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  1. In recent years there have been many developments in post-resuscitation care. We have investigated trends in patient characteristics and outcome following admission to UK critical care units following cardiopu...

    Authors: J. P. Nolan, P. Ferrando, J. Soar, J. Benger, M. Thomas, D. A. Harrison and G. D. Perkins
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:219
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Editorial to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:304

  6. The prediction of infection and its severity remains difficult in the critically ill. A novel, simple biomarker derived from five blood-cell derived parameters that characterize the innate immune response in r...

    Authors: Patrick J. van der Geest, Mostafa Mohseni, Jo Linssen, Servet Duran, Robert de Jonge and A. B. Johan Groeneveld
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:180
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  8. Increasing evidence suggests that after the first pro-inflammatory hours, sepsis is characterized by the occurrence of severe immunosuppression. Several mechanisms have been reported to participate in sepsis-i...

    Authors: Guillaume Monneret, Morgane Gossez and Fabienne Venet
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:186
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:124

  10. Vasopressors and inotropes remain a cornerstone in stabilization of the severely impaired hemodynamics and cardiac output in cardiogenic shock (CS). The aim of this study was to analyze current real-life use o...

    Authors: Tuukka Tarvasmäki, Johan Lassus, Marjut Varpula, Alessandro Sionis, Reijo Sund, Lars Køber, Jindrich Spinar, John Parissis, Marek Banaszewski, Jose Silva Cardoso, Valentina Carubelli, Salvatore Di Somma, Alexandre Mebazaa and Veli-Pekka Harjola
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:208
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:292

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:302

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:293

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:289

  12. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the most common cause of organ dysfunction in critically ill adults, with a single episode of AKI, regardless of stage, carrying a significant morbidity and mortality risk. Since t...

    Authors: James F. Doyle and Lui G. Forni
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:188
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Dexmedetomidine can be used for sedation of mechanically ventilated patients and has minor respiratory effects. The aim of this study was to compare the incidence of patient-ventilator dyssynchronies during se...

    Authors: Giorgio Conti, Vito Marco Ranieri, Roberta Costa, Chris Garratt, Andrew Wighton, Giorgia Spinazzola, Rosario Urbino, Luciana Mascia, Giuliano Ferrone, Pasi Pohjanjousi, Gabriela Ferreyra and Massimo Antonelli
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:206
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  16. Limited data are available assessing vancomycin concentrations in obese critically ill patients. Currently, there are no studies evaluating dosing requirements in this population who receive vancomycin adminis...

    Authors: Hsin Lin, Daniel Dante Yeh and Alexander R. Levine
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:205
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2019 23:15

  18. Prior to 2001 there was no standard for early management of severe sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department. In the presence of standard or usual care, the prevailing mortality was over 40-50 %. In ...

    Authors: H. Bryant Nguyen, Anja Kathrin Jaehne, Namita Jayaprakash, Matthew W. Semler, Sara Hegab, Angel Coz Yataco, Geneva Tatem, Dhafer Salem, Steven Moore, Kamran Boka, Jasreen Kaur Gill, Jayna Gardner-Gray, Jacqueline Pflaum, Juan Pablo Domecq, Gina Hurst, Justin B. Belsky…
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:160
    Content type: Review Published on:

  19. Chemokine (C-X3-C motif) receptor 1 (CX3CR1) was identified as the most differentially expressed gene between survivors and non-survivors in two independent cohorts of septic shock patients and was proposed as...

    Authors: Arnaud Friggeri, Marie-Angélique Cazalis, Alexandre Pachot, Martin Cour, Laurent Argaud, Bernard Allaouchiche, Bernard Floccard, Zoé Schmitt, Olivier Martin, Thomas Rimmelé, Oriane Fontaine-Kesteloot, Mathieu Page, Vincent Piriou, Julien Bohé, Guillaume Monneret, Stéphane Morisset…
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:204
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  20. Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (vv-ECMO) has been classically employed as a rescue therapy for patients with respiratory failure not treatable with conventional mechanical ventilation alone. In...

    Authors: Thomas Langer, Alessandro Santini, Nicola Bottino, Stefania Crotti, Andriy I. Batchinsky, Antonio Pesenti and Luciano Gattinoni
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:150
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  21. We urgently need new therapies to improve outcomes after cardiac arrest. Initial studies typically target surrogate endpoints, and these studies help to inform subsequent larger trials that are powered to meas...

    Authors: Victoria A. McCredie and Damon C. Scales
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:189
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:82

  22. High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been shown to improve survival outcomes after cardiac arrest. The current standard in studies evaluating CPR quality is to measure CPR process measures—for ...

    Authors: Steve Lin and Damon C. Scales
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:182
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:147

  23. The use of goal-directed therapy as part of an enhanced recovery programme is well established in terms of management of the modern high-risk surgical patient in order to reduce both morbidity and mortality. T...

    Authors: James F. Doyle, Marlies Ostermann and Lui G. Forni
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:174
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:50

  24. Mechanical circulatory assist devices are now commonly used in the treatment of severe heart failure as bridges to cardiac transplant, as destination therapy for patients who are not transplant candidates, and...

    Authors: Ayan Sen, Joel S. Larson, Kianoush B. Kashani, Stacy L. Libricz, Bhavesh M. Patel, Pramod K. Guru, Cory M. Alwardt, Octavio Pajaro and J. Christopher Farmer
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:153
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. When conventional high-volume, low-pressure cuffs of endotracheal tubes (ETTs) are inflated, channel formation due to folds in the cuff wall can occur. These channels facilitate microaspiration of subglottic s...

    Authors: Stijn I. Blot, Jordi Rello and Despoina Koulenti
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:203
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:290

  26. The previously published “Dose Response Multicentre International Collaborative Initiative (DoReMi)” study concluded that the high mortality of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) was unlike...

    Authors: F. Garzotto, M. Ostermann, D. Martín-Langerwerf, M. Sánchez-Sánchez, J. Teng, R. Robert, A. Marinho, M. E. Herrera-Gutierrez, H. J. Mao, D. Benavente, E. Kipnis, A. Lorenzin, D. Marcelli, C. Tetta and C. Ronco
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:196
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  28. Consequences of hyperoxemia, such as acute lung injury, atelectasis, and reduced bacterial clearance, might promote ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The aim of our study was to determine the relationship...

    Authors: Sophie Six, Karim Jaffal, Geoffrey Ledoux, Emmanuelle Jaillette, Frédéric Wallet and Saad Nseir
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:195
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:239

  29. Infrared pupillometry was introduced in 1962 but portable instruments that use this technology have only recently become available in the hospital setting. Questions surrounding the accuracy of these instrumen...

    Authors: Merlin D. Larson and Vineeta Singh
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:161
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:99

  30. The rapid emergence and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in ICUs worldwide threaten adequate antibiotic coverage of infected patients in this environment. The causes of this problem are mul...

    Authors: George Karam, Jean Chastre, Mark H. Wilcox and Jean-Louis Vincent
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:136
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. Anemia is frequent among brain-injured patients, where it has been associated with an increased risk of poor outcome. The pathophysiology of anemia in this patient population remains multifactorial; moreover, ...

    Authors: Christophe Lelubre, Pierre Bouzat, Ilaria Alice Crippa and Fabio Silvio Taccone
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:152
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. In perioperative cardiac surgery period, supra-physiological arterial oxygen partial pressures is common practice, although there is no clear evidence of any benefit. Smit et al. have shown that a “conservativ...

    Authors: Julie Boisramé-Helms, Peter Radermacher and Pierre Asfar
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:162
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:55

  40. At least 25 % of adults admitted to intensive care units (ICU) in the United States have an overweight, obese or morbidly obese body mass index (BMI). The effect of BMI on adjusted mortality in adults requirin...

    Authors: Dominique J. Pepper, Junfeng Sun, Judith Welsh, Xizhong Cui, Anthony F. Suffredini and Peter Q. Eichacker
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:181
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  42. Risk stratification models can be employed at the emergency department (ED) to evaluate patient prognosis and guide choice of treatment. We derived and validated a new cardiovascular risk stratification model ...

    Authors: Micah Liam Arthur Heldeweg, Nan Liu, Zhi Xiong Koh, Stephanie Fook-Chong, Weng Kit Lye, Mark Harms and Marcus Eng Hock Ong
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:179
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  44. Adrenomedullin and endothelin-1 are hormones with opposing effects on the cardiovascular system. Adrenomedullin acts as a vasodilator and seems to be important for the initiation and continuation of the hyperd...

    Authors: Oscar H. M. Lundberg, Lill Bergenzaun, Jörgen Rydén, Mari Rosenqvist, Olle Melander and Michelle S. Chew
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:178
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  45. Hypotension during intermittent hemodialysis is common, and has been attributed to acute volume shifts, shifts in osmolarity, electrolyte imbalance, temperature changes, altered vasoregulation, and sheer hypov...

    Authors: David Berger and Jukka Takala
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:140
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:44

  46. The accuracy of arterial lines (AL) using the flush test or stopcock test has not been described in children, nor has the difference between invasive arterial blood pressure (IABP) versus non-invasive cuff (NI...

    Authors: Rachel Joffe, Jonathan Duff, Gonzalo Garcia Guerra, Jodie Pugh and Ari R. Joffe
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:177
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  47. Early survival following severe injury has been improved with refined resuscitation strategies. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is common among this fragile group of patients leading to prolonged ho...

    Authors: Joanna Manson, Elaine Cole, Henry D. De’Ath, Paul Vulliamy, Ute Meier, Dan Pennington and Karim Brohi
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:176
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  48. Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome characterized by loss of physiologic and cognitive reserve that heightens vulnerability. Frailty has been well described among elderly patients (i.e., 65 years of age or ...

    Authors: Sean M. Bagshaw, Sumit R. Majumdar, Darryl B. Rolfson, Quazi Ibrahim, Robert C. McDermid and H. Tom Stelfox
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:175
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:223

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:349

  50. To lower the risk of incorrectly feeding critically ill patients, indirect calorimetry (IC) is proposed as the most ideal method to evaluate energy expenditure and to establish caloric goals. New IC devices ar...

    Authors: Elisabeth De Waele, Patrick M. Honore and Herbert D. Spapen
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:138
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:54

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