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Citation: Critical Care 2019 23:339
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Preparing intensive care for the next pandemic influenza
Few viruses have shaped the course of human history more than influenza viruses. A century since the 1918–1919 Spanish influenza pandemic—the largest and deadliest influenza pandemic in recorded history—we hav...
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Comment upon “Time to epinephrine treatment is associated with the risk of mortality in children who achieve sustained ROSC after traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest”
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Biomarkers and clinical scores to identify patient populations at risk of delayed antibiotic administration or intensive care admission
The performance of blood biomarkers (mid-regional proadrenomedullin (MR-proADM), procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP), and lactate) and clinical scores (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), Nat...
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Correlation between end-tidal carbon dioxide and the degree of compression of heart cavities measured by transthoracic echocardiography during cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
The concept of personalized cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) requires a parameter that reflects its hemodynamic efficiency. While intra-arrest ultrasound is increasingly implemented into the advanced life s...
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Prognostic performance of age-adapted SOFA and qSOFA in septic children
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Positive cultures and clinical outcomes in septic patients: be aware of the influence from patient selection and the in-hospital confounders
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How levosimendan can improve renal function?
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Clinical significance of lymphocytopenia in patients hospitalized with pneumonia caused by influenza virus
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The interactive effects of input and output on managing fluid balance in patients with acute kidney injury requiring continuous renal replacement therapy
The interactive effect of cumulative input and output on achieving optimal fluid balance has not been well elucidated in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (...
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Obesity inducing acute respiratory distress syndrome: we should choose the right population!
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SSEP retains its value as predictor of poor outcome following cardiac arrest in the era of therapeutic hypothermia
To re-evaluate the role of median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) and bilateral loss of the N20 cortical wave as a predictor of unfavorable outcome in comatose patients following cardiac arrest (...
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How I optimize power to avoid VILI
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Correction to: Tracheal intubation in critically ill patients: a comprehensive systematic review of randomized trials
In the publication of this article [1], there was an error in a contributors Family Name. This has now been updated in the original article.
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Rescue fecal microbiota transplantation for antibiotic-associated diarrhea in critically ill patients
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) is a risk factor for exacerbating the outcome of critically ill patients. Dysbiosis induced by the exposure to antibiotics reveals the potential therapeutic role of fecal m...
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Early prognostication of neurological outcome by heart rate variability in adult patients with out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest
Most deaths of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest result from withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST) decisions based on poor neurological prognostication and the family’s inten...
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Correction to: Procalcitonin levels in candidemia versus bacteremia: a systematic review
The author wish to note there are three imprecisions in the article [1].
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Myocardial ischemia during ventilator weaning: a prospective multicenter cohort study
Weaning-induced cardiac pulmonary edema (WiPO) is one of the main mechanisms of weaning failure during mechanical ventilation. We hypothesized that weaning-induced cardiac ischemia (WiCI) may contribute to wea...
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Epinephrine, inodilator, or no inotrope in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation implantation: a single-center experience
Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) can be a rescue therapy for patients in cardiogenic shock or in refractory cardiac arrest. After cannulation, vasoplegia and cardiac depression are fr...
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Preoxygenation before intubation in adult patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a network meta-analysis of randomized trials
Patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure are at risk for life-threatening complications during endotracheal intubation. Preoxygenation might help reduce the risk of hypoxemia and intubation-related co...
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Metabolic support in the critically ill: a consensus of 19
Metabolic alterations in the critically ill have been studied for more than a century, but the heterogeneity of the critically ill patient population, the varying duration and severity of the acute phase of il...
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Hemoadsorption with CytoSorb shows a decreased observed versus expected 28-day all-cause mortality in ICU patients with septic shock: a propensity-score-weighted retrospective study
Innovative treatment modalities have not yet shown a clinical benefit in patients with septic shock. To reduce severe cytokinaemia, CytoSorb as an add-on to continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) showed p...
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How I wean patients from veno-venous extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation
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Letter by Neugebauer et al. regarding article “Hypothermia after decompressive hemicraniectomy in treatment of malignant middle cerebral artery stroke: comment on the randomized clinical trial”
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Candida bloodstream infection under veno-arterial ECMO therapy
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What is the best core measure after critical illness when the IES-R is no longer accessible for new researchers?
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Comparison of echocardiographic indices of right ventricular systolic function and ejection fraction obtained with continuous thermodilution in critically ill patients
Though echocardiographic evaluation assesses the right ventricular systolic function, which of the existing parameters best reflects the right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) in the critically ill patient...
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Relationship of mottling score, skin microcirculatory perfusion indices and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction in patients with septic shock: an observational study
In patients with septic shock, the skin is often chosen for the evaluation of peripheral perfusion and oxygenation. Changes in skin microcirculatory vessel oxygen saturation and relative hemoglobin concentrati...
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SEA-mulation: training for technical treatment related to emergency situations in maritime environment
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Transfusion practice in the non-bleeding critically ill: an international online survey—the TRACE survey
Over the last decade, multiple large randomized controlled trials have studied alternative transfusion strategies in critically ill patients, demonstrating the safety of restrictive transfusion strategies. Due...
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Differential contractile response of critically ill patients to neuromuscular electrical stimulation
Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) has been investigated as a preventative measure for intensive care unit-acquired weakness. Trial results remain contradictory and therefore inconclusive. As it has b...
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Impact of species and antibiotic therapy of enterococcal peritonitis on 30-day mortality in critical care—an analysis of the OUTCOMEREA database
Enterococcus species are associated with an increased morbidity in intraabdominal infections (IAI). However, their impact on mortality remains uncertain. Moreover, the influence on outcome of the appropriate or i...
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Center effect in intubation risk in critically ill immunocompromised patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure
Acute respiratory failure is the leading reason for intensive care unit (ICU) admission in immunocompromised patients, and the need for invasive mechanical ventilation has become a major clinical endpoint in r...
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Neuromuscular blocking agents for acute respiratory distress syndrome: how did we get conflicting results?
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Sevoflurane and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus on the rise: copeptin to the rescue?
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Host susceptibility to severe influenza A virus infection
Most people exposed to a new flu virus do not notice any symptoms. A small minority develops critical illness. Some of this extremely broad variation in susceptibility is explained by the size of the initial i...
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Recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin in patients with sepsis-associated coagulopathy (SCARLET): an updated meta-analysis
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Co-administration of iloprost and eptifibatide in septic shock (CO-ILEPSS)—a randomised, controlled, double-blind investigator-initiated trial investigating safety and efficacy
Part of the pathophysiology in septic shock is a progressive activation of the endothelium and platelets leading to widespread microvascular injury with capillary leakage, microthrombi and consumption coagulop...
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A multicenter RCT of noninvasive ventilation in pneumonia-induced early mild acute respiratory distress syndrome
Our pilot study suggested that noninvasive ventilation (NIV) reduced the need for intubation compared with conventional administration of oxygen on patients with “early” stage of mild acute respiratory distres...
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Time-based capnography detects ineffective triggering in mechanically ventilated children
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The association between premorbid beta blocker exposure and mortality in sepsis—a systematic review
The effect of premorbid β-blocker exposure on clinical outcomes in patients with sepsis is not well characterized. We aimed to examine the association between premorbid β-blocker exposure and mortality in sepsis.
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Endotoxin removal by polymyxin B: is it a question of dose or duration or both?
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Endocan is a reliable biomarker during continuous renal replacement therapy
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Feedback function for capillary refilling time measurement device
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Confounding factors for the effect of misdiagnosis of site of infection on in-hospital mortality
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Impact of post-sepsis cardiovascular complications on mortality in sepsis survivors: a population-based study
It remains unclear whether sepsis-related cardiovascular complications have an adverse impact on survival independent of pre-existing comorbidities. To investigate the survival impact of post-sepsis cardiovasc...
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Exploring the microvascular impact of red blood cell transfusion in intensive care unit patients
Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is a common treatment for hospitalized patients. However, the effects of RBC transfusion on microvascular function remain controversial.
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Effect of dementia on the incidence, short-term outcomes, and resource utilization of invasive mechanical ventilation in the elderly: a nationwide population-based study
Though the prevalence of dementia among hospitalized patients is increasing, there is limited population data in Europe about the use of life-support measures such as invasive mechanical ventilation in these p...
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Interleukin-26 is overexpressed in human sepsis and contributes to inflammation, organ injury, and mortality in murine sepsis
Sepsis is a serious syndrome that is caused by an unbalanced host inflammatory response to an infection. The cytokine network plays a pivotal role in the orchestration of inflammatory response during sepsis. I...
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Quantitative lung ultrasonography: a putative new algorithm for automatic detection and quantification of B-lines
This pilot study was designed to develop a fully automatic and quantitative scoring system of B-lines (QLUSS: quantitative lung ultrasound score) involving the pleural line and to compare it with previously de...
Citation: Critical Care 2019 23:288
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