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Citation: Critical Care 2014 18(Suppl 2):P58
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PSP and NT-proCNP assessed for predisposition to infection
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:450 -
The effects of five vasopressors on renal blood flow in septic dogs
Citation: Critical Care 2004 8(Suppl 1):P177 -
Re-thinking resuscitation goals: an alternative point of view!
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:458 -
The new way of postoperative pulmonary complications prophylaxis in oesophageal cancer surgery
Citation: Critical Care 2000 4(Suppl 1):P93 -
Changes in procalcitonin and presepsin before and after immunoglobulin administration in septic patients
Citation: Critical Care 2015 19(Suppl 1):P62 -
Intensive care referral and admission: do the criteria for liver disease match?
Citation: Critical Care 2015 19(Suppl 1):P384 -
Safe and effective mediastinal drainage along the carotid sheath for septic mediastinitis
Citation: Critical Care 2003 7(Suppl 2):P029 -
Cardiac abnormalities in patients with septic shock detected by speckle tracking echocardiography
Citation: Critical Care 2015 19(Suppl 1):P135 -
Measurement of serum transferrin receptor (sTfR) in critically ill patients
Citation: Critical Care 2001 5(Suppl 1):P108 -
Reduced local inflammatory reactivity in septic patients compared with healthy controls
Citation: Critical Care 2007 11(Suppl 2):P21 -
Choice of vasopressor in septic shock: does it matter?
Septic shock is a medical emergency that is associated with mortality rates of 40–70%. Prompt recognition and institution of effective therapy is required for optimal outcome. When the shock state persists aft...
Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:174 -
Glutamine supplementation in the critically ill: friend or foe?
In the previous issue of Critical Care, Mori and colleagues demonstrate that glutamine supplementation in mechanically ventilated patients as part of parenteral nutrition increases plasma glutamine concentration ...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:143 -
LPS-induced Pellino3 degradation is mediated by p62-dependent autophagy
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16(Suppl 3):P50 -
Effects of non-neurological complications on traumatic brain injury outcome
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects over 1.5 million Americans annually and consumes a significant amount of healthcare dollars. Identification of complications and factors that impact recovery from TBI is impor...
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:128 -
Recently published papers: Curing, caring and follow-up
Citation: Critical Care 2003 7:339 -
COVID-19: more than a cytokine storm
Citation: Critical Care 2020 24:549 -
Ghrelin: an anti-inflammatory theurapeutic agent in septic rats
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18(Suppl 2):P43 -
Deficient mitochondrial biogenesis in critical illness: cause, effect, or epiphenomenon?
Recent studies indicate that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a role in the pathogenesis of a number of disease states. The importance of these organelles in shock and multiple organ dysfunction is of particula...
Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:158 -
Timing of norepinephrine in septic patients: NOT too little too late
After years and years of consensus expert opinion as to mean arterial pressure (MAP) target and vasopressor choice in septic shock management, literature is now emerging that supports the MAP target of 65 mm H...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:691 -
How much fluid resuscitation is optimal in septic shock?
Smith and Perner report an observational cohort study of 164 patients with septic shock. For patients still alive on day 3, higher compared with lower fluid volume resuscitation was associated with lower 90-da...
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:146 -
Understanding heterogeneity in the host response to Staphylococcus aureus infection for prognostic biomarker discovery
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Editorial comment
Citation: Critical Care 1999 3:17 -
Tissue saturation measurement - exciting prospects, but standardisation and reference data still needed
Sepsis and shock result in disturbances in microcirculatory...2) and provides information on local microvascular and mitochondrial function. This measure could be incorporated with existing targets of goal-direct...
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:169 -
Treating medical and surgical patients with activated protein C: a preliminary comparison
Citation: Critical Care 2003 7(Suppl 2):P022 -
It’s not just the antibiotics, it’s the treatment
The recent study by Bloos and colleagues demonstrates that early initiation of antimicrobial therapy is not associated with improved survival in sepsis. We contend that these findings should not...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:147 -
Corticosteroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia: the path we choose depends on where we want to get
Severe community-acquired pneumonia is a major cause of admission to intensive care units and its mortality rates remain exceedingly high. In the search for adjunctive therapies, clinicians who were encouraged by...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:137 -
Crystalloids vs. colloids: KO at the twelfth round?
Myburgh JA, Finfer S, Bellomo R, Billot L, Cass A, Gattas D, Glass P, Lipman J, Liu B, McArthur C, McGuinness S, Rajbhandari D, Taylor CB, Webb SA; CHEST Investigators; Australian and New Zealand Intensive Car...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:319 -
Aging and the intramyocardial inflammatory response
The sepsis-induced intramyocardial inflammatory response results in decreased ... the complex pathway leading to ventricular dysfunction during sepsis, why this might be an age-dependent ... and what this implies...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:638 -
Recently published papers: Bugs, fluids, obesity and food
Citation: Critical Care 2004 8:148 -
Good and bad fever
Fever is considered a key actor of innate immunity aimed to fight infection. A new investigation reports an association of the use of antipyretic drugs with poorer outcome among patients with sepsis. In contrast,...
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:119 -
N-acetylcysteine to prevent multisystem organ failure
Citation: Critical Care 1999 2:1442 -
qSOFA combined with suPAR for early risk detection and guidance of antibiotic treatment in emergency department: a bit sweet and a bit sour randomized controlled trial
Citation: Critical Care 2024 28:161 -
Etomidate and adrenal insufficiency: the controversy continues
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:338 -
Nitric oxide, leukocytes and microvascular permeability: causality or bystanders?
Increased microvascular permeability resulting in tissue edema is a hallmark of sepsis-related microcirculatory failure, and leukocyte–endothelium interaction...et al. now report, in the previous issue of Critica...
Citation: Critical Care 2008 12:104 -
A dynamic view of mHLA-DR expression in management of severe septic patients
Increasing evidence suggests that the secondary phase of sepsis (that is, after the first proinflammatory ... with regard to 28 day-mortality after severe sepsis.
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:198 -
Pulmonary artery catheters in acute heart failure: end of an era?
Whereas the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) is still widely used in guiding assessment and treatment of heart failure, controversy surrounding its safety and efficacy has prompted development of newer, less in...
Citation: Critical Care 2009 13:1003 -
Procalcitonin, presepsin, pro-adrenomedullin, fibrin degradation products, and lactate in early diagnosis and prognosis of septic patients newly admitted to the intermediate care unit from the emergency department
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17(Suppl 4):P17 -
Septic acute kidney injury: hemodynamic syndrome, inflammatory disorder, or both?
Septic acute kidney injury (S-AKI) is the most common cause of kidney injury in the ICU. Decreased renal blood flow and inflammation have both been suggested as mechanisms of S-AKI. Benes and colleagues present a...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:1008 -
The prognostic value of concomitant assessment of NT-proCNP, C-reactive protein, procalcitonin and inflammatory cytokines in septic patients
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:440 -
Meningococcal disease: identifying high-risk cases
In the previous issue of Critical Care..., Vermont and colleagues presented a simple but well-executed observational study describing the levels of chemokines in the serum of 58 children with meningococcal sepsis
Citation: Critical Care 2006 10:129 -
Vitamin C therapy in septic shock
Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:87 -
Activated protein C: cost-effective or costly?
The authors offer a commentary on the study by Dhainaut et al.... on the cost-effectiveness of activated protein C in severe sepsis. Using data from "real world" conditions...
Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:164 -
Bench-to-bedside review: The role of glycosaminoglycans in respiratory disease
The extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a significant role in the mechanical behaviour of the lung parenchyma. The ECM is composed of a three-dimensional fibre mesh that is filled with various macromolecules, amo...
Citation: Critical Care 2006 10:237 -
Initial use of one or two antibiotics for critically ill patients with community-acquired pneumonia: impact on survival and bacterial resistance
Several guidelines recommend initial empirical treatment with two antibiotics instead of one to decrease mortality in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) requiring intensive-care-unit (ICU) admission. We compar...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:R265 -
Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as mechanical circulatory support in adult septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis with individual participant data meta-regression analysis
We searched Pubmed, Embase, Scopus and Cochrane databases from inception until 1st June 2021, and included all relevant publications reporting on > 5 adult patients requiring VA ECMO for septic shock. Study quali...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:246 -
Acute management and outcome of multiple trauma patients with pelvic disruptions
A specific match code was applied to identify certain patients with pelvic disruptions from both PIR and TR anonymous trauma databases, admitted between 2004 and 2009. From the resulting intersection set, a retro...
Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:R163 -
Pattern of Brain Injury in the Acute Setting of Human Septic Shock
Sepsis-associated brain dysfunction has been linked to...
Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:R204 -
Effect of an enteral amino acid blend on muscle and gut functionality in critically ill patients: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial
This was a monocentric, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that included patients with sepsis or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Patients received...
Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:358 -
Diagnostic performance of fractional excretion of urea in the evaluation of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a multicenter cohort study
Several factors, including diuretic use and sepsis, interfere with the fractional excretion of sodium...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R178
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