Intensive Care Medicine

Endotracheal suctioning, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and costs: open or closed issue?

Salvatore Maurizio Maggiore

Go with the flow—recruit the microcirculation!

Can Ince

Year in review in intensive care medicine, 2005. III. Nutrition, pediatric and neonatal critical care, and experimental

Peter Andrews, Elie Azoulay, Massimo Antonelli, Laurent Brochard, Christian Brun-Buisson, Geoffrey Dobb, Jean-Yves Fagon, Herwig Gerlach, Johan Groeneveld, Jordi Mancebo, Philipp Metnitz, Stefano Nava, Jerome Pugin, Michael Pinsky, Peter Radermacher, Christian Richard, Robert Tasker

Management of mechanical ventilation in acute severe asthma: practical aspects

Mauro Oddo, François Feihl, Marie-Denise Schaller, Claude Perret

How to increase return on investment of the intensive care pharmacist – fear of flying

Michael Hartmann, Andreas Meier-Hellmann

Sublingual capnometry tracks microcirculatory changes in septic patients

Jacques Creteur, Daniel De Backer, Yasser Sakr, Marc Koch, Jean-Louis Vincent

Heat and moisture exchangers and heated humidifiers in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome patients. Effects on respiratory mechanics and gas exchange

Indalecio Morán, Judith Bellapart, Alessandra Vari, Jordi Mancebo

Prevention of nosocomial maxillary sinusitis in the ICU: the effects of topically applied α-adrenergic agonists and corticosteroids

Ioannis Pneumatikos, Dimitrios Konstantonis, Iraklis Tsagaris, Vasiliki Theodorou, Georgios Vretzakis, Vasilios Danielides, Demosthenes Bouros

Tracheal suction by closed system without daily change versus open system

Leonardo Lorente, María Lecuona, Alejandro Jiménez, María L. Mora, Antonio Sierra

Variable costs of ICU patients: a multicenter prospective study

Carlotta Rossi, Bruno Simini, Luca Brazzi, Giancarlo Rossi, Danilo Radrizzani, Gaetano Iapichino, Guido Bertolini

Evaluation of a technique for blind placement of post-pyloric feeding tubes in intensive care: application in patients with gastric ileus

Andrew J. Lee, Richard Eve, Mark J. Bennett

Risk factors for reperfusion injury after lung transplantation

Silvia R. Cottini, Nicolas Lerch, Marc de Perrot, Miriam M. Treggiari, Anastase Spiliopoulos, Laurent Nicod, Bara Ricou

Transmission of SARS to healthcare workers. The experience of a Hong Kong ICU

Charles D. Gomersall, Gavin M. Joynt, Oi Man Ho, Margaret Ip, Florence Yap, James L. Derrick, Patricia Leung

The changing pathogens of complicated parapneumonic effusions or empyemas in a medical intensive care unit

Chih-Yen Tu, Wu-Huei Hsu, Te-Chun Hsia, Hung-Jen Chen, Kuo-Liang Chiu, Liang-Wen Hang, Chuen-Ming Shih

Volume-controlled intermittent mandatory ventilation in preterm infants with hypoxemic episodes

Helmut D. Hummler, Anja Engelmann, Frank Pohlandt, Axel R. Franz

Central hemodynamics during lung recruitment maneuvers at hypovolemia, normovolemia and hypervolemia. A study by echocardiography and continuous pulmonary artery flow measurements in lung-injured pigs

Jonas Nielsen, Manja Nilsson, Filip Fredén, Jan Hultman, Ulrica Alström, Jesper Kjærgaard, Göran Hedenstierna, Anders Larsson

Cortisol levels in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia

Jorge I. F. Salluh, Juan C. Verdeal, Gustavo W. Mello, Leonardo V. Araújo, Gloria A. R. Martins, Marcelo de Sousa Santino, Márcio Soares

Candida sp. isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage: clinical significance in critically ill trauma patients

G. Christopher Wood, Eric W. Mueller, Martin A. Croce, Bradley A. Boucher, Timothy C. Fabian

When a single pivotal trial should not be enough–the case of drotrecogin-alfa (activated)

Christian J. Wiedermann

Activated protein C: do more survive?

William L. Macias

Activated protein C: do more survive?

Saxon Ridley

Sepsis in the ICU: who needs progress?

Jean-Louis Vincent

Conflict of opinion -- is PROWESS real progress?

Alasdair F. Mackenzie

Comment on: “Nosocomial viral ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit” by Daubin et al.

Lavi Oud

Authors' reply to the comment by Dr. Oud

Cédric Daubin

Thyroid hormone levels improve the prediction of mortality among patients admitted to the intensive care unit

Ioanna Dimopoulou, Konstantinos Stamoulis, Panagiotis Lyberopoulos, Petros Kopterides

Activated protein C in daily practice

A. P. Meert, J. P. Sculier

Tight glycaemic control: a survey of intensive care practice in the Netherlands

Marcus J. Schultz, Peter E. Spronk, Hazra S. Moeniralam

Hypoglycaemia? So what!

Iain Mackenzie, Susan Ingle, Suhail Zaidi, Simon Buczaski

Inactive tuberculosis cavity responsible for fatal cerebral air embolism

Tristan Ferry, Laurent Argaud, Bertrand Delafosse, Dominique Robert

Nocturnal melatonin concentration is correlated with illness severity in patients with septic disease

Boris Perras, Volkhard Kurowski, Christoph Dodt

False hyperlactatemia in ethylene glycol poisoning

Jan-Willem Fijen, Hans Kemperman, F. F. Tessa Ververs, Jan Meulenbelt

Cardiac biochemical monitoring for the detection of acute myocardial ischemia

Jochen Pöling, Wolfgang Rees, Stephan Klaus, Ludger Bahlmann, Mahesh Gumniah, Virgilius Ziaukas, Henning Warnecke

Prescription of rh-APC differs substantially among western European countries

Marcus J. Schultz, Marcel Levi

Accidental ecstasy intoxication in an 8-month-old infant

Corien W. E. van Rijswijk, Martin C. J. Kneyber, Frans B. Plötz

Echocardiography in the ICU: time for widespread use!

Bernard P. Cholley, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Alexandre Mabazaa

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