Issue 5/2008
Content (53 Articles)
Year in review 2007: Critical Care– shock
Florian Wagner, Katja Baumgart, Vladislava Simkova, Michael Georgieff, Peter Radermacher, Enrico Calzia
Year in review 2007: Critical Care – multiple organ failure and sepsis
James M O'Brien Jr, Naeem A Ali, Edward Abraham
Year in review 2007: Critical Care – intensive care unit management
Clayton Barbieri, Shannon S Carson, André Carlos Amaral
Pro/con debate: Is the scoop and run approach the best approach to trauma services organization?
Barbara Haas, Avery B Nathens
Clinical review: Critical care in the global context – disparities in burden of illness, access, and economics
Robert A Fowler, Neill KJ Adhikari, Satish Bhagwanjee
Intensive glycemic control in traumatic brain injury: what is the ideal glucose range?
Paul M Vespa
Bench-to-bedside review: Adenosine receptors – promising targets in acute lung injury?
Carsten P Schepp, Jörg Reutershan
Regression modelling in hospital epidemiology: a statistical note
Martin Wolkewitz, Jan Beyersmann, Petra Gastmeier, Martin Schumacher
Bioethics in the clinic: a review of The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics
Leslie M Whetstine
Circuit lifespan during continuous renal replacement therapy: children and adults are not equal
Zaccaria Ricci, Isabella Guzzo, Stefano Picca, Sergio Picardo
Anticoagulant therapy in acute lung injury: a useful tool without proper operating instruction?
Sebastian Rehberg, Perenlei Enkhbaatar, Daniel L Traber
Guidance in sepsis management: navigating uncharted waters?
Michael C Reade, Stephen J Warrillow, John A Myburgh, Rinaldo Bellomo
Effects of inhaled iloprost on right ventricular contractility, right ventriculo-vascular coupling and ventricular interdependence: a randomized placebo-controlled trial in an experimental model of acute pulmonary hypertension
Steffen Rex, Carlo Missant, Piet Claus, Wolfgang Buhre, Patrick F Wouters
Use of T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the optic nerve sheath to detect raised intracranial pressure
Thomas Geeraerts, Virginia FJ Newcombe, Jonathan P Coles, Maria Giulia Abate, Iain E Perkes, Peter JA Hutchinson, Jo G Outtrim, Dot A Chatfield, David K Menon
Year in review 2007: Critical Care – cardiology
Luigi Camporota, Marius Terblanche, David Bennett
Using MRI of the optic nerve sheath to detect elevated intracranial pressure
Heidi Harbison Kimberly, Vicki E Noble
Partial pressure of end-tidal carbon dioxide successful predicts cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the field: a prospective observational study
Miran Kolar, Miljenko Križmarić, Petra Klemen, Štefek Grmec
Pressure support ventilation attenuates ventilator-induced protein modifications in the diaphragm
Emmanuel Futier, Jean-Michel Constantin, Lydie Combaret, Laurent Mosoni, Laurence Roszyk, Vincent Sapin, Didier Attaix, Boris Jung, Samir Jaber, Jean-Etienne Bazin
Influence of enrollment sequence effect on observed outcomes in the ADDRESS and PROWESS studies of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in patients with severe sepsis
Pierre-François Laterre, William L Macias, Jonathan Janes, Mark D Williams, David R Nelson, Amand RJ Girbes, Jean-François Dhainaut, Edward Abraham
Hyperglycemia may alter cytokine production and phagocytosis by means other than hyperosmotic stress
Charles E Wade
Analysis of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and cardiac index in multiple injured patients: a prospective cohort study
Chlodwig Kirchhoff, Bernd A Leidel, Sonja Kirchhoff, Volker Braunstein, Viktoria Bogner, Uwe Kreimeier, Wolf Mutschler, Peter Biberthaler
Establishing the Irish Critical Care Trials Group: 'who wins in battle makes many calculations before the battle is fought'
Brian O'Brien, Dermot Phelan
Entropy and bispectral index for assessment of sedation, analgesia and the effects of unpleasant stimuli in critically ill patients: an observational study
Matthias Haenggi, Heidi Ypparila-Wolters, Christine Bieri, Carola Steiner, Jukka Takala, Ilkka Korhonen, Stephan M Jakob
Dialysis dose in acute kidney injury: no time for therapeutic nihilism – a critical appraisal of the Acute Renal Failure Trial Network study
Claudio Ronco, Dinna Cruz, Helen Oudemans van Straaten, Patrick Honore, Andrew House, Du Bin, Noel Gibney
Strict glycaemic control in patients hospitalised in a mixed medical and surgical intensive care unit: a randomised clinical trial
Gisela Del Carmen De La Rosa, Jorge Hernando Donado, Alvaro Humberto Restrepo, Alvaro Mauricio Quintero, Luis Gabriel González, Nora Elena Saldarriaga, Marisol Bedoya, Juan Manuel Toro, Jorge Byron Velásquez, Juan Carlos Valencia, Clara Maria Arango, Pablo Henrique Aleman, Esdras Martin Vasquez, Juan Carlos Chavarriaga, Andrés Yepes, William Pulido, Carlos Alberto Cadavid
Recently published papers: Pseudomonas, brain and bowel injury and novel cardiac therapies
Uma M Bandarupalli, Gareth Williams
Barbiturates for the treatment of intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury
Sarice L Bassin, Thomas P Bleck
The 'cardiac-lung mass' artifact: an echocardiographic sign of lung atelectasis and/or pleural effusion
Andreas Karabinis, Theodosios Saranteas, Dimitrios Karakitsos, Daniel Lichtenstein, John Poularas, Clifford Yang, Christodoulos Stefanadis
Evidence-lost to tight glycemic control?
Marcus J Schultz, Peter E Spronk, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Bekele Afessa, Ognjen Gajic
Readmission to a surgical intensive care unit: incidence, outcome and risk factors
Axel Kaben, Fabiano Corrêa, Konrad Reinhart, Utz Settmacher, Jan Gummert, Rolf Kalff, Yasser Sakr
Frontal EEG for intensive care unit sedation: treating numbers or patients?
Peter V Sackey
The role of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase in ventilator-induced lung injury
Michiel Vaneker, Leo MA Heunks, Johannes G van der Hoeven, Gert Jan Scheffer
Erratum to: A long-term follow-up study investigating health-related quality of life and resource use in survivors of severe sepsis: comparison of recombinant human activated protein C with standard care
Christopher J Longo, Daren K Heyland, Harold N Fisher, Robert A Fowler, Claudio M Martin, Andrew G Day
Acute kidney injury is common, parallels organ dysfunction or failure, and carries appreciable mortality in patients with major burns: a prospective exploratory cohort study
I Steinvall, Z Bak, F Sjoberg
The adenosine deaminase inhibitor erythro-9-[2-hydroxyl-3-nonyl]-adenine decreases intestinal permeability and protects against experimental sepsis: a prospective, randomised laboratory investigation
Nalan Kayhan, Benjamin Funke, Lars Oliver Conzelmann, Harald Winkler, Stefan Hofer, Jochen Steppan, Heinfried Schmidt, Hubert Bardenheuer, Christian-Friedrich Vahl, Markus A Weigand
Pituitary-adrenal function in patients with acute subarachnoid haemorrhage: a prospective cohort study
Stepani Bendel, Timo Koivisto, Esko Ruokonen, Jaakko Rinne, Jarkko Romppanen, Ilkka Vauhkonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Ari Uusaro
Renal failure in the intensive care unit: acute kidney injury compared to end-stage renal failure
Marlies Ostermann, René Chang
Tight glycaemic control in the intensive care unit: pitfalls in the testing of the concept
Dieter Mesotten
So much to teach, so little time: a prospective cohort study evaluating a tool to select content for a critical care curriculum
Adam D Peets, Kevin McLaughlin, Jocelyn Lockyer, Tyrone Donnon
Induction of Bim and Bid gene expression during accelerated apoptosis in severe sepsis
Stefan U Weber, Jens-Christian Schewe, Lutz E Lehmann, Stefan Müller, Malte Book, Sven Klaschik, Andreas Hoeft, Frank Stüber
The impact of the severity of sepsis on the risk of hypoglycaemia and glycaemic variability
Reiner M Waeschle, Onnen Moerer, Reinhard Hilgers, Peter Herrmann, Peter Neumann, Michael Quintel
A quality assessment of genetic association studies supporting susceptibility and outcome in acute lung injury
Carlos Flores, Maria del Mar Pino-Yanes, Jesús Villar
Association between inflammatory mediators and response to inhaled nitric oxide in a model of endotoxin-induced lung injury
Sebastien Trachsel, Ginette Deby-Dupont, Edwige Maurenbrecher, Monique Nys, Maurice Lamy, Göran Hedenstierna
Reliability of continuous cardiac output measurement during intra-abdominal hypertension relies on repeated calibrations: an experimental animal study
Matthias Gruenewald, Jochen Renner, Patrick Meybohm, Jan Höcker, Jens Scholz, Berthold Bein
Memory-enhancing treatments reverse the impairment of inhibitory avoidance retention in sepsis-surviving rats
Lisiane Tuon, Clarissa M Comim, Fabrícia Petronilho, Tatiana Barichello, Ivan Izquierdo, João Quevedo, Felipe Dal-Pizzol