Ausgabe 2/2011
Inhalt (109 Artikel)
Resuscitation of the trauma patient: tell me a trigger for early haemostatic resuscitation please!
Matthew J Reed, Nazir Lone, Timothy S Walsh
Respiratory support withdrawal in intensive care units: international differences stressed and straightened!
Jelle L Epker, Yorick J de Groot, Erwin J Kompanje
Should we abandon manual muscle strength testing in the ICU?
Greet Hermans, Rik Gosselink
Recombinant factor VIIa and factor VIII treatment for acquired factor VIII deficiency: a case of repeated thrombotic endotracheal occlusion in a mechanically ventilated patient
Stefan Lauer, Martin Westphal, Lars G Fischer, Andreas Meißner, Hugo Van Aken, Hendrik Freise
How did you sleep in the ICU?
Laetitia Franck, Jean-Pierre Tourtier, Nicolas Libert, Laurent Grasser, Yves Auroy
Erythropoietin for stroke treatment: dead or alive?
Jens Minnerup, Heike Wersching, Wolf-Rüdiger Schäbitz
The role of receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE) in infection
Marieke AD van Zoelen, Ahmed Achouiti, Tom van der Poll
Hypoxia-inducible factors and the prevention of acute organ injury
Samuel N Heyman, Seymour Rosen, Christian Rosenberger
Iron deficiency in critically ill patients: highlighting the role of hepcidin
Nicholas Heming, Philippe Montravers, Sigismond Lasocki
Can 'permissive' hypercapnia modulate the severity of sepsis-induced ALI/ARDS?
Gerard Curley, Mairead Hayes, John G Laffey
The microcirculation of the critically ill pediatric patient
Anke PC Top, Robert C Tasker, Can Ince
Cardiac output monitoring: an integrative perspective
Jamal A Alhashemi, Maurizio Cecconi, Christoph K Hofer
New treatment options against gram-negative organisms
Matteo Bassetti, Francesca Ginocchio, Malgorzata Mikulska
Access block and emergency department overcrowding
Roberto Forero, Sally McCarthy, Ken Hillman
The need for standardized data reporting for prehospital airway management
Daniel P Davis
A pseudo-Rumsfeldian approach to pleural effusions in mechanically ventilated patients
Jonathan Ball
Utile or futile: biomarkers in the ICU
Cathrin Balmelli, Beatrice Drexler, Christian Mueller
Cytomegalovirus infection monitored by quantitative real-time PCR in critically ill patients
Julien Bordes, Tiphaine Gaillard, Jérôme Maslin, Pierre Esnault, Philippe Goutorbe, Patrick Brisou
Selective digestive decontamination is superior to selective oropharyngeal decontamination
Luciano Silvestri, Nia Taylor, Durk F Zandstra, Hendrick KF van Saene
Procalcitonin and C-reactive protein levels at admission as predictors of duration of acute brain dysfunction in critically ill patients
Stuart McGrane, Timothy D Girard, Jennifer L Thompson, Ayumi K Shintani, Alison Woodworth, E Wesley Ely, Pratik P Pandharipande
Impact of de-escalation therapy on clinical outcomes for intensive care unit-acquired pneumonia
Kyong Mi Joung, Jeong-a Lee, Soo-youn Moon, Hae Suk Cheong, Eun-Jeong Joo, Young-Eun Ha, Kyung Mok Sohn, Seung Min Chung, Gee Young Suh, Doo Ryeon Chung, Jae-Hoon Song, Kyong Ran Peck
Assessment of fluid responsiveness during increased intra-abdominal pressure: keep the indices, but change the thresholds
Benoit Tavernier, Emmanuel Robin
Extracorporeal cell therapy of septic shock patients with donor granulocytes: a pilot study
Jens Altrichter, Martin Sauer, Katharina Kaftan, Thomas Birken, Doris Gloger, Martin Gloger, Jörg Henschel, Heiko Hickstein, Ernst Klar, Sebastian Koball, Annette Pertschy, Gabriele Nöldge-Schomburg, Dierk A Vagts, Steffen R Mitzner
When pressure does not mean volume? Body mass index may account for the dissociation
Vito Fanelli, Marco V Ranieri
Inspiratory muscle strength training improves weaning outcome in failure to wean patients: a randomized trial
A Daniel Martin, Barbara K Smith, Paul D Davenport, Eloise Harman, Ricardo J Gonzalez-Rothi, Maher Baz, A Joseph Layon, Michael J Banner, Lawrence J Caruso, Harsha Deoghare, Tseng-Tien Huang, Andrea Gabrielli
Early corticosteroid treatment for severe pneumonia caused by 2009 H1N1 influenza virus
Hong-Ryang Kil, Jae-Ho Lee, Kyung-Yil Lee, Jung-Woo Rhim, You-Sook Youn, Jin-Han Kang
Respiratory pulse pressure variation fails to predict fluid responsiveness in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Karim Lakhal, Stephan Ehrmann, Dalila Benzekri-Lefèvre, Isabelle Runge, Annick Legras, Pierre-François Dequin, Emmanuelle Mercier, Michel Wolff, Bernard Régnier, Thierry Boulain
Vascular pedicle width in acute lung injury: correlation with intravascular pressures and ability to discriminate fluid status
Todd W Rice, Lorraine B Ware, Edward F Haponik, Caroline Chiles, Arthur P Wheeler, Gordon R Bernard, Jay S Steingrub, Duncan R Hite, Michael A Matthay, Patrick Wright, Wesley E Ely
Multinational, observational study of procalcitonin in ICU patients with pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicenter observational study
Frank Bloos, John C Marshall, Richard P Dellinger, Jean-Louis Vincent, Guillermo Gutierrez, Emanuel Rivers, Robert A Balk, Pierre-Francois Laterre, Derek C Angus, Konrad Reinhart, Frank M Brunkhorst
Pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation and dynamic arterial elastance
Raphael Giraud, Nils Siegenthaler, Karim Bendjelid
Arterial hyperoxia and in-hospital mortality after resuscitation from cardiac arrest
Rinaldo Bellomo, Michael Bailey, Glenn M Eastwood, Alistair Nichol, David Pilcher, Graeme K Hart, Michael C Reade, Moritoki Egi, James D Cooper
Acute respiratory failure in kidney transplant recipients: a multicenter study
Emmanuel Canet, David Osman, Jérome Lambert, Christophe Guitton, Anne-Elisabeth Heng, Laurent Argaud, Kada Klouche, Georges Mourad, Christophe Legendre, Jean-François Timsit, Eric Rondeau, Maryvonne Hourmant, Antoine Durrbach, Denis Glotz, Bertrand Souweine, Benoît Schlemmer, Elie Azoulay
Is cytomegalovirus reactivation increasing the mortality of patients with severe sepsis?
Andre C Kalil, Diana F Florescu
The acute management of trauma hemorrhage: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
Nicola Curry, Sally Hopewell, Carolyn Dorée, Chris Hyde, Karim Brohi, Simon Stanworth
Acute and critically ill peripartum cardiomyopathy and 'bridge to' therapeutic options: a single center experience with intra-aortic balloon pump, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation and continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices
Sofie Gevaert, Yves Van Belleghem, Stefaan Bouchez, Ingrid Herck, Filip De Somer, Yasmina De Block, Fiona Tromp, Els Vandecasteele, Floor Martens, Michel De Pauw
Corticosteroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia: the path we choose depends on where we want to get
Jorge IF Salluh, Márcio Soares, Pedro Póvoa
Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) in sepsis with acute renal dysfunction (ARD)
Susann A Patschan, Daniel Patschan, Johanna Temme, Peter Korsten, Johannes T Wessels, Michael Koziolek, Elvira Henze, Gerhard A Müller
Effect of corticosteroids on the clinical course of community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial
Silvia Fernández-Serrano, Jordi Dorca, Carolina Garcia-Vidal, Núria Fernández-Sabé, Jordi Carratalà, Ana Fernández-Agüera, Mercè Corominas, Susana Padrones, Francesc Gudiol, Frederic Manresa
Clinical review: Optimal dose of continuous renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury
John R Prowle, Antoine Schneider, Rinaldo Bellomo
Beyond volutrauma in ARDS: the critical role of lung tissue deformation
Guillermo M Albaiceta, Lluis Blanch
Magnesium sulfate for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: the end of the road or more trials?
Mervyn DI Vergouwen
Virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome as a major contributor to death in patients with 2009 influenza A (H1N1) infection
Gernot Beutel, Olaf Wiesner, Matthias Eder, Carsten Hafer, Andrea S Schneider, Jan T Kielstein, Christian Kühn, Albert Heim, Tina Ganzenmüller, Hans-Heinrich Kreipe, Axel Haverich, Andreas Tecklenburg, Arnold Ganser, Tobias Welte, Marius M Hoeper
Transfusion in trauma: thromboelastometry-guided coagulation factor concentrate-based therapy versus standard fresh frozen plasma-based therapy
Herbert Schöchl, Ulrike Nienaber, Marc Maegele, Gerald Hochleitner, Florian Primavesi, Beatrice Steitz, Christian Arndt, Alexander Hanke, Wolfgang Voelckel, Cristina Solomon
Of mice and men (and sheep, swine etc.): The intriguing hemodynamic and metabolic effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
Katja Wagner, Michael Georgieff, Pierre Asfar, Enrico Calzia, Markus W Knöferl, Peter Radermacher
Hypothermia, immune suppression and SDD: can we have our cake and eat it?
Kees H Polderman
Preadmission beta-blocker use and 30-day mortality among patients in intensive care: a cohort study
Steffen Christensen, Martin Berg Johansen, Else Tønnesen, Anders Larsson, Lars Pedersen, Stanley Lemeshow, Henrik Toft Sørensen
Erratum to: Clinical review: Prothrombin complex concentrates - evaluation of safety and thrombogenicity
Benny Sørensen, Donat R Spahn, Petra Innerhofer, Michael Spannagl, Rolf Rossaint
Erratum to: Bedside quantification of dead-space fraction using routine clinical data in patients with acute lung injury: secondary analysis of two prospective trials
Hassan Siddiki, Marija Kojicic, Guangxi Li, Murat Yilmaz, Taylor B Thompson, Rolf D Hubmayr, Ognjen Gajic
Assessment of disease-severity scoring systems for patients with sepsis in general internal medicine departments
Nesrin O Ghanem-Zoubi, Moshe Vardi, Arie Laor, Gabriel Weber, Haim Bitterman
Ultrasound-guided tracheostomy - not for the many, but perhaps the few... or the one
Lorraine N Tremblay, Damon C Scales
Out-of-hospital CPR: better outcome for our patients
Enrica Golia, Maddalena Piro, Marco Tubaro
Why do pulse pressure variations fail to predict the response to fluids in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients ventilated with low tidal volume?
Daniel De Backer, Sabino Scolletta
Programmed death-1 levels correlate with increased mortality, nosocomial infection and immune dysfunctions in septic shock patients
Caroline Guignant, Alain Lepape, Xin Huang, Hakim Kherouf, Laure Denis, Françoise Poitevin, Christophe Malcus, Aurélie Chéron, Bernard Allaouchiche, François Gueyffier, Alfred Ayala, Guillaume Monneret, Fabienne Venet
Prolonged mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients: epidemiology, outcomes and modelling the potential cost consequences of establishing a regional weaning unit
Nazir I Lone, Timothy S Walsh
The prognostic value of markers of right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary embolism: a meta-analysis
Guillaume Coutance, Emmanuelle Cauderlier, Javed Ehtisham, Michèle Hamon, Martial Hamon
Functional status and quality of life 12 months after discharge from a medical ICU in healthy elderly patients: a prospective observational study
Emilio Sacanella, Joan Manel Pérez-Castejón, Josep Maria Nicolás, Ferran Masanés, Marga Navarro, Pedro Castro, Alfonso López-Soto
Microsphere contrast echocardiography in the critical care complex
David G Platts, John F Fraser
Psychological intervention to prevent ICU-related PTSD: who, when and for how long?
Rob Hatch, Stuart McKechnie, John Griffiths
European legislation impedes critical care research and fails to protect patients' rights
Ronan MG Berg, Kirsten Møller, Peter J Hancke Rossel
Relationship between time to target temperature and outcome in patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest
Moritz Haugk, Christoph Testori, Fritz Sterz, Maximilian Uranitsch, Michael Holzer, Wilhelm Behringer, Harald Herkner
Short-term effects of high-dose oral vitamin D3 in critically ill vitamin D deficient patients: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study
Karin Amrein, Harald Sourij, Gerit Wagner, Alexander Holl, Thomas R Pieber, Karl Heinz Smolle, Tatjana Stojakovic, Christian Schnedl, Harald Dobnig
Therapeutic hypothermia post out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - more questions than answers?
Richard Lyon
Inspiratory muscle training in difficult to wean patients: work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger
Stefano Nava, Luca Fasano
Life expectancies and incidence rates of patients under prolonged mechanical ventilation: a population-based study during 1998 to 2007 in Taiwan
Mei-Chuan Hung, Hsin-Ming Lu, Likwang Chen, Fu-Chang Hu, Soa-Yu Chan, Yuan-Horng Yan, Po-Sheng Fan, Ming-Shian Lin, Cheng-Ren Chen, Lu-Cheng Kuo, Chong-Jen Yu, Jung-Der Wang
A national study of plasma use in critical care: clinical indications, dose and effect on prothrombin time
Simon J Stanworth, Timothy S Walsh, Robin J Prescott, Robert J Lee, Douglas M Watson, Duncan Wyncoll
Erratum to: Early intra-intensive care unit psychological intervention promotes recovery from post traumatic stress disorders, anxiety and depression symptoms in critically ill patients
Adriano Peris, Manuela Bonizzoli, Dario Iozzelli, Maria Luisa Migliaccio, Giovanni Zagli, Alberto Bacchereti, Marta Debolini, Elisetta Vannini, Massimo Solaro, Ilaria Balzi, Elisa Bendoni, Ilaria Bacchi, Monica Trevisan, Valtere Giovannini, Laura Belloni
In critically ill patients the procalcitonin level can be misleading
Jacqueline Koeze, MG Ron Hendrix, Frank AJTM van den Bergh, René ML Brouwer, Jan G Zijlstra
Older patients in the ICU: a cautious analysis of epidemiologic data is required
Thomas Fassier, Antoine Duclos
Diagnosis of invasive bronchial-pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive respiratory diseases
Pierre Bulpa, Alain Dive
Combination of lung ultrasound (a comet-tail sign) and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in differentiating acute heart failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma as cause of acute dyspnea in prehospital emergency setting
Gregor Prosen, Petra Klemen, Matej Strnad, Štefek Grmec
Surfactant protein genetics in community-acquired pneumonia: balancing the host inflammatory state
Joanna Floros, Neal J Thomas
High-dose tranexamic acid reduces blood loss in postpartum haemorrhage
Anne-Sophie Ducloy-Bouthors, Brigitte Jude, Alain Duhamel, Françoise Broisin, Cyril Huissoud, Hawa Keita-Meyer, Laurent Mandelbrot, Nadia Tillouche, Sylvie Fontaine, Françoise Le Goueff, Sandrine Depret-Mosser, Benoit Vallet, Sophie Susen
Clinical review: Intrapericardial fibrinolysis in management of purulent pericarditis
Pascal Augustin, Mathieu Desmard, Pierre Mordant, Sigismond Lasocki, Jean-Michel Maury, Nicholas Heming, Philippe Montravers
Controversies in acute kidney injury: the 2011 Brussels Roundtable
John A Kellum, Claudio Ronco
Clinical review: Adiponectin biology and its role in inflammation and critical illness
Katherine Robinson, John Prins, Bala Venkatesh
Distinction between induction and maintenance dosing in continuous renal replacement therapy
Graeme MacLaren
Genetic variation of TLR4 influences immunoendocrine stress response: an observational study in cardiac surgical patients
Alexander Koch, Lutz Hamann, Matthias Schott, Olaf Boehm, Dirk Grotemeyer, Muhammed Kurt, Carsten Schwenke, Ralf R Schumann, Stefan R Bornstein, Kai Zacharowski
Impact of ureido/carboxypenicillin resistance on the prognosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Catherine Kaminski, Jean-François Timsit, Yohann Dubois, Jean-Ralph Zahar, Maïté Garrouste-Orgeas, Aurélien Vesin, Elie Azoulay, Céline Feger, Anne-Sylvie Dumenil, Christophe Adrie, Yves Cohen, Bernard Allaouchiche
Activation of factor VII-activating protease in human inflammation: a sensor for cell death
Femke Stephan, Jan A Hazelzet, Ingrid Bulder, Marja A Boermeester, JW Olivier van Till, Tom van der Poll, Walter A Wuillemin, Lucien A Aarden, Sacha Zeerleder
Extremes of weight centile are associated with increased risk of mortality in pediatric intensive care
Andrew Numa, John McAweeney, Gary Williams, John Awad, Hari Ravindranathan
An evidence-based recommendation on bed head elevation for mechanically ventilated patients
Barbara S Niël-Weise, Petra Gastmeier, Axel Kola, Ralf P Vonberg, Jan C Wille, Peterhans J van den Broek
Thrombomodulin phenotype of a distinct monocyte subtype is an independent prognostic marker for disseminated intravascular coagulation
Sang Mee Hwang, Ji-Eun Kim, Kyou-Sup Han, Hyun Kyung Kim
Age of red blood cells and mortality in the critically ill
Ville Pettilä, Andrew J Westbrook, Alistair D Nichol, Michael J Bailey, Erica M Wood, Gillian Syres, Louise E Phillips, Alison Street, Craig French, Lynnette Murray, Neil Orford, John D Santamaria, Rinaldo Bellomo, David J Cooper
Transpulmonary thermodilution for hemodynamic measurements in severely burned children
Ludwik K Branski, David N Herndon, Jaron F Byrd, Michael P Kinsky, Jong O Lee, Shawn P Fagan, Marc G Jeschke
Soluble triggering receptor on myeloid cells-1 is expressed in the course of non-infectious inflammation after traumatic lung contusion: a prospective cohort study
Tobias M Bingold, Barbara Pullmann, Sven Sartorius, Emanuel V Geiger, Ingo Marzi, Kai Zacharowski, Heimo Wissing, Bertram Scheller
Unplanned extubation in the ICU: a marker of quality assurance of mechanical ventilation
Óscar Peñuelas, Fernando Frutos-Vivar, Andrés Esteban
Cytomegalovirus reactivation and associated outcome of critically ill patients with severe sepsis
Alexandra Heininger, Helene Haeberle, Imma Fischer, Robert Beck, Reimer Riessen, Frank Rohde, Christoph Meisner, Gerhard Jahn, Alfred Koenigsrainer, Klaus Unertl, Klaus Hamprecht
The effect of window rooms on critically ill patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage admitted to intensive care
Hannah Wunsch, Hayley Gershengorn, Stephan A Mayer, Jan Claassen
Activated protein C in septic shock: a propensity-matched analysis
Farid Sadaka, Jacklyn O'Brien, Matthew Migneron, Julie Stortz, Alexander Vanston, Robert W Taylor
Association between serum soluble CD40 ligand levels and mortality in patients with severe sepsis
Leonardo Lorente, María M Martín, Nerea Varo, Juan María Borreguero-León, Jordi Solé-Violán, José Blanquer, Lorenzo Labarta, César Díaz, Alejandro Jiménez, Eduardo Pastor, Felipe Belmonte, Josune Orbe, José A Rodríguez, Eduardo Gómez-Melini, José M Ferrer-Agüero, José Ferreres, María C LLimiñana, José A Páramo
Licorice consumption-associated thunderclap headache: posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome or subarachnoid hemorrhage?
Hongliang Zhang, Xiao-Feng Wang, Jiang Wu
Persistent organ dysfunction plus death: a novel, composite outcome measure for critical care trials
Daren K Heyland, John Muscedere, John Drover, Xuran Jiang, Andrew G Day
Acquired bloodstream infection in the intensive care unit: incidence and attributable mortality
John R Prowle, Jorge E Echeverri, E Valentina Ligabo, Norelle Sherry, Gopal C Taori, Timothy M Crozier, Graeme K Hart, Tony M Korman, Barrie C Mayall, Paul DR Johnson, Rinaldo Bellomo