Intensive Care Medicine

Oxygen: when is more the enemy of good?

Richard D. Branson, Bryce R. H. Robinson

Swept under the carpet? The role of mucociliary clearance in ventilator-induced lung injury

Cory M. Yamashita, Ruud A. W. Veldhuizen

Phosphorylation mechanisms in intensive care medicine

Erica L. Martin, V. Marco Ranieri

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2010: I. Acute renal failure, outcome, risk assessment and ICU performance, sepsis, neuro intensive care and experimentals

Massimo Antonelli, Elie Azoulay, Marc Bonten, Jean Chastre, Giuseppe Citerio, Giorgio Conti, Daniel De Backer, Herwig Gerlach, Goran Hedenstierna, Michael Joannidis, Duncan Macrae, Jordi Mancebo, Salvatore M. Maggiore, Alexandre Mebazaa, Jean-Charles Preiser, Jerôme Pugin, Jan Wernerman, Haibo Zhang

Cardiogenic shock and nutrition: safe?

Ronan Thibault, Claude Pichard, Jan Wernerman, Karim Bendjelid

Clinicians’ response to hyperoxia in ventilated patients in a Dutch ICU depends on the level of FiO2

Aafke Elizabeth de Graaff, Dave Anton Dongelmans, Jan Maria Binnekade, Evert de Jonge

Low and “supranormal” central venous oxygen saturation and markers of tissue hypoxia in cardiac surgery patients: a prospective observational study

Suzanne Perz, Thomas Uhlig, Matthias Kohl, Donald L. Bredle, Konrad Reinhart, Michael Bauer, Andreas Kortgen

Effects of norepinephrine on renal perfusion, filtration and oxygenation in vasodilatory shock and acute kidney injury

Bengt Redfors, Gudrun Bragadottir, Johan Sellgren, Kristina Swärd, Sven-Erik Ricksten

Diagnostic accuracy of Doppler renal resistive index for reversibility of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients

Michael Darmon, Frédérique Schortgen, Frederic Vargas, Aissam Liazydi, Benoît Schlemmer, Christian Brun-Buisson, Laurent Brochard

Circulating high sensitivity troponin T in severe sepsis and septic shock: distribution, associated factors, and relation to outcome

Helge Røsjø, Marjut Varpula, Tor-Arne Hagve, Sari Karlsson, Esko Ruokonen, Ville Pettilä, Torbjørn Omland

Impact of albumin compared to saline on organ function and mortality of patients with severe sepsis

Postoperative red blood cell transfusion and morbid outcome in uncomplicated cardiac surgery patients

Patrick Möhnle, Stephanie A. Snyder-Ramos, Yinghui Miao, Alexander Kulier, Bernd W. Böttiger, Jack Levin, Dennis T. Mangano

Probiotics versus antibiotic decontamination of the digestive tract: infection and mortality

Guy J. Oudhuis, Dennis C. Bergmans, Tom Dormans, Jan-Harm Zwaveling, Alfons Kessels, Martin H. Prins, Ellen E. Stobberingh, Annelies Verbon

Determinants of arterial and central venous blood pressure variation in ventilated critically ill children

Eva Kühlwein, Christian Balmer, Vincenzo Cannizzaro, Bernhard Frey

Prognostic value of extravascular lung water index in critically ill children with acute respiratory failure

Riccardo Lubrano, Corrado Cecchetti, Marco Elli, Caterina Tomasello, Giuliana Guido, Matteo Di Nardo, Raffaele Masciangelo, Elisabetta Pasotti, Maria Antonietta Barbieri, Elena Bellelli, Nicola Pirozzi

Effects of different mechanical ventilation strategies on the mucociliary system

Vivien S. Piccin, Christiane Calciolari, Kelly Yoshizaki, Susimeire Gomes, Cláudia Albertini-Yagi, Marisa Dolhnikoff, Mariângela Macchione, Elia G. Caldini, Paulo H. N. Saldiva, Elnara M. Negri

Could nephrotoxicity due to colistin be ameliorated with the use of N-acetylcysteine?

Ezgi Ozyilmaz, Fatma Ayerden Ebinc, Ulver Derici, Ozlem Gulbahar, Guleser Goktas, Cigdem Elmas, I. Kivilcim Oguzulgen, Sukru Sindel

Hemodynamic, respiratory, and perfusion parameters during asphyxia, resuscitation, and post-resuscitation in a pediatric model of cardiac arrest

Jesús López-Herce, Bárbara Fernández, Javier Urbano, Santiago Mencía, Maria José Solana, Antonio Rodríguez-Núñez, Jose María Bellón, Angel Carrillo

Left ventricular rotation: a neglected aspect of the cardiac cycle

Stefan Bloechlinger, Wilhelm Grander, Juerg Bryner, Martin W. Dünser

Obesity and acute kidney injury: fact or artifact?

René Robert, Jean-Pierre Frat, Thierry Hauet

Obesity and acute kidney injury: reply to Dr. Robert and coworkers

Wilfred Druml, Barbara Metnitz, Erika Schaden, Peter Bauer, Philipp G. H. Metnitz

Successful use of neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in a patient with extremely low respiratory system compliance undergoing ECMO

Tommaso Mauri, Giacomo Bellani, Giuseppe Foti, Giacomo Grasselli, Antonio Pesenti

An unusual cause of severe lactic acidosis: cyanide poisoning after bitter almond ingestion

Pascale Sanchez-Verlaan, Thomas Geeraerts, Sophie Buys, Béatrice Riu-Poulenc, Claudine Cabot, Olivier Fourcade, Bruno Mégarbane, Michèle Genestal

Case report: delayed pleural effusion by femoral cooling catheter

Pascal Stammet, Christophe Werer, Frank Deridder, Peter Frambach

Heparin-induced skin necrosis: HIT-2 without thrombocytopenia

Pierre-Marie Bertrand, Sébastien Perbet, Anne-Françoise Sapin, Magali Salavert, Jean-Michel Constantin, Ismail Elalamy, Jean-Etienne Bazin

Imminent brain death and brain death are not the same: reply to Verheijde and Rady

Yorick J. de Groot, Jan Bakker, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Erwin J. O. Kompanje

Decision to forgo life-sustaining therapies for elderly critically ill patients is a multidisciplinary challenge

T. Fassier, A. Duclos, B. Comte, B. Tardy

Improvement of early diagnosed post-anoxic myoclonus with levetiracetam

Marion Venot, Nicolas Weiss, Sophie Espinoza, Audrey Imbert, Jean-Marc Tadie, Jean-Yves Fagon, Emmanuel Guerot, Jean-Luc Diehl

High rate ultrafiltration in anasarca: 33 l of net negative fluid balance in 52 h!

Luc Kugener, Alexandre Brasseur, David Fagnoul, Jean-Louis Vincent