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  1. 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...

    Authors: Claudia C dos Santos, Haibo Zhang and Arthur S Slutsky
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:4
  2. 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, ...

    Authors: Laura Hawryluck and David Crippen
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:1
  3. 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...

    Authors: Andrew D Shaw, Zheng Li, Zach Thomas and Craig W Stevens
    Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:76
  4. The present review is the first in an ongoing guide to medical statistics, using specific examples from intensive care. The first step in any analysis is to describe and summarize the data. As well as becoming...

    Authors: Elise Whitley and Jonathan Ball
    Citation: Critical Care 2001 6:66
  5. The 8th World Congress saw the presentation of several late-breaking findings, such as the role of insulin in reducing mortality, and technologies such as vital microscopy. There were heated debates for and ag...

    Authors: Naresh Ramakrishnan
    Citation: Critical Care 2001 6:89
  6. Severe asthma, although difficult to define, includes all cases of difficult/therapy-resistant disease of all age groups and bears the largest part of morbidity and mortality from asthma. Acute, severe asthma,...

    Authors: Spyros Papiris, Anastasia Kotanidou, Katerina Malagari and Charis Roussos
    Citation: Critical Care 2001 6:30
  7. The use of intravenous (IV) furosemide is common practice in patients under mechanical ventilation (MV), but its effects on respiratory mucus are largely unknown. Furosemide can affect respiratory mucus either...

    Authors: Cláudia Seiko Kondo, Mariângela Macchionne, Naomi Kondo Nakagawa, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro de Carvalho, Malcolm King, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva and Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho
    Citation: Critical Care 2001 6:81
  8. Clinical studies have shown positive associations among sustained and intense inflammatory responses and the incidence of bacterial infections. We hypothesized that cytokines secreted by the host during acute ...

    Authors: G Umberto Meduri
    Citation: Critical Care 2001 6:24