Recently published papers: Heavyweight problems in the intensive care unit?
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Correspondence: Lui G Forni Lui.Forni@wash.nhs.uk
Department of Critical Care, Worthing General Hospital, Lyndhurst Road, Worthing BN11 2DH, UK
Brighton & Sussex Medical Schools, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK
Critical Care 2008, 12:197 doi:10.1186/cc7138
Published: 10 December 2008Abstract
The management of the obese patient in intensive care is fraught with difficulty, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. Two recent studies add to the growing evidence that the obese patient is not significantly disadvantaged in terms of outcome following intensive care admission. Another study highlights the increasing burden of end-stage renal disease on intensive care unit resources with some interesting results. And there is more on citrate, the new anticoagulant!