Intensive Care Medicine

Acute renal failure in the ICU in the 1990s — “anything goes”?

P. Nair, D. Bihari

Identifying patients with ARDS: time for a different approach

D. P. Schuster

Epidemiology of acute renal failure and outcome of haemodiafiltration in intensive care

B. Schwilk, H. Wiedeck, B. Stein, H. Reinelt, H. Treiber, U. Bothner

UK guidelines for the use of inhaled nitric oxide therapy in adult ICUs

B. H. Cuthbertson, S. Stott, N. R. Webster, J. D. Young, O. J. Dyar, T. E. Evans, T. Higenbottam, R. Latimer, D. Payen, P. Dellinger

Effects of ventilation in ventral decubitus position on respiratory mechanics in adult respiratory distress syndrome

G. Servillo, E. De Robertis, F. Rossano, R. Tufano, E. Roupie, L. Brochard, F. Lemaire

Effects of inhaled salmeterol and salbutamol (albuterol) on morning dips compared in intensive care patients recovering from an acute severe asthma attack

M. Ritz, J. B. Thorens, J. C. Chevrolet, M. Arnold-Ketterer

Right ventricular function during weaning from mechanical ventilation after coronary artery bypass grafting: effect of volume loading

P. Bizouarn, Y. Blanloeil, C. Billaud-Debarre

Pulmonary complications in toxic epidermal necrolysis: a prospective clinical study

F. Lebargy, P. Wolkenstein, M. Gisselbrecht, F. Lange, J. Fleury-Feith, C. Delclaux, E. Roupie, J. Revuz, J. C. Roujeau

Ionized hypocalcemia during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation is not due to binding by lactate

S. Gando, M. Igarashi, T. Kameue, S. Nanzaki

Endogenous endotoxemia of intestinal origin during cardiopulmonary bypass

A. E. Martinez-Pellús, M. Bru, G. Seller, T. Fuentes, P. Merino, J. Canovas, J. Sapiña, J. Moro

Midazolam versus propofol for long-term sedation in the ICU: a randomized prospective comparison

A. A. Weinbroum, V. Rudick, P. Sorkine, M. Freedman, E. Geller, P. Halpern

The difference between withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment

G. Melltorp, T. Nilstun

Usefulness of gastric intramucosal pH for monitoring hemodynamic complications in critically ill children

C. Calvo, F. Ruza, P. Dorao, N. Arribas, F. Alvarado, J. López-Herce

Improvement of oxygenation induced by aerosolized prostacyclin in a preterm infant with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn

V. Soditt, C. Aring, P. Groneck

Echocardiography on HIV patients admitted to the ICU

P. Blanc, A. Boussuges, J. Souk-aloun, B. A. Gaüzere, J. M. Sainty

Stressors in ICU: patients’ evaluation

M. A. F. P. Novaes, A. Aronovich, M. B. Ferraz, E. Knobel

Interaction between haematocrit and pulmonary blood volume on pulmonary vascular flow resistance and pressure-flow relationships

S. A. Loer, T. W. L. Scheeren, J. Peters

Venous blood arteriolization and multiple organ failure after cyanide poisoning

R. Martín-Bermúdez, A. Maestre-Romero, M. V. Goñi-Belzunegui, A. Bautista-Lorite, C. Arenas-Cabrera

Rapid D-dimer testing to improve diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in emergency wards: fact or fiction?

T. A. Bensousan, L. Darnige, P. Ducastel

Severe nitrous oxide embolism during venous stripping

V. Cottin, J. P. Viale, Y. Bouffard, B. Delafosse

Pulmonary artery catheter

F. Kapadia, K. Reinhart, P. Radermacher, C. L. Sprung, D. Phelan, J. Bakker, H. Steltzer

Hyponatraemia, water intoxication and ‘ecstasy’

A. P. Hall

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