Issue 12/2012
Content (26 Articles)
Randomized controlled trials and practice guidelines: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Charles L. Sprung
Electrical impedance tomography: the holy grail of ventilation and perfusion monitoring?
Steffen Leonhardt, Burkhard Lachmann
Characteristics and determinants of outcome of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections in intensive care units: the EUROBACT International Cohort Study
Alexis Tabah, Despoina Koulenti, Kevin Laupland, Benoit Misset, Jordi Valles, Frederico Bruzzi de Carvalho, José Artur Paiva, Nahit Çakar, Xiaochun Ma, Philippe Eggimann, Massimo Antonelli, Marc J. M. Bonten, Akos Csomos, Wolfgang A. Krueger, Adam Mikstacki, Jeffrey Lipman, Pieter Depuydt, Aurélien Vesin, Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Jean-Ralph Zahar, Stijn Blot, Jean Carlet, Christian Brun-Buisson, Claude Martin, Jordi Rello, Georges Dimopoulos, Jean-François Timsit
Low-dose steroids in adult septic shock: results of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign
Brian Casserly, Herwig Gerlach, Gary S. Phillips, Stanley Lemeshow, John C. Marshall, Tiffany M. Osborn, Mitchell M. Levy
Volatile isoflurane sedation in cerebrovascular intensive care patients using AnaConDa®: effects on cerebral oxygenation, circulation, and pressure
Julian Bösel, Jan C. Purrucker, Frank Nowak, Julian Renzland, Petra Schiller, Eva Benveniste Pérez, Sven Poli, Benjamin Brunn, Werner Hacke, Thorsten Steiner
Associations of markers of inflammation and coagulation with delirium during critical illness
Timothy D. Girard, Lorraine B. Ware, Gordon R. Bernard, Pratik P. Pandharipande, Jennifer L. Thompson, Ayumi K. Shintani, James C. Jackson, Robert S. Dittus, E. Wesley Ely
How to implement monitoring tools for sedation, pain and delirium in the intensive care unit: an experimental cohort study
Finn M. Radtke, Anja Heymann, Martin Franck, Friederike Maechler, Tanja Drews, Alawi Luetz, Irit Nachtigall, Klaus-Dieter Wernecke, Claudia D. Spies
Sleep quality of mechanically ventilated patients sedated with dexmedetomidine
Jun Oto, Katsunori Yamamoto, Shigefumi Koike, Mutsuo Onodera, Hideaki Imanaka, Masaji Nishimura
Hypertriglyceridemia: a potential side effect of propofol sedation in critical illness
J.-C. Devaud, M. M. Berger, A. Pannatier, P. Marques-Vidal, L. Tappy, N. Rodondi, R. Chiolero, P. Voirol
Risk factors for hypoglycaemia in neurocritical care patients
Freya M. van Iersel, Arjen J. C. Slooter, Renee Vroegop, Annemiek E. Wolters, Charlotte A. M. Tiemessen, Rik H. J. Rösken, Johannes G. van der Hoeven, Linda M. Peelen, Cornelia W. E. Hoedemaekers
Pathophysiology of Escherichia coli ventilator-associated pneumonia: implication of highly virulent extraintestinal pathogenic strains
Jonathan Messika, Fatma Magdoud, Olivier Clermont, Dimitri Margetis, Stéphane Gaudry, Damien Roux, Catherine Branger, Didier Dreyfuss, Erick Denamur, Jean-Damien Ricard
Diaphragm electromyographic activity as a predictor of weaning failure
Martin Dres, Matthieu Schmidt, Alexis Ferre, Julien Mayaux, Thomas Similowski, Alexandre Demoule
The repeatability of Stewart’s parameters and anion gap in a cohort of critically ill adult patients
Jihad Mallat, Stéphanie Barrailler, Malcolm Lemyze, Younes Benzidi, Florent Pepy, Gaëlle Gasan, Laurent Tronchon, Didier Thevenin
Cardiac function in Ghanaian children with severe malaria
Samuel B. Nguah, Torsten Feldt, Steffi Hoffmann, Daniel Pelletier, Daniel Ansong, Justice Sylverken, Parisa Mehrfar, Johanna Herr, Christian Thiel, Stephan Ehrhardt, Gerd D. Burchard, Jakob P. Cramer
The relationship between blood lactate concentration, the Paediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) and mortality in paediatric intensive care
Kevin P. Morris, Phil McShane, John Stickley, Roger C. Parslow
Copeptin as a marker of relative arginine vasopressin deficiency after pediatric cardiac surgery
Christopher W. Mastropietro, Meredith Mahan, Kevin M. Valentine, Jeff A. Clark, Patrick C. Hines, Henry L. Walters III, Ralph E. Delius, Ashok P. Sarnaik, Noreen F. Rossi
Vitamin D status in critically ill children
Constance Rippel, Michael South, Warwick W. Butt, Lara S. Shekerdemian
Beneficial effects of stress-dose corticosteroid therapy in canines depend on the severity of staphylococcal pneumonia
Caitlin W. Hicks, Daniel A. Sweeney, Robert L. Danner, Peter Q. Eichacker, Anthony F. Suffredini, Jing Feng, Junfeng Sun, Brad Moriyama, Robert Wesley, Ellen N. Behrend, Steven B. Solomon, Charles Natanson
Mechanisms of ventilator dependence in children with neuromuscular and respiratory control disorders identified by monitoring diaphragm electrical activity
Miriam R. Fine-Goulden, Naga K. Puppala, Andrew Durward
Focal neurological deficit with tricuspid endocarditis and patent foramen ovale
Julien Pottecher, Pierre-Olivier Ludes, Cornelia Kuhnert, Hélène Petit-Eisenmann, Arnaud Mommerot
Extracorporeal life support for refractory cardiac arrest: what is a good outcome?
Giulia Maj, Michele De Bonis, Marina Pieri, Giulio Melisurgo, Federico Pappalardo
Assessment of regional lung mechanics with electrical impedance tomography can determine the requirement for ECMO in patients with severe ARDS
Luigi Camporota, John Smith, Nicholas Barrett, Richard Beale
Comments on O’Brien et al.: Prevalence and outcome of cirrhosis patients admitted to UK intensive care: a comparison against dialysis-dependent chronic renal failure patients
Nicholas P. Mason, Andrew D. Yeoman