Issue 6/2011
Content (85 Articles)
Defining the adequate arterial pressure target during septic shock: not a 'micro' issue but the microcirculation can help
Serena Silva, Jean-Louis Teboul
Severity of community-acquired pneumonia treated with low-dose adjunctive corticosteroid
Katsunaka Mikami, Masaru Suzuki, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Masaki Kawakami, Nobuaki Hirota, Ayako Shimbara-Mikami, Yoshio Sakamoto
SvO2 to monitor resuscitation of septic patients: let's just understand the basic physiology
Jean-Louis Teboul, Olfa Hamzaoui, Xavier Monnet
The desperate need for good-quality clinical trials to evaluate the optimal source and dose of fibrinogen in managing bleeding
Simon J Stanworth, Beverley J Hunt
Tracheobronchial malposition of fine bore feeding tube in patients with mechanical ventilation
Ru-Bin Luo, Mao Zhang, Jian-Xin Gan
Early survival and duration of hospital admission in rhabdomyolysis: ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database
Colin A Hutchison, Krishna Patel, Tony Whitehouse
Septic acute kidney injury: hemodynamic syndrome, inflammatory disorder, or both?
Miklos Lipcsey, Rinaldo Bellomo
Do fluctuations of PaCO2 impact on the venous-arterial carbon dioxide gradient?
Jerome Morel, Laurent Gergele, Delphine Verveche, Frederic Costes, Christian Auboyer, Serge Molliex
High-frequency oscillatory ventilation and pediatric cardiac surgery: Yes, we can!
Martin CJ Kneyber
Severe lactic acidosis reversed by thiamine within 24 hours
Karin Amrein, Werner Ribitsch, Ronald Otto, Harald C Worm, Rudolf E Stauber
Teamwork and team training in the ICU: Where do the similarities with aviation end?
Tom W Reader, Brian H Cuthbertson
Clinical review: optimizing enteral nutrition for critically ill patients - a simple data-driven formula
Refaat A Hegazi, Paul E Wischmeyer
Urine sTREM-1 assessment in diagnosing sepsis and sepsis-related acute kidney injury
Marc Derive, Sébastien Gibot
Enteral nutrition: better navigation, yet unknown destination?
Michael P Casaer, Dieter Mesotten
Year in review 2010: Critical Care - multiple organ dysfunction and sepsis
Etienne de Montmollin, Djillali Annane
Year in review 2010: Critical Care - neurocritical care
Michael T Scalfani, Michael N Diringer
Year in review 2010: Critical Care - cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Jeffery C Metzger, Alexander L Eastman, Paul E Pepe
Increased liver stiffness denotes hepatic dysfunction and mortality risk in critically ill non-cirrhotic patients at a medical ICU
Alexander Koch, Andreas Horn, Hanna Dückers, Eray Yagmur, Edouard Sanson, Jan Bruensing, Lukas Buendgens, Sebastian Voigt, Christian Trautwein, Frank Tacke
Duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteremia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Thomas C Havey, Robert A Fowler, Nick Daneman
Identifying critically ill patients who benefit the most from nutrition therapy: the development and initial validation of a novel risk assessment tool
Daren K Heyland, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Xuran Jiang, Andrew G Day
Characteristics, practice patterns, and outcomes in patients with acute hypertension: European registry for Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (Euro-STAT)
Alain Vuylsteke, Jean-Louis Vincent, Didier Payen de La Garanderie, Frederick A Anderson, Leigh Emery, Allison Wyman, Sophie Rushton-Smith, Joel M Gore
Year in review 2010: Critical Care- infection
Leonardo Pagani, Arash Afshari, Stephan Harbarth
Red blood cell transfusion and increased length of storage are not associated with deep vein thrombosis in medical and surgical critically ill patients: a prospective observational cohort study
Christina Katsios, Lauren Griffith, Philip Spinella, Jacques Lacroix, Mark Crowther, Paul Hebert, Maureen Meade, William Geerts, Christian Rabbat, Deborah Cook
Malabsorption and nutritional balance in the ICU: fecal weight as a biomarker: a prospective observational pilot study
Nicolette J Wierdsma, Job HC Peters, Peter JM Weijs, Martjin B Keur, Armand RJ Girbes, Ad A van Bodegraven, Albertus Beishuizen
Assessment scores in H1N1 infection
Rodrigo Antonio Brandão-Neto, Alessandra Carvalho Goulart, Alfredo Nicodemos Cruz Santana, Augusto Scalabrini-Neto, Irineu Tadeu Velasco
Disseminated intravascular coagulation or acute coagulopathy of trauma shock early after trauma? An observational study
Pär I Johansson, Anne Marie Sørensen, Anders Perner, Karen Lise Welling, Michael Wanscher, Claus F Larsen, Sisse R Ostrowski
Quality in quality improvement research - a new benchmark
Nikhil R Asher, Douglas B White
Short women with severe sepsis-related acute lung injury receive lung protective ventilation less frequently: an observational cohort study
SeungHye Han, Greg S Martin, James P Maloney, Carl Shanholtz, Kathleen C Barnes, Stacey Murray, Jonathan E Sevransky
Identification of candidate serum biomarkers for severe septic shock-associated kidney injury via microarray
Rajit K Basu, Stephen W Standage, Natalie Z Cvijanovich, Geoffrey L Allen, Neal J Thomas, Robert J Freishtat, Nick Anas, Keith Meyer, Paul A Checchia, Richard Lin, Thomas P Shanley, Michael T Bigham, Derek S Wheeler, Prasad Devarajan, Stuart L Goldstein, Hector R Wong
Acute phase proteins and white blood cell levels for prediction of infectious complications in status epilepticus
Raoul Sutter, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Leticia Grize, Andreas F Widmer, Stephan Marsch, Stephan Rüegg
Bivalirudin-based versus conventional heparin anticoagulation for postcardiotomy extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Marco Ranucci, Andrea Ballotta, Hassan Kandil, Giuseppe Isgrò, Concetta Carlucci, Ekaterina Baryshnikova, Valeria Pistuddi
The association between serum adhesion molecules and outcome in acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
Hung-Chen Wang, Wei-Che Lin, Yu-Jun Lin, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Tsung-Han Lee, Wen-Neng Chang, Nai-Wen Tsai, Ben-Chung Cheng, Chia-Te Kung, Cheng-Hsien Lu
Detection of copeptin in peripheral blood of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Xiang-Dong Zhu, Jing-Sen Chen, Feng Zhou, Qi-Chang Liu, Gao Chen, Jian-Min Zhang
Sepsis induces albuminuria and alterations in the glomerular filtration barrier: a morphofunctional study in the rat
Chiara Adembri, Eleonora Sgambati, Luca Vitali, Valentina Selmi, Martina Margheri, Alessia Tani, Laura Bonaccini, Daniele Nosi, Anna L Caldini, Lucia Formigli, Angelo R De Gaudio
Finding new therapies for sepsis: the need for patient stratification and the use of genetic biomarkers
Michael J Hobson, Hector R Wong
Soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor levels in patients with burn injuries and inhalation trauma requiring mechanical ventilation: an observational cohort study
Yara Backes, Koenraad F van der Sluijs, Anita M Tuip de Boer, Jorrit Jan Hofstra, Alexander PJ Vlaar, Rogier M Determann, Paul Knape, David P Mackie, Marcus J Schultz
Is (1→3)-β-D-glucan the missing link from bedside assessment to pre-emptive therapy of invasive candidiasis?
Philippe Eggimann, Oscar Marchetti
Positioning of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: combining prone and upright makes sense
Jean-Christophe M Richard, Jean-Claude Lefebvre
Why high suPAR is not super - diagnostic, prognostic and potential pathogenic properties of a novel biomarker in the ICU
Alexander Koch, Frank Tacke
Echinocandins - first line in invasive candidiasis: how strong is this 'strong' evidence?
João Gonçalves-Pereira, Pedro Póvoa
Phases-of-illness paradigm: better communication, better outcomes
Jeremy C Pamplin, Sarah J Murray, Kevin K Chung
Becoming a high reliability organization
Marlys K Christianson, Kathleen M Sutcliffe, Melissa A Miller, Theodore J Iwashyna
Climate and cultural aspects in intensive care units
Bertrand Guidet, Vicente González-Romá
Hypoglycemia in critically ill adults - association yes, causation not proven
Simon Finfer
Clinical review: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Luciano Gattinoni, Eleonora Carlesso, Thomas Langer
Atypical antipsychotics and delirium in critical care
Matt P Wise, Madhankumar Vijayakumar, Steve Bowden
Clinical review: Canadian National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products - Massive Transfusion Consensus Conference 2011: report of the panel
Walter H Dzik, Morris A Blajchman, Dean Fergusson, Morad Hameed, Blair Henry, Andrew W Kirkpatrick, Teresa Korogyi, Sarvesh Logsetty, Robert C Skeate, Simon Stanworth, Charles MacAdams, Brian Muirhead
Erratum To: Combination of lung ultrasound (a comet-tail sign) and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in differentiating acute heart failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma as cause of acute dyspnea in prehospital emergency setting
Gregor Prosen, Petra Klemen, Matej Strnad, Štefek Grmec
Balanced study groups in a randomized trial - authors' response
Jan Benes, Ivan Chytra, Richard Pradl, Eduard Kasal
Bench-to-bedside review: Damage-associated molecular patterns in the onset of ventilator-induced lung injury
Maria T Kuipers, Tom van der Poll, Marcus J Schultz, Catharina W Wieland
Early or late parenteral nutrition: ASPEN vs. ESPEN
Matthew E Cove, Michael R Pinsky
Short people got no reason: gender, height, and disparities in the management of acute lung injury
Robert P Dickson, Robert C Hyzy
Extrapolation in the analysis of lung aeration by computed tomography: a validation study
Andreas W Reske, Anna Rau, Alexander P Reske, Manja Koziol, Beate Gottwald, Michaele Alef, Jean-Claude Ionita, Peter M Spieth, Pierre Hepp, Matthias Seiwerts, Alessandro Beda, Silvia Born, Gerik Scheuermann, Marcelo BP Amato, Hermann Wrigge
Clinical relevance of single nucleotide polymorphisms within the entire NLRP3 gene in patients with major blunt trauma
An-Qiang Zhang, Ling Zeng, Wei Gu, Lian-Yang Zhang, Jian Zhou, Dong-po Jiang, Ding-Yuan Du, Ping Hu, Ce Yang, Jun Yan, Hai-Yan Wang, Jian-Xin Jiang
Whole blood thromboelastometry: another Knight at the Roundtable?
Martin H Bluth, Jeffry L Kashuk
Arterial cerebrovascular complications in 94 adults with acute bacterial meningitis
Matthias Klein, Uwe Koedel, Thomas Pfefferkorn, Grete Zeller, Bianca Woehrl, Hans-Walter Pfister
Optimization of ventilator setting by flow and pressure waveforms analysis during noninvasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of COPD: a multicentric randomized controlled trial
Fabiano Di Marco, Stefano Centanni, Andrea Bellone, Grazia Messinesi, Alberto Pesci, Raffaele Scala, Andreas Perren, Stefano Nava
Risk factors for invasive fungal disease in critically ill adult patients: a systematic review
Hannah Muskett, Jason Shahin, Gavin Eyres, Sheila Harvey, Kathy Rowan, David Harrison
Dipyridamole augments the antiinflammatory response during human endotoxemia
Bart P Ramakers, Niels P Riksen, Thijmen H Stal, Suzanne Heemskerk, Petra van den Broek, Wilbert HM Peters, Johannes G van der Hoeven, Paul Smits, Peter Pickkers
Emotional or evidence based medicine - is there a moral tragedy in haemostatic therapy?
Sibylle Kozek-Langenecker, Benny Sørensen, John Hess, Donat R Spahn
Baseline characteristics and hospital mortality in the Acute Heart Failure Database (AHEAD) Main registry
Jindrich Spinar, Jiri Parenica, Jiri Vitovec, Petr Widimsky, Ales Linhart, Marian Fedorco, Filip Malek, Cestmír Cihalik, Lenka Spinarová, Roman Miklik, Marian Felsoci, Miroslav Bambuch, Ladislav Dusek, Jiri Jarkovsky
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with mortality in the medical intensive care unit
Sindhaghatta Venkatram, Sridhar Chilimuri, Muhammad Adrish, Abayomi Salako, Madanmohan Patel, Gilda Diaz-Fuentes
Long-term psychological effects of a no-sedation protocol in critically ill patients
Thomas Strøm, Mette Stylsvig, Palle Toft
Reduction in hospital-wide mortality after implementation of a rapid response team: a long-term cohort study
Jeremy R Beitler, Nate Link, Douglas B Bails, Kelli Hurdle, David H Chong
Accuracy and precision of end-expiratory lung-volume measurements by automated nitrogen washout/washin technique in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Jean Dellamonica, Nicolas Lerolle, Cyril Sargentini, Gaetan Beduneau, Fabiano Di Marco, Alain Mercat, Jean-Christophe M Richard, Jean-Luc Diehl, Jordi Mancebo, Jean-Jacques Rouby, Qin Lu, Gilles Bernardin, Laurent Brochard
A pragmatic multi-centre randomised controlled trial of fluid loading in high-risk surgical patients undergoing major elective surgery - the FOCCUS study
Brian H Cuthbertson, Marion K Campbell, Stephen A Stott, Andrew Elders, Rodolfo Hernández, Dwayne Boyers, John Norrie, John Kinsella, Julie Brittenden, Jonathan Cook, Daniela Rae, Seonaidh C Cotton, David Alcorn, Jennifer Addison, Adrian Grant
Screening and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in 186 intensive care units: different situations and individual solutions
Anke Kohlenberg, Frank Schwab, Michael Behnke, Christine Geffers, Petra Gastmeier
Decisional responsibility for mechanical ventilation and weaning: an international survey
Louise Rose, Bronagh Blackwood, Ingrid Egerod, Hege Selnes Haugdahl, José Hofhuis, Michael Isfort, Kalliopi Kydonaki, Maria Schubert, Riccardo Sperlinga, Peter Spronk, Sissel Storli, Daniel F McAuley, Marcus J Schultz
Biomarkers associated with delirium in critically ill patients and their relation with long-term subjective cognitive dysfunction; indications for different pathways governing delirium in inflamed and noninflamed patients
Mark van den Boogaard, Matthijs Kox, Kieran L Quinn, Theo van Achterberg, Johannes G van der Hoeven, Lisette Schoonhoven, Peter Pickkers
Evaluation of a novel closed-loop fluid-administration system based on dynamic predictors of fluid responsiveness: an in silico simulation study
Joseph Rinehart, Brenton Alexander, Yannick Le Manach, Christoph K Hofer, Benoit Tavernier, Zeev N Kain, Maxime Cannesson
Pandemic and post-pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) infection in critically ill patients
Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Emili Díaz, Loreto Vidaur, Antoni Torres, Cesar Laborda, Rosa Granada, Juan Bonastre, Mar Martín, Josu Insausti, Angel Arenzana, Jose Eugenio Guerrero, Ines Navarrete, Jesus Bermejo-Martin, David Suarez, Alejandro Rodriguez
FIBTEM provides early prediction of massive transfusion in trauma
Herbert Schöchl, Bryan Cotton, Kenji Inaba, Ulrike Nienaber, Henrik Fischer, Wolfgang Voelckel, Cristina Solomon
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation traumatic cardiac arrest - there are survivors. An analysis of two national emergency registries
Jan-Thorsten Gräsner, Jan Wnent, Stephan Seewald, Patrick Meybohm, Matthias Fischer, Thomas Paffrath, Arasch Wafaisade, Berthold Bein, Rolf Lefering
Effects of probiotics on serum levels of Th1/Th2 cytokine and clinical outcomes in severe traumatic brain-injured patients: a prospective randomized pilot study
Min Tan, Jing-Ci Zhu, Jiang Du, Li-Mei Zhang, Hua-Hua Yin
The impact of response time reliability on CPR incidence and resuscitation success: a benchmark study from the German Resuscitation Registry
Jürgen Neukamm, Jan-Thorsten Gräsner, Jens-Christian Schewe, Martin Breil, Jan Bahr, Ulrich Heister, Jan Wnent, Andreas Bohn, Gilbert Heller, Bernd Strickmann, Hans Fischer, Clemens Kill, Martin Messelken, Berthold Bein, Roman Lukas, Patrick Meybohm, Jens Scholz, Matthias Fischer