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  3. Lung collapse is a contributory factor in the hypoxaemia that is observed after open endotracheal suctioning (ETS) in patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Lung recruitment (...

    Authors: Thomas Dyhr, Jan Bonde and Anders Larsson
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 7:55
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  4. The diagnosis of sepsis in critically ill patients is challenging because traditional markers of infection are often misleading. The present study was conducted to determine the procalcitonin level at early di...

    Authors: Canan Balci, Hülya Sungurtekin, Ercan Gürses, Uğur Sungurtekin and Bünyamin Kaptanoğlu
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 7:85
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  8. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute lung injury are among the most frequent reasons for intensive care unit admission, accounting for approximately one-third of admissions. Mortality from ARDS...

    Authors: James A Frank and Michael A Matthay
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 7:233
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. A progressive rise of oxidative stress due to altered reduction–oxidation (redox) homeostasis appears to be one of the hallmarks of the processes that regulate gene transcription in physiology and pathophysiol...

    Authors: John J Haddad
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 7:47
    Content type: Review Published on:

  11. The Internet is an invaluable resource for critical care clinicians. However, the search for useful Internet resources can be frustrating and time-consuming. In this issue, Critical Care launches a new section en...

    Authors: Stephen Lapinsky and Sangeeta Mehta
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:462
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  12. The explosion in biomedical research and the use of computers to access and disseminate ideas has increased our knowledge but has also strikingly shortened the time for new concepts to move from initial basic ...

    Authors: Delbert R Dorscheid and Keith R Walley
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:461
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  13. There is no hard evidence yet for a positive effect of glucose–insulin–potassium infusion in sepsis, septic shock or burn patients. Each individual element of the glucose–insulin–potassium regimen, and eventua...

    Authors: Iwan CC van der Horst, Jack JM Ligtenberg, Henk JG Bilo, Felix Zijlstra and Rijk OB Gans
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 7:13
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  17. A number of issues concerning stress ulcer prophylaxis remain unresolved despite numerous randomized, controlled trials and several meta-analyses. The role of stress ulcer prophylaxis, particularly in trauma p...

    Authors: Jeffrey F Barletta, Brian L Erstad and John B Fortune
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:526
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. Two cases of brachial plexus injury after prone position in the intensive care unit are described. Mechanisms of brachial plexus injury are described, as are methods for prevention of this unusual complication.

    Authors: Claudia E Goettler, John P Pryor and Patrick M Reilly
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:540
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  22. The present review introduces nonparametric methods. Three of the more common nonparametric methods are described in detail, and the advantages and disadvantages of nonparametric versus parametric methods in g...

    Authors: Elise Whitley and Jonathan Ball
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:509
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. Myocardial dysfunction frequently accompanies severe sepsis and septic shock. Whereas myocardial depression was previously considered a preterminal event, it is now clear that cardiac dysfunction as evidenced ...

    Authors: Olivier Court, Aseem Kumar, Joseph E Parrillo and Anand Kumar
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:500
    Content type: Review Published on:

  24. The rate of oxygen consumption by certain tissues is impaired when mice or rats are injected with lipopolysaccharide. A similar change in the rate of oxygen consumption is observed when Caco-2 human enterocyte...

    Authors: Mitchell P Fink
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:491
    Content type: Review Published on:

  28. Prone positioning in respiratory failure has been shown to be a useful adjunct in the treatment of severe hypoxia. However, the prone position can result in dislodgment or malfunction of tubes and cannulae. Ce...

    Authors: Claudia E Goettler, John P Pryor, Brian A Hoey, JoAnne K Phillips, Michelle C Balas and Michael B Shapiro
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:452
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. An elevation in intramucosal–arterial PCO2 gradient (ΔPCO2) could be determined either by tissue hypoxia or by reduced blood flow. Our hypothesis was that in hypoxic hypoxia with preserved blood flow, ΔPCO2 shoul...

    Authors: Arnaldo Dubin, Gastón Murias, Elisa Estenssoro, Héctor Canales, Julio Badie, Mario Pozo, Juan P Sottile, Marcelo Barán, Fernando Pálizas and Mercedes Laporte
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:514
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. We wished to determine whether cholestasis induced by total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in preterm newborn infants is associated with increased oxidative stress secondary to increased reactive oxygen intermedia...

    Authors: Barry Weinberger, Kazimierz Watorek, Richard Strauss, Gisela Witz, Mark Hiatt and Thomas Hegyi
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:521
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. The review by Oliveira and colleagues on the subject of hypertonic saline resuscitation in sepsis (included in the present issue) suggests possible benefits for hypertonic saline. There is a firm experimental ...

    Authors: Charles E Wade
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:397
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  33. Costly genetically engineered therapies, which threaten to cripple the health care industry economy and undermine the common good if applied indiscriminately, loom on the horizon. The spectrum of applicable ca...

    Authors: Richard Burrows, David Crippen, R Phillip Dellinger, David F Kelly, Stephen Streat and Leslie M Whetstine
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:473
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  37. Organ transplants continue to redefine medical frontiers. Unfortunately, current demand for organs far surpasses availability, waiting lists are long and many people die before the organ they desperately need ...

    Authors: Michael Parker and Sam D Shemie
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:399
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  38. Critical care practices in India have evolved significantly over the past decade. Critical care initially began as a service in major hospitals, but with the formation of the Indian Society of Critical Care Me...

    Authors: Shirish Prayag
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:479
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  39. The present review discusses the hemodynamic effects of hypertonic saline in experimental shock and in patients with sepsis. We comment on the mechanisms of action of hypertonic saline, calling upon data in he...

    Authors: Roselaine P Oliveira, Irineu Velasco, Francisco Garcia Soriano and Gilberto Friedman
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:418
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. Stress hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus with myocardial infarction are associated with increased risk for in-hospital mortality, congestive heart failure, or cardiogenic shock. Hyperglycemia triggers free r...

    Authors: Undurti N Das
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:389
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  46. The present review introduces the commonly used t-test, used to compare a single mean with a hypothesized value, two means arising from paired data, or two means arising from unpaired data. The assumptions und...

    Authors: Elise Whitley and Jonathan Ball
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:424
    Content type: Review Published on:

  47. Strychnine poisoning is uncommon, and in most severe cases, the patient dies before reaching hospital. The management of strychnine poisoning is well documented, although there are few data on the kinetics of ...

    Authors: David Michael Wood, Emma Webster, Daniel Martinez, Paul Ivor Dargan and Alison Linda Jones
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:456
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. The Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTATâ„¢) is a self-contained, stretcher-based miniature intensive care unit designed by the United States Army to provide care for critically injured patients during t...

    Authors: Ken Johnson, Frederick Pearce, Dwayne Westenskow, L Lazarre Ogden, Steven Farnsworth, Shane Peterson, Julia White and Travis Slade
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:439
    Content type: Research Published on:
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