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Critical Care

Ausgabe 2/2010

Inhalt (107 Artikel)

Review

Clinical review: Practical recommendations on the management of perioperative heart failure in cardiac surgery

Alexandre Mebazaa, Antonis A Pitsis, Alain Rudiger, Wolfgang Toller, Dan Longrois, Sven-Erik Ricksten, Ilona Bobek, Stefan De Hert, Georg Wieselthaler, Uwe Schirmer, Ludwig K von Segesser, Michael Sander, Don Poldermans, Marco Ranucci, Peter CJ Karpati, Patrick Wouters, Manfred Seeberger, Edith R Schmid, Walter Weder, Ferenc Follath

Review

Clinical review: Scoring systems in the critically ill

Jean-Louis Vincent, Rui Moreno

Review

Choosing patient-tailored hemodynamic monitoring

Cornelis Slagt, Rose-Marieke BGE Breukers, AB Johan Groeneveld

Review

Role of CD14 in lung inflammation and infection

Adam Anas, Tom van der Poll, Alex F de Vos

Review

New and conventional strategies for lung recruitment in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Paolo Pelosi, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Patricia RM Rocco

Review

Weaning failure of cardiac origin: recent advances

Jean-Louis Teboul, Xavier Monnet, Christian Richard

Review

Prevention of central venous catheter-related infection in the intensive care unit

Denis Frasca, Claire Dahyot-Fizelier, Olivier Mimoz

Review

Venous oxygen saturation as a physiologic transfusion trigger

Benoit Vallet, Emmanuel Robin, Gilles Lebuffe

Review

Renal dysfunction in chronic liver disease

Andy Slack, Andrew Yeoman, Julia Wendon

Review

Cerebral perfusion in sepsis

Christoph S Burkhart, Martin Siegemund, Luzius A Steiner

Review

Laparostomy: why and when?

Ari K Leppäniemi

Commentary

New versus old blood - the debate continues

John Laurie, Duncan Wyncoll, Claire Harrison

Letter

Relatives' evaluation in older patient's quality of life

Jean-Pierre Tourtier, Ghislain Edjo Nkilly, Karim Tazarourte

Commentary

Patients with diabetes in the intensive care unit; not served by treatment, yet protected?

Sarah E Siegelaar, J Hans Devries, Joost B Hoekstra

Commentary

Fish oil-containing lipid emulsions in patients with sepsis

Konstantin Mayer, Werner Seeger

Letter

Non-invasive ventilation for critically ill patients with pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus infection

Silvio A Ñamendys-Silva, Marisol Hernández-Garay, Eduardo Rivero-Sigarroa

Journal club critique

The role of noninvasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema

Ashar Salman, Eric B Milbrandt, Michael R Pinsky

Open Access Research

Prolonged mechanical ventilation in a respiratory-care setting: a comparison of outcome between tracheostomized and translaryngeal intubated patients

Yao-Kuang Wu, Ying-Huang Tsai, Chou-Chin Lan, Chun-Yao Huang, Chih-Hsin Lee, Kuo-Chin Kao, Jui-Ying Fu

Review

Bench-to-bedside review: Bacterial pneumonia with influenza - pathogenesis and clinical implications

Koenraad F van der Sluijs, Tom van der Poll, René Lutter, Nicole P Juffermans, Marcus J Schultz

Commentary

Disaster medicine: the caring contradiction

David Crippen, Charles Krin, Dean Lorich, Ken Mattox

Commentary

The kinetics of T regulatory cells in shock: beyond sepsis

Eirini Christaki, Eleni Patrozou

Open Access Research

Gram-negative bacteremia induces greater magnitude of inflammatory response than Gram-positive bacteremia

Ryuzo Abe, Shigeto Oda, Tomohito Sadahiro, Masataka Nakamura, Yo Hirayama, Yoshihisa Tateishi, Koichiro Shinozaki, Hiroyuki Hirasawa

Open Access Research

Influence of Factor V Leiden on susceptibility to and outcome from critical illness: a genetic association study

Thomas Benfield, Karen Ejrnæs, Klaus Juul, Christian Østergaard, Jannik Helweg-Larsen, Nina Weis, Lea Munthe-Fog, Gitte Kronborg, Marianne Ring Andersen, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Børge G Nordestgaard, Peter Garred

Book report

Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Luc Rondelez, Philippe Van der Linden

Commentary

Can heterogeneity in ventilation be good?

Eduardo LV Costa, Marcelo BP Amato

Open Access Research

Preadmission statin use and one-year mortality among patients in intensive care - A cohort study

Steffen Christensen, Reimar W Thomsen, Martin B Johansen, Lars Pedersen, Reinhold Jensen, Kim M Larsen, Anders Larsson, Else Tønnesen, Henrik Toft Sørensen

Commentary

Cardiac arrest - has the time of MRI come?

Damien Galanaud, Louis Puybasset

Open Access Research

Intensive care unit-acquired infection as a side effect of sedation

Saad Nseir, Demosthenes Makris, Daniel Mathieu, Alain Durocher, Charles-Hugo Marquette

Open Access Research

Ischemia as a possible effect of increased intra-abdominal pressure on central nervous system cytokines, lactate and perfusion pressures

Athanasios Marinis, Eriphili Argyra, Pavlos Lykoudis, Paraskevas Brestas, Kassiani Theodoraki, Georgios Polymeneas, Efstathios Boviatsis, Dionysios Voros

Open Access Research

Infections of respiratory or abdominal origin in ICU patients: what are the differences?

Elena Volakli, Claudia Spies, Argyris Michalopoulos, AB Johan Groeneveld, Yasser Sakr, Jean-Louis Vincent

Journal club critique

Intensivists: don't quit your day job...yet!

Gregory A Watson, Louis H Alarcon

Open Access Research

Regional lung aeration and ventilation during pressure support and biphasic positive airway pressure ventilation in experimental lung injury

Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Maximiliano Cuevas, Peter M Spieth, Alysson R Carvalho, Volker Hietschold, Christian Stroszczynski, Bärbel Wiedemann, Thea Koch, Paolo Pelosi, Edmund Koch

Open Access Research

Eicosapentaenoic acid preserves diaphragm force generation following endotoxin administration

Gerald S Supinski, Jonas Vanags, Leigh Ann Callahan

Open Access Research

Alveolar fluid clearance in healthy pigs and influence of positive end-expiratory pressure

Manuel García-Delgado, Ángel Touma-Fernández, Virginia Chamorro-Marín, Antonio Ruiz-Aguilar, Eduardo Aguilar-Alonso, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar

Open Access Research

Bedside adherence to clinical practice guidelines for enteral nutrition in critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation: a prospective, multi-centre, observational study

Jean-Pierre Quenot, Gaetan Plantefeve, Jean-Luc Baudel, Isabelle Camilatto, Emmanuelle Bertholet, Romain Cailliod, Jean Reignier, Jean-Philippe Rigaud

Open Access Research

Effect of dexmedetomidine versus lorazepam on outcome in patients with sepsis: an a priori-designed analysis of the MENDS randomized controlled trial

Pratik P Pandharipande, Robert D Sanders, Timothy D Girard, Stuart McGrane, Jennifer L Thompson, Ayumi K Shintani, Daniel L Herr, Mervyn Maze, E Wesley Ely

Commentary

Leptin in sepsis: a well-suited biomarker in critically ill patients?

Rodolfo Leonel Bracho-Riquelme, Miguel Arturo Reyes-Romero

Letter

Cytokine profiles of suction pulmonary secretions from children infected with pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009

Hisashi Kawashima, Soken Go, Yasuyo Kashiwagi, Yasuyuki Morishima, Taro Miura, Masanobu Ushio, Shigeo Nishimata, Kouji Takekuma

Open Access Research

Mechanical ventilation with high tidal volume induces inflammation in patients without lung disease

Roselaine Pinheiro de Oliveira, Marcio Pereira Hetzel, Mauro dos Anjos Silva, Daniele Dallegrave, Gilberto Friedman

Open Access Research

Resuscitation with low volume hydroxyethylstarch 130 kDa/0.4 is not associated with acute kidney injury

Nicolas Boussekey, Raphaël Darmon, Joachim Langlois, Serge Alfandari, Patrick Devos, Agnes Meybeck, Arnaud Chiche, Hugues Georges, Olivier Leroy

Open Access Research

Enoxaparin, effective dosage for intensive care patients: double-blinded, randomised clinical trial

Sian Robinson, Aleksander Zincuk, Thomas Strøm, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen, Bjarne Rasmussen, Palle Toft

Review

Clinical review: What is the role for autopsy in the ICU?

Greet Yvonne Agnes De Vlieger, Elien Marie Jeanne Lia Mahieu, Wouter Meersseman

Review

Bench-to-bedside review: Carbon dioxide

Gerard Curley, John G Laffey, Brian P Kavanagh

Commentary

Clinical features of H1N1 2009 infection in critically ill immunocompromised patients

Laurent Camous, Virginie Lemiale, Emmanuel Canet, Adeline Max, David Schnell, Jerome Le Goff, Antoine Rabbat, Benoit Schlemmer, Élie Azoulay

Open Access Research

Pulmonary edema and blood volume after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective observational study

Reinier G Hoff, Gabriel JE Rinkel, Bon H Verweij, Ale Algra, Cor J Kalkman

Open Access Research

Prediction of hospital outcome in septic shock: a prospective comparison of tissue Doppler and cardiac biomarkers

David J Sturgess, Thomas H Marwick, Chris Joyce, Carly Jenkins, Mark Jones, Paul Masci, David Stewart, Bala Venkatesh

Open Access Research

Renal hypoperfusion and impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation in an animal model of VILI: the role of the peroxynitrite-PARP pathway

Rosanna Vaschetto, Jan W Kuiper, René JP Musters, Etto C Eringa, Francesco Della Corte, Kanneganti Murthy, AB Johan Groeneveld, Frans B Plötz

Open Access Research

Cost of acute renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: results from The Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Study

Nattachai Srisawat, Loredo Lawsin, Shigehiko Uchino, Rinaldo Bellomo, John A Kellum

Open Access Research

Prognostic value of cell-free plasma DNA in patients with cardiac arrest outside the hospital: an observational cohort study

Francisco Arnalich, Marta Menéndez, Verónica Lagos, Enrique Ciria, Angustias Quesada, Rosa Codoceo, Juan José Vazquez, Eduardo López-Collazo, Carmen Montiel

Open Access Research

Elderly patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in and out of intensive care units: a comparative, prospective study of 579 ventilations

David Lieberman, Liat Nachshon, Oleg Miloslavsky, Valery Dvorkin, Avi Shimoni, Julian Zelinger, Michael Friger, Devora Lieberman

Letter

Freeze dried plasma: a French army specialty

Jean Louis Daban, Patrick Clapson, Sylvain Ausset, Anne V Deshayes, Anne Sailliol

Open Access Research

Matrix-metalloproteinase-2, -8 and -9 in serum and skin blister fluid in patients with severe sepsis

Fiia P Gäddnäs, Meeri M Sutinen, Marjo Koskela, Taina Tervahartiala, Timo Sorsa, Tuula A Salo, Jouko J Laurila, Vesa Koivukangas, Tero I Ala-Kokko, Aarne Oikarinen

Open Access Research

Impaired cerebrovascular reactivity in sepsis-associated encephalopathy studied by acetazolamide test

Szilárd Szatmári, Tamás Végh, Ákos Csomós, Judit Hallay, István Takács, Csilla Molnár, Béla Fülesdi

Journal club critique

Is albumin use SAFE in patients with traumatic brain injury?

Christopher R Brackney, Luis A Diaz, Eric B Milbrandt, Ali Al-Khafaji, Joseph M Darby

Open Access Research

Prospective monitoring of cefepime in intensive care unit adult patients

Thomas M Chapuis, Eric Giannoni, Paul A Majcherczyk, René Chioléro, Marie-Denise Schaller, Mette M Berger, Saskia Bolay, Laurent A Décosterd, Denis Bugnon, Philippe Moreillon

Letter

A plea for balanced reporting

Mervyn Singer

Open Access Research

Management of bleeding following major trauma: an updated European guideline

Rolf Rossaint, Bertil Bouillon, Vladimir Cerny, Timothy J Coats, Jacques Duranteau, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar, Beverley J Hunt, Radko Komadina, Giuseppe Nardi, Edmund Neugebauer, Yves Ozier, Louis Riddez, Arthur Schultz, Philip F Stahel, Jean-Louis Vincent, Donat R Spahn

Letter

Vacuum-assisted closure device in intensive care unit patients and dissemination of Gram-negative bacteria

Metaxia N Papanikolaou, Margarita Balla, Panagiotis G Drimousis, Anna Xanthaki, Athanasia Tsirigga, Aikaterini A Charalambous

Open Access Research

Revisiting the loading dose of amikacin for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock

Fabio Silvio Taccone, Pierre-François Laterre, Herbert Spapen, Thierry Dugernier, Isabelle Delattre, Brice Layeux, Daniel De Backer, Xavier Wittebole, Pierre Wallemacq, Jean-Louis Vincent, Frédérique Jacobs

Journal club critique

Ave, CESAR, morituri te salutant! (Hail, CESAR, those who are about to die salute you!)

David J Wallace, Eric B Milbrandt, Arthur Boujoukos

Open Access Research

Drotrecogin alfa (activated) may attenuate severe sepsis-associated encephalopathy in clinical septic shock

Herbert Spapen, Duc Nam Nguyen, Joris Troubleyn, Luc Huyghens, Johan Schiettecatte

Open Access Research

Goal-directed coagulation management of major trauma patients using thromboelastometry (ROTEM®)-guided administration of fibrinogen concentrate and prothrombin complex concentrate

Herbert Schöchl, Ulrike Nienaber, Georg Hofer, Wolfgang Voelckel, Csilla Jambor, Gisela Scharbert, Sibylle Kozek-Langenecker, Cristina Solomon

Open Access Research

Association between length of storage of red blood cell units and outcome of critically ill children: a prospective observational study

Oliver Karam, Marisa Tucci, Scot T Bateman, Thierry Ducruet, Philip C Spinella, Adrienne G Randolph, Jacques Lacroix

Open Access Research

Nicotine withdrawal and agitation in ventilated critically ill patients

Olivier Lucidarme, Amélie Seguin, Cédric Daubin, Michel Ramakers, Nicolas Terzi, Patrice Beck, Pierre Charbonneau, Damien du Cheyron

Open Access Research

A systematic review of the impact of sedation practice in the ICU on resource use, costs and patient safety

Daniel L Jackson, Clare W Proudfoot, Kimberley F Cann, Tim Walsh

Open Access Research

One-year mortality, quality of life and predicted life-time cost-utility in critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure

Rita Linko, Raili Suojaranta-Ylinen, Sari Karlsson, Esko Ruokonen, Tero Varpula, Ville Pettilä

Letter

Noise levels produced by high-frequency oscillation

Matt PG Morgan, Nicki Haskins

Open Access Research

Differential down-regulation of HLA-DR on monocyte subpopulations during systemic inflammation

Oh Yoen Kim, Antoine Monsel, Michèle Bertrand, Pierre Coriat, Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Minou Adib-Conquy

Open Access Research

Effects of different fibrinogen concentrations on blood loss and coagulation parameters in a pig model of coagulopathy with blunt liver injury

Oliver Grottke, Till Braunschweig, Dietrich Henzler, Mark Coburn, Rene Tolba, Rolf Rossaint

Open Access Research

Low hemoglobin is associated with poor functional outcome after non-traumatic, supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage

Jennifer Diedler, Marek Sykora, Philipp Hahn, Kristin Heerlein, Marion N Schölzke, Lars Kellert, Julian Bösel, Sven Poli, Thorsten Steiner

Open Access Research

Inter-rater reliability of the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness score and the Glasgow Coma Scale in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study

Michael Fischer, Stephan Rüegg, Adam Czaplinski, Monika Strohmeier, Angelika Lehmann, Franziska Tschan, Patrick R Hunziker, Stephan C Marsch

Open Access Research

Activated protein C ameliorates coagulopathy but does not influence outcome in lethal H1N1 influenza: a controlled laboratory study

Marcel Schouten, Koenraad F van der Sluijs, Bruce Gerlitz, Brian W Grinnell, Joris JTH Roelofs, Marcel M Levi, Cornelis van 't Veer, Tom van der Poll

Open Access Research

Effects of earplugs and eye masks on nocturnal sleep, melatonin and cortisol in a simulated intensive care unit environment

Rong-fang Hu, Xiao-ying Jiang, Yi-ming Zeng, Xiao-yang Chen, You-hua Zhang

Open Access Research

Pre-existing disease: the most important factor for health related quality of life long-term after critical illness: a prospective, longitudinal, multicentre trial

Lotti Orwelius, Anders Nordlund, Peter Nordlund, Eva Simonsson, Carl Bäckman, Anders Samuelsson, Folke Sjöberg

Open Access Research

Febrile neutropenia in French emergency departments: results of a prospective multicentre survey

Stéphanie André, Pierre Taboulet, Caroline Elie, Noël Milpied, Michel Nahon, Gérald Kierzek, Mariève Billemont, Franck Perruche, Sandrine Charpentier, Hélène Clément, Jean-Louis Pourriat, Yann-Erick Claessens

Open Access Research

Mild therapeutic hypothermia alters neuron specific enolase as an outcome predictor after resuscitation: 97 prospective hypothermia patients compared to 133 historical non-hypothermia patients

Ingo G Steffen, Dietrich Hasper, Christoph J Ploner, Joerg C Schefold, Ekkehart Dietz, Frank Martens, Jens Nee, Anne Krueger, Achim Jörres, Christian Storm

Open Access Research

Inhaled activated protein C protects mice from ventilator-induced lung injury

Nikolaos A Maniatis, Eleftheria Letsiou, Stylianos E Orfanos, Matina Kardara, Ioanna Dimopoulou, Georgios Nakos, Marilena E Lekka, Charalambos Roussos, Apostolos Armaganidis, Anastasia Kotanidou

Open Access Research

Effect of an analgo-sedation protocol for neurointensive patients: a two-phase interventional non-randomized pilot study

Ingrid Egerod, Malene Brorsen Jensen, Suzanne Forsyth Herling, Karen-Lise Welling

Open Access Research

Prophylactic anticoagulation to prevent venous thromboembolism in traumatic intracranial hemorrhage: a decision analysis

Damon C Scales, Jay Riva-Cambrin, Dave Wells, Valerie Athaide, John T Granton, Allan S Detsky

Open Access Research

Electrical muscle stimulation prevents critical illness polyneuromyopathy: a randomized parallel intervention trial

Christina Routsi, Vasiliki Gerovasili, Ioannis Vasileiadis, Eleftherios Karatzanos, Theodore Pitsolis, Elli Tripodaki, Vasiliki Markaki, Dimitrios Zervakis, Serafim Nanas

Open Access Research

Insulin like growth factor-I in acute subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective cohort study

Stepani Bendel, Timo Koivisto, Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, Esko Ruokonen, Jarkko Romppanen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Ari Uusaro

Open Access Research

A recruitment maneuver increases oxygenation after intubation of hypoxemic intensive care unit patients: a randomized controlled study

Jean-Michel Constantin, Emmanuel Futier, Anne-Laure Cherprenet, Gérald Chanques, Renaud Guerin, Sophie Cayot-Constantin, Mathieu Jabaudon, Sebastien Perbet, Christian Chartier, Boris Jung, Dominique Guelon, Samir Jaber, Jean-Etienne Bazin

Open Access Research

Delta inflation: a bias in the design of randomized controlled trials in critical care medicine

Scott K Aberegg, D Roxanne Richards, James M O'Brien

Open Access Research

Enhanced protein-energy provision via the enteral route in critically ill patients: a single center feasibility trial of the PEP uP protocol

Daren K Heyland, Naomi E Cahill, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Miao Wang, Andrew G Day, Ahmed Alenzi, Fiona Aris, John Muscedere, John W Drover, Stephen A McClave

Open Access Research

4G/5G polymorphism of PAI-1 gene is associated with multiple organ dysfunction and septic shock in pneumonia induced severe sepsis: prospective, observational, genetic study

Krisztina Madách, István Aladzsity, Ágnes Szilágyi, George Fust, János Gál, István Pénzes, Zoltán Prohászka

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