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Intensive Care Medicine

Issue 5/2007

Content (30 Articles)

Editorial

The thin line between life and death

David Bracco, Nicolas Noiseux, Thomas M. Hemmerling

Original

Emergency feasibility in medical intensive care unit of extracorporeal life support for refractory cardiac arrest

Bruno Mégarbane, Pascal Leprince, Nicolas Deye, Dabor Résière, Gilles Guerrier, Samia Rettab, Jonathan Théodore, Souheil Karyo, Iradj Gandjbakhch, Frédéric J. Baud

Original

Should dialysis be offered to cancer patients with acute kidney injury?

Michael Darmon, Guillaume Thiery, Magali Ciroldi, Raphaël Porcher, Benoît Schlemmer, Élie Azoulay

Original

Intravenous fish oil blunts the physiological response to endotoxin in healthy subjects

Thomas-Thi Pluess, Daniel Hayoz, Mette M. Berger, Luc Tappy, Jean-Pierre Revelly, Burkhard Michaeli, Yvon A. Carpentier, René L. Chioléro

Original

Brain lesions in septic shock: a magnetic resonance imaging study

Tarek Sharshar, Robert Carlier, Francis Bernard, Céline Guidoux, Jean-Philippe Brouland, Olivier Nardi, Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison, Jérôme Aboab, Françoise Gray, David Menon, Djillali Annane

Original

Ability of family members to predict patient's consent to critical care research

Magali Ciroldi, Alain Cariou, Christophe Adrie, Djilali Annane, Vincent Castelain, Yves Cohen, Arnaud Delahaye, Luc Marie Joly, Richard Galliot, Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Laurent Papazian, Fabrice Michel, Nancy Kenstish Barnes, Benoit Schlemmer, Frédéric Pochard, Elie Azoulay

Original

Failure to achieve glycemic control despite intensive insulin therapy in a medical ICU: incidence and influence on ICU mortality

Jean-Claude Lacherade, Patricia Jabre, Sylvie Bastuji-Garin, David Grimaldi, Pascal Fangio, Valerie Théron, Hervé Outin, Bernard De Jonghe

Pediatric Original

The lactate:pyruvate ratio following open cardiac surgery in children

Mark Hatherill, Shamiel Salie, Zainab Waggie, John Lawrenson, John Hewitson, Louis Reynolds, Andrew Argent

Brief Report

Abdominal ultrasound in the intensive care unit: a 3-year survey on 400 patients

Doris Schacherer, Frank Klebl, Daniela Goetz, Roland Buettner, Stephanie Zierhut, Juergen Schoelmerich, Julia Langgartner

Brief Report

The selective poly(ADP)ribose-polymerase 1 inhibitor INO1001 reduces spinal cord injury during porcine aortic cross-clamping-induced ischemia/reperfusion injury

Christian Maier, Angelika Scheuerle, Balázs Hauser, Hubert Schelzig, Csaba Szabó, Peter Radermacher, Jochen Kick

Brief Report

The effect of exogenous surfactant in patients with lung contusions and acute lung injury

I. Tsangaris, E. Galiatsou, E. Kostanti, G. Nakos

Brief Report

Global cerebral blood flow and CPP after severe head injury: a xenon-CT study

Arturo Chieregato, Alessandra Tanfani, Christian Compagnone, Claudia Turrini, Federica Sarpieri, Maurizio Ravaldini, Luigi Targa, Enrico Fainardi

Experimental

Targeting caspase-1 by inhalation-therapy: effects of Ac-YVAD-CHO on IL-1β, IL-18 and downstream proinflammatory parameters as detected in rat endotoxaemia

Kim A. Boost, Sandra Hoegl, Christian Hofstetter, Michael Flondor, Klaus Stegewerth, Ilka Platacis, Josef Pfeilschifter, Heiko Muhl, Bernhard Zwissler

Experimental

Infusions of rocuronium and cisatracurium exert different effects on rat diaphragm function

Dries Testelmans, Karen Maes, Patrick Wouters, Scott K. Powers, Marc Decramer, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez

Experimental

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Glycogen synthase kinase-3β inhibition attenuates the development of ischaemia/reperfusion injury of the gut

Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Emanuela Mazzon, Emanuela Esposito, Carmelo Muià, Maha Abdelrahman, Rosanna Di Paola, Concetta Crisafulli, Placido Bramanti, Christoph Thiemermann

Open Access Legal and Ethical Issues in Clinical Research

Deferred consent in emergency intensive care research: what if the patient dies early? Use the data or not?

T. C. Jansen, E. J. O. Kompanje, C. Druml, D. K. Menon, C. J. Wiedermann, J. Bakker

Systematic Review

Undergraduate training in the care of the acutely ill patient: a literature review

Christopher M. Smith, Gavin D. Perkins, Ian Bullock, Julian F. Bion

Technical Note

Determination of functional residual capacity by oxygen washin-washout: a validation study

Stefan Maisch, Stephan H. Boehm, Dieter Weismann, Hajo Reissmann, Marcus Beckmann, Bernd Fuellekrug, Andreas Meyer, Jochen Schulte am Esch

Correspondence

Endotracheal tube cuff pressure in intensive care unit: the need for pressure monitoring

Samir Jaber, Moez El Kamel, Gérald Chanques, Mustapha Sebbane, Séverine Cazottes, Pierre-François Perrigault, Jean-Jacques Eledjam

Correspondence

Entropy and bispectral index in brain-dead organ donors

Benoît Vivien, Olivier Langeron, Bruno Riou

Correspondence

Entropy and bispectral index in brain-dead organ donors: authors' reply

Johanna Wennervirta, Tapani Salmi, Markku Hynynen, Arvi Yli-Hankala, Anna-Maria Koivusalo, Mark Van Gils, Reino Pöyhiä, Anne Vakkuri

Correspondence

Linezolid as rescue therapy for pneumococcal meningitis

Paula Ramírez, Jose M. Sahuquillo, Concepción Cortés, Pedro Kot, Juan M. Bonastre

Correspondence

A fluctuant comatose state

Jean-Luc Baudel, Delphine Leclercq, Maité Lewin, Georges Offenstadt, Eric Maury