Ausgabe 5/2004
Inhalt (51 Artikel)
Excessive antimicrobial usage causes measurable harm to patients with suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia
Victor L. Yu, Nina Singh
Variation in intensive care unit outcomes by day of week: no weak-end
Chaim M. Bell, Damon C. Scales
Cerebral arterial gas embolism: should we hyperventilate these patients?
C.-M. Muth, E. S. Shank
Breath by breath, spontaneously or mechanically supported: lessons from biphasic positive airway pressure (BIPAP)
Enrico Calzia, Thomas Bein
How are children mechanically ventilated in pediatric intensive care units?
Adrienne G. Randolph
Challenges in end-of-life care in the ICU
Jean Carlet, Lambertus G. Thijs, Massimo Antonelli, Joan Cassell, Peter Cox, Nicholas Hill, Charles Hinds, Jorge Manuel Pimentel, Konrad Reinhart, Boyd Taylor Thompson
Severe traumatic head injury in adults: Which patients are at risk of early hyperthermia?
Arnaud Geffroy, Régis Bronchard, Paul Merckx, Pierre-François Seince, Thierry Faillot, Pierre Albaladejo, Jean Marty
Effect of cerebral perfusion pressure augmentation with dopamine and norepinephrine on global and focal brain oxygenation after traumatic brain injury
Andrew J. Johnston, Luzius A. Steiner, Doris A. Chatfield, Jonathan P. Coles, Peter J. Hutchinson, Pippa G. Al-Rawi, David K. Menon, Arun K. Gupta
Glycemic control in the ICU: a multicenter survey
Joseph McMullin, Jan Brozek, Roman Jaeschke, Cindy Hamielec, Vinay Dhingra, Graeme Rocker, Andreas Freitag, James Gibson, Deborah Cook
Standardization of intravenous insulin therapy improves the efficiency and safety of blood glucose control in critically ill adults
Salmaan Kanji, Avinder Singh, Michael Tierney, Hilary Meggison, Lauralyn McIntyre, Paul C. Hebert
Body temperature alterations in the critically ill
Daliana Peres Bota, Flavio Lopes Ferreira, Christian Mélot, Jean Louis Vincent
Transpulmonary lactate gradient after hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass
Karim Bendjelid, Miriam M. Treggiari, Jacques-Andre Romand
Prevalence of intra-abdominal hypertension in critically ill patients: a multicentre epidemiological study
Manu L. N. G. Malbrain, Davide Chiumello, Paolo Pelosi, Alexander Wilmer, Nicola Brienza, Vincenzo Malcangi, David Bihari, Richard Innes, Jonathan Cohen, Pierre Singer, Andre Japiassu, Elizabeth Kurtop, Bart L. De Keulenaer, Ronny Daelemans, Monica Del Turco, P. Cosimini, Marco Ranieri, Luc Jacquet, Pierre-François Laterre, Luciano Gattinoni
A prospective, blinded evaluation of indexes proposed to predict weaning from mechanical ventilation
Giorgio Conti, Luca Montini, Mariano Alberto Pennisi, Franco Cavaliere, Andrea Arcangeli, Maria Grazia Bocci, Rodolfo Proietti, Massimo Antonelli
Prevention of intravascular catheter-related infection with newer chlorhexidine-silver sulfadiazine-coated catheters: a randomized controlled trial
Christian Brun-Buisson, Françoise Doyon, Jean-Pierre Sollet, Jean-François Cochard, Yves Cohen, Gérard Nitenberg
Value of the clinical pulmonary infection score for the identification and management of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Charles-Edouard Luyt, Jean Chastre, Jean-Yves Fagon
Diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia: agreement between quantitative cultures of endotracheal aspiration and plugged telescoping catheter
Souheil Elatrous, Riadh Boukef, Lamia Ouanes Besbes, Soudani Marghli, Sami Nooman, Semir Nouira, Fekri Abroug
Characteristics and outcomes of HIV-infected patients in the ICU: impact of the highly active antiretroviral treatment era
Benoît Vincent, Jean-François Timsit, Marc Auburtin, Frédérique Schortgen, Lila Bouadma, Michel Wolff, Bernard Regnier
Increased diffusion of soluble adhesion molecules in meningitis, severe sepsis and systemic inflammatory response without neurological infection is associated with intrathecal shedding in cases of meningitis
Bruno Mégarbane, Philippe Marchal, Anne Marfaing-Koka, Olivier Belliard, Frédéric Jacobs, Isabelle Chary, François G. Brivet
Non-invasive negative and positive pressure ventilation in the treatment of acute on chronic respiratory failure
Massimo Gorini, Roberta Ginanni, Giuseppe Villella, Donatella Tozzi, Annike Augustynen, Antonio Corrado
Noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure in elderly cardiogenic pulmonary edema patients
Erwan L’Her, Françoise Duquesne, Emmanuelle Girou, Xavier Donin de Rosiere, Philippe Le Conte, Serge Renault, Jean-Paul Allamy, Jean-Michel Boles
Myocardial redox state during coronary artery bypass grafting assessed with microdialysis
Ludger Bahlmann, Martin Misfeld, Stephan Klaus, Alexander Leptien, Matthias Heringlake, Peter Schmucker, Hans-Hinrich Sievers, Urban Ungerstedt, Ernst-Guenther Kraatz
Hospital mortality associated with day and time of admission to intensive care units
Hannah Wunsch, James Mapstone, Tony Brady, Rosa Hanks, Kathryn Rowan
Hidden evidence to the West: multicentre, randomised, controlled trials in sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome in Japanese journals
Rinaldo Bellomo, Shigehiko Uchino, Toshio Naka, Li Wan
What is the daily practice of mechanical ventilation in pediatric intensive care units? A multicenter study
J. A. Farias, F. Frutos, A. Esteban, J. Casado Flores, A. Retta, A. Baltodano, I. Alía, T. Hatzis, F. Olazarri, A. Petros, M. Johnson
Advantages and disadvantages of different nasal CPAP systems in newborns
V. Buettiker, M. I. Hug, O. Baenziger, C. Meyer, B. Frey
Transaminase levels in ventilated children with respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis
Michael Eisenhut, Kentigern Thorburn, Tageldin Ahmed
Ventilation with biphasic positive airway pressure in experimental lung injury
Dietrich Henzler, Rolf Dembinski, Ralf Bensberg, Nadine Hochhausen, Rolf Rossaint, Ralf Kuhlen
Hyperventilation impairs brain function in acute cerebral air embolism in pigs
Robert A. van Hulst, Jack J. Haitsma, Thomas W. Lameris, Jan Klein, Burkhard Lachmann
Rosiglitazone, a ligand of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma, reduces acute pancreatitis induced by cerulein
Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Barbara Pisano, Laura Dugo, Angela Ianaro, Domenico Britti, Nimesh S. A. Patel, Rosanna Di Paola, Tiziana Genovese, Massimo Di Rosa, Achille P. Caputi, Christoph Thiemermann
HMR1402, a potassium ATP channel blocker during hyperdynamic porcine endotoxemia: effects on hepato-splanchnic oxygen exchange and metabolism
Pierre Asfar, Zsolt Iványi, Hendrik Bracht, Balázs Hauser, Antje Pittner, Damian Vassilev, Marek Nalos, Xavier Maurice Leverve, Uwe Bernd Brückner, Peter Radermacher, Gebhard Fröba
Predictive factors of intensive care unit admission in patients with haematological malignancies and pneumonia
Didier Gruson, Frederic Vargas, Gilles Hilbert, Nam Bui, Thierry Maillot, Thierry Mayet, Odile Pillet, Genevieve Chene, Georges Gbikpi-Benissan
Persistence of candiduria in ICU catheterized patients is not linked to adherence and proteolytic activities of Candida strains
Halis Akalın, Beyza Ener, Ferda Kahveci, Sevim Akçağlar, Şaban Gürcan, Okan Töre
Steady-state plasma and intrapulmonary concentrations of piperacillin/tazobactam 4 g/0.5 g administered to critically ill patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia
Emmanuel Boselli, Dominique Breilh, Maxime Cannesson, Fabien Xuereb, Thomas Rimmelé, Dominique Chassard, Marie-Claude Saux, Bernard Allaouchiche
Plasmatic cystatin C for the estimation of glomerular filtration rate in intensive care units
Pierre Delanaye, Bernard Lambermont, Jean-Paul Chapelle, Jacques Gielen, Paul Gerard, Georges Rorive
Survey of the use of catecholamines by French physicians
Marc Leone, Benoit Vallet, Jean-Louis Teboul, Joachim Mateo, Olivier Bastien, Claude Martin
Plasma and lung concentrations of ceftazidime administered in continuous infusion to critically ill patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia
Emmanuel Boselli, Dominique Breilh, Thomas Rimmelé, Jean-Charles Poupelin, Marie-Claude Saux, Dominique Chassard, Bernard Allaouchiche
Terlipressin in patients with septic shock: friend or foe?
M. Westphal, C. Ertmer, H. Van Aken, H.-G. Bone
A blind clinical evaluation committee should, in theory, make data of a randomized clinical trial stronger, not weaker
J. F. Dhainaut, W. L. Macias, D. R. Nelson
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking
J. E. Tulleken, J. G. Zijlstra, J. J. M. Ligtenberg, R. Spanjersberg, T. S. van der Werf
Reply to letter by Tulleken et al.
P. Eggimann, S. Hugonnet, H. Sax, J.-C. Chevrolet, D. Pittet
Effectiveness of cycling-off during pressure support ventilation
F. Mojoli, A. Braschi
Effectiveness of cycling-off during pressure support ventilation: a reply
G. Prinianakis, E. Kondili, D. Georgopoulos
Pressure-volume curve patterns in ARDS patients—authors’ reply
Antoine Vieillard-Baron, François Jardin