Intensive Care Medicine

End of life in the intensive care unit: from practice to law.What do the lawmakers tell the caregivers?A new series in Intensive Care Medicine

Jean-Michel Boles

Fluid Resuscitation of Hypovolemic Shock: Acute Medicine's Great Triumph for Children

Joseph A. Carcillo, Robert C. Tasker

Recognizing the apical ballooning syndrome in the intensive care unit

G. William Dec

Elderly patients and intensive care medicine

Ariane Boumendil, Bertrand Guidet

Virus diseases in ICU patients: a long time underestimated; but be aware of overestimation

Charles-Edouard Luyt

Optimal therapy for severe pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia

Manel Luján, Miguel Gallego, Jordi Rello

Applications of transcranial Doppler in the ICU: a review

Hayden White, Balasubramanian Venkatesh

Fluid resuscitation in neonatal and pediatric hypovolemic shock: a Dutch Pediatric Society evidence-based clinical practice guideline

Nicole Boluyt, Casper W. Bollen, Albert P. Bos, Joke H. Kok, Martin Offringa

Expanding ICU facilities in an epidemic: recommendations based on experience from the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong and Singapore

Charles D. Gomersall, Dessmon Y. H. Tai, Shi Loo, James L. Derrick, Mia Siang Goh, Thomas A. Buckley, Catherine Chua, Ka Man Ho, Geeta P. Raghavan, Oi Man Ho, Lay Beng Lee, Gavin M. Joynt

Under-humidification and over-humidification during moderate induced hypothermia with usual devices

François Lellouche, Siham Qader, Solenne Taille, Aissam Lyazidi, Laurent Brochard

Virus infection in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring ventilation

Robert J. Cameron, Deo de Wit, Toni N. Welsh, John Ferguson, Terry V. Grissell, Peter J. Rye

Cardiac response is greater for colloid than saline fluid loading after cardiac or vascular surgery

Joanne Verheij, Arthur van Lingen, Albertus Beishuizen, Herman M. T. Christiaans, Jan R. de Jong, Armand R. J. Girbes, Willem Wisselink, Jan A. Rauwerda, Marinus A. J. M. Huybregts, A. B. Johan Groeneveld

Short-term and long-term mortality in very elderly patients admitted to an intensive care unit

S. E. de Rooij, A. Govers, J. C. Korevaar, A. Abu-Hanna, M. Levi, E. de Jonge

Decision-making process, outcome, and 1-year quality of life of octogenarians referred for intensive care unit admission

Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Jean-François Timsit, Luc Montuclard, Alain Colvez, Olivier Gattolliat, François Philippart, Guillaume Rigal, Benoit Misset, Jean Carlet

Short- and long-term outcomes of older patients in intermediate care units

Olga H. Torres, Esther Francia, Vanesa Longobardi, Ignasi Gich, Salvador Benito, Domingo Ruiz

Application of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling in management of QT abnormalities after citalopram overdose

Geoffrey K. Isbister, Lena E. Friberg, Stephen B. Duffull

End-of-life care in India

Raj Kumar Mani

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (Acute Left Ventricular Apical Ballooning Syndrome) Occurring in the Intensive Care Unit

Dariusch Haghi, Stephan Fluechter, Tim Suselbeck, Joachim Saur, Osama Bheleel, Martin Borggrefe, Theano Papavassiliu

Propofol in the treatment of refractory status epilepticus

Ilkka Parviainen, Ari Uusaro, Reetta Kälviäinen, Esa Mervaala, Esko Ruokonen

Effects of a single-lung recruitment maneuver on the systemic release of inflammatory mediators

Andre Puls, Beatrix Pollok-Kopp, Hermann Wrigge, Michael Quintel, Peter Neumann

Opiates at the end of life in an emergency department in Spain: euthanasia or good clinical practice?

F. Del Nogal Sáez

Assessing fluid responsiveness with esophageal Doppler dynamic indices: concepts and methods

Karim Bendjelid

The FTc is not an accurate marker of left ventricular preload

Mervyn Singer

FTc is not an accurate predictor of fluid responsiveness

Xavier Monnet, Michael Pinsky, Jean-Louis Teboul

The “cross-talk phenomenon” in transpulmonary thermodilution is flow dependent.

Joris Lemson, Ruud J. R. Eijk, Johannes G. van der Hoeven

Community-acquired necrotizing fasciitis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Mariëtte H. W. Kappers, Johan M. van der Klooster, Rob J. Th. Ouwendijk, Ad Dees

Levels of vancomycin in the cerebral interstitial fluid after severe head injury: reply to letter by Magnoni et al.

Anselmo Caricato, Massimo Antonelli

Comment on “Levels of vancomycin in the cerebral interstitial fluid after severe head injury” by Caricato et al.

Sandra Magnoni, Elisa Roncati Zanier, Nino Stocchetti

Early isovolemic hemofiltration in oliguric patients with septic shock

Frédérique Schortgen, Christophe Vinsonneau

Early isovolemic hemofiltration in oliguric patients with septic shock

Pasquale Piccinni, Claudio Ronco

Atrial fibrillation in critical care

Ali Al-Khafaji, Su Min Cho

Reply to the comment by Al-Khafaji and Cho

Philippe Seguin

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