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This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
The demand for intensive care has increased relentlessly over the past 30 years. It is now regarded as a necessity rather than a luxury. The provision of intensive care has lagged behind that demand. Thus, pat...
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1
Acetaminophen toxicity, which can lead to hepatotoxicity, is a burden on our health care system and contributes significantly to intensive care unit admissions and cost of hospitalization. The aim of our study...
The purpose of this study is to correlate levels of mortality in patients on CVVH/D with the degree of illness as determined by the APACHE II score. We also identified variables that were part of the APACHE II...
The Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are essential transmembrane signaling receptors of the innate immune system that alert the host to the presence of a microbial invader. The recent discovery of the TLRs has rapid...
Although mechanical ventilation is instituted as a life-saving technique, it may lead to complications that can negatively impact on patients' morbidity and/or mortality. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) ...
Stress hyperglycaemia is a common event in acute critical illness. There is increasing evidence that maintaining normoglycaemia and treatment with insulin (or with glucose–insulin–potassium [GIK]), even in non...
To evaluate the effect of nebulized albuterol on tidal breathing flow-volume loops in infants with bronchiolitis due to respiratory syncytial virus.
The previous review in this series introduced the notion of data description and outlined some of the more common summary measures used to describe a dataset. However, a dataset is typically only of interest f...
The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2002 7:8
Decision-making in the intensive care unit is often very difficult. Although we are encouraged to make evidence-based decisions, this may be difficult for a number of reasons. To begin with, evidence may not e...
Statistics is increasingly used in all fields of medicine but is often poorly understood and incorrectly applied. Critical Care is therefore launching a series of articles aimed at providing a simple introduction...
Critical care medicine is a relatively new specialty and as such there is not a great deal of accumulated data to allow clinicians to practice 'evidence-based medicine' in all situations they encounter. When e...
High quality research evidence is now available to guide and shape the practice of critical care. As the generation of such evidence increases, the challenge facing critical care medicine will be translation o...
Since the beginning of modern anesthesia, in 1846, the anesthetist has relied on his natural senses to monitor the patient, aided more recently by simple technical devices such as the stethoscope. There has be...
South Africa has undergone rapid changes in the political and social arenas since 1994. With new policy-makers in the Department of Health, the distribution of health care resources are being rationalised and ...
Although there have been exciting advances in the management of sepsis and septic shock, mortality still remains high. Recent data suggest that high-volume hemofiltration (HVHF) may play a role in these patien...
Rotating antibiotics in the intensive care unit may result in less infections caused by resistant organisms and in even less mortality. The selection of super-resistant organisms associated with the rotation s...
The recognition that neutrophils, macrophages, and other components of the inflammatory cascade participate in the generation and progression of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome has result...
Attempts to improve survival demand that intensivists practice at the forefront of technology. In the present millennium, ethical challenges will arise during the development and use of emerging therapeutics, ...
Dynamic fluorescence quenching is a technique that may overcome some of the limitations associated with measurement of tissue partial oxygen tension (PO2). We compared this technique with a polarographic Eppendor...
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