Intensive Care Medicine

Atrial fibrillation in the intensive care unit

Gottfried Heinz

Organ dysfunction during sepsis

Suveer Singh, Timothy W. Evans

Time of non-invasive ventilation

Stefano Nava, Paolo Navalesi, Giorgio Conti

Melatonin: possible implications for the postoperative and critically ill patient

Richard S. Bourne, Gary H. Mills

Year in review in intensive care medicine, 2005. II. Infection and sepsis, ventilator-associated pneumonia, ethics, haematology and haemostasis, ICU organisation and scoring, brain injury

Peter Andrews, Elie Azoulay, Massimo Antonelli, Laurent Brochard, Christian Brun-Buisson, Geoffrey Dobb, Jean-Yves Fagon, Herwig Gerlach, Johan Groeneveld, Jordi Mancebo, Philipp Metnitz, Stefano Nava, Jerome Pugin, Michael Pinsky, Peter Radermacher, Christian Richard, Robert Tasker

Effects of neuromuscular block on systemic and cerebral hemodynamics and bispectral index during moderate or deep sedation in critically ill patients

Satoki Inoue, Masahiko Kawaguchi, Noriyuki Sasaoka, Katsuji Hirai, Hitoshi Furuya

Atrial fibrillation in trauma patients requiring intensive care

Philippe Seguin, Bruno Laviolle, Axelle Maurice, Christophe Leclercq, Yannick Mallédant

Comparison of respiratory rate and peripheral oxygen saturation to assess severity in trauma patients

Mathieu Raux, Michel Thicoïpé, Eric Wiel, Elisabeth Rancurel, Dominique Savary, Jean-Stéphane David, Frédéric Berthier, Agnès Ricard-Hibon, Frédéric Birgel, Bruno Riou

Relationship between pressure-volume curve and markers for collagen turn-over in early acute respiratory distress syndrome

Alexandre Demoule, François Decailliot, Bjorn Jonson, Christo Christov, Bernard Maitre, Lhousseine Touqui, Laurent Brochard, Christophe Delclaux

An evaluation of systemic inflammatory response syndrome signs in the Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely ill Patients (SOAP) study

Charles L. Sprung, Yasser Sakr, Jean-Louis Vincent, Jean-Roger Le Gall, Konrad Reinhart, V. Marco Ranieri, Herwig Gerlach, Jonathan Fielden, C. B. Groba, Didier Payen

Weight-adjusted resting energy expenditure is not constant in critically ill patients

Alexandra Zauner, Bruno Schneeweiss, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Gregor Lindner, Christian Zauner

Mean glucose level is not an independent risk factor for mortality in mixed ICU patients

Jack J. M. Ligtenberg, Sofie Meijering, Ymkje Stienstra, Iwan C. C. van der Horst, Mathijs Vogelzang, Maarten W. N. Nijsten, Jaap E. Tulleken, Jan G. Zijlstra

Informed consent for research in ICU obtained before ICU admission

Catherine Chenaud, Paolo Merlani, Bara Ricou

A self-report-based study of the incidence and associations of sexual dysfunction in survivors of intensive care treatment

John Griffiths, Melanie Gager, Nicola Alder, Derek Fawcett, Carl Waldmann, Jane Quinlan

Dramatic beneficial effects of sildenafil in recurrent massive pulmonary embolism

Vincent Ganière, François Feihl, Damien Tagan

Saline volume in transvesical intra-abdominal pressure measurement: enough is enough

J. De Waele, P. Pletinckx, S. Blot, E. Hoste

Influence of infusion flow rates on central venous pressure measurements through multi-lumen central venous catheters in intensive care

Karim Lakhal, Martine Ferrandière, François Lagarrigue, Colette Mercier, Jacques Fusciardi, Marc Laffon

Organophosphate poisonings with parathion and dimethoate

Ulrich Hoffmann, Thomas Papendorf

Procalcitonin kinetics in the prognosis of severe community-acquired pneumonia

Nicolas Boussekey, Olivier Leroy, Serge Alfandari, Patrick Devos, Hugues Georges, Benoit Guery

Comment on “Changes in acid-base balance following bolus infusion of 20% albumin solution in humans” by Bruegger et al.

Werner Lang

Authors' reply to the comments by Dr. Lang

Dirk Bruegger, Matthias Jacob, Bernhard F. Becker, Markus Rehm

Comment on “Lung recruitment maneuver depresses central hemodynamics in patients after cardiac surgery” by Nielsenet al. and “Acute leftward septal shift by lung recruitment maneuver” by Jardin

Nahit Cakar, Ergin Ozcan Perihan, Akinci Ibrahim Ozkan, Tugrul Simru, Esen Figen, Telci Lutfu

Authors' reply to the comment by Dr. Cakar et al.

François Jardin

Comment on “Changes in acid-base balance following bolus infusion of 20% albumin solution in humans” by Bruegger et al.

Troels Ring, J. A. Kellum

Authors' reply to the commentsby Drs. Ring and Kellum

Dirk Bruegger, Matthias Jacob, Bernhard F. Becker, Markus Rehm

Changes in acid-base balance following bolus infusion of 20% albumin solution in humans

Dirk Bruegger, Matthias Jacob, Stefan Scheingraber, Peter Conzen, Bernhard F. Becker, Udilo Finsterer, Markus Rehm

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