Intensive Care Medicine

After all these years — last editorial

K. J. Falke

A new cover. A new editor. What’s up, doctor?

Laurent Brochard

Increased troponin in patients with sepsis and septic shock: myocardial necrosis or reversible myocardial depression?

Alan H. B. Wu

Outcome prediction in intensive care. Solving the paradox

Rui Moreno, Ricardo Matos

Elevation of troponin I in sepsis and septic shock

P. Ammann, T. Fehr, E. Minder, C. Günter, O. Bertel

Early prognosis in severe sepsis via analyzing the monocyte immunophenotype

J. Sáenz, J. Izura, A. Manrique, F. Sala, I. Gaminde

High-volume haemofiltration in human septic shock

L. Cole, R. Bellomo, D. Journois, P. Davenport, I. Baldwin, P. Tipping

Massive elevation of procalcitonin plasma levels in the absence of infection in kidney transplant patients treated with pan-T-cell antibodies

R. Sabat , C. Höflich, W.D. Döcke, F. Kern, H.-D. Volk, M. Oppert, B. Windrich, C. Rosenberger, P. Reinke, J. Kaden

Evaluation of the logistic organ dysfunction system for the assessment of organ dysfunction and mortality in critically ill patients

P.G.H. Metnitz, J.-R. Le Gall, H. Steltzer, C.-G. Krenn, T. Lang, A. Valentin

Mortality after discharge from intensive care: the impact of organ system failure and nursing workload use at discharge

Rui Moreno, Dinis Miranda, Ricardo Matos, Teresa Fevereiro

Survival and quality of life 12 years after ICU. A comparison with the general Norwegian population

H. Flaatten, R. Kvåle

Accuracy of a composite score using daily SAPS II and LOD scores for predicting hospital mortality in ICU patients hospitalized for more than 72 h

J. Timsit, J. Fosse, G. Troché, A. De Lassence, C. Alberti, M. Garrouste-Orgeas, E. Azoulay, S. Chevret, P. Moine, Y. Cohen

The Critical Nursing Situation Index for safety assessment in intensive care

Jan M. Binnekade, Bas A. de Mol, Jozef Kesecioglu, Rob J. de Haan

Assessing the effectiveness of critical pathways on reducing resource utilization in the surgical intensive care unit

Sean Berenholtz, Peter Pronovost, Pamela Lipsett, Patty Dawson, Todd Dorman

Intermittent versus continuous renal replacement therapy in the ICU: impact on electrolyte and acid-base balance

Shigehiko Uchino, Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco

Is a short trial of prone positioning sufficient to predict the improvement in oxygenation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome?

Laurent Papazian, Marie-Hélène Paladini, Fabienne Bregeon, Laetitia Huiart, Xavier Thirion, Pierre Saux, Yves Jammes, Jean-Pierre Auffray

Efficacy of thrombolysis in patients with acute myocardial infarction requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation

M. Ruiz-Bailén, Aguayo E. de Hoyos, M. Serrano-Córcoles, M. Díaz-Castellanos, J. Ramos-Cuadra, A. Reina-Toral

The interpretation of train-of-four monitoring in intensive care: what about the muscle site and the current intensity?

Franck Lagneau, Laurent Benayoun, Benoît Plaud, Francine Bonnet, Jean Favier, Jean Marty

Evaluation of a simple method for minimizing iatrogenic blood loss from discard volumes in critically ill newborns and children

Markus Weiss, Joachim Fischer, Monika Boeckmann, Brigitte Rohrer, Oskar Baenziger

Myocardial injury in meningococcus-induced purpura fulminans in children

George Briassoulis, Maria Narlioglou, Nikos Zavras, Tassos Hatzis

Somatostatin: a new therapeutic option for the treatment of chylothorax

V. Buettiker, M. Hug, R. Burger, O. Baenziger

Ketamine and midazolam kinetics during continuous hemodiafiltration in patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Toshihito Tsubo, Ichiro Sakai, Hirobumi Okawa, Hironori Ishihara, Akitomo Matsuki

The role of cell suicide or apoptosis in the pathophysiology of acute lung injury

G. R. S. Budinger, N. S. Chandel

Critical care handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 3rd edition

J. F. Bion

Tick bite induced respiratory failure

Martin Winterholler, Frank J. Erbguth

Hypokalemia causing rhabdomyolysis and precordialgia

Gwénaël Prat, Roland Petrognani, Bakary Diatta, Jean Philippe Dufau, X. Theobald

Silent transmural myocardial ischemia during septic shock in a patient with normal coronary arteries

Julián Ortega-Carnicer, Lourdes Porras, Roberto Alcázar, Dolores Sánchez de la Nieta

Toothache leading to emergency cardiac surgery

Claudia Stöllberger, Josef Finsterer, Werner Habitzl, Wolfgang Kopsa Dufau, Manfred Deutsch

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: outcome in small centres

Sylvain Cantagrel, Fatiha Talbourdel, Hubert Lardy, Michel Robert, Jean Laugier

Cardiopulmonary effects of nitric oxide inhalation and methylene blue injection in hepatopulmonary syndrome

V. Jounieaux, O. Leleu, I. Mayeux

Are cytokines and adhesion molecules useful parameters to differentiate bacterial from fungal ventriculitis?

Irmgard Mayringer, Markus Reindl, Bettina Pfausler, Wolfgang Berger, Thomas Berger, Erich Schmutzhard

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