Intensive Care Medicine

Hypocholesterolemia in critically ill patients

J. López-Martínez, M. Sánchez-Castilla, A. García-de-Lorenzo

Authors' reply

I. Giovannini, G. Boldrini, C. Chiarla, F. Giuliante, M. Vellone, G. Nuzzo

Revisiting the Glasgow Coma Scale and Coma Score

G. M Teasdale, L. Murray

A clear view: the way forward for eye care on ICU

B. Parkin, S. Cook

Glasgow Coma Scale: variation in mortality among permutations of specific total scores

L. S. G. Teoh, J. R. Gowardman, P. D. Larsen, R. Green, DC Galletly

Eye care for the critically ill

P. Suresh, F. Mercieca, A. Morton, A. B. Tullo

Incidence and mortality of severe sepsis in surgical intensive care patients: the influence of patient gender on disease process and outcome

M. W. Wichmann, D. Inthorn, H. -J. Andress, F. W. Schildberg

Monitoring the circulatory responses of shocked patients during fluid resuscitation in the emergency department

P. M. Dark, H. H. Delooz, V. Hillier, J. Hanson, R. A. Little

Inhaled prostacyclin and platelet function after cardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass

Å. Haraldson, N. Kieler-Jensen, H. Wadenvik, S. -E. Ricksten

Experiences with severe P. falciparum malaria in the intensive care unit

H. Losert, K. Schmid, A. Wilfing, S. Winkler, T. Staudinger, J. Kletzmayr, H. Burgmann

Assessment of cardiac preload and extravascular lung water by single transpulmonary thermodilution

S. G. Sakka, C. C. Rühl, U. J. Pfeiffer, R. Beale, A. McLuckie, K. Reinhart, A. Meier-Hellmann

Sonoclot signature during normal pregnancy

U. Kjellberg, M. Hellgren

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-induced aseptic meningitis: case report and literature review

C. Capra, G. M. Monza, G. Meazza, G. Ramella

Cerebral blood flow and metabolism in severe brain injury: the role of pressure autoregulation during cerebral perfusion pressure management

L. Mascia, P. J.D. Andrews, E. G. McKeating, M. J. Souter, M. V. Merrick, I. R. Piper

Zinc chloride smoke inhalation: a rare cause of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome

V. Pettilä, O. Takkunen, P. Tukiainen

Transient EDTA-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia in a patient with sepsis

M. Mori, H. Kudo, S. Yoshitake, K. Ito, C. Shinguu, T. Noguchi

Mitigation of endotoxin-induced acute lung injury in ventilated rabbits by surfactant and inhaled nitric oxide

D. H. Zhao, B. Sun, Z. H. Wu, R. Lindwall, B. Robertson

Meta-analyses versus randomised controlled trials in intensive care medicine

L. Brazzi, G. Bertolini, C. Minelli

Effect of inhaled nitric oxide in combination with almitrine on ventilation-perfusion distributions in experimental lung injury

R. Dembinski, M. Max, F. Lopez, R. Kuhlen, M. Sünner, R. Rossaint

Anti-microbial or antiseptic impregnated central venous catheters: update on a “central” debate

C. C. dos Santos, T. E. Stewart, A. McGeer

Non-invasive ventilation in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure

M. S. Miletin, A. S. Detsky, S. E. Lapinsky, S. Mehta

Neck ties as vectors for nosocomial infection

M. Dixon

Primary heart angiosarcoma: an infrequent cause of acute respiratory failure

E. Palazón Sánchez, C. Palazón Sánchez, A. Renedo Villarroya, F. Felices Abad, Domingo P. Moñino, F. Martínez Díaz

Pericardial effusion: a rare complication of thermal burn

J. Barr, A. Sagi, R. Glesinger, L. Rosenberg

Acute myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries during septic shock from Neisseria meningitidis

G. S. Filippatos, D. Kardara, E. Sioras, F. Kardaras, E. Paramithiotou, A. Prekates, C. Roussos

Carcinoid crisis during transesophageal echocardiography

E. F. Salm, M. Janssen, C. S. Breburda, L. J. P.M. van Woerkens, W. W. de Herder, C. v/d Zwaan, J. R. T.C. Roelandt

Esmolol in the treatment of severe arrhythmia after acute trichloroethylene poisoning

F. Moritz, A. de La Chapelle, F. Bauer, J-P. Leroy, J. P. Goullé, G. Bonmarchand

Successful resuscitation using nitroglycerin for refractory pulseless electrical activity in intensive care unit

M. Osada, Y. Tanaka, T. Komai, Y. Maeda, M. Kitano, M. Oishi, K. Masui, S. Nakazawa, K. Tamura

Life-threatening magnesium toxicity

St. J. Fletcher, M.J.A. Parr

A very early onset of respiratory failure due to phenytoin-associated hypersensitivity syndrome and concomitant glucocorticoid administration

U. Tröger, W. Brandt, W. Röse

Procalcitonin—a new marker of severe infection and sepsis

A brief history of procalcitonin

Procalcitonin for early diagnosis and differentiation of SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock

Procalcitonin (PCT) is useful in predicting the bacterial origin of an acute circulatory failure in critically ill patients

The clinical value of procalcitonin in the prediction of infected necrois in acute pancreatitis

Procalcitonin (PCT) in patients with abdominal sepsis

Discriminative power of inflammatory markers for prediction of tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 in ICU patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) or sepsis at arbitrary time points

Procalcitonin as a marker of nosocomial infections in the neonatal intensive care unit

Procalcitonin in pediatrics for differentiation of bacterial and viral infections

Procalcitonin for differential diagnosis of graft rejection and infection in patients with heart and/or lung grafts

Procalcitonin—a new diagnostic tool in complications following liver transplantation

Procalcitonin in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass in open heart surgery—first results of the Procalcitonin in Heart Surgery study (ProHearts)

Procalcitonin for discrimination between activity of systemic autoimmune disease and systemic bacterial infection

Procalcitonin—a sensitive inflammation marker of febrile episodes in neutropenic children with cancer

The natural elimination rate of procalcitonin in patients with normal and impaired renal function