Issue 12/2007
Content (45 Articles)
Severity of illness assessment for managing community-acquired pneumonia
Jordi Rello, Alejandro Rodriguez
Time out for vasopressors in increased microvascular permeability?
Pierre Asfar, Peter Radermacher, Gernot Marx
Recombinant human activated protein C in experimental models of acute lung injury: the timing is critical!
Corinna Velik-Salchner, Volker Wenzel, Dirk M. Maybauer, Marc O. Maybauer
Review of retention strategies in longitudinal studies and application to follow-up of ICU survivors
Catherine M. Tansey, Andrea L. Matté, Dale Needham, Margaret S. Herridge
Anti-infective-treated central venous catheters: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
B. S. Niël-Weise, T. Stijnen, P. J. van den Broek
Pro-atrial natriuretic peptide and pro-vasopressin to predict severity and prognosis in community-acquired pneumonia
Stefan Krüger, Jana Papassotiriou, Reinhard Marre, Klaus Richter, Christian Schumann, Heike von Baum, Nils G. Morgenthaler, Norbert Suttorp, Tobias Welte
Accuracy of bedside capillary blood glucose measurements in critically ill patients
C. Dana Critchell, Vincent Savarese, Amy Callahan, Christine Aboud, Serge Jabbour, Paul Marik
The relationship between blood glucose control and intolerance to enteral feeding during critical illness
Nam Nguyen, Katrina Ching, Robert Fraser, Marianne Chapman, Richard Holloway
Strict versus moderate glucose control after resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation
Tuomas Oksanen, Markus B. Skrifvars, Tero Varpula, Anne Kuitunen, Ville Pettilä, Jouni Nurmi, Maaret Castrén
Noninvasive versus conventional ventilation to treat hypercapnic encephalopathy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Raffaele Scala, Stefano Nava, Giorgio Conti, Massimo Antonelli, Mario Naldi, Ivano Archinucci, Giovanni Coniglio, Nicholas S. Hill
Measurement of functional residual capacity by helium dilution during partial support ventilation: in vitro accuracy and in vivo precision of the method
Fabiano Di Marco, Lidia Rota Sperti, Barbara Milan, Riccardo Stucchi, Stefano Centanni, Laurent Brochard, Roberto Fumagalli
A prospective study on adrenal cortex responses and outcome prediction in acute critical illness: results from a large cohort of 203 mixed ICU patients
Ioanna Dimopoulou, Konstantinos Stamoulis, Ioannis Ilias, Marinella Tzanela, Panagiotis Lyberopoulos, Stylianos Orfanos, Apostolos Armaganidis, Maria Theodorakopoulou, Stylianos Tsagarakis
Activated protein C improves survival in severe sepsis patients with elevated troponin
Jijo John, Ahmed Awab, Derek Norman, Tarek Dernaika, Gary T. Kinasewitz
Limitations of computed tomographic angiography in the diagnosis of brain death
Christophe Quesnel, Jean-Pierre Fulgencio, Christophe Adrie, Béatrice Marro, Laurent Payen, Nadège Lembert, Sonia El Metaoua, Francis Bonnet
Monitoring brain tissue oxygen tension in brain-injured patients reveals hypoxic episodes in normal-appearing and in peri-focal tissue
Luca Longhi, Francesca Pagan, Valerio Valeriani, Sandra Magnoni, Elisa R. Zanier, Valeria Conte, Vincenzo Branca, Nino Stocchetti
Relationship between the tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion and right and left ventricular function in critically ill patients
Bouchra Lamia, Jean-Louis Teboul, Xavier Monnet, Christian Richard, Denis Chemla
Life-threatening adverse drug reactions at admission to medical intensive care: a prospective study in a teaching hospital
Marieke Grenouillet-Delacre, Hélène Verdoux, Nicholas Moore, Françoise Haramburu, Ghada Miremont-Salamé, Gabriel Etienne, Philip Robinson, Didier Gruson, Gilles Hilbert, Claude Gabinski, Bernard Bégaud, Mathieu Molimard
Bactericidal permeability increasing protein gene variants in children with sepsis
Jaroslav Michalek, Petra Svetlikova, Michal Fedora, Michal Klimovic, Lenka Klapacova, Drahomira Bartosova, Lubomir Elbl, Hana Hrstkova, Jaroslav A. Hubacek
Imipramine reverses the depressive symptoms in sepsis survivor rats
Lisiane Tuon, Clarissa M. Comim, Moises M. Antunes, Larissa S. Constantino, Roberta A. Machado, Ivan Izquierdo, João Quevedo, Felipe Dal-Pizzol
Lack of agreement between thermodilution and electrical velocimetry cardiac output measurements
Matthias Heringlake, Ulrich Handke, Thorsten Hanke, Frank Eberhardt, Jan Schumacher, Hartmut Gehring, Hermann Heinze
Multiplanar reconstruction: a new method for the diagnosis of tracheobronchial rupture?
Alexandre Faure, Bernard Floccard, Frank Pilleul, Frédéric Faure, Bruno Badinand, Nicolas Mennesson, Thierry Ould, Christian Guillaume, Albrice Levrat, Farida Benatir, Bernard Allaouchiche
High incidence of acute lung injury in children with Down syndrome
M. Bruijn, L. B. van der Aa, R. R. van Rijn, A. P. Bos, J. B. M. van Woensel
Health technology assessment in critical care
Damon C. Scales, Andreas Laupacis
Effect of blood pressure on plasma volume loss in the rat under increased permeability
Maris Dubniks, Johan Persson, Per-Olof Grände
Effect of activated protein C on pulmonary blood flow and cytokine production in experimental acute lung injury
Jean-Christophe Richard, Fabienne Bregeon, Véronique Leray, Didier Le Bars, Nicolas Costes, Christian Tourvieille, Franck Lavenne, Mojgan Devouassoux-Shisheboran, Gerard Gimenez, Claude Guerin
Dehydroepiandrosterone: a modulator of cellular immunity and heat shock protein 70 production during polymicrobial sepsis
Reiner Oberbeck, Hanno Deckert, Jörg Bangen, Phillip Kobbe, Daniel Schmitz
A case of acute papillary muscle rupture in a childwith campylobacter enteritis and citrullinaemia
Helen E. Rowlands, Claire Westrope, Chris Hendriksz, Anupam Chakrapani, David J. Barron, Oliver Bagshaw
Pitfalls in gastrointestinal permeability measurement in ICU patients
Falco Hietbrink, Marc G. H. Besselink, Willem Renooij, Luke P. H. Leenen
Legislation on research involving patients who are (temporarily) unable to give informed consent: differences between European countries
Michael A. Kuiper, Denise P. Veelo, Peter E. Spronk, Marcus J. Schultz
Limitations of brain death in the interpretation of computed tomographic angiography
Ari R. Joffe
Response to letter from Joffe: “A better title: Limitations of brain death in the interpretation of computed tomographic angiography”
Christophe Quesnel
Electrical noise endemic in a university hospital: validation of the problem
Donald P. Bernstein
Reply to the comment by Dr. Bernstein
Matthias Heringlake, Ulrich Handke, Thorsten Hanke, Frank Eberhardt, Jan Schumacher, Hartmut Gehring, Hermann Heinze
Evaluation of an improved algorithm for arterial pressure-based cardiac output assessment without external calibration
Christopher Prasser, Benedikt Trabold, Alexander Schwab, Cornelius Keyl, Susanne Ziegler, Christoph Wiesenack
Precipitants of post-traumatic stress disorder following intensive care: role of and need for physical restraints
Farhad Kapadia
Precipitants of post-traumatic stress disorder following intensive care: role and need of physical restraints. Reply by authors to Dr. Kapadia
C. Jones, C. Bäckman, M. Capuzzo, H. Flaatten, C. Rylander, R. D. Griffiths
Oral care practices in critical care unit
Jordi Rello, Stijn Blot, Alejandro Rodríguez
Equivalence of posterior internal jugular and subclavian accesses in the incidence of central venous catheter related bacteremia
Leonardo Lorente, Alejandro Jiménez, Ramón Galván, Carolina García, Juan Castedo, María M. Martín, María L. Mora
Outcomes in 140 critically ill patients with status epilepticus
Stéphane Legriel, Bruno Mourvillier, Nicolas Bele, Jose Amaro, Pierre Fouet, Philippe Manet, François Hilpert