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Citation: Critical Care 2011 15(Suppl 1):P456
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Intensive insulin therapy-induced severe hypoglycemia does not affect long-term functional and cognitive outcome or health-related quality of life
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Effects of hyperglycemia and intensive insulin therapy on neurons and glial cells during critical illness
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Endogenous insulin secretion and suppression during and after sepsis in critically ill patients: implications for tight glycemic control protocols
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Early clinical indices predicting functional survival in severely head-injured patients
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Optimising the consent process in severe traumatic brain injury trials
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Optimising follow up and outcome assessments in traumatic brain injury trials
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Microcirculatory effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in septic patients
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Influence of TIMP-1/MMP-9 ratio on the severity and mortality in sepsis
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Safety, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of 4-hour intravenous infusion of eritoran tetrasodium in healthy Japanese and Caucasian males
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Safety and tolerability of an ovine-derived polyclonal anti-TNFα Fab fragment (AZD9773) in patients with severe sepsis
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Anidulafungin for candidemia/invasive candidiasis in non-neutropenic ICU patients
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Septic shock in a cohort of patients from the northeast of France: a preliminary epidemiological study, EPISS group
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Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist reduces asynchrony and patient effort in severe acute respiratory distress syndrome patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
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Ventilatory ratio: validation in an ex vivo model and analysis in ARDS/ALI patients
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Regional citrate anticoagulation in high-volume continuous venovenous hemodialysis
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Resuscitation of the trauma patient: tell me a trigger for early haemostatic resuscitation please!
The management of trauma-related coagulopathy and haemorrhage is changing from a reactive strategy to a proactive early intervention with blood products and haemostatic agents. Although major haemorrhage and m...
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Effectiveness of continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration using a polymethylmethacrylate membrane hemofilter judging from a multiplex suspension array system in septic shock patients
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Best prediction for need of dialysis following cardiac surgery is obtained with the Thakar model
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Use of Doppler ultrasound renal resistive index and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in prediction of acute kidney injury in patients with septic shock
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Effect of different antioxidants in ischemia-reperfusion syndrome
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Validation of continuous intragastric pressure measurement and correlation with intramucosal pH in a pig model
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Cytomegalovirus reactivation and associated outcome of critically ill patients with severe sepsis
Sepsis has been identified as a risk factor for human cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation in critically ill patients. However, the contribution of CMV reactivation on morbidity and mortality is still controvers...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R77 -
Validation of non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring with Nexfin in critically ill patients
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Goal-directed fluid management based on stroke volume variation and stroke volume optimization during high-risk surgery: a pilot multicentre randomized controlled trial
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Upper extremity thromboses in medical-surgical critically ill patients
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Uncalibrated pulse power analysis fails to reliably measure cardiac output in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery
Uncalibrated arterial pulse power analysis has been recently introduced for continuous monitoring of cardiac index (CI). The aim of the present study was to compare the accuracy of arterial pulse power analysi...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R76 -
Quality of interhospital transport of the critically ill: impact of a Mobile Intensive Care Unit with a specialized retrieval team
In order to minimize the additional risk of interhospital transport of critically ill patients, we started a mobile intensive care unit (MICU) with a specialized retrieval team, reaching out from our universit...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R75 -
Statins do not prevent acute organ failure in ventilated ICU patients: single-centre retrospective cohort study
Observational studies suggest statin therapy reduces incident sepsis, but few studies have examined the impact on new organ failure. We tested the hypothesis that statin therapy, administered for standard clin...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R74 -
Cardiac filling volumes versus pressures for predicting fluid responsiveness after cardiovascular surgery: the role of systolic cardiac function
Static cardiac filling volumes have been suggested to better predict fluid responsiveness than filling pressures, but this may not apply to hearts with systolic dysfunction and dilatation. We evaluated the rel...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R73 -
A comparison of early versus late initiation of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Our aim was to investigate the impact of early versus late initiation of renal replacement therapy (RRT) on clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI).
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Computed tomographic assessment of lung weights in trauma patients with early posttraumatic lung dysfunction
Quantitative computed tomography (qCT)-based assessment of total lung weight (Mlung) has the potential to differentiate atelectasis from consolidation and could thus provide valuable information for managing trau...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R71 -
Octogenarians in the ICU: are you ever too old?
Long-term morbidity and mortality rates for older patients admitted to the ICU remain substantial. In this issue of Critical Care, Roch and colleagues describe a retrospective study evaluating factors associated ...
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Immunity, inflammation and sepsis: new insights and persistent questions
Sepsis is now understood to affect a variety of changes in the host, chief among them being alterations in immune system function. Proper immune function involves a competent proinflammatory response to stimul...
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Upregulation of programmed death-1 on T cells and programmed death ligand-1 on monocytes in septic shock patients
Studies on the role of programmed death-1(PD-1) and its main ligand (PD-L1) during experimental models of sepsis have shown that the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway plays a pathologic role in altering microbial clearance, ...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R70 -
Endotoxemia related to cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with increased risk of infection after cardiac surgery: a prospective observational study
Previous studies have documented a high frequency of endotoxemia associated with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Endotoxemia may be responsible for some of the complications associated with cardiac surgery. The ...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R69 -
Drotrecogin alpha: a rational approach to the treatment of submassive pulmonary embolism?
Combining therapeutic doses of low-molecular-weight heparins and increasing doses of recombinant activated protein C - Drotrecogin alpha (activated), or DAA - is of theoretical interest with regard to the cont...
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Balanced massive transfusion ratios in multiple injury patients with traumatic brain injury
Retrospective studies have demonstrated a potential survival benefit from transfusion strategies using an early and more balanced ratio between fresh frozen plasma (FFP) concentration and packed red blood cell...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R68 -
Real-time ultrasound-guided percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy: a feasibility study
Ultrasound (US) performed prior to percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) may be useful in avoiding injury to pretracheal vascular structures and in avoiding high placement of the tube. Bedside real-time US guidance w...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R67 -
Acute kidney injury in critical ill patients affected by influenza A (H1N1) virus infection
Little information exists about the impact of acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients with the pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus infection.
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R66 -
A simple functional marker to predict the need for prolonged mechanical ventilation in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome
Patients suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) may frequently develop an acute respiratory failure and need ventilatory support. Immune therapy using plasma exchange or immunoglobulins has modified the ...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R65 -
Licorice consumption as a cause of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: a case report
A 49-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of thunderclap headache and blurred vision. At the time of presentation, her blood pressure was 219/100 mmHg, her arterial pH was 7.64 and her potassium...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R64 -
Clinical review: Blood purification for sepsis
Sepsis is the primary cause of death in the intensive care unit. Extracorporeal blood purification therapies have been proposed for patients with sepsis in order to improve outcomes since these therapies can a...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:205 -
Circulating soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor is stably elevated during the first week of treatment in the intensive care unit and predicts mortality in critically ill patients
suPAR is the soluble form of the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR), which is expressed in various immunologically active cells. High suPAR serum concentrations are suggested to reflect the activa...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R63 -
Bacteremia is an independent risk factor for mortality in nosocomial pneumonia: a prospective and observational multicenter study
Since positive blood cultures are uncommon in patients with nosocomial pneumonia (NP), the responsible pathogens are usually isolated from respiratory samples. Studies on bacteremia associated with hospital-ac...
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Isotonic saline - the only solution to recommend?
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:404 -
Postresuscitation care with mild therapeutic hypothermia and coronary intervention after out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a prospective registry analysis
Mild therapeutic hypothermia (MTH) has been shown to result in better neurological outcome after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may also be beneficial in patients after...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R61 -
Sizing the lung of mechanically ventilated patients
This small observational study was motivated by our belief that scaling the tidal volume in mechanically ventilated patients to the size of the injured lung is safer and more 'physiologic' than scaling it to p...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R60 -
Gene expression in human sepsis: what have we learned?
In the previous issue of Critical Care, Tang and colleagues offer a very novel systematic review of 12 studies of gene expression in blood of human sepsis. The review concludes that there is no discernable transi...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:121 -
Blood transfusion during cardiac surgery is associated with inflammation and coagulation in the lung: a case control study
Blood transfusion is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in cardiac surgery patients, but cause-and-effect relations remain unknown. We hypothesized that blood transfusion is associated with chan...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R59
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