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  The online intensive care journal
  Editor-in-chief: Jean-Louis Vincent, Brussels, Belgium

 
 
 
 
Research highlight: Blood transfusions increase in PAMV patients    Open Access
Patients requiring prolonged acute mechanical ventilation (PAMV) have a high likelihood of being transfused with multiple units of blood, independently contributing to an increase in hospital death, length of stay and cost.
Critical Care 2008, 12:R60

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Research    
Severe hyperlactatemia with normal base excess: a quantitative analysis using conventional and Stewart approaches
Graciela Tuhay, Maria C Pein, Fabio Daniel Masevicius, Daniela Olmos Kutscherauer, Arnaldo Dubin
Critical Care 2008, 12:R66 (8 May 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]




Research    
Adrenal insufficiency in prolonged critical illness
Jenn-Yu Wu, Szu-Chun Hsu, Shih-Chi Ku, Chao-Chi Ho, Chong-Jen Yu, Pan-Chyr Yang
Critical Care 2008, 12:R65 (8 May 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]




Research    
A phase 1 trial of nebulised heparin in acute lung injury
Barry Dixon, John D Santamaria, Duncan J Campbell
Critical Care 2008, 12:R64 (6 May 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]




Review   
Bench-to-bedside review: Sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock – does the nature of the infecting organism matter?
Hongmei Gao, Timothy W Evans, Simon J Finney
Critical Care 2008, 12:213 (6 May 2008)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]




Commentary   
Diagnosing sepsis: does the microbiology matter?
Jonathan Cohen
Critical Care 2008, 12:145 (6 May 2008)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]




Research    
Cerebral perfusion in sepsis-associated delirium
David Pfister, Martin Siegemund, Salome Dell-Kuster, Peter Smielewski, Stephan Rueegg, Stephan P Strebel, Stephan CU Marsch, Hans Pargger, Luzius A Steiner
Critical Care 2008, 12:R63 (5 May 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]




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All reviews, commentaries and reports published in Critical Care become free to access 12 months after publication. See below for the latest free review.

Review   
Kirsty Challen, Andrew Bentley, John Bright, Darren Walter
Critical Care 2007, 11:212 (30 April 2007)



From the University of Pittsburgh evidence-based medicine journal club

Journal club critique   
Asjad Khan, Eric B Milbrandt, Ramesh Venkataraman
Critical Care 2007, 11:314 (27 September 2007)




Latest comments
Not accurate method (M. Ignacio Monge Garca, 28Mar2008)
Very interesting idea. But I think that there is something that has been omitted: to draw a venous return curve using the proposed methodology, one must assume that the cardiac... [readfullcomment]
Comment on: Maas J et al. Critical Care, 12:P93


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