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  1. The clinical syndrome of sepsis is common, increasing in incidence and responsible for as many deaths annually as ischaemic heart disease. Two recent interventional trials have demonstrated that early recognit...

    Authors: Jonathan Ball
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:271
    Content type: Meeting report Published on:

  2. To demonstrate the effects of combined inhaled nitric oxide and surfactant replacement as treatment for acute respiratory distress syndrome. This treatment has not previously been documented for reperfusion in...

    Authors: Giorgio Della Rocca, Federico Pierconti, Maria Gabriella Costa, Cecilia Coccia, Livia Pompei, Monica Rocco, Federico Venuta and Paolo Pietropaoli
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:240
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. Measuring cardiac output is of paramount importance in the management of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit and of 'high risk' surgical patients in the operating room. Alternatives to thermodil...

    Authors: Christine Berton and Bernard Cholley
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:216
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. The aim of the study was to assess the prognostic importance of basal cortisol concentrations and cortisol response to corticotropin, and to determine the effects of physiological dose steroid therapy on morta...

    Authors: Orhan Yildiz, Mehmet Doğanay, Bilgehan Aygen, Muhammet Güven, Fahrettin Keleştimur and Ahmet Tutuş
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:251
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. In order to evaluate the complications and risk factors associated with peripheral arterial catheters used for haemodynamic monitoring, we reviewed the literature published from 1978 to 2001. We closely examin...

    Authors: Bernd Volker Scheer, Azriel Perel and Ulrich J Pfeiffer
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:199
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. 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...

    Authors: Stephan M Jakob
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:306
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. 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...

    Authors: Yaseen Arabi, Adnan Abbasi, Radoslaw Goraj, Abdulmajeed Al-Abdulkareem, Abudullah AL Shimemeri, Munci Kalayoglu and Kenneth Wood
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:245
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. 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...

    Authors: József Bocsi, Jörg Hambsch, Pavel Osmancik, Peter Schneider, Günter Valet and Attila Tárnok
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:226
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. 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...

    Authors: Nicolas Bergeron, Yoanna Skrobik and Marc-Jacques Dubois
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:181
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  20. 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...

    Authors: Jeffrey M Singh, Sangeeta Mehta and Robert M Kacmarek
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:183
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  23. 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 ...

    Authors: Sarice Bassin, Teresa L Smith and Thomas P Bleck
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:137
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. 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...

    Authors: Paul I Dargan and Alison L Jones
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:108
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  26. 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 ...

    Authors: Yaseen Arabi, Samir Haddad, Radoslaw Goraj, Abdullah Al-Shimemeri and Salim Al-Malik
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:166
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. 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...

    Authors: Bina Rubinovitch and Didier Pittet
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:106
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  28. 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...

    Authors: Philip Hopkins and Jonathan Cohen
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:99
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  30. 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...

    Authors: Margrid Schindler
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:111
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  32. 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.

    Authors: Georg Delle Karth, Maria Koreny, Thomas Binder, Sylvia Knapp, Christian Zauner, Andreas Valentin, Rosemarie Honninger, Gottfried Heinz and Peter Siostrzonek
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:149
    Content type: Research Published on:
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