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  1. We assessed the prognostic accuracy of the standardized electroencephalography (EEG) patterns (“highly malignant,” “malignant,” and “benign”) according to the EEG timing (early vs. late) and investigated the E...

    Authors: Youn-Jung Kim, Min-Jee Kim, Yong Hwan Kim, Chun Song Youn, In Soo Cho, Su Jin Kim, Jung Hee Wee, Yoo Seok Park, Joo Suk Oh, Dong Hoon Lee and Won Young Kim
    Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:398
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  2. Hypotension following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) may cause secondary brain injury and increase mortality rates. Current guidelines recommend avoiding hypotension. However, the optimal blood pressure...

    Authors: Peter J. McGuigan, Elisa Giallongo, Bronagh Blackwood, James Doidge, David A. Harrison, Alistair D. Nichol, Kathryn M. Rowan, Manu Shankar-Hari, Markus B. Skrifvars, Karen Thomas and Danny F. McAuley
    Citation: Critical Care 2023 27:4
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Critical Care 2023 27:169

    The Matters Arising to this article has been published in Critical Care 2023 27:423

    The Matters Arising to this article has been published in Critical Care 2023 27:404

  4. Several measurements have been used to predict the success of weaning from mechanical ventilation; however, their efficacy varies in different studies. In recent years, diaphragmatic ultrasound has been used f...

    Authors: Henry M. Parada-Gereda, Adriana L. Tibaduiza, Alejandro Rico-Mendoza, Daniel Molano-Franco, Victor H. Nieto, Wanderley A. Arias-Ortiz, Purificación Perez-Terán and Joan R. Masclans
    Citation: Critical Care 2023 27:174
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  5. Liver failure patients might be at risk for citrate accumulation during continuous venovenous hemodialysis (CVVHD) with regional citrate anticoagulation. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive...

    Authors: Caroline Schultheiß, Bernd Saugel, Veit Phillip, Philipp Thies, Sebastian Noe, Ulrich Mayr, Bernhard Haller, Henrik Einwächter, Roland M Schmid and Wolfgang Huber
    Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:R162
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  6. Pulmonary microbial diversity may be influenced by biotic or abiotic conditions (e.g., disease, smoking, invasive mechanical ventilation (MV), etc.). Specially, invasive MV may trigger structural and physiolog...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Kang Wu, Tianyu Sun, Bin Chen, Yaxing Yi, Ruotong Ren, Lixin Xie and Kun Xiao
    Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:252
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  7. Patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) have high mortality rates during the acute infection and up to ten years thereafter. Recommendations from internationa...

    Authors: Luis Felipe Reyes, Esteban Garcia, Elsa D. Ibáñez-Prada, Cristian C. Serrano-Mayorga, Yuli V. Fuentes, Alejandro Rodríguez, Gerard Moreno, Alirio Bastidas, Josep Gómez, Angélica Gonzalez, Christopher R. Frei, Leo Anthony Celi, Ignacio Martin-Loeches and Grant Waterer
    Citation: Critical Care 2023 27:212
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  8. Trauma is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity, with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and uncontrolled hemorrhage responsible for the majority of these deaths. Recombinant activated factor VIIa (rFVIIa) is b...

    Authors: Yoram Kluger, Bruno Riou, Rolf Rossaint, Sandro B Rizoli, Kenneth David Boffard, Philip Iau Tsau Choong, Brian Warren and Michael Tillinger
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R85
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  9. Subsyndromal delirium (SSD) is a frequent condition and has been commonly described as an intermediate stage between delirium and normal cognition. However, the true frequency of SSD and its impact on clinical...

    Authors: Rodrigo B. Serafim, Marcio Soares, Fernando A. Bozza, José R. Lapa e Silva, Felipe Dal-Pizzol, Maria Carolina Paulino, Pedro Povoa and Jorge I. F. Salluh
    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:179
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  10. The aim of this study was to assess how mean systemic pressure (Psm) and resistance to venous return (Rvr) behave during passive leg raising (PLR) in cases of fluid responsiveness and fluid unresponsiveness.

    Authors: Laurent Guérin, Jean-Louis Teboul, Romain Persichini, Martin Dres, Christian Richard and Xavier Monnet
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:411
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  11. Glutamine has been launched as a conditionally indispensible amino acid for the critically ill. Supplementation has been recommended in guidelines from international societies. Although data have been presente...

    Authors: Marie Smedberg and Jan Wernerman
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:361
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  13. There are no easily available markers of renal recovery to guide intermittent hemodialysis (IHD) weaning. The aim of this study was to identify markers for IHD weaning in critically ill patients with acute kid...

    Authors: Julien Aniort, Ali Ait Hssain, Bruno Pereira, Elisabeth Coupez, Pierre Antoine Pioche, Christophe Leroy, Anne Elisabeth Heng, Bertrand Souweine and Alexandre Lautrette
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:43
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:154

  14. The proportion of survivors of acute respiratory failure is growing; yet, many do not regain full function and require prolonged admission in an acute or post-acute care facility. Little is known about their t...

    Authors: Anna Neumeier, Amy Nordon-Craft, Dan Malone, Margaret Schenkman, Brendan Clark and Marc Moss
    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:190
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  16. Indirect calorimetry allows the determination of energy expenditure in critically ill patients by measuring oxygen consumption (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2). Recent studies have demonstrated variable...

    Authors: Martin Sundström Rehal, Erik Fiskaare, Inga Tjäder, Åke Norberg, Olav Rooyackers and Jan Wernerman
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:54
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:104

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:138

  17. Acute kidney injury (AKI) after surgery is associated with increased mortality and healthcare costs. Fenoldopam is a selective dopamine-1 receptor agonist with renoprotective properties. We conducted a systema...

    Authors: Michael A. Gillies, Vivek Kakar, Robert J. Parker, Patrick M. Honoré and Marlies Ostermann
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:449
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  18. Recently, the use of nebulized antibiotics in the intensive care unit, in particular amikacin, has been the subject of much discussion, owing to unconvincing results from the latest randomized clinical trials....

    Authors: Antoni Torres, Anna Motos, Denise Battaglini and Gianluigi Li Bassi
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:343
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  20. Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) uses an extracorporeal circuit to directly remove carbon dioxide from the blood either in lieu of mechanical ventilation or in combination with it. While the potenti...

    Authors: Sascha Gross-Hardt, Felix Hesselmann, Jutta Arens, Ulrich Steinseifer, Leen Vercaemst, Wolfram Windisch, Daniel Brodie and Christian Karagiannidis
    Citation: Critical Care 2019 23:348
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  21. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common clinical syndrome with poor prognosis. The insensitivity and non-specificity of traditional markers of renal dysfunction prevent timely estimation of the severity of renal...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Xie, Qin Wang, Chunlin Wang, Chaojun Qi, Zhaohui Ni and Shan Mou
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:286
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  22. We aimed to determine i) the feasibility of nurses taking bedside measurements of microcirculatory parameters in real time in intensive care patients; and ii) whether such measurements would be comparable to t...

    Authors: Sébastien Tanaka, Anatole Harrois, Camille Nicolaï, Mélanie Flores, Sophie Hamada, Eric Vicaut and Jacques Duranteau
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:388
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  24. Daily or serial evaluation of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) scores may provide useful information. We aimed to validate the daily (d) PELOD-2 score using the set of seven days proposed with the pr...

    Authors: Stéphane Leteurtre, Alain Duhamel, Valérie Deken, Jacques Lacroix and Francis Leclerc
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:324
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  25. Restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategies remain controversial in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. We performed a meta-analysis to assess the prognostic benefits of restrictive red blood cell trans...

    Authors: Qi-Hong Chen, Hua-Ling Wang, Lei Liu, Jun Shao, Jiangqian Yu and Rui-Qiang Zheng
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:142
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  26. Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) support under extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) is the last option and may be offered to selected patients. Several factors predict ...

    Authors: Tobias Wengenmayer, Stephan Rombach, Florian Ramshorn, Paul Biever, Christoph Bode, Daniel Duerschmied and Dawid L. Staudacher
    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:157
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  27. Microcirculatory dysfunction develops in both septic and cardiogenic shock patients, and it is associated with poor prognosis in patients with septic shock. Information on the association between microcirculat...

    Authors: Yu-Chang Yeh, Chen-Tse Lee, Chih-Hsien Wang, Yu-Kang Tu, Chien-Heng Lai, Yin-Chin Wang, Anne Chao, Chi-Hsiang Huang, Ya-Jung Cheng and Yih-Sharng Chen
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:200
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2018 22:281

  28. In mechanically ventilated patients, an increase in cardiac index during an end-expiratory-occlusion test predicts fluid responsiveness. To identify this rapid increase in cardiac index, continuous and instant...

    Authors: Delphine Georges, Hugues de Courson, Romain Lanchon, Musa Sesay, Karine Nouette-Gaulain and Matthieu Biais
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:32
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  29. Acute respiratory failure (ARF) remains a common hazardous complication in immunocompromised patients and is associated with increased mortality rates when endotracheal intubation is needed. We aimed to evalua...

    Authors: Hui-Bin Huang, Biao Xu, Guang-Yun Liu, Jian-Dong Lin and Bin Du
    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:4
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  31. Limited critical care subspecialty training and experience is available in many low- and middle-income countries, creating barriers to the delivery of evidence-based critical care. We hypothesized that a struc...

    Authors: Pedja Kovacevic, Sasa Dragic, Tijana Kovacevic, Danica Momcicevic, Emir Festic, Rahul Kashyap, Alexander S. Niven, Yue Dong and Ognjen Gajic
    Citation: Critical Care 2019 23:220
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  32. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common and serious problem in intensive care units (ICUs). Several studies have suggested that the Gram stain of endotracheal aspirates is a useful method for accurat...

    Authors: Jumpei Yoshimura, Takahiro Kinoshita, Kazuma Yamakawa, Asako Matsushima, Naoki Nakamoto, Toshimitsu Hamasaki and Satoshi Fujimi
    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:156
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  33. In patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), low tidal volume ventilation has been associated with reduced mortality. Driving pressure (tidal volume normalized to respiratory system compliance)...

    Authors: Michael J. Lanspa, Ithan D. Peltan, Jason R. Jacobs, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Lori Carpenter, Jeffrey P. Ferraro, Samuel M. Brown, Jay G. Berry, Raj Srivastava and Colin K. Grissom
    Citation: Critical Care 2019 23:424
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2020 24:147

  35. Infected pancreatic necrosis, which occurs in about 40% of patients admitted for acute necrotizing pancreatitis, requires combined antibiotic therapy and local drainage. Since 2010, drainage by open surgical n...

    Authors: Lucie Darrivere, Nathanael Lapidus, Nikias Colignon, Najim Chafai, Ulriikka Chaput, Franck Verdonk, François Paye and Thomas Lescot
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:321
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  36. Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a key component in the management of severe acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients. Many cohort studies, meta-analyses, and two recent large randomized prospect...

    Authors: Chih-Chung Shiao, Tao-Min Huang, Herbert D. Spapen, Patrick M. Honore and Vin-Cent Wu
    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:146
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  37. In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether fasting plasma citrulline concentration predicts subsequent glucose absorption in critically ill patients.

    Authors: Alexis Poole, Adam Deane, Matthew Summers, Janice Fletcher and Marianne Chapman
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:16
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2019 23:115

  38. In severe respiratory and/or circulatory failure, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) may be a lifesaving procedure. Specialized departments provide ECMO, and these patients often have to be transferred...

    Authors: L. Mikael Broman, Bernhard Holzgraefe, Kenneth Palmér and Björn Frenckner
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:278
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  39. Poor patient-ventilator synchronization is often observed during pressure support ventilation (PSV) and has been associated with prolonged duration of mechanical ventilation and poor outcome. Diaphragmatic ele...

    Authors: Francois Beloncle, Lise Piquilloud, Nuttapol Rittayamai, Christer Sinderby, Hadrien Rozé and Laurent Brochard
    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:21
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  40. A passive leg raising (PLR) test is positive if the cardiac index (CI) increased by > 10%, but it requires a direct measurement of CI. On the oxygen saturation plethysmographic signal, the perfusion index (PI)...

    Authors: Alexandra Beurton, Jean-Louis Teboul, Francesco Gavelli, Filipe Andre Gonzalez, Valentina Girotto, Laura Galarza, Nadia Anguel, Christian Richard and Xavier Monnet
    Citation: Critical Care 2019 23:19
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  41. Better knowledge of albumin kinetics is needed to define the indications for albumin use in clinical practice. This study involved two approaches: the synthesis rate and transcapillary escape rate of albumin w...

    Authors: András Komáromi, Ulrika Estenberg, Folke Hammarqvist, Olav Rooyackers, Jan Wernerman and Åke Norberg
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:370
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  42. Early alterations in tissue oxygenation may worsen patient outcome following traumatic haemorrhagic shock. We hypothesized that muscle oxygenation measured using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) on admission ...

    Authors: Jerome Duret, Julien Pottecher, Pierre Bouzat, Julien Brun, Anatole Harrois, Jean-Francois Payen and Jacques Duranteau
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:141
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  43. Indications for intra-osseous (IO) infusion are increasing in adults requiring administration of fluids and medications during initial resuscitation. However, this route is rarely used nowadays due to a lack o...

    Authors: F. Petitpas, J. Guenezan, T. Vendeuvre, M. Scepi, D. Oriot and O. Mimoz
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:102
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:192

  44. Neutrophils release neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in response to invading pathogens. Although NETs play an important role in host defense against microbial pathogens, they have also been shown to play ...

    Authors: Carmen Mikacenic, Richard Moore, Victoria Dmyterko, T. Eoin West, William A. Altemeier, W. Conrad Liles and Christian Lood
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:358
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  45. Critical illness results in millions of deaths each year. Care for those with critical illness is often neglected due to a lack of prioritisation, co-ordination, and coverage of timely identification and basic...

    Authors: Carl Otto Schell, Martin Gerdin Wärnberg, Anna Hvarfner, Andreas Höög, Ulrika Baker, Markus Castegren and Tim Baker
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:284
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2019 23:310

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2019 23:244

  47. The long-term attributable burden related to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is not fully investigated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) and functional status at 6 mont...

    Authors: Michelle Biehl, Rahul Kashyap, Adil H. Ahmed, Martin K. Reriani, Uchenna R. Ofoma, Gregory A. Wilson, Guangxi Li, Michael Malinchoc, Jeff A. Sloan and Ognjen Gajic
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:356
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  48. Traditional risk scoring prediction models for trauma use either anatomically based estimations of injury or presenting vital signs. Markers of organ dysfunction may provide additional prognostic capability to...

    Authors: Ian J. Stewart, Kristen R. Glass, Jeffrey T. Howard, Benjamin D. Morrow, Jonathan A. Sosnov, Edward D. Siew, Nancy Wickersham, Wayne Latack, Hana K. Kwan, Kelly D. Heegard, Christina Diaz, Aaron T. Henderson, Kristin K. Saenz, T. Alp Ikizler and Kevin K. Chung
    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:252
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2015 19:432

  49. Patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) often require invasive mechanical ventilation. Ventilator-associated lower respiratory tract infections (VA-LRTI), either ventilator-associated tracheobronchi...

    Authors: Sean Keane and Ignacio Martin-Loeches
    Citation: Critical Care 2019 23(Suppl 1):134
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 23 Supplement 1

  50. Percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) is a common procedure in critical care medicine. No definite clinical practice guidelines recommended on the choice of the direction of skin incision, vertical or transverse for ...

    Authors: Sung Yoon Lim, Won Gun Kwack, Youlim Kim, Yeon Joo Lee, Jong Sun Park, Ho Il Yoon, Jae Ho Lee, Choon-Taek Lee and Young-Jae Cho
    Citation: Critical Care 2018 22:246
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