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  3. Myocardial dysfunction necessitating inotropic support is a typical complication after on-pump cardiac surgery. This prospective, randomized pilot study analyzes the metabolic and renal effects of the inotrope...

    Authors: Matthias Heringlake, Marit Wernerus, Julia Grünefeld, Stephan Klaus, Hermann Heinze, Matthias Bechtel, Ludger Bahlmann, Jochen Poeling and Julika Schön
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R51
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Three studies explore the case for tracheostomies in the intensive care unit (ICU). Tracheostomies appear to have no effect on ICU survival, according to a prospective observational cohort study that used a pr...

    Authors: Tim McCormick and Richard Venn
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:127
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  6. Authors: Donat R Spahn, Vladimir Cerny, Timothy J Coats, Jacques Duranteau, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar, Giovanni Gordini, Philip F Stahel, Beverley J Hunt, Radko Komadina, Edmund Neugebauer, Yves Ozier, Louis Riddez, Arthur Schultz, Jean-Louis Vincent and Rolf Rossaint
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:414
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2007 11:R17

  7. This report describes the case mix, outcome and activity for admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) of patients who require prior chronic renal dialysis for end-stage renal failure (ESRF), and investigates ...

    Authors: Colin A Hutchison, Alex V Crowe, Paul E Stevens, David A Harrison and Graham W Lipkin
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R50
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. The current shortage of accurate and readily available, validated biomarkers of disease severity in sepsis is an important limitation when attempting to stratify patients into homogeneous groups, in order to s...

    Authors: Fernando A Bozza, Jorge I Salluh, André M Japiassu, Marcio Soares, Edson F Assis, Rachel N Gomes, Marcelo T Bozza, Hugo C Castro-Faria-Neto and Patrícia T Bozza
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R49
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  9. Limited data are available regarding the relationship of premortem clinical diagnoses and postmortem autopsy findings in cancer patients who die in an oncologic intensive care unit (ICU). The purposes of this ...

    Authors: Stephen M Pastores, Alina Dulu, Louis Voigt, Nina Raoof, Margarita Alicea and Neil A Halpern
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R48
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. Severe sepsis and septic shock are common problems in the intensive care unit and carry a high mortality. Endotoxin, one of the principal components on the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria, is consider...

    Authors: Dinna N Cruz, Mark A Perazella, Rinaldo Bellomo, Massimo de Cal, Natalia Polanco, Valentina Corradi, Paolo Lentini, Federico Nalesso, Takuya Ueno, V Marco Ranieri and Claudio Ronco
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R47
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  14. The respiratory variation in pulse pressure (PP) has been established as a dynamic variable of cardiac preload which indicates fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients. The impact of acute chan...

    Authors: Cornelius Keyl, Jochem Stockinger, Sven Laule, Klaus Staier, Jochen Schiebeling-Römer and Christoph Wiesenack
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R46
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Several hospitals have been developing programmes for organ donation after cardiac death. Such programmes offer options for organ donation to patients who do not meet brain-death criteria but wish to donate th...

    Authors: Jason Phua, Tow Keang Lim, David A Zygun and Christopher J Doig
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:211
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. The results of a recently published Canadian study suggest that bronchoalveolar lavage and endotracheal aspiration are associated with similar clinical outcomes and similar overall use of antibiotics in critic...

    Authors: Jean-Yves Fagon, Jean Chastre and Jean-Jacques Rouby
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:123
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  23. Decreases in oxygen saturation (SO2) and lactate concentration [Lac] from superior vena cava (SVC) to pulmonary artery have been reported. These gradients (ΔSO2 and Δ[Lac]) are probably created by diluting SVC bl...

    Authors: Guillermo Gutierrez, Anthony Venbrux, Elizabeth Ignacio, Jonathan Reiner, Lakhmir Chawla and Anish Desai
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R44
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Conventional pulsed wave Doppler parameters are known to be preload dependent, whereas newly proposed Doppler indices may be less influenced by variations in loading conditions. The aim of the present study wa...

    Authors: Philippe Vignon, Vincent Allot, Jérôme Lesage, Jean-François Martaillé, Jean-Claude Aldigier, Bruno François and Hervé Gastinne
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R43
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  26. Effective planning of elective surgical procedures requiring postoperative intensive care is important in preventing cancellations and empty intensive care unit (ICU) beds. To improve planning, we constructed,...

    Authors: Mark Van Houdenhoven, Duy-Tien Nguyen, Marinus J Eijkemans, Ewout W Steyerberg, Hugo W Tilanus, Diederik Gommers, Gerhard Wullink, Jan Bakker and Geert Kazemier
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R42
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. Outcomes following bacterial meningitis are significantly improved by adjunctive treatment with corticosteroids. However, little is known about the levels and significance of intrathecal endogenous cortisol. T...

    Authors: Michal Holub, Ondřej Beran, Olga Džupová, Jarmila Hnyková, Zdenka Lacinová, Jana Příhodová, Bohumír Procházka and Miroslav Helcl
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R41
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  28. Noninvasive positive ventilation has undergone a remarkable evolution over the past decades and is assuming an important role in the management of both acute and chronic respiratory failure. Long-term ventilat...

    Authors: Dominique Robert and Laurent Argaud
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:210
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Authors: J Garcia Acuña, A López Lago, E González Babarro, B Cid Alvarez, E Abu Assi, M Jaquet Herter, A Amaro Cendon, M Santás Alvarez, S De Lange and J González Juanatey
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11(Suppl 2):P235
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 2

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