncontrolled non heart beating donors
Fabienne Fieux, Marie-Reine Losser, Eric Bourgeois, Francine Bonnet, Olivier Marie, François Gaudez, Imad Abboud, Jean-Luc Donay, France Roussin, François Mourey, Frédéric Adnet, Laurent Jacob