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  1. Uncertainties about the pathophysiological processes resulting in cardiac surgery-related acute kidney injury (AKI) in infants concern the relative impact of the most prominent risk factors, the clinical relev...

    Authors: Mirela Bojan, Maria Constanza Basto Duarte, Natalia Ermak, Vanessa Lopez-Lopez, Agnès Mogenet and Marc Froissart
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:171
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:238

  2. Whole body ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) induces a generalized inflammatory response which contributes to the development of post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS). R...

    Authors: Alexander Asmussen, Katrin Fink, Hans-Jörg Busch, Thomas Helbing, Natascha Bourgeois, Christoph Bode and Sebastian Grundmann
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:170
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  6. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) can have a clear onset or may be a result of the gradual appearance of symptoms and signs of VAP (gradual VAP). The aim of this paper is to describe the VAP development pr...

    Authors: Paula Ramirez, Cristina Lopez-Ferraz, Monica Gordon, Alexandra Gimeno, Esther Villarreal, Jesús Ruiz, Rosario Menendez and Antoni Torres
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:169
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2017 21:165

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:340

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:300

  7. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by a noncardiogenic pulmonary edema with bilateral chest X-ray opacities and reduction in lung compliance, and the hallmark of the syndrome is hypoxe...

    Authors: Davide Chiumello and Matteo Brioni
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:132
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of replacing all-cause mortality by death without limitation of medical treatments (LOMT) as the endpoint in a study of rapid response teams (RRTs) in hospita...

    Authors: Anja H. Brunsveld-Reinders, Jeroen Ludikhuize, Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf, M. Sesmu Arbous and Evert de Jonge
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:168
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  9. The quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) is a new screening system for sepsis that has prognostic performance equal to the full SOFA for patients with suspected infection outside the intensive...

    Authors: Yun-Xia Chen, Jun-Yu Wang and Shu-Bin Guo
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:167
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  13. Oliguria is one of the leading triggers of fluid loading in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). The purpose of this study was to assess the predictive value of urine Na+ (uNa+) and other routine urine biom...

    Authors: Matthieu Legrand, Brigitte Le Cam, Sébastien Perbet, Claire Roger, Michael Darmon, Philippe Guerci, Axelle Ferry, Véronique Maurel, Sabri Soussi, Jean-Michel Constantin, Etienne Gayat, Jean-Yves Lefrant and Marc Leone
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:165
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  15. Patients with an open abdomen (OA) treated with temporary abdominal closure (TAC) need multiple surgical procedures throughout the hospital stay with repeated changes of the vacuum-assisted closure device (VAC...

    Authors: Arne Seternes, Sigurd Fasting, Pål Klepstad, Skule Mo, Torbjørn Dahl, Martin Björck and Arne Wibe
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:164
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  17. Invasive fungal infections, particularly those caused by Candida species, are not uncommon in critically ill patients and are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis and management of thes...

    Authors: Thierry Calandra, Jason A. Roberts, Massimo Antonelli, Matteo Bassetti and Jean-Louis Vincent
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:125
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a prominent problem in hospitalized patients and associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Clinical medicine is currently hampered by the lack of accurate and early biomar...

    Authors: Jochen Metzger, William Mullen, Holger Husi, Angelique Stalmach, Stefan Herget-Rosenthal, Heiner V. Groesdonk, Harald Mischak and Matthias Klingele
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:157
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  20. Altered plasma levels of protein C, thrombomodulin, and the endothelial protein C receptor are associated with poor clinical outcomes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We hypothesize...

    Authors: Anil Sapru, Kathleen D. Liu, Joseph Wiemels, Helen Hansen, Ludmilla Pawlikowska, Annie Poon, Eric Jorgenson, John S. Witte, Carolyn S. Calfee, Lorraine B. Ware and Michael A. Matthay
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:151
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:185

  21. Severe critical illness is often complicated by intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW), which is associated with increased ICU and post-ICU mortality, delayed weaning from mechanical ventilation and lo...

    Authors: Adrien Bouglé, Pierre Rocheteau, Tarek Sharshar and Fabrice Chrétien
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:131
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  22. A number of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) adjunct devices have been developed to improve the consistency and quality of manual chest compressions. We investigated whether a CPR feedback device would impr...

    Authors: Amir Vahedian-Azimi, Mohammadreza Hajiesmaeili, Ali Amirsavadkouhi, Hamidreza Jamaati, Morteza Izadi, Seyed J. Madani, Seyed M. R. Hashemian and Andrew C. Miller
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:147
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:182

  23. Infections occur frequently in critically ill patients and their management can be challenging for various reasons, including delayed diagnosis, difficulties identifying causative microorganisms, and the high ...

    Authors: Jean-Louis Vincent, Matteo Bassetti, Bruno François, George Karam, Jean Chastre, Antoni Torres, Jason A. Roberts, Fabio S. Taccone, Jordi Rello, Thierry Calandra, Daniel De Backer, Tobias Welte and Massimo Antonelli
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:133
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:393

  24. To assess the performance of Candida albicans germ tube antibody (CAGTA), (1 → 3)-ß-D-glucan (BDG), mannan antigen (mannan-Ag), anti-mannan antibodies (mannan-Ab), and Candida DNA for diagnosing invasive candidia...

    Authors: Cristóbal León, Sergio Ruiz-Santana, Pedro Saavedra, Carmen Castro, Ana Loza, Ismail Zakariya, Alejandro Úbeda, Manuel Parra, Desirée Macías, José Ignacio Tomás, Antonio Rezusta, Alejandro Rodríguez, Frederic Gómez and Estrella Martín-Mazuelos
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:149
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2017 21:107

  25. Post-cardiac arrest (CA) patients are at risk of secondary ischemic damage in the case of suboptimal brain oxygenation during an ICU stay. We hypothesized that elevated central venous pressures (CVP) would imp...

    Authors: Koen Ameloot, Cornelia Genbrugge, Ingrid Meex, Ward Eertmans, Frank Jans, Cathy De Deyne, Joseph Dens, Wilfried Mullens, Bert Ferdinande and Matthias Dupont
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:146
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  26. Sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction is a well-recognized condition and confers worse outcomes in septic patients. Echocardiographic assessment by conventional parameters such as left ventricular ejection fra...

    Authors: Pauline Yeung Ng, Wai Ching Sin, Andrew Kei-Yan Ng and Wai Ming Chan
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:145
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:284

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:236

  27. Regional citrate or heparin is often prescribed as an anticoagulant for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). However, their efficacy and safety remain controversial. Therefore, we performed this meta-a...

    Authors: Chao Liu, Zhi Mao, Hongjun Kang, Jie Hu and Feihu Zhou
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:144
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  28. Evidence on prehospital administration of the antifibrinolytic tranexamic acid (TXA) in civilian trauma populations is scarce. The aim was to study whether prehospital TXA use in trauma patients was associated...

    Authors: Arasch Wafaisade, Rolf Lefering, Bertil Bouillon, Andreas B. Böhmer, Michael Gäßler and Matthias Ruppert
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:143
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  29. Partial extracorporeal CO2 removal allows a decreasing tidal volume without respiratory acidosis in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. This, however, may be associated with worsening hypoxemia, du...

    Authors: Luciano Gattinoni
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:130
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Critical Care 2016 20:36

  30. Whether temporal differences alter the clinical outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains inconclusive. Furthermore, the relationship between time of day and resuscitation efforts...

    Authors: Yosuke Matsumura, Taka-aki Nakada, Koichiro Shinozaki, Takashi Tagami, Tomohisa Nomura, Yoshio Tahara, Atsushi Sakurai, Naohiro Yonemoto, Ken Nagao, Arino Yaguchi and Naoto Morimura
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:141
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  31. An algorithm for distinguishing invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in critically ill patients (AspICU) has been proposed but not tested.

    Authors: Maria Schroeder, Marcel Simon, Juri Katchanov, Charles Wijaya, Holger Rohde, Martin Christner, Azien Laqmani, Dominic Wichmann, Valentin Fuhrmann and Stefan Kluge
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:139
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:280

  32. Septic shock is a major healthcare problem with a high mortality rate that might be caused by immunosuppression. Programmed cell death receptor-1 (PD-1) and programmed cell death receptor ligand-1 (PD-L1), whi...

    Authors: Rui Shao, Yingying Fang, Han Yu, Lianxing Zhao, Zhifeng Jiang and Chun-Sheng Li
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:124
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:186

  34. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection is associated with high mortality rates but limited clinical data have been reported. We describe the clinical features and outcomes of patients admitted ...

    Authors: Ghaleb A. Almekhlafi, Mohammed M. Albarrak, Yasser Mandourah, Sahar Hassan, Abid Alwan, Abdullah Abudayah, Sultan Altayyar, Mohamed Mustafa, Tareef Aldaghestani, Adnan Alghamedi, Ali Talag, Muhammad K. Malik, Ali S. Omrani and Yasser Sakr
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:123
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  35. The optimal timing of initiating renal replacement therapy (RRT) in critical illness complicated by acute kidney injury (AKI) is not clearly established. Trials completed on this topic have been marked by cont...

    Authors: Benjamin T. Wierstra, Sameer Kadri, Soha Alomar, Ximena Burbano, Glen W. Barrisford and Raymond L. C. Kao
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:122
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  37. Daily interruption of sedative therapy and limitation of deep sedation have been shown in several randomized trials to reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation and hospital length of stay, and to improve ...

    Authors: Mauro Oddo, Ilaria Alice Crippa, Sangeeta Mehta, David Menon, Jean-Francois Payen, Fabio Silvio Taccone and Giuseppe Citerio
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:128
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. Physiological dead space (VD/VT) represents the fraction of ventilation not participating in gas exchange. In patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), VD/VT has prognostic value and can be used t...

    Authors: Jonne Doorduin, Joeke L. Nollet, Manon P. A. J. Vugts, Lisanne H. Roesthuis, Ferdi Akankan, Johannes G. van der Hoeven, Hieronymus W. H. van Hees and Leo M. A. Heunks
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:121
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  39. The relative efficacy and safety of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) compared to histamine-2-receptor antagonists (H2RAs) should guide their use in reducing bleeding risk in the critically ill.

    Authors: Fayez Alshamsi, Emilie Belley-Cote, Deborah Cook, Saleh A. Almenawer, Zuhoor Alqahtani, Dan Perri, Lehana Thabane, Awad Al-Omari, Kim Lewis, Gordon Guyatt and Waleed Alhazzani
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:120
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  40. This review article analyzes, through a nonsystematic approach, the pathophysiology of acute pancreatitis (AP) with a focus on the effects of thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) on the disease. The benefit–risk ...

    Authors: Olivier Windisch, Claudia-Paula Heidegger, Raphaël Giraud, Philippe Morel and Léo Bühler
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:116
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  41. Information on regional ventilation distribution in mechanically ventilated patients is important to develop lung protective ventilation strategies. In the present prospective animal study, we introduce an ele...

    Authors: Songqiao Liu, Li Tan, Knut Möller, Inez Frerichs, Tao Yu, Ling Liu, Yingzi Huang, Fengmei Guo, Jingyuan Xu, Yi Yang, Haibo Qiu and Zhanqi Zhao
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:119
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  42. Coagulation can be visualised using whole blood coagulation analyses such as thromboelastometry and platelet aggregation tests; however, the role of temperature in the analyses is ambiguous. The aim was to exa...

    Authors: Anni Nørgaard Jeppesen, Hans Kirkegaard, Susanne Ilkjær and Anne Mette Hvas
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:118
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  43. Enteral nutrition (EN) is recommended as the preferred route for early nutrition therapy in critically ill adults over parenteral nutrition (PN). A recent large randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed no outc...

    Authors: Gunnar Elke, Arthur R. H. van Zanten, Margot Lemieux, Michele McCall, Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy, Matthias Kott, Xuran Jiang, Andrew G. Day and Daren K. Heyland
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:117
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  44. Preservation of spontaneous breathing (SB) is sometimes debated because it has potentially both negative and positive effects on lung injury in comparison with fully controlled mechanical ventilation (CMV). We...

    Authors: Giacomo Bellani, Giacomo Grasselli, Maddalena Teggia-Droghi, Tommaso Mauri, Andrea Coppadoro, Laurent Brochard and Antonio Pesenti
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:142
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  45. Dabigatran is effective in decreasing the risk of ischaemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. However, like all anticoagulants, it is associated with a risk of bleeding. In cases of trauma or emerge...

    Authors: Oliver Grottke, James Aisenberg, Richard Bernstein, Patrick Goldstein, Menno V. Huisman, Dara G. Jamieson, Jerrold H. Levy, Charles V. Pollack Jr, Alex C. Spyropoulos, Thorsten Steiner, Gregory J. del Zoppo and John Eikelboom
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:115
    Content type: Review Published on:

  46. High flow nasal cannula (HFNC) supportive therapy has emerged as a safe, useful therapy in patients with respiratory failure, improving oxygenation and comfort. Recently several clinical trials have analyzed t...

    Authors: Oriol Roca, Gonzalo Hernández, Salvador Díaz-Lobato, José M. Carratalá, Rosa M. Gutiérrez and Joan R. Masclans
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:109
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  48. The time course of plasma albumin concentration (P-alb) and cumulative perioperative albumin shift as a measure of albumin extravasation in major abdominal surgery is not well described. Knowledge of these ind...

    Authors: Åke Norberg, Olav Rooyackers, Ralf Segersvärd and Jan Wernerman
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:113
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  50. The recent Large Observational Study to Understand the Global Impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Failure (LUNG SAFE) challenges current data on the prevalence of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The...

    Authors: Jesús Villar, Marcus J. Schultz and Robert M. Kacmarek
    Citation: Critical Care 2016 20:108
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    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2016 20:268

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