Ausgabe 6/2012
Inhalt (83 Artikel)
Resolution of critical haemodynamic instability with urgent decompressive mini-laparotomy for abdominal compartment syndrome - a case report
Trent Hartshorne, Barry Dixon, Rodney J Woods
Clinical review: Probiotics in critical care
Neil H Crooks, Catherine Snaith, Deborah Webster, Fang Gao, Peter Hawkey
Circulating fatty acid binding protein as a marker of intestinal failure in septic patients
Marcel Cerqueira César Machado, Hermes Vieira Barbeiro, Fabiano Pinheiro da Silva, Heraldo Possolo de Souza
CRYSTMAS study adds to concerns about renal safety and increased mortality in sepsis patients
Christiane S Hartog, Konrad Reinhart
The host response to infection: advancing a novel diagnostic paradigm
Geoffrey S Ginsburg, Christopher W Woods
Permissive hypofiltration: an alternative view
Zaccaria Ricci, Stefano Romagnoli, Francesco Emma
Rapid detection of recurrent intraventricular hemorrhage by ultrasound in a multiple trauma patient who had undergone craniectomy
Yu-Zhi Gao, Guang-Ju Zhou, Mao Zhang, Shou-Quan Chen, Jian-Xin Gan
Probiotics do not significantly reduce nosocomial pneumonia
Luciano Silvestri, Hendrick KF van Saene, Dario Gregori
Probiotics: an obedient ally or an insidious enemy?
Metaxia N Papanikolaou, Margarita Balla, Theonymfi Papavasilopoulou, Georgios Kofinas, Stylianos Karatzas
'Professor Galveston' has departed. Obituary - Daniel Traber
Donald S Prough, Perenlei Enhkbaatar, Csaba Szabo
Cough - another important factor in extubation readiness in critically ill patients
Zong-Yu Wang, Yu Bai
Sepsis in transit: from clinical to molecular classification
Simone A Thair, James A Russell
Cardiac output measurements using the bioreactance technique in critically ill patients
David Fagnoul, Jean-Louis Vincent, DeDaniel Backer
Influence of prior sunlight exposure on ICU mortality - does delirium play a role?
Koen Simons, Mark van den Boogaard, Arjen Slooter, Peter Pickkers
Non-invasive mechanical ventilation in hematology patients: let's agree on several things first
David Schnell, Virginie Lemiale, Élie Azoulay
Clinical review: Circulatory shock - an update: a tribute to Professor Max Harry Weil
Jean-Louis Vincent, Can Ince, Jan Bakker
Fixing the leak: targeting the vascular endothelium in sepsis
Aaron Spicer, Carolyn S Calfee
Glycemic variability is complex - is glucose complexity variable?
Roosmarijn TM van Hooijdonk, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Marcus J Schultz
Clinical review: Exogenous surfactant therapy for acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome - where do we go from here?
Ahilanandan Dushianthan, Rebecca Cusack, Victoria Goss, Anthony D Postle, Mike PW Grocott
A prolonged ICU stay after interhospital transport?
Joep M Droogh, Maurits H Renes, Jack JM Ligtenberg, Jan G Zijlstra
ω-3 fatty acids, γ-linolenic acid, and antioxidants: immunomodulators or inert dietary supplements?
Christopher K Schott, David T Huang
The continuing question of how fever duration is associated with patient outcome
Panagiotis Kiekkas, Diamanto Aretha, George I Baltopoulos
Respiratory variation in inferior vena cava diameter: surrogate of central venous pressure or parameter of fluid responsiveness? Let the physiology reply
Laurent Bodson, Antoine Vieillard-Baron
Unraveling the mechanisms involved in endothelial barrier protective effects of angiopoietin-1 variant MAT.Ang-1
Ru-Yuan Zhang, Dong Min, Jun Wu, Lei Li, Hong-Ping Qu, Yao-Qing Tang
Bench-to-bedside review: Clinical experience with the endotoxin activity assay
Alexander D Romaschin, David J Klein, John C Marshall
Endogenous H2S in hemorrhagic shock: innocent bystander or central player?
Enrico Calzia, Peter Radermacher, Kenneth R Olson
Kidney function decline after a non-dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury is associated with higher long-term mortality in critically ill survivors
José António Lopes, Sofia Jorge
Bench-to-bedside review: Citrate for continuous renal replacement therapy, from science to practice
Heleen M Oudemans-van Straaten, Marlies Ostermann
Sepsis as a major determinant of outcome in critically ill HIV/AIDS patients: don't forget acute kidney injury
José António Lopes, Sofia Jorge
The role of natural killer cells in the pathogenesis of sepsis: the ongoing enigma
Julia Bohannon, Yin Guo, Edward R Sherwood
Sodium bicarbonate to prevent cardiac surgery-associated kidney injury: the end of a dream?
Jean-Michel Hougardy, Daniel De Backer
Effect of recruitment maneuver on hypoxemia during apnea test: after or before?
Evren Senturk, Nahit Cakar
Optimizing positive end-expiratory pressure by oscillatory mechanics minimizes tidal recruitment and distension: an experimental study in a lavage model of lung injury
Emanuela Zannin, Raffaele L Dellaca, Peter Kostic, Pasquale P Pompilio, Anders Larsson, Antonio Pedotti, Goran Hedenstierna, Peter Frykholm
Year in review 2011: Critical Care – respirology
Jesús Villar, Haibo Zhang, Jesús Blanco, Arthur S Slutsky
Year in review 2011: Critical Care - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and trauma
Scott A Goldberg, Jeffery C Metzger, Paul E Pepe
Year in review 2011: Critical Care – infection
Arash Afshari, Leonardo Pagani, Stephan Harbarth
Year in review 2011: Critical Care - Resource Management
Pablo Adolfo Perez d'Empaire, Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral
Mechanical ventilation and intra-abdominal hypertension: 'Beyond Good and Evil'
Paolo Pelosi, Maria Vargas
A survey on infection management practices in Italian ICUs
Matteo Bassetti, Raffaele De Gaudio, Teresita Mazzei, Giulia Morace, Nicola Petrosillo, Pierluigi Viale, Giuseppe Bello, Sofia La Face, Massimo Antonelli
Outcome of ICU patients with Clostridium difficile infection
Jean-Ralph Zahar, Carole Schwebel, Christophe Adrie, Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Adrien Français, Aurélien Vesin, Molière Nguile-Makao, Alexis Tabah, Kevin Laupland, Alban Le-Monnier, Jean-François Timsit
A randomized trial of 7-day doripenem versus 10-day imipenem-cilastatin for ventilator-associated pneumonia
Marin H Kollef, Jean Chastre, Marc Clavel, Marcos I Restrepo, Bart Michiels, Koné Kaniga, Iolanda Cirillo, Holly Kimko, Rebecca Redman
Patterns and early evolution of organ failure in the intensive care unit and their relation to outcome
Yasser Sakr, Suzana M Lobo, Rui P Moreno, Herwig Gerlach, V Marco Ranieri, Argyris Michalopoulos, Jean-Louis Vincent
Effects of etomidate on complications related to intubation and on mortality in septic shock patients treated with hydrocortisone: a propensity score analysis
Boris Jung, Noemie Clavieras, Stephanie Nougaret, Nicolas Molinari, Antoine Roquilly, Moussa Cisse, Julie Carr, Gerald Chanques, Karim Asehnoune, Samir Jaber
Severe hyperkalemia requiring hospitalization: predictors of mortality
Jung Nam An, Jung Pyo Lee, Hee Jung Jeon, Do Hyoung Kim, Yun Kyu Oh, Yon Su Kim, Chun Soo Lim
Interleukin-27: a potential new sepsis biomarker exposed through genome-wide transcriptional profiling
Brendon P Scicluna, Tom van der Poll
An antimicrobial stewardship program improves antimicrobial treatment by culture site and the quality of antimicrobial prescribing in critically ill patients
Christina M Katsios, Lisa Burry, Sandra Nelson, Tanaz Jivraj, Stephen E Lapinsky, Randy S Wax, Michael Christian, Sangeeta Mehta, Chaim M Bell, Andrew M Morris
Misleading indexed hemodynamic parameters: the clinical importance of discordant BMI and BSA at extremes of weight
Adam C Adler, Brian H Nathanson, Karthik Raghunathan, William T McGee
Vasopressin and terlipressin in adult vasodilatory shock
Angelo Polito, Emilio Parisini, Zaccaria Ricci, Sergio Picardo, Djillali Annane
Etomidate for intubation of patients who have sepsis or septic shock - where do we go from here?
Donald EG Griesdale
To wake-up, or not to wake-up: that is the Hamletic neurocritical care question!
Lara Prisco, Giuseppe Citerio
Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome in neurointensive care unit: the benefit of intracranial pressure monitoring
Pierre Esnault, Guillaume Lacroix, Pierre-Julien Cungi, Erwan D'Aranda, Jean Cotte, Philippe Goutorbe
Monophasic versus biphasic defibrillation for pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients: a nationwide population-based study in Japan
Seizan Tanabe, Hideo Yasunaga, Soichi Koike, Manabu Akahane, Toshio Ogawa, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Tetsuo Hatanaka, Hiroyuki Yokota, Tomoaki Imamura
Can neonatal lung ultrasound monitor fluid clearance and predict the need of respiratory support?
Francesco Raimondi, Fiorella Migliaro, Angela Sodano, Angela Umbaldo, Antonia Romano, Gianfranco Vallone, Letizia Capasso
Antibiotic prescription patterns in the empiric therapy of severe sepsis: combination of antimicrobials with different mechanisms of action reduces mortality
Ana Díaz-Martín, María Luisa Martínez-González, Ricard Ferrer, Carlos Ortiz-Leyba, Enrique Piacentini, Maria Jesus Lopez-Pueyo, Ignacio Martín-Loeches, Mitchell M Levy, Antoni Artigas, José Garnacho-Montero
Effects of the neurological wake-up test on clinical examination, intracranial pressure, brain metabolism and brain tissue oxygenation in severely brain-injured patients
Raimund Helbok, Pedro Kurtz, Michael J Schmidt, Morgan R Stuart, Luis Fernandez, Sander E Connolly, Kiwon Lee, Erich Schmutzhard, Stephan A Mayer, Jan Claassen, Neeraj Badjatia
Role of predisposition, injury, response and organ failure in the prognosis of patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure: a prospective cohort study
Rajiv Jalan, Vanessa Stadlbauer, Sambit Sen, Lisa Cheshire, Yu-Mei Chang, Rajeshwar P Mookerjee
Elevated troponin I and its prognostic significance in acute liver failure
Vinod K Audimooolam, Mark JW McPhail, Roy Sherwood, Chris Willars, William Bernal, Julia A Wendon, Georg Auzinger
Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of 40 mg/day of atorvastatin in reducing the severity of sepsis in ward patients (ASEPSIS Trial)
Jaimin M Patel, Catherine Snaith, David R Thickett, Lucie Linhartova, Teresa Melody, Peter Hawkey, Anthony H Barnett, Alan Jones, Tan Hong, Matthew W Cooke, Gavin D Perkins, Fang Gao
Risk factors for dementia after critical illness in elderly medicare beneficiaries
Carmen Guerra, Walter T Linde-Zwirble, Hannah Wunsch
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor plasma levels are associated with mortality in critically ill patients even in the absence of brain injury
Cristiane Ritter, Aline S Miranda, Vinícius Renê Giombelli, Cristiane D Tomasi, Clarissa M Comim, Antonio Lucio Teixeira, João Quevedo, Felipe Dal-Pizzol
The clinical usefulness of extravascular lung water and pulmonary vascular permeability index to diagnose and characterize pulmonary edema: a prospective multicenter study on the quantitative differential diagnostic definition for acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome
Shigeki Kushimoto, Yasuhiko Taira, Yasuhide Kitazawa, Kazuo Okuchi, Teruo Sakamoto, Hiroyasu Ishikura, Tomoyuki Endo, Satoshi Yamanouchi, Takashi Tagami, Junko Yamaguchi, Kazuhide Yoshikawa, Manabu Sugita, Yoichi Kase, Takashi Kanemura, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Yuichi Kuroki, Hiroo Izumino, Hiroshi Rinka, Ryutarou Seo, Makoto Takatori, Tadashi Kaneko, Toshiaki Nakamura, Takayuki Irahara, Nobuyuki Saito, Akihiro Watanabe
Efficacy of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients: a propensity analysis
Christophe Clec'h, Michaël Darmon, Alexandre Lautrette, Frank Chemouni, Elie Azoulay, Carole Schwebel, Anne-Sylvie Dumenil, Maïté Garrouste-Orgeas, Dany Goldgran-Toledano, Yves Cohen, Jean-François Timsit
The way in which a physiotherapy service is structured can improve patient outcome from a surgical intensive care: a controlled clinical trial
Susan D Hanekom, Quinette Louw, Andre Coetzee
Lower short- and long-term mortality associated with overweight and obesity in a large cohort study of adult intensive care unit patients
Swapna Abhyankar, Kira Leishear, Fiona M Callaghan, Dina Demner-Fushman, Clement J McDonald
Timing of dialysis initiation in AKI in ICU: international survey
Charuhas V Thakar, James Rousseau, Anthony C Leonard
Accuracy of plasma sTREM-1 for sepsis diagnosis in systemic inflammatory patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Youping Wu, Fei Wang, Xiaohua Fan, Rui Bao, Lulong Bo, Jinbao Li, Xiaoming Deng
Protease-activated receptor-1 impairs host defense in murine pneumococcal pneumonia: a controlled laboratory study
Marcel Schouten, Cornelis van't Veer, Joris JTH Roelofs, Marcel Levi, Tom van der Poll