Intensive Care Medicine

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It is not nice to fool Mother Nature

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Immunomodulation by anaesthetic, sedative and analgesic agents: Does it matter?

H. F. Galley, M. A. DiMatteo, N. R. Webster

Assessing data elements in a severity scoring system

D. Teres, P. Pekow

Using and understanding sedation scoring systems: a systematic review

B. De Jonghe, D. Cook, C. Appere-De-Vecchi, G. Guyatt, Maureen Meade, H. Outin

Interobserver variability of the measurement of the mortality probability models (MPM II) in the assessment of severity of illness

M. Rué, C. Valero, S. Quintana, A. Artigas, M. Álvarez

Angiotensin II formation and endothelin clearance in ARDS patients in supine and prone positions

M. Wenz, B. Hoffmann, J. Bohlender, G. Kaczmarczyk

Could anti-inflammatory actions of catecholamines explain the possible beneficial effects of supranormal oxygen delivery in critically ill surgical patients?

A. Uusaro, J. A. Russell

Circulating endothelin-1 and tumor necrosis factor-α: early predictors of mortality in patients with septic shock

J. S. Brauner, L. E. Rohde, N. Clausell

Early hyperlactataemia in critically ill children

M. Hatherill, A. G. McIntyre, M. Wattie, I. A. Murdoch

Oral Health Status of Children in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

D. Franklin, N. Senior, I. James, G. Roberts

Recovery from withdrawal of inhaled nitric oxide and kinetics of nitric oxide-induced inhibition of nitric oxide synthase activity in vitro

J. Dötsch, S. Demirakça, K. Zepf, J. Hänze, S. Parida, W. Rascher

The CRIB (Clinical Risk Index for Babies) score and neurodevelopmental impairment at one year corrected age in very low birth weight infants

C. Bührer, I. Grimmer, B. Metze, M. Obladen

Effects of NO inhalation on pulmonary leukocyte sequestration and blood volume in porcine endotoxaemia

P. L. Dahm, S. Blomquist, E. De Robertis, B. Jonson, E. Myhre, C. Svantesson, J. Thörne

Substance abuse and acute asthma

T. Corbridge, J. Cygan, P. Greenberger

Red blood cell transfusion in the intensive care unit

P. A. Sherk, J. T. Granton, M. K. Kapral

Mechanical circulatory support in pediatric patients

M. Beghetti, P. C. Rimensberger

Hyperbaric oxygen delivery in treatment of a child with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome complicated with a limb threatening Escherichia coli infection

D. Gionis, P. Kalabalikis, B. Zachariadis, M. Moustaki, E. Ourani, K. Papazoglou, J. Papadatos

Acute postrenal failure and pseudomyocardial infarction after spontaneous bladder rupture

J. Ortega-Carnicer, R. Alcázar, A. Ambrós, M. L. Gómez-Grande

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Mechanical ventilation and intra-aortic counterpulsation in cardiogenic shock

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