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Citation: Critical Care 2001 5(Suppl 1):P054
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Does transforming growth factor-β inhibit nitric oxide synthesis and prevent septic shock?
Citation: Critical Care 2000 3(Suppl 1):P072 -
Clinical performance of a point-of-care assay for measurement of presepsin in patients with bacteremia
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17(Suppl 4):P58 -
Diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin in proven and clinically suspected systemic infection
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16(Suppl 3):P6 -
Role of calcium regulation in vascular hyporeactivity induced by peritonitis-associated septic shock
Citation: Critical Care 2006 10(Suppl 1):P94 -
Clinical usefulness of measuring endotoxin activity on ICU admission
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16(Suppl 1):P34 -
Elevated levels of adhesion molecules in septic patients with pre-existing coronary artery disease
Citation: Critical Care 2000 4(Suppl 1):P63 -
Abdominal infection plays a role in the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17(Suppl 2):P46 -
Septic-associated encephalopathy - everything starts at a microlevel
Sepsis-associated encephalopathy is associated with increased mortality...
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:199 -
Coenzyme Q10 deficiency in septic shock patients
Donnino and colleagues provide new insights into the field of oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction during septic shock. These authors suggest a coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) deficiency in patients with septic sh...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:194 -
Emerging concepts in optimizing antimicrobial therapy of septic shock: speed is life but a hammer helps too
Current research suggests that combination antimicrobial therapy where a given pathogen is covered by two or more antibiotics with differing antimicrobial mechanisms may be useful in a subset of critically ill pa...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:104 -
The role of lactate clearance in the resuscitation bundle
The sepsis resuscitation bundle is the result of an effort on behalf of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ... seminal early goal-directed therapy trial for severe sepsis a...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:199 -
Serum adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein in the critically ill
Sepsis due to unabated inflammation is common. Increased ... radicals, and eicosanoids has been detected in sepsis and other critical illnesses but could also ... resistance and initiation and progression of infl...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:121 -
Epidemiology studies in critical care
Epidemiology studies are an essential part of clinical research, often forming the foundation for studies ranked more highly in the hierarchy of evidence-based medicine. Studies of sepsis to date have been conduc...
Citation: Critical Care 2006 10:136 -
A dream deferred: the rise and fall of recombinant activated protein C
Ranieri VM, Thompson BT, Barie PS, Dhainaut JF, Douglas IS, Finfer S, GÃ¥rdlund B, Marshall JC, Rhodes A, Artigas A, Payen D, Tenhunen J, Al-Khalidi HR, Thompson V, Janes J, Macias WL, Vangerow B, Williams MD: Dro...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:309 -
Presepsis biomarker: high-density lipoprotein
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18(Suppl 2):P77 -
Statins: a role in infected critically ill patients?
Terblanche and colleagues add to the ongoing controversy over the role, if any, for statins in patients with sepsis. The authors note that statins fail to...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:145 -
Is early treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation beneficial in septic patients?
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:447 -
Recombinant activated protein C: the key is clinical assessment of risk of death, not subset analysis
The PROWESS (Recombinant Human Activated Protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis) trial demonstrated a 6.1% absolute...p value of 0.005. Despite the impressive results of this trial, criticism of the stud...
Citation: Critical Care 2006 10:114 -
Is antithrombin treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation a quixotic goal?
The development of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is associated with increased sepsis mortality. Antithrombin (AT) is one of ... that have been studied in randomized trials of sepsis without benefit...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:639 -
Albumin administration in the acutely ill: what is new and where next?
Albumin solutions have been used worldwide for the treatment of critically ill patients since they became commercially available in the 1940s. However, their use has become the subject of criticism and debate ...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:231 -
Early high protein intake is associated with low mortality and energy overfeeding with high mortality in non-septic mechanically ventilated critically ill patients
A prospective database with mixed medical-surgical critically ill patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation (>72 hours) and measured energy expenditure was used in this study. Logistic regression analysis wa...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:701 -
Predicting a low cortisol response to adrenocorticotrophic hormone in the critically ill: a retrospective cohort study
A low ACTH response occurred in 63% of patients. Predictors, in multivariate analysis, included sepsis at admission, low platelets, low pH...r = -0.21; P < 0.0001).
Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R61 -
Prospectively validated predictions of shock and organ failure in individual septic surgical patients: the Systemic Mediator Associated Response Test
Clinically useful predictions of end-organ function and failure in severe sepsis may be possible through analyzing the interactions ... database of medical and surgical patients with severe sepsis and/or septic s...
Citation: Critical Care 2000 4:319 -
Decreases in procalcitonin and C-reactive protein are strong predictors of survival in ventilator-associated pneumonia
This study sought to assess the prognostic value of the kinetics of procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP) and clinical scores (clinical pulmonary infection score (CPIS), Sequential Organ Failure Assess...
Citation: Critical Care 2006 10:R125 -
The change and effect of endothelial progenitor cells in pig with multiple organ dysfunction syndromes
The dysfunction and decrease of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) may play a very important role in the initiation of organ dysfunction caused by trauma or severe sepsis. We aim to measure the number and ... or...
Citation: Critical Care 2009 13:R118 -
Increased survival of cirrhotic patients with septic shock
The overall outcome of septic shock has been recently improved. We sought to determine whether this survival gain extends to the high-risk subgroup of patients with cirrhosis.
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:R78 -
qSOFA combined with suPAR for early risk detection and guidance of antibiotic treatment in the emergency department: a randomized controlled trial
Sepsis guidelines suggest immediate start of resuscitation for...
Citation: Critical Care 2024 28:42 -
Renaissance of glucocorticoids in critical care in the era of COVID-19: ten urging questions
The 40-year-old experience with glucocorticosteroids (GCs) in the context of severe infections is complex and troublesome. Recently, however, a clear indication for GCs in severe COVID-19 has been established....
Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:308 -
Clinical review: flow cytometry perspectives in the ICU - from diagnosis of infection to monitoring of injury-induced immune dysfunctions
Septic syndromes represent a major healthcare problem worldwide. Clinical and experimental evidence indicates that septic patients rapidly present with numerous compromised immune functions. Although flow cytomet...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:231 -
Endotoxemia and mortality prediction in ICU and other settings: underlying risk and co-detection of gram negative bacteremia are confounders
The interdependence between endotoxemia, gram negative (GN) bacteremia and mortality has been extensively studied. Underlying patient risk and GN bacteremia types are possible confounders of the relationship.
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:R148 -
Science review: Natriuretic peptides in critical illness
The present review will cover the mechanisms of release and the potential pathophysiological role of different natriuretic peptides in critically ill patients. By focusing on the cardiovascular system, possible i...
Citation: Critical Care 2004 8:342 -
Early changes of muscle membrane properties in porcine faecal peritonitis
Sepsis-induced myopathy and critical illness myopathy (CIM ... membrane properties in the early stage of experimental sepsis by evaluating muscle excitability.
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:484 -
Pathophysiology of endotoxin tolerance: mechanisms and clinical consequences
Endotoxin tolerance was first described in a study that exposed animals to a sublethal dose of bacterial endotoxin. The animals subsequently survived a lethal injection of endotoxin. This refractory state is asso...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:242 -
Plasma soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 levels predict outcomes of pneumonia-related septic shock patients: a prospective observational study
Despite recent advances in the management of septic shock, mortality rates are still unacceptably high. Early identification of the high-mortality risk group for early intervention remains an issue under explorat...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R11 -
Quality of blood culture testing - a survey in intensive care units and microbiological laboratories across four European countries
Blood culture (BC) testing before initiation of antimicrobial therapy is recommended as a standard of care in international sepsis guidelines and has been shown to reduce...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:R248 -
Soluble platelet-endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1, a biomarker of ventilator-induced lung injury
Endothelial cell injury is an important component of acute lung injury. Platelet-endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM1) is a transmembrane protein that connects endothelial cells to one another and can ...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:R41 -
Identification of a sub-group of critically ill patients with high risk of intensive care unit-acquired infections and poor clinical course using a transcriptomic score
The transcriptomic score provides a useful and reliable companion diagnostic tool to further develop immune modulating drugs in sepsis in the context of personalized medicine.
Citation: Critical Care 2023 27:158 -
Prevalence of low central venous oxygen saturation in the first hours of intensive care unit admission and associated mortality in septic shock patients: a prospective multicentre study
In septic shock patients, the prevalence of low (<70%) central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) on admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and its relationship to outcome are unknown. The objectives of the pre...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:609 -
High-volume hemofiltration for septic acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
A systematic review and meta-analysis of publications between 1966 and 2013 was performed. The review was limited to randomized-controlled trials that compared HVHF (effluent rate greater than 50 ml/kg per hour) ...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:R7 -
Excess circulating angiopoietin-2 is a strong predictor of mortality in critically ill medical patients
The endothelial specific angiopoietin (Ang)-Tie2 ligand-receptor system has been identified as a non-redundant mediator of endothelial activation in experimental sepsis. Binding of circulating Ang-1 to the...
Citation: Critical Care 2008 12:R147 -
Febrile neutropenia in French emergency departments: results of a prospective multicentre survey
This prospective, multicentre, observational study was carried out in 47 French EDs for 6 months. Patients were adults presenting at the ED with FN after myelotoxic treatment for cancer. Severity of infection was...
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:R68 -
A systematic review of biomarkers multivariately associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome development and mortality
Heterogeneity of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) could be reduced by identification of biomarker-based phenotypes. The set of ARDS biomarkers to prospectively define these phenotypes remains to be e...
Citation: Critical Care 2020 24:243 -
The role of angiogenic factors in predicting clinical outcome in severe bacterial infection in Malawian children
Severe sepsis is a disease of the microcirculation, with...
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:R91 -
Integrated PERSEVERE and endothelial biomarker risk model predicts death and persistent MODS in pediatric septic shock: a secondary analysis of a prospective observational study
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is a critical driver of sepsis morbidity and mortality in children. Early identification ... necessary to enrich patients for future trials of sepsis therapeutics. Here,...
Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:210 -
Sustained high serum malondialdehyde levels are associated with severity and mortality in septic patients
There is a hyperoxidative state in sepsis. The objective of this study was to...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:R290 -
Differential expression of the nuclear-encoded mitochondrial transcriptome in pediatric septic shock
Increasing evidence supports a role for mitochondrial dysfunction in organ injury and immune dysregulation in sepsis. Although differential expression of mitochondrial genes in ... about the blood cell mitochondr...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:623 -
Clinical review: The role of biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of community-acquired pneumonia
In patients with community-acquired pneumonia, traditional criteria of infection based on clinical signs and symptoms, clinical scoring systems, and general inflammatory indicators (for example, leukocytosis, ...
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:203 -
Protective effect of resin adsorption on septic plasma-induced tubular injury
A pro-apoptotic effect of circulating mediators on renal tubular epithelial cells has been involved in the pathogenesis of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (AKI). Adsorption...
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:R4 -
Association of annual hospital septic shock case volume and hospital mortality
The burden of sepsis remains high in China. The relationship between ... septic shock, the most severe complication of sepsis, is unknown in China.
Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:161
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