Intensive Care Medicine

Septic shock: a heart story since the 1960s

C. Rabuel, A. Mebazaa

Diagnostic strategy in cancer patients with acute respiratory failure

Élie Azoulay, Benoît Schlemmer

Avian influenza (H5N1): implications for intensive care

Pascale C. Gruber, Charles D. Gomersall, Gavin M. Joynt

Ethical, political, and social aspects of high-technology medicine: Eos and Care

Nereo Zamperetti, Rinaldo Bellomo, Maurizio Dan, Claudio Ronco

Amplitude-integrated EEG (aEEG) predicts outcome after cardiac arrest and induced hypothermia

Malin Rundgren, Ingmar Rosén, Hans Friberg

Constant flow insufflation of oxygen as the sole mode of ventilation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Catherine Bertrand, François Hemery, Pierre Carli, Patrick Goldstein, Catherine Espesson, Michel Rüttimann, Jean Michel Macher, Brigitte Raffy, Patrick Fuster, François Dolveck, Alain Rozenberg, Eric Lecarpentier, Philippe Duvaldestin, Jean-Marie Saissy, Georges Boussignac, Laurent Brochard

Prevalence of pulmonary hypertension associated with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome: Predictive value of computed tomography

Martin Beiderlinden, Hilmar Kuehl, Tanja Boes, Jürgen Peters

Transnasal puncture based on echographic sinusitis evidence in mechanically ventilated patients with suspicion of nosocomial maxillary sinusitis

Frédéric Vargas, Hoang Nam Bui, Alexandre Boyer, Cécile Marie Bébear, Stéphane Lacher-Fougére, Bertillle Marie De-Barbeyrac, Louis Rachid Salmi, Louis Traissac, Georges Gbikpi-Benissan, Didier Gruson, Gilles Hilbert

Management of blood glucose in the critically ill in Australia and New Zealand: a practice survey and inception cohort study

Imogen Mitchell, Simon Finfer, Rinaldo Bellomo, Tracey Higlett

Influence of severity of illness, medication and selective decontamination on defecation

Johan I. van der Spoel, Marcus J. Schultz, Peter H. J. van der Voort, Evert de Jonge

Procalcitonin kinetics in pediatric patients with systemic inflammatory response after open heart surgery

Serdar Celebi, Ozge Koner, Ferdi Menda, Huriye Balci, Alican Hatemi, Kubilay Korkut, Figen Esen

Antibacterial-coated tracheal tubes cleaned with the Mucus Shaver

Lorenzo Berra, Francesco Curto, Gianluigi Li Bassi, Patrice Laquerriere, Andrea Baccarelli, Theodor Kolobow

Assessment of airway closure from deflation lung volume–pressure curve: sigmoidal equation revisited

Frédérique Bayle, Claude Guérin, Sophie Debord, Michel Badet, Stéphane Lemasson, Jean-Charles Poupelin, Jean-Christophe Richard

Cardiovascular protective role for activated protein C during endotoxemia in rats

Raphael Favory, Steve Lancel, Xavier Maréchal, Stéphanie Tissier, Remi Neviere

Recognition and management of abdominal compartment syndrome in the United Kingdom

Alok Tiwari, Fiona Myint, George Hamilton

Cytokeratin 19 fragments in patients with acute lung injury: a preliminary observation

Jean-Baptiste Stern, Catherine Paugam, Pierre Validire, Homa Adle-Biassette, Sandrine Jaffré, Monique Dehoux, Bruno Crestani

Validity of medical staff assessment at admission of patient's risk of nosocomial infection: A prospective study in a surgical intensive care unit

Véronique Merle, Corinne Hallais, Marie-Pierre Tavolacci, Cédric Damm, Denis Thillard, Benoît Veber, Pierre Czernichow

Continuous cardiac output monitoring after cardiopulmonary bypass: a comparison with bolus thermodilution measurement

Karim Bendjelid, Nicolas Schütz, Peter M. Suter, Jacques-Andre Romand

Significant cognitive dysfunction in non-delirious patients identified during and persisting following critical illness

Christina Jones, Richard D. Griffiths, Tracy Slater, Kirsten S. Benjamin, Sally Wilson

Isoflurane therapy for severe refractory status asthmaticus in children

Venkat Shankar, Kevin B. Churchwell, Jayant K. Deshpande

ICU research in Denmark: difficult but possible

Anders Larsson, Else Tønnesen

Nystatin prophylaxis: efficient in high-risk nonimmunocompromised ICU patients?

Philippe Vignon, Sandrine Normand, Marie-Laure Dardé, Bruno François

Prevention strategies in patients at high-risk for Candida infections: data from a neonatal intensive care setting

Paolo Manzoni, Maria Lisa Leonessa, Cesare Monetti, Daniele Farina, Giovanna Gomirato

Weaning failure from cardiovascular origin

François Jardin, Antoine Vieillard-Baron

How to diagnose weaning-induced pulmonary edema?

Jean-Louis Teboul, Christian Richard

Pericardial and pleural diffusion of voriconazole during disseminated invasive aspergillosis: report of a case with successful outcome

J. C. Poupelin, F. Philit, J. C. Richard, M. Badet, S. Lemasson, F. Bayle, C. Guérin

Pleural drain malposition

Matthieu Legrand, Lucien Lecuyer, Andry Van De Louw, Stéphane Thierry

Massive bleeding due to a brachiocephalic trunk erosion during a percutaneous tracheotomy

Benoît Espeel, Fabienne Buron, Michel Lismonde, Dominique Lambot, Yolande Frederickx

Pathophysiological mechanism and immediate treatment of retrograde cerebral venous air embolism

Christoph J. Schlimp, Thomas Loimer, Michael Rieger, Michael B. Schmidts, Wolfgang Lederer

Bronchoalveolar levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and soluble tissue factor are sensitive and specific markers of pulmonary inflammation

Rogier M. Determann, Julian L. Millo, Chris S. Garrard, Marcus J. Schultz

Paratial anomalous pulmonary venous connection in a patient with cardiac failure and sepsis

Klaus H. Thomas, Meike Probst, Matthias Kruell, Lasse Krug, Stephan Eddicks, Norbert Suttorp, Simone Rosseau

Early post-traumatic heterotopic mesenteric ossification: Report of a case

Jean Paul Gouëllo, Laurence Auvray, Anne Bouix, Francine Vazelle, Nathalie Guinard, Daniel Hermes

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

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