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Citation: Critical Care 2002 6:93
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Pro/con clinical debate: The use of prone positioning in the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
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...
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Translating research evidence into clinical practice: new challenges for critical care
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...
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Early resuscitation in the emergency room: dramatic effects that we should not ignore
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Attempting to define the role of the recovery room
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Clinical review: Hemodynamic monitoring in the intensive care unit
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...
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ICUs worldwide: An overview of critical care medicine in South Africa
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 ...
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Pro/con clinical debate: Is high-volume hemofiltration beneficial in the treatment of septic shock?
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...
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Rotating antibiotics in the intensive care unit: feasible, apparently beneficial, but questions remain
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...
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From bench to bedside: bacterial growth and cytokines
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...
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Ethics and critical care in the new millennium
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, ...
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Assessment of tissue oxygen tension: comparison of dynamic fluorescence quenching and polarographic electrode technique
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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The Canadian C-Spine Rule for Radiography in alert and Stable Trauma Patients
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The golden hours of septic shock?
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Antithrombin III and sepsis
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Tight glucose control in the critically ill improves survival
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Noninvasive ventilation after lung resection
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Does quality of life affect outcome?
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Hyperchloraemic acidosis and outcome
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Non-touch fittings and X-infection
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Who gets decubitous ulcers?
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Immunonutrition in the critically ill
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Prone positioning does not affect survival in patients with ARDS
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Do differences in probability of survival affect study design in ICU?
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UTI rates from catheter systems in the ICU
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Let your ventilated patients breathe!
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C-spine examination with dynamic fluoroscopy
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Transfusing prior to extubation
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Is TEE useful to assess lung density changes?
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Choosing optimal PAW during high-frequency oscillation
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Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
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Candidain the critically ill
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Dopamine raises ICP
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'No' to starch in sepsis
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Do cellular phones really interfere with monitoring?
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Renal and respiratory failure in Scottish ICUs
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Noninvasive ventilation for the immunosuppressed patient?
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Earlier palliative care in ITU nonsurvivors
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Caution-closed suction systems!
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Statistics review 1: Presenting and summarising data
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...
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Eighth World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, 28 October-1 November 2001, Sydney, Australia: Harm minimization and effective risk management
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...
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Bench-to-bedside review: Genetic influences on meningococcal disease
This review discusses the possible involvement of a variety of genetic polymorphisms on the course of meningococcal disease. It has been shown that several common genetic polymorphisms can either influence the...
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Clinical review: Severe asthma
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,...
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Effects of intravenous furosemide on mucociliary transport and rheological properties of patients under mechanical ventilation
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...
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Use of a rapid arterial blood gas analyzer to estimate blood hemoglobin concentration among critically ill adults
To evaluate whether measurement of the hemoglobin (Hb) concentration with a blood gas analyzer approximates that determined by a conventional coulter counter in critically ill adults.
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Clinical review: A paradigm shift: the bidirectional effect of inflammation on bacterial growth. Clinical implications for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
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 ...
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Paper reports overview: Cranberry juice, fluid replacement and bad innovations
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A comparison of two methods of estimating systemic carbon dioxide production during cardiopulmonary bypass
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Fentanyl and myocardial protection: is there a preconditioning mechanism?
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Serum N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP) in perioperative cardiac surgical patients
Citation: Critical Care 2001 5(Suppl 4):1
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