Intensive Care Medicine

Reducing defects in the use of interventions

Peter J. Pronovost, David A. Thompson

Intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients: minimising risk

Peter J. Shirley, Julian F. Bion

Monitoring sedation in the intensive care unit: can “black boxes” help us?

Timothy S. Walsh, Pam Ramsay, Riina Kinnunen

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine—2003

Edward Abraham, Peter Andrews, Massimo Antonelli, Laurent Brochard, Christian Brun-Buisson, Geoffrey Dobb, Jean-Yves Fagon, Johan Groeneveld, Jordi Mancebo, Philipp Metnitz, Stefano Nava, Michael Pinsky, Peter Radermacher, Marco Ranieri, Christian Richard, Robert Tasker, Benoit Vallet

Street drug abuse leading to critical illness

Babak Mokhlesi, Prasad S. Garimella, Aaron Joffe, Valerie Velho

Consciousness monitoring in ventilated patients: bispectral EEG monitors arousal not delirium

E. Wesley Ely, Brenda Truman, Donna J. Manzi, Jeffrey C. Sigl, Ayumi Shintani, Gordon R. Bernard

Antibiotic-mediated release of tumour necrosis factor alpha and norharman in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia and septic encephalopathy

Verena Eggers, Katja Fügener, Ortrud Vargas Hein, Hans Rommelspacher, Melvyn P. Heyes, Wolfgang J. Kox, Claudia D. Spies

Morphologic characteristics of central pulmonary thromboemboli predict haemodynamic response in massive pulmonary embolism

Matej Podbregar, Gorazd Voga, Bojan Krivec

Variation of infected cell count in bronchoalveolar lavage and timing of ventilator-associated pneumonia

Hervé Dupont, Viviane Chalhoub, Gaëtan Plantefève, Cyrille de Vaumas, Nathalie Kermarrec, Catherine Paugam-Burtz, Jean Mantz

Does intubation really equal death in cirrhotic patients? Factors influencing outcome in patients with liver cirrhosis requiring mechanical ventilation

Christian Rabe, Volker Schmitz, Michael Paashaus, Annemarie Musch, Helga Zickermann, Franz-Ludwig Dumoulin, Tilman Sauerbruch, Wolfgang H. Caselmann

Continuous central venous and pulmonary artery oxygen saturation monitoring in the critically ill

Konrad Reinhart, Hans-Jörg Kuhn, Christiane Hartog, Donald L. Bredle

Incidents relating to the intra-hospital transfer of critically ill patients

Ursula Beckmann, Donna M. Gillies, Sean M. Berenholtz, Albert W. Wu, Peter Pronovost

More interventions do not necessarily improve outcome in critically ill patients

Philipp G. H. Metnitz, Ana Reiter, Barbara Jordan, Thomas Lang

Quality of life after complicated elective surgery requiring intensive care

Christian Lamer, Marc Harboun, Lyes Knani, David Moreau, Laurent Tric, Jean-Luc LeGuillou, Isabelle Gasquet, Thierry Moreau

Does red blood cell transfusion change the near infra red photoplethysmography signal in infants?

Tamara Seidl, Orsolya Genzel-Boroviczény, Jan-Michael Abicht, Frank Christ

Psychiatric outcome following paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission: a cohort study

Gwyneth Rees, Julia Gledhill, M. Elena Garralda, Simon Nadel

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in paediatrics: clinical characteristics, therapy and outcomes

Lorenz Risch, Joachim E. Fischer, Roberto Herklotz, Andreas R. Huber

Use of oral clonidine for sedation in ventilated paediatric intensive care patients

Sara Arenas-López, Shelley Riphagen, Shane M. Tibby, Andrew Durward, Steve Tomlin, Graham Davies, Ian A. Murdoch

Effectiveness and side effects of closed and open suctioning: an experimental evaluation

Sophie Lindgren, Birgitta Almgren, Marieann Högman, Sven Lethvall, Erik Houltz, Stefan Lundin, Ola Stenqvist

Hypothermia inhibits cytokine release of alveolar macrophage and activation of nuclear factor κB in endotoxemic lung

Chae-Man Lim, Eun-Kyung Kim, Younsuck Koh, Woo-Sung Kim, Dong-Soon Kim, Won-Dong Kim

Calpain I inhibitor ameliorates the indices of disease severity in a murine model of cerulein-induced acute pancreatitis

Ioannis Virlos, Emanuela Mazzon, Ivana Serraino, Tiziana Genovese, Rosanna Di Paola, Christoph Thiemerman, Ajith Siriwardena, Salvatore Cuzzocrea

Effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor perindopril on endothelial injury and hemostasis in rabbit endotoxic shock

Eric Wiel, Qian Pu, Jérôme Leclerc, Delphine Corseaux, Régis Bordet, Niels Lund, Brigitte Jude, Benoît Vallet

New regulations for the care of the critically ill patients in Italy

Nereo Zamperetti, Giorgio Conti

Phosphate addition to hemodiafiltration solutions during continuous renal replacement therapy

Stéphan Troyanov, David Geadah, Marc Ghannoum, Jean Cardinal, Martine Leblanc

Combination enteral and parenteral nutrition in critically ill patients: harmful or beneficial? A systematic review of the evidence

Rupinder Dhaliwal, Brian Jurewitsch, Darlene Harrietha, Daren K. Heyland

Monitoring midline shift by transcranial color-coded sonography in traumatic brain injury

Juan Antonio Llompart Pou, Josep María Abadal Centellas, Margarita Palmer Sans, Jon Pérez Bárcena, Marcial Casares Vivas, Javier Homar Ramírez, Jorge Ibáñez Juvé

Perspectives for core and skin surface temperature guided extubation in patients after normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass

Thomas Pezawas, Angela Rajek, Michael Skolka, Barbara Schneider, Walter Plöchl

Catheter-related infection in critically ill patients

Leonardo Lorente, Jerusalen Villegas, María M. Martín, Alejandro Jiménez, María L. Mora

Hyperglycaemia and mortality in critically ill patients

Christian Christiansen, Palle Toft, Hans Skriver Jørgensen, Søren Kæseler Andersen, Else Tønnesen

The ICNSS: incorporating family care into nursing workload assessment

DaiWai Olson

Can methadone prolong the QT interval?

J. A. Decerf, B. Gressens, C. Brohet, A. Liolios, P. Hantson

The assumed problem of air bubbles in the tubing during intra-abdominal pressure measurement

J. J. De Waele, E. Billiet, E. Hoste, F. Colardyn

Reply to Dr. De Waele

Manu Malbrain

Dyskalemia and cerebral insult: therapeutic barbiturate coma, endogenous catecholamine release or both?

P. Jaffres, C. Broux, D. Falcon, P. Lavagne, C. Jacquot

Cervical spinal epidural abscess and meningitis due to Prevotella oris and Peptostreptococcus micros after retropharyngeal surgery

Jean-Pierre Frat, Cendrine Godet, Ghislaine Grollier, Jean-Luc Blanc, René Robert

August 2004