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Theraputic Hypothermia for cerebral protection after Cardiac arrest
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Clinical review: Splanchnic ischaemia
Inadequate splanchnic perfusion is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, particularly if liver dysfunction coexists. Heart failure, increased intra-abdominal pressure, haemodialysis and the presen...
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External validation of a modified model of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II for orthotopic liver transplant patients
The purpose of the study was to validate the newly derived postoperative orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTX)-specific diagnostic weight for the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II mo...
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Preoperative prediction of pediatric patients with effusions and edema following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery by serological and routine laboratory data
Postoperative effusions and edema and capillary leak syndrome in children after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass constitute considerable clinical problems. Overshooting immune response is held to be...
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Delirium in critically ill patients
Delirium in the intensive care unit is a serious problem that has recently attracted much attention. User-friendly and reliable tools, such as the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-I...
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Pro/con clinical debate: Is high-frequency oscillatory ventilation useful in the management of adult patients with respiratory failure?
In neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) has become an increasingly common therapy. This may not have been the case if researchers had not persisted in inve...
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Bench-to-bedside review: Fulfilling promises of the Human Genome Project
Since most common diseases have been shown to be influenced by inherited variations in our genes, completion of the Human Genome Project and mapping of the human genome single-nucleotide polymorphisms will hav...
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Statistics review 3: Hypothesis testing and P values
The present review introduces the general philosophy behind hypothesis (significance) testing and calculation of P values. Guidelines for the interpretation of P values are also provided in the context of a publi...
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Clinical review: Status epilepticus
Status epilepticus (SE) has an annual incidence exceeding 100,000 cases in the United States alone, of which more than 20% result in death. Thus, increased awareness of presentation, etiologies, and treatment ...
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Paper reports overview: The many guises of respiratory support, microalbuminuria and delirium
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Acetaminophen poisoning: an update for the intensivist
Acetaminophen overdose is common and can result from deliberate/nonstaggered or accidental/staggered ingestion. Patients presenting within 24 h of an acetaminophen overdose can safely be managed on medical war...
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Assessment of performance of four mortality prediction systems in a Saudi Arabian intensive care unit
The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II, Mortality Probability Model MPM II0 and MPM II24 ...
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Infective endocarditis: too ill to be operated?
Infective endocarditis remains a disease associated with high mortality in certain groups of patients, with death resulting primarily from central nervous system complications and congestive heart failure. Com...
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Toll-like receptors: the key to the stable door?
Severe sepsis continues to lead to critical illness. Few therapeutic options exist other than antibiotic therapy and general supportive care. Large numbers of patients continue to die as a consequence of overa...
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Reviewing the reviewers: the vague accountability of research ethics committees
The role of research ethics committees (RECs) is currently strained by increases in the number of protocols that are in need of review, the scientific and funding complexities of the protocols, and a lack of c...
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Do bronchodilators have an effect on bronchiolitis?
Over the past 12 years there have been 12 randomised control trials, involving 843 infants, evaluating the effect of salbutamol or albuterol on bronchiolitis. Of these, nine (75%) showed that bronchodilators h...
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Echocardiography: a fundamental part of the intensive care curriculum
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Complicated infective endocarditis necessitating ICU admission: clinical course and prognosis
To study incidence, clinical course and prognostic factors in patients admitted to medical intensive care units (ICUs) because of a complicated course of infective endocarditis.
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Managing death in the intensive care unit: bringing back the humanity
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Are clinical diagnoses prior to death reliable in critically ill patients?
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Emergency airway service by anaesthetists: a selective referral approach
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Clinical outcomes in a controlled trial of early identification and rapid systematic treatment of shock, modeled after the trauma system
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Glucagon processes on intestines in surgically stressed patients
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Patients after acute pancreatitis benefit from long-term home enteral nutrition
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The effect of preoperative immunonutrition on postoperative immune system and cytokine release in the cases undergoing major abdominal surgery
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Renal blood flow in cirrhotic patients and hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)
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Need for renal replacement therapy in ICU is a marker of morbidity
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Renal function impairment (RFI) in the ICU: a 1-year prospective study
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Simplified method of regional citrate anticoagulation for continuous extra renal epuration
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Fibrinogen, ejection fraction and Killip classification as mortality prediction factors in acute coronary syndrome
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Fibrinolytic activity in patients with atrial arrhythmias during acute myocardial infarction, treated with streptokinase
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Acute atrial fibrillation (AAF) in cardiac surgery postoperative period: evaluation of preoperative and peroperative factors associated with its higher incidence
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Hemostatic and fibrinolysis markers in serum and shed mediastinal blood after elective coronary artery bypass grafting
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Intrahepatic interleukin-10 synthesis during hypothermic cardioplumonary bypass inhibits TNFα synthesis throughout the STAT-3 pathway
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The role of natural coagulation inhibitors in correlation with clinic scores in critical patients with obstetric diseases
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Antithrombin reduces the ischemia/reperfusion-induced hepatic injury by increasing hepatic levels of prostacyclin through activation of capsaicin-sensitive sensory neurons in rats
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Changes in plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock
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Efficacy and safety of sequential IV/PO moxifloxacin for the treatment of severe community-acquired pneumonia
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Appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing after transition from an open to a closed intensive care unit
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Screening and isolation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonized patients is widely practiced in UK critical care units but little benefit is perceived
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Colistin in the treatment of infections from multiresistant Gram (-) bacilli
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High serum protein S100B levels in brain-dead patients
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BIS for recognition of brain-death in potential organ donors
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Stroke treatment and outcome in ICU
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Pulmonary complications in patients with stroke requiring mechanical ventilation
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Neuroprotective efficacy of magnesium sulphate in experimental traumatic brain injury
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Rotoprone®: a new and promising way to prone positioning
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The optimal pressure of sustained inflation for alveolar recruitment
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The effects of increasing levels of PEEP on oxygenation and lung perfusion in pigs with unilateral lung injury
Citation: Critical Care 2002 6(Suppl 1):P9
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