Intensive Care Medicine

Don't take vitals, take a lactate

Jan Bakker, Tim C. Jansen

The early biomarker of acute kidney injury: in search of the Holy Grail

Patrick M. Honore, Olivier Joannes-Boyau, Willem Boer

The polycompartment syndrome: towards an understanding of the interactions between different compartments!

Manu L. N. G. Malbrain, Alexander Wilmer

Creating competent and caring physicians: ensuring patients are our North Star

Peter J. Pronovost, Jose Rodriguez-Paz, Zulfiqar Mohammad

Neuromuscular dysfunction acquired in critical illness: a systematic review

Robert D. Stevens, David W. Dowdy, Robert K. Michaels, Pedro A. Mendez-Tellez, Peter J. Pronovost, Dale M. Needham

Occult hypoperfusion and mortality in patients with suspected infection

Michael D. Howell, Michael Donnino, Peter Clardy, Daniel Talmor, Nathan I. Shapiro

Replacement of 24-h creatinine clearance by 2-h creatinine clearance in intensive care unit patients: a single-center study

Manuel E. Herrera-Gutiérrez, Gemma Seller-Pérez, Esther Banderas-Bravo, Javier Muñoz-Bono, Miguel Lebrón-Gallardo, Juan F. Fernandez-Ortega

Use of bladder pressure to correct for the effect of expiratory muscle activity on central venous pressure

Ahmad S. Qureshi, Robert S. Shapiro, James W. Leatherman

The views of patients and relatives of what makes a good intensivist: a European survey

RIFLE classification can predict short-term prognosis in critically ill cirrhotic patients

Chang-Chyi Jenq, Ming-Hung Tsai, Ya-Chung Tian, Chan-Yu Lin, Chun Yang, Nai-Jen Liu, Jau-Min Lien, Yung-Chang Chen, Ji-Tseng Fang, Pan-Chi Chen, Chih-Wei Yang

Contribution of arterial stiffness and stroke volume to peripheral pulse pressure in ICU patients: an arterial tonometry study

Bouchra Lamia, Jean-Louis Teboul, Xavier Monnet, David Osman, Julien Maizel, Christian Richard, Denis Chemla

Chest physiotherapy prolongs duration of ventilation in the critically ill ventilated for more than 48 hours

Maie Templeton, Mark G. A. Palazzo

The headache over warfarin in British neurosurgical intensive care units: a national survey of current practice

Rebecca Appelboam, Elfyn Owen Thomas

Light and darkness fail to regulate melatonin release in critically ill humans

Boris Perras, Markus Meier, Christoph Dodt

Leptospirosis in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean): analysis of factors associated with severity in 147 confirmed cases

Fabrice Paganin, Arnaud Bourdin, Cécile Dalban, Jean-Paul Courtin, Patrice Poubeau, Gianandrea Borgherini, Alain Michault, Jean-Claude Sally, François Tixier, Robert Genin, Claude Arvin-Berod

The first demonstration of lactic acid in human blood in shock by Johann Joseph Scherer (1814–1869) in January 1843

E. J. O. Kompanje, T. C. Jansen, B. van der Hoven, J. Bakker

Can we apply the European surveillance program of nosocomial infections (HELICS) to pediatric intensive care units?

François Dubos, Marie Vanderborght, Anne-Laure Puybasset-Joncquez, Bruno Grandbastien, Francis Leclerc

Enoxaparin therapy for arterial thrombosis in infants with congenital heart disease

Joe Bontadelli, Alexander Moeller, Markus Schmugge, Thomas Schraner, Oliver Kretschmar, Urs Bauersfeld, Vera Bernet-Buettiker, Manuela Albisetti

Mid-term follow-up in patients with diaphragmatic plication after surgery for congenital heart disease

Julia Lemmer, Brigitte Stiller, Grit Heise, Vladimir Alexi-Meskishvili, Michael Hübler, Yuguo Weng, Felix Berger

Neuronal nitric oxide synthase deficiency decreases survival in bacterial peritonitis and sepsis

Xizhong Cui, Virginia Besch, Alfia Khaibullina, Adrienne Hergen, Martha Quezado, Peter Eichacker, Zenaide M. N. Quezado

Variations in pulmonary artery occlusion pressure to estimate changes in pleural pressure

Patrick Bellemare, Peter Goldberg, Sheldon A. Magder

Outcomes and prognostic factors in patients with head and neck cancer and severe acute illnesses

Márcio Soares, Jorge I. F. Salluh, Luisa Toscano, Fernando L. Dias

Automatic detection of ineffective triggering and double triggering during mechanical ventilation

Qestra Mulqueeny, Piero Ceriana, Annalisa Carlucci, Francesco Fanfulla, Monica Delmastro, Stefano Nava

Relative safety of hyperinsulinaemia/euglycaemia therapy in the management of calcium channel blocker overdose: a prospective observational study

Shaun L. Greene, Indika Gawarammana, David M. Wood, Alison L. Jones, Paul I. Dargan

Accumulation of oral antibiotics as an adverse effect of selective decontamination of the digestive tract: a series of three cases

M. J. Smit, J. I. van der Spoel, A. M. G. A. de Smet, E. de Jonge, R. A. J. Kuiper, E. J. van Lieshout

Comment on “Chest physiotherapy prolongs duration of ventilation in the critically ill ventilated for more than 48 hours” by Drs. Templeton and Palazzo

George Ntoumenopoulos

Reply to the comment by Dr. Ntoumenopoulos

Mark G. Palazzo, Maie Templeton

Extensive pallidal and white matter injury following cocaine overdose

Sophie De Roock, Philippe Hantson, Pierre-François Laterre, Thierry Duprez

Assessment of drift of pulse contour cardiac output over varying recalibration intervals

Martin Boyle, Margherita Murgo, Maureen O’Brien

Management of an unusual case of acute respiratory failure with a double-lumen endobronchial tube

K. Venkatesan, N. A. Coleman

Unusual abnormal left ventricular contraction pattern associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage

Masaru Inoue, Takumi Taniguchi, Yoshikazu Goto, Keisuke Ohta, Yuichi Hirota, Jun-ichiro Hamada, Masakazu Yamagishi, Hideo Inaba

Pseudosubarachnoid haemorrhage on CT brain scan: An unusual presentation of diffuse hypoxic brain injury

Gareth L. Thomas, Edward R. Stachowski

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