Intensive Care Medicine

Searching for the etiology of systemic inflammatory response syndrome: is SIRS occult endotoxemia?

Joseph A. Carcillo

Soluble form of the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1: An anti-inflammatory mediator?

Sébastien Gibot, Frederic Massin

Anticoagulation strategies in continuous renal replacement therapy: can the choice be evidence based?

H. M. Oudemans-van Straaten, J. P. J. Wester, A. C. J. M. de Pont, M. R. C. Schetz

Ultrasonographic examination of the venae cavae

François Jardin, Antoine Vieillard-Baron

Year in review in intensive care medicine. 2005. I. Acute respiratory failure and acute lung injury, ventilation, hemodynamics, education, renal failure

Peter Andrews, Elie Azoulay, Massimo Antonelli, Laurent Brochard, Christian Brun-Buisson, Daniel de Backer, Geoffrey Dobb, Jean-Yves Fagon, Herwig Gerlach, Johan Groeneveld, Jordi Mancebo, Philipp Metnitz, Stefano Nava, Jerome Pugin, Michael Pinsky, Peter Radermacher, Christian Richard, Robert Tasker

Organ donations and unused potential donations in traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage and intracerebral haemorrhage

Erwin J. O. Kompanje, Jan Bakker, François J. A. Slieker, Jan N. M. IJzermans, Andrew I. R. Maas

Acute effects of hyperoxemia on dyspnoea and respiratory variables during pressure support ventilation

Carlo Alberto Volta, Valentina Alvisi, Sara Bertacchini, Elisabetta Marangoni, Riccardo Ragazzi, Marco Verri, Raffaele Alvisi

Oral Care Reduces Incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in ICU Populations

Hideo Mori, Hiroyuki Hirasawa, Shigeto Oda, Hidetoshi Shiga, Kenichi Matsuda, Masataka Nakamura

Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 as an anti-inflammatory mediator in sepsis

Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Spyridon Zakynthinos, Fotini Baziaka, Evangelos Papadomichelakis, Simona Virtzili, Pantelis Koutoukas, Apostolos Armaganidis, Helen Giamarellou, Charis Roussos

Elevation in interleukin 13 levels in patients diagnosed with systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Luis A. Socha, John Gowardman, Diego Silva, Manuel Correcha, Nikolai Petrosky

Muscle force and fatigue in patients with sepsis and multiorgan failure

M. Eikermann, G. Koch, M. Gerwig, C. Ochterbeck, M. Beiderlinden, S. Koeppen, M. Neuhäuser, J. Peters

Interleukin-10-1082 promoter polymorphism in association with cytokine production and sepsis susceptibility

Spaska A. Stanilova, Lyuba D. Miteva, Zhivko T. Karakolev, Chavdar S. Stefanov

Jaundice in critical illness: promoting factors of a concealed reality

Nicola Brienza, Lidia Dalfino, Gilda Cinnella, Caterina Diele, Francesco Bruno, Tommaso Fiore

Adrenal-exhaustion syndrome in patients with liver disease

Paul E. Marik

Brugada electrocardiographic pattern elicited by cyclic antidepressants overdose

Wilma E. Monteban-Kooistra, Maarten P. van den Berg, Jaap E. Tulleken, Jack J. M. Ligtenberg, John H. J. M. Meertens, Jan G. Zijlstra

Endotoxin immunity and the developmentof the systemic inflammatory responsesyndrome in critically ill children

R. C. M. Stephens, K. Fidler, P. Wilson, G. R. Barclay, M. G. Mythen, G. L. J. Dixon, M. W. Turner, N. J. Klein, M. J. Peters

The influence of hyperchloraemia on acid base interpretation in diabetic ketoacidosis

Dan Taylor, Andrew Durward, Shane M. Tibby, Kentigern Thorburn, Fiona Holton, Iain C. Johnstone, Ian A. Murdoch

Adaptive mechanical backup ventilation for preterm infants on respiratory assist modes – a pilot study

Susanne Herber-Jonat, Esther Rieger-Fackeldey, Helmut Hummler, Andreas Schulze

Transcutaneous arterial carbon dioxide pressure monitoring in critically ill adult patients

Pablo Rodriguez, François Lellouche, Jerome Aboab, Christian Brun Buisson, Laurent Brochard

Is the Glasgow Coma Scale score protected health information?The effect of new United States regulations (HIPAA) on completion of screening logs in emergency research trials

Erwin J. O. Kompanje, Andrew I. R. Maas

Air ionisation and colonisation/infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter species in an intensive care unit

Kevin G. Kerr, Clive B. Beggs, Stephen G. Dean, Judith Thornton, Judith K. Donnelly, Neil J. Todd, P. Andrew Sleigh, Andleeb Qureshi, Charles C. Taylor

Ultrasound estimation of volume of pleural fluid in mechanically ventilated patients

M Balik, P Plasil, P Waldauf, J Pazout, M Fric, M Otahal, J Pachl

Protected telescopic catheter also allows anaerobic bacteria isolation in patients with ventilatory-acquired pneumonia

René Robert, Hodanou Nanadoumgar, Delphine Chatellier, Anne Veinstein, Jean-Pierre Frat, Ghislaine Grollier

Levels of vancomycin in the cerebral interstitial fluid after severe head injury

Anselmo Caricato, Mariano Pennisi, Aldo Mancino, Gianluca Vigna, Claudio Sandroni, Andrea Arcangeli, Massimo Antonelli

Ventricular unloading with a miniature axial flow pump in combination with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Dirk Vlasselaers, Matthias Desmet, Lars Desmet, Bart Meyns, Joseph Dens

Is lung ultrasound superior to CT? The example of a CT occult necrotizing pneumonia

Daniel Lichtenstein, Olivier Peyrouset

Acute liver failure as the first manifestation of severe traumatic tricuspid valve insufficiency

Apostolos Koroneos, John Vlachogiannakos, Konstantinos Stamoulis, Georgios Tassopoulos, Panagiotis Politis, Ioannis Floros, Charis Roussos

Pneumococcus pneumoniae infection and Guillain–Barré syndrome: fortuitous or specific association?

Giorgia Bianchi, Guido Domenighetti

Both sides of the story – cerebral infarction after intra-abdominal bleeding

D. Hasper, C. Storm, D. Seehofer, K. T. Hoffmann, M. Oppert, A. Krüger

Supply and demand of organs for donation

Antonino M. Grande

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