Issue 9/2002
Content (34 Articles)
Excellence in end-of-life care: a new goal for intensivists
Robert D. Truog, Jeffrey P. Burns
Non-invasive pressure support ventilation in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: common strategy for different pathologies?
Stefano Nava, Annalisa Carlucci
Opening the microcirculation: can vasodilators be useful in sepsis?
Mattijn Buwalda, Can Ince
Predictive value of procalcitonin and interleukin 6 in critically ill patients with suspected sepsis
Ville Pettilä, Marja Hynninen, Olli Takkunen, Pentti Kuusela, Matti Valtonen
Noninvasive pressure support ventilation in non-COPD patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema and severe community-acquired pneumonia: acute effects and outcome
G. Domenighetti, R. Gayer, R. Gentilini
Noninvasive ventilation for treating acute respiratory failure in AIDS patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
Marco Confalonieri, Edo Calderini, Susanna Terraciano, Giovanna Chidini, Enza Celeste, Giacomo Puccio, Cesare Gregoretti, Umberto G. Meduri
Effects of positive end-expiratory pressure on dead space and its partitions in acute lung injury
L. Beydon, L. Uttman, R. Rawal, B. Jonson
Detecting lung injury in patients with pulmonary edema
Daniel P. Schuster, Timothy Stark, Jason Stephenson, Henry Royal
Comparative bench study of triggering, pressurization, and cycling between the home ventilator VPAP II and three ICU ventilators
Didier Tassaux, Susannah Strasser, Silvana Fonseca, Eric Dalmas, Philippe Jolliet
Single-dilator percutaneous tracheostomy: a comparison of PercuTwist and Ciaglia Blue Rhino techniques
Christian Byhahn, Klaus Westphal, Dirk Meininger, Britta Gürke, Paul Kessler, Volker Lischke
The cuff leak test to predict failure of tracheal extubation for laryngeal edema
Yann De Bast, Daniel De Backer, Jean-Jacques Moraine, Muriel Lemaire, Cécile Vandenborght, Jean-Louis Vincent
Conventional monitoring and intravascular volume measurement can lead to different therapy after upper gastrointestinal tract surgery
Tido Junghans, Bartholomäus Böhm, Oliver Haase, Johannes Fritzmann, Heidrun Zuckermann-Becker
Comparison of continuous thermodilution and bolus cardiac output measurements in septic shock
Qinghua Sun, Peter Rogiers, Dirk Pauwels, Jean-Louis Vincent
Short-term treatment of severe hypertension of pregnancy: prospective comparison of nicardipine and labetalol
S. Elatrous, S. Nouira, L. Ouanes Besbes, S. Marghli, M. Boussarssar, M. Sakkouhi, F. Abroug
Outcome and prognostic features of intensive care unit treatment in patients with hematological malignancies
Frank Kroschinsky, Matthias Weise, Thomas Illmer, Mathias Haenel, Martin Bornhaeuser, Gert Hoeffken, Gerhard Ehninger, Ulrich Schuler
Endocrine measurements in survivors and non-survivors from critical illness
David C. Ray, Andrew Macduff, Gordon B. Drummond, Ewan Wilkinson, Bill Adams, Geoff J. Beckett
A four-step protocol for limitation of treatment in terminal care. An observational study in 475 intensive care unit patients
Laurent Holzapfel, Guy Demingeon, Bonnavy Piralla, Loïc Biot, Brigitte Nallet
Quality of reporting of randomised controlled trials in the intensive care literature
Nicola Latronico, Marco Botteri, Cosetta Minelli, Cinzia Zanotti, Guido Bertolini, Andrea Candiani
Diagnostic accuracy of G-CSF, IL-8, and IL-1ra in critically ill children with suspected infection
Joachim E. Fischer, Anne Benn, Stephan Harbarth, David Nadal, Sergio Fanconi
A comparison of two mortality risk scores for very low birthweight infants: clinical risk index for babies and Berlin score
Rolf F. Maier, Ute-E. Caspar-Karweck, Ludwig E. Grauel, Christian Bassir, Boris C. Metze, Michael Obladen
Pulse oximeter-enhanced accuracy of capnometry in children with cyanotic heart disease
Jaap W. De Vries, Frans B. Plötz, Johannes A. Van Vught
Cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) motifs are sensitizing agents for lipopolysaccharide in toxic shock model
Sylvie Cornélie, Eric Wiel, Niels Lund, Gilles Lebuffe, Catherine Vendeville, Gilles Riveau, Benoît Vallet, Elisabeth Ban
Acute effects of non-invasive ventilatory support on functional mitral regurgitation in patients with exacerbation of congestive heart failure
Andrea Bellone, Andrea Barbieri, Caterina Ricci, Emilio Iori, Mario Donateo, Monica Massobrio, Stefano Bendinelli
Procalcitonin: a marker to clearly differentiate systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis in the critically ill patient?
Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Anna Mega, Paraskevi Grecka, Nektaria Scarpa, George Koratzanis, George Thomopoulos, Helen Giamarellou
Life-threatening hyperkalaemia following therapeutic barbiturate coma
Christopher J. Cairns, Benjamin Thomas, Stephen Fletcher, Michael J. Parr, Simon R. Finfer
A technique for the monitoring of blood flow during continuous haemofiltration
Ian Baldwin, Rinaldo Bellomo, Bill Koch
Mechanical ventilation and the immune response
P. Myrianthefs, C. Batistaki, K. Venetsanou, E. Koutsopoulou, P. Evagelopoulou, E. Boutzouka, G. Baltopoulos
Mechanical ventilation and the immune response
Frans B. Plötz, Harriet A. E. Vreugdenhil, Arthur S. Slutsky, Jitske Zijlstra, Cobi J. Heijnen, Hans Van Vught, G. Baltopoulos
Thyrotoxicosis related to iodine toxicity in a paediatric burn patient
P. Robertson, J. Fraser, J. Shield, P. Weir