Ausgabe 4/2011
Inhalt (69 Artikel)
Traumatic brain injury and resuscitation with blood products: what should we do?
Bryan C Oh, John B Holcomb
Appropriate antibiotic dosing in severe sepsis and acute renal failure: factors to consider
Francisco Javier González de Molina, Ricard Ferrer
When to start dialysis in patients with acute kidney injury? When semantics and logic become entangled with expectations and beliefs
Norbert Lameire, Wim Vanbiesen, Raymond Vanholder
The relationship between inotrope exposure, six-hour postoperative physiological variables, hospital mortality and renal dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
Jason Shahin, Benoit deVarennes, Chun Wing Tse, Dan-Alexandru Amarica, Sandra Dial
Statin pre-treatment is associated with lower platelet activity and favorable outcome in patients with acute non-cardio-embolic ischemic stroke
Nai-Wen Tsai, Tsu-Kung Lin, Wen-Neng Chang, Chung-Ren Jan, Chi-Ren Huang, Shang-Der Chen, Kuei-Yueh Cheng, Yi-Fang Chiang, Hung-Chen Wang, Tzu-Ming Yang, Yu-Jun Lin, Wei-Che Lin, Hsueh-Wen Chang, Lian-Hui Lee, Cheng-Hsien Lu
Comparison of intravenous immunoglobulin and plasma exchange in treatment of mechanically ventilated children with Guillain Barré syndrome: a randomized study
Mohammed A El-Bayoumi, Ahmed M El-Refaey, Alaa M Abdelkader, Mohamed MA El-Assmy, Angi A Alwakeel, Hanem M El-Tahan
Automatic detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony by spectral analysis of airway flow
Guillermo Gutierrez, Guillermo J Ballarino, Hulya Turkan, Juan Abril, Lucy De La Cruz, Connor Edsall, Binu George, Susan Gutierrez, Vinayak Jha, Jalil Ahari
Impact of norepinephrine on the relationship between pleth variability index and pulse pressure variations in ICU adult patients
Matthieu Biais, Vincent Cottenceau, Laurent Petit, Françoise Masson, Jean-François Cochard, François Sztark
C-reactive protein, an early marker of community-acquired sepsis resolution: a multi-center prospective observational study
Pedro Póvoa, Armando M Teixeira-Pinto, António H Carneiro
Dynamic monitors of brain function: a new target in neurointensive care unit
Enrico Bosco, Elisabetta Marton, Alberto Feletti, Bruno Scarpa, Pierluigi Longatti, Paolo Zanatta, Emanuele Giorgi, Carlo Sorbara
Clinical review: Thinking outside the box - an iconoclastic view of current practice
Mervyn Singer, Michael A Matthay
Building effective critical care teams
Constantine Manthous, Ingrid M Nembhard, Andrea B Hollingshead
Clinical review: Special populations - critical illness and pregnancy
Patrick J Neligan, John G Laffey
Bench-to-bedside review: Ventilation-induced renal injury through systemic mediator release - just theory or a causal relationship?
Jan Willem Kuiper, Rosanna Vaschetto, Francesco Della Corte, Frans B Plötz, AB Johan Groeneveld
Clinical review: Update on hemodynamic monitoring - a consensus of 16
Jean-Louis Vincent, Andrew Rhodes, Azriel Perel, Greg S Martin, Giorgio Della Rocca, Benoit Vallet, Michael R Pinsky, Christoph K Hofer, Jean-Louis Teboul, Willem-Pieter de Boode, Sabino Scolletta, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Daniel De Backer, Keith R Walley, Marco Maggiorini, Mervyn Singer
Should we use early less invasive hemodynamic monitoring in unstable ICU patients?
Maurizio Cecconi, David Bennett
Give or take? Intravenous immunoglobulin or plasma exchange for Guillain-Barré syndrome
Richard AC Hughes
Revisiting Mars and Venus: understanding gender differences in critical illness
Michael C Reade, Sachin Yende, Derek C Angus
Working with capacity limitations: operations management in critical care
Christian Terwiesch, Diwas KC, Jeremy M Kahn
Early versus late renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury: the search for a definition of timing continues
Jonathan Bannard-Smith, Stephen Mousdale
Are arterial blood gases necessary in the evaluation of acutely dyspneic patients?
Christopher Junker, Guillermo Gutierrez
In vivo and in vitro evidence for pleiotropic effects of levosimendan in the intensive care setting
Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Alexandre Mebazaa
Central venous oxygen saturation in septic shock - a marker of cardiac output, microvascular shunting and/or dysoxia?
Nicolai Haase, Anders Perner
Soluble CD40 ligand is not solely related to the presence and severity of sepsis
Michelle S Chew, Henrik Thorlacius
Oliguria as predictive biomarker of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients
John R Prowle, Yan-Lun Liu, Elisa Licari, Sean M Bagshaw, Moritoki Egi, Michael Haase, Anja Haase-Fielitz, John A Kellum, Dinna Cruz, Claudio Ronco, Kenji Tsutsui, Shigehiko Uchino, Rinaldo Bellomo
In-vivovalidation of a new non-invasive continuous ventricular stroke volume monitoring system in an animal model
Maurits K Konings, Paul F Grundeman, Henk G Goovaerts, Maarten R Roosendaal, Imo E Hoefer, Pieter A Doevendans, Frank E Rademakers, Wolfgang F Buhre
Levosimendan inhibits release of reactive oxygen species in polymorphonuclear leukocytes in vitro and in patients with acute heart failure and septic shock: a prospective observational study
Julia Hasslacher, Klaudija Bijuklic, Cristina Bertocchi, Jordan Kountchev, Romuald Bellmann, Stefan Dunzendorfer, Michael Joannidis
Effects of discontinuing or continuing ongoing statin therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock: a retrospective cohort study
Armand Mekontso Dessap, Islem Ouanes, Nerlep Rana, Beatrice Borghi, Christophe Bazin, Sandrine Katsahian, Anne Hulin, Christian Brun-Buisson
PaCO2 and alveolar dead space are more relevant than PaO2/FiO2 ratio in monitoring the respiratory response to prone position in ARDS patients: a physiological study
Cyril Charron, Xavier Repesse, Koceïla Bouferrache, Laurent Bodson, Samuel Castro, Bernard Page, François Jardin, Antoine Vieillard-Baron
High central venous oxygen saturation in the latter stages of septic shock is associated with increased mortality
Julien Textoris, Louis Fouché, Sandrine Wiramus, François Antonini, Sowita Tho, Claude Martin, Marc Leone
When should a diagnosis of influenza be considered in adults requiring intensive care unit admission? Results of population-based active surveillance in Toronto
Stefan P Kuster, Kevin C Katz, Joanne Blair, James Downey, Steven J Drews, Sandy Finkelstein, Rob Fowler, Karen Green, Jonathan Gubbay, Kazi Hassan, Stephen E Lapinsky, Tony Mazzulli, Donna McRitchie, Janos Pataki, Agron Plevneshi, Jeff Powis, David Rose, Alicia Sarabia, Carmine Simone, Andrew Simor, Allison McGeer
Multicentre validation of the bedside paediatric early warning system score: a severity of illness score to detect evolving critical illness in hospitalised children
Christopher S Parshuram, Heather P Duncan, Ari R Joffe, Catherine A Farrell, Jacques R Lacroix, Kristen L Middaugh, James S Hutchison, David Wensley, Nadeene Blanchard, Joseph Beyene, Patricia C Parkin
Manual hyperinflation partly prevents reductions of functional residual capacity in cardiac surgical patients - a randomized controlled trial
Frederique Paulus, Denise P Veelo, Selma B de Nijs, Ludo FM Beenen, Paul Bresser, Bas AJM de Mol, Jan M Binnekade, Marcus J Schultz
Managing daily intensive care activities: An observational study concerning ad hoc decision making of charge nurses and intensivists
Heljä Lundgrén-Laine, Elina Kontio, Juha Perttilä, Heikki Korvenranta, Jari Forsström, Sanna Salanterä
Validation and comparison of clinical prediction rules for invasive candidiasis in intensive care unit patients: a matched case-control study
Elizabeth D Hermsen, Michelle K Zapapas, Melissa Maiefski, Mark E Rupp, Alison G Freifeld, Andre C Kalil
Women receive more trials of noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure than men: a nationwide population-based study
Hsiu-Nien Shen, Chin-Li Lu, Hsi-Hsing Yang
Diagnostic performance of fractional excretion of urea in the evaluation of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a multicenter cohort study
Michael Darmon, Francois Vincent, Jean Dellamonica, Frederique Schortgen, Frederic Gonzalez, Vincent Das, Fabrice Zeni, Laurent Brochard, Gilles Bernardin, Yves Cohen, Benoit Schlemmer
Fiber optic bronchoscopy in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure requiring noninvasive ventilation - a feasibility study
Hans Jörg Baumann, Hans Klose, Marcel Simon, Tarik Ghadban, Stephan A Braune, Jan K Hennigs, Stefan Kluge
Admission risk factors for cerebral vasospasm in ruptured brain arteriovenous malformations: An observational study
Vibol Chhor, Yannick Le Manach, Fréderic Clarençon, Aurélien Nouet, Jean-Louis Daban, Lamine Abdennour, Louis Puybasset, Thomas Lescot
The clinical and functional relevance of microparticles induced by activated protein C treatment in sepsis
Margarita Pérez-Casal, Victoria Thompson, Colin Downey, Ingeborg Welters, Duncan Wyncoll, Jecko Thachil, Cheng Hock Toh
Increased B-type natriuretic peptide and decreased proteinuria might reflect decreased capillary leakage and is associated with a better outcome in patients with severe burns
Karina de Leeuw, Marianne K Nieuwenhuis, Anuschka S Niemeijer, Hans Eshuis, Gerard IJM Beerthuizen, Wilbert M Janssen
Mild hypoglycemia is independently associated with increased mortality in the critically ill
James S Krinsley, Marcus J Schultz, Peter E Spronk, Robin E Harmsen, Floris van Braam Houckgeest, Johannes P van der Sluijs, Christian Mélot, Jean Charles Preiser
Mild-stretch mechanical ventilation upregulates toll-like receptor 2 and sensitizes the lung to bacterial lipopeptide
Pierre-Emmanuel Charles, Pierre Tissières, Saber Davide Barbar, Delphine Croisier, Julien Dufour, Irène Dunn-Siegrist, Pascal Chavanet, Jérôme Pugin
The late phase of sepsis is characterized by an increased microbiological burden and death rate
Gordon P Otto, Maik Sossdorf, Ralf A Claus, Jürgen Rödel, Katja Menge, Konrad Reinhart, Michael Bauer, Niels C Riedemann
Lung sonography and recruitment in patients with early acute respiratory distress syndrome: A pilot study
Konstantinos Stefanidis, Stavros Dimopoulos, Elli-Sophia Tripodaki, Konstantinos Vitzilaios, Panagiotis Politis, Ploutarchos Piperopoulos, Serafim Nanas
Succinylcholine versus rocuronium for rapid sequence intubation in intensive care: a prospective, randomized controlled trial
Stephan C Marsch, Luzius Steiner, Evelyne Bucher, Hans Pargger, Martin Schumann, Timothy Aebi, Patrick R Hunziker, Martin Siegemund
Revised trauma scoring system to predict in-hospital mortality in the emergency department: Glasgow Coma Scale, Age, and Systolic Blood Pressure score
Yutaka Kondo, Toshikazu Abe, Kiyotaka Kohshi, Yasuharu Tokuda, E Francis Cook, Ichiro Kukita
O2 delivery and CO2 production during cardiopulmonary bypass as determinants of acute kidney injury: time for a goal-directed perfusion management?
Filip de Somer, John W Mulholland, Megan R Bryan, Tommaso Aloisio, Guido J Van Nooten, Marco Ranucci
Electrical impedance tomography measured at two thoracic levels can visualize the ventilation distribution changes at the bedside during a decremental positive end-expiratory lung pressure trial
Ido G Bikker, Carsten Preis, Mahamud Egal, Jan Bakker, Diederik Gommers
Elevated red cell distribution width predicts poor outcome in young patients with community acquired pneumonia
Eyal Braun, Erel Domany, Yael Kenig, Yoav Mazor, Badira F Makhoul, Zaher S Azzam
High mixed venous oxygen saturation levels do not exclude fluid responsiveness in critically ill septic patients
Dimitrios Velissaris, Charalampos Pierrakos, Sabino Scolletta, Daniel De Backer, Jean Louis Vincent
'Score to Door Time', a benchmarking tool for rapid response systems: a pilot multi-centre service evaluation
Kieran J Oglesby, Lesley Durham, John Welch, Christian P Subbe
Plasma cell-free DNA in patients needing mechanical ventilation
Marjatta Okkonen, Päivi Lakkisto, Anna-Maija Korhonen, Ilkka Parviai-nen, Matti Reinikainen, Tero Varpula, Ville Pettilä
Hemodynamic monitoring and management in patients undergoing high risk surgery: a survey among North American and European anesthesiologists
Maxime Cannesson, Gunther Pestel, Cameron Ricks, Andreas Hoeft, Azriel Perel
Assessing left ventricular systolic function in shock: evaluation of echocardiographic parameters in intensive care
Lill Bergenzaun, Petri Gudmundsson, Hans Öhlin, Joachim Düring, Anders Ersson, Lilian Ihrman, Ronnie Willenheimer, Michelle S Chew
sRAGE in diabetic and non-diabetic critically ill patients: effects of intensive insulin therapy
Yaseen M Arabi, Mohammed Dehbi, Asgar H Rishu, Engin Baturcam, Salim H Kahoul, Riette J Brits, Brintha Naidu, Abderrezak Bouchama
Admissions to intensive care unit of HIV-infected patients in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: etiology and prognostic factors
Hou-Hsien Chiang, Chien-Ching Hung, Chang-Min Lee, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Mao-Yuan Chen, Wang-Huei Sheng, Szu-Min Hsieh, Hsin-Yun Sun, Chao-Chi Ho, Chong-Jen Yu
Precision of the transpulmonary thermodilution measurements
Xavier Monnet, Romain Persichini, Mariem Ktari, Mathieu Jozwiak, Christian Richard, Jean-Louis Teboul
Urine hepcidin has additive value in ruling out cardiopulmonary bypass-associated acute kidney injury: an observational cohort study
Anja Haase-Fielitz, Peter R Mertens, Michael Plaß, Hermann Kuppe, Roland Hetzer, Mark Westerman, Vaughn Ostland, John R Prowle, Rinaldo Bellomo, Michael Haase
Lung Function and Organ Dysfunctions in 178 Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation During The 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic
Fernando G Ríos, Elisa Estenssoro, Fernando Villarejo, Ricardo Valentini, Liliana Aguilar, Daniel Pezzola, Pascual Valdez, Miguel Blasco, Cristina Orlandi, Javier Alvarez, Fernando Saldarini, Alejandro Gómez, Pablo E Gómez, Martin Deheza, Alan Zazu, Mónica Quinteros, Ariel Chena, Javier Osatnik, Damian Violi, Maria Eugenia Gonzalez, Guillermo Chiappero
Coenzyme Q10 levels are low and may be associated with the inflammatory cascade in septic shock
Michael W Donnino, Michael N Cocchi, Justin D Salciccioli, Daniel Kim, Ali B Naini, Catherine Buettner, Praveen Akuthota