Issue 12/2006
Content (38 Articles)
Research, a never-ending jigsaw puzzle. Two new series in Intensive Care Medicine
Laurent Brochard
Ventilatory setting in severe brain injured patients: does it really matter?
Luciana Mascia
The inability to consent in critical care research: emergency or impairment of cognitive function?
François Lemaire
Midazolam for refractory status epilepticus in children: higher dosing and more rapid and effective control
Robert C. Tasker
Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography to confirm brain death: a meta-analysis
Louisa M. Monteiro, Casper W. Bollen, Alexander C. van Huffelen, Rob G. A. Ackerstaff, Nicolaas J. G. Jansen, Adrianus J. van Vught
Respiratory mechanics in brain-damaged patients
Antonia Koutsoukou, Helen Perraki, Asimina Raftopoulou, Nikolaos Koulouris, Christina Sotiropoulou, Anastasia Kotanidou, Stylianos Orfanos, Charis Roussos
Sympathetic activation and inflammatory response in patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage
Silvana Naredi, Gavin Lambert, Peter Friberg, Stefan Zäll, Elisabeth Edén, Bertil Rydenhag, Maria Tylman, Anders Bengtsson
Prognosis and risk factors of early onset pneumonia in ventilated patients with Guillain–Barré syndrome
David Orlikowski, Tarek Sharshar, Raphael Porcher, Djillali Annane, Jean Claude Raphael, Bernard Clair
Impact of piperacillin resistance on the outcome of Pseudomonas ventilator-associated pneumonia
Alain Combes, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Jean-Yves Fagon, Michel Wolff, Jean-Louis Trouillet, Jean Chastre
Effect of inspired oxygen fraction on alveolar derecruitment in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Jérôme Aboab, Bjorn Jonson, Achille Kouatchet, Solenne Taille, Lisbet Niklason, Laurent Brochard
Does gas exchange response to prone position predict mortality in hypoxemic acute respiratory failure?
Stéphane Lemasson, Louis Ayzac, Raphaelle Girard, Sandrine Gaillard, Karine Pavaday, Claude Guérin
Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation in tracheostomized patients: a randomized controlled trial
Enrico M. Clini, Francesca Degli Antoni, Michele Vitacca, Ernesto Crisafulli, Mara Paneroni, Sheila Chezzi-Silva, Maurizio Moretti, Ludovico Trianni, Leonardo M. Fabbri
Variable performance of weaning-predictor tests: role of Bayes' theorem and spectrum and test-referral bias
Martin J. Tobin, Amal Jubran
Discrepancies between observed and predicted continuous venovenous hemofiltration removal of antimicrobial agents in critically ill patients and the effects on dosing
Catherine S. C. Bouman, Hendrikus J. M. van Kan, Richard P. Koopmans, Johanna C. Korevaar, Marcus J. Schultz, Margreeth B. Vroom
Informed consent in clinical trials in critical care: experience from the PAC-Man Study
Sheila E. Harvey, Diana Elbourne, Joanne Ashcroft, Carys M. Jones, Kathryn Rowan
Retrospective evaluation of a paediatric intensivist-led flexible bronchoscopy service
Soumendu S. Manna, Andrew Durward, Shyamala Moganasundram, Shane M. Tibby, Ian A. Murdoch
Workplace NO and NO2 during combined treatment of infants with nasal CPAP and NO
Robert Lindwall, Mats E. Svensson, Claes G. Frostell, Staffan Eksborg, Lars E. Gustafsson
Lung deposition of continuous and intermittent intravenous ceftazidime in experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa bronchopneumonia
Cassio Girardi, Marc Tonnellier, Ivan Goldstein, Alfonso Sartorius, Frederic Wallet, Jean-Jacques Rouby
The Nuremberg doctors' trial: the 60th anniversary
François Lemaire
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Noninvasive assessment of cardiac output using thoracic electrical bioimpedance in hemodynamically stable and unstable patients after cardiac surgery: a comparison with pulmonary artery thermodilution
Stefan Suttner, Thilo Schöllhorn, Joachim Boldt, Jochen Mayer, Kerstin D. Röhm, Katrin Lang, Swen N. Piper
Pharmacokinetics and lung concentrations of ertapenem in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia
Emmanuel Boselli, Dominique Breilh, Marie-Claude Saux, Jean-Baptiste Gordien, Bernard Allaouchiche
Influence of renal function on trough serum concentrations of piperacillin in intensive care unit patients
Jean-Marie Conil, Bernard Georges, Olivier Mimoz, Eric Dieye, Stéphanie Ruiz, Pierre Cougot, Kamran Samii, Georges Houin, Sylvie Saivin
Care for the dying in intensive care in The Netherlands
Erwin J. O. Kompanje
High-dose midazolam therapy for refractory status epilepticus in children
Gavin Morrison, Elizabeth Gibbons, William Patrick Whitehouse
Comment on “The Lund Concept for the treatment of severe head trauma—physiological principles and clinical application”
Juan A. Llompart-Pou, Jon Pérez-Bárcena, Josep M. Abadal, Javier Homar
Use of steroids to reduce high fever in head injury—is it acceptable?
Per-Olof Grände
Comment on “Antibacterial-coated tracheal tubes cleaned with a Mucus Shaver” by Berra et al.
Peter E. Spronk, Johannes H. Rommes, Marcus J. Schultz
Reply to Dr. Jansen: “Standard pulse contour methods are not applicable in animals”
Michael R. Pinsky, Scott Gunn
Compliance of health care workers to hand hygiene: awareness of being observed is important
Eric Maury, Nael Moussa, Choukri Lakermi, Frederic Barbut, Georges Offenstadt
Indocyanine green plasma disappearance rate during relief of increased abdominal pressure
Samir G. Sakka