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Intensive Care Medicine

Issue 8/2018

Content (36 Articles)

Original

Pathogen colonization of the gastrointestinal microbiome at intensive care unit admission and risk for subsequent death or infection

Daniel E. Freedberg, Margaret J. Zhou, Margot E. Cohen, Medini K. Annavajhala, Sabrina Khan, Dagmara I. Moscoso, Christian Brooks, Susan Whittier, David H. Chong, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Julian A. Abrams

Original

Assessing predictive accuracy for outcomes of ventilator-associated events in an international cohort: the EUVAE study

Sergio Ramírez-Estrada, Leonel Lagunes, Yolanda Peña-López, Amir Vahedian-Azimi, Saad Nseir, Kostoula Arvaniti, Aliye Bastug, Izarne Totorika, Nefise Oztoprak, Lilla Bouadma, Despoina Koulenti, Jordi Rello, Aliye Bastug, Amir Vahedian-Azimi, AsumanInan, Benito Almirante Gragera, Despoina Koulenti, Garyphallia Poulakou, George Dimopoulos, Ilkay Bozkurt, Igor Muzlovic, Izarne Totorika, Jordi Rello, Kostoula Arvaniti, Leonel Lagunes, Lilla Bouadma, Loreto Vidaur, Marina Oikonomou, Matteo Bassetti, Nefise Oztoprak, Saad Nseir, Sergio Ramírez-Estrada, Yolanda Peña-López

Original

Premorbid functional status as a predictor of 1-year mortality and functional status in intensive care patients aged 80 years or older

Laura Pietiläinen, Johanna Hästbacka, Minna Bäcklund, Ilkka Parviainen, Ville Pettilä, Matti Reinikainen

Pediatric Original

Conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children: the randomised multiple-centre pilot Oxy-PICU trial

Mark J. Peters, Gareth A. L. Jones, Daisy Wiley, Jerome Wulff, Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Samiran Ray, David Inwald, Michael Grocott, Michael Griksaitis, John Pappachan, Lauran O’Neill, Simon Eaton, Paul R. Mouncey, David A. Harrison, Kathryn M. Rowan

Original

Health-related outcomes of critically ill patients with and without sepsis

Kelly Thompson, Colman Taylor, Stephen Jan, Qiang Li, Naomi Hammond, John Myburgh, Manoj Saxena, Balasubramanian Venkatesh, Simon Finfer

Open Access Original

Intensive care support and clinical outcomes of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa

Martin Langer, Gina Portella, Stefano Finazzi, Liliane Chatenoud, Simone Lanini, Francesco Vairo, Robert Fowler, Rossella Miccio, Giuseppe Ippolito, Guido Bertolini, Gino Strada

Original

Association of iron status with the risk of bloodstream infections: results from the prospective population-based HUNT Study in Norway

Randi Marie Mohus, Julie Paulsen, Lise Gustad, Åsa Askim, Arne Mehl, Andrew T. DeWan, Jan Egil Afset, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Erik Solligård, Jan Kristian Damås

Systematic Review

Optic nerve sheath diameter measured sonographically as non-invasive estimator of intracranial pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Chiara Robba, Gregorio Santori, Marek Czosnyka, Francesco Corradi, Nicola Bragazzi, Llewellyn Padayachy, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Giuseppe Citerio

Obituary

In memoriam Dr Antoine Rabbat

Christine Lorut, Aurélie Lefèbvre, Gérard Huchon, Nicolas Roche

What's New in Intensive Care

Physical restraint: time to let go

Lisa Burry, Louise Rose, Bara Ricou

What's New in Intensive Care

Intensive care medicine in 2050: nanotechnology. Emerging technologies and approaches and their impact on critical care

Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Robert Forster, Adriele Prina-Mello

What's New in Intensive Care

The 10 false beliefs in adult critical care nephrology

Zaccaria Ricci, Stefano Romagnoli, Claudio Ronco

What's New in Intensive Care

Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases

José Manuel Pereira, Thiago Lisboa, José-Artur Paiva

Understanding the Disease

Understanding the role of host immune responses in invasive candidiasis

Jigar V. Desai, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Michail S. Lionakis

Editorial

Intracranial pressure thresholds in severe traumatic brain injury: Con

Raimund Helbok, G. Meyfroidt, R. Beer

Editorial

Intracranial pressure thresholds in severe traumatic brain injury: we are not sure

Nino Stocchetti, Daniele Poole, David O. Okonkwo

Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Rib destruction with Staphylococcus contiguous abscess after septic pulmonary embolism and tricuspid endocarditis

Nicolas Pichon, Agathe Nallatamby, Marine Blondel, Florence Pichon-Lefievre

Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

An acute dyspnea

Paul Gabarre, Guillaume Dumas, Léa Duhaut, Eric Maury

Open Access Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Lung point in the absence of pneumothorax

Thei S. Steenvoorden, Bashar Hilderink, Paul W. G. Elbers, Pieter R. Tuinman

Editorial

Sepsis: who will shoot first? Pharma or diagnostics?

Julien Textoris, Anthony C. Gordon

Editorial

Building communities of respect in the intensive care unit

Samuel M. Brown, Daniel Talmor, Michael D. Howell

Editorial

Predicting outcomes in very old ICU patients: time to focus on the past?

Hans Flaatten, Sandra Oeyen, Dylan W. deLange

Letter

More than the tip of the iceberg: association between disabilities and inability to attend a clinic-based post-ICU follow-up and how it may impact on health inequalities

Regis Goulart Rosa, Renata Kochhann, Paula Berto, Livia Biason, Juçara Gasparetto Maccari, Patrícia De Leon, Francine Dutra, Sâmia Faria da Silva, Daniel Sganzerla, Daniel Schneider, Paulo Ricardo Cardoso, Frederico Klein Gomes, Vitória Homem Machado, Gregory Medeiros, Tulio Frederico Tonietto, Luciana Tagliari, Mariana Mattioni, Luisa Anzolin, Maicon Oliveira, Juliana Mara Stormovski de Andrade, Maicon Falavigna, Caroline Cabral Robinson, Cassiano Teixeira

Letter

Psychopathology prior to critical illness and the risk of delirium onset during intensive care unit stay

Ayesha Sajjad, Annemiek E. Wolters, Dieuwke S. Veldhuijzen, Linda M. Peelen, Maartje C. Welling, Irene J. Zaal, Diederik van Dijk, Arjen J. C. Slooter

Letter

Predictors of post-pneumonectomy respiratory failure and ARDS: usefulness of normalized pulmonary artery diameter

Marine Peretti, Remi Hervochon, Mauro Loi, Kim Blanc, Nicolas Roche, Marco Alifano

Correspondence

Cardiac output drives tolerance of acute hemolysis

Adrien Picod, Florian Blanchard, Yves Cohen

Correspondence

Estimation of true driving pressure during airway pressure release ventilation

Daniel Taylor, Luigi Camporota, Y. Zhou, Y. Kang

Correspondence

Low-dose corticosteroids and septic shock resolution: implications for randomized trial design?

Anica C. Law, Sarina Sahetya, Allan J. Walkey, Anthony Delaney