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Table 2 Topics of pro-con debates at the 26th ISICEM

From: 26th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, 21–24 March 2006, Brussels, Belgium

Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines

Steroids in sepsis

Pressure-volume curves are important in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Pressure control is better than volume control

ARDSnet protocols should dictate ventilator management

Colloids in sepsis

Non-invasive ventilation in postextubation failure

Innate immunity should be enhanced in acute lung injury

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract

Lung recruitment in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Let us pull out the pulmonary artery catheter

The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus patient should be isolated