Articles in Volume 9 Issue 3
Journal club critique
Procalcitonin testing has the potential to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infections
Sadiq Al-Nakeeb, Gilles Clermont
Critical Care 2005, 9:E5 (17 February 2005)
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Journal club critique
Randomized controlled trials are needed to determine appropriate blood transfusion strategies in patients with acute coronary syndromes
Stephanie Freeman, Michael A DeVita
Critical Care 2005, 9:E6 (18 March 2005)
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Book report
Tracheostomy  a multiprofessional handbook
Paolo Pelosi, Paolo Severgnini
Critical Care 2005, 9:E8 (20 October 2004)
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Book report
The Essential Burn Unit Handbook
Alasdair Short
Critical Care 2005, 9:E9 (2 November 2004)
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Web report
Nutrition for critically ill patients
Neill Adhikari
Critical Care 2005, 9:E10 (10 August 2004)
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Web report
Surgical critical care
Anand Govindarajan
Critical Care 2005, 9:E11 (25 August 2004)
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Research
Erythropoietin response in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients: a prospective observational study
Alan J DeAngelo, David G Bell, Michael W Quinn, Deborah Ebert Long, Daniel R Ouellette
Critical Care 2005, 9:R172-R176 (25 February 2005)
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Research
Outcome and prognostic factors in critically ill patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a retrospective study
Chia-Lin Hsu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Pu-Sheng Yeh, Yeong-Long Hsu, Hou-Tai Chang, Wen-Yi Shau, Chia-Li Yu, Pan-Chyr Yang
Critical Care 2005, 9:R177-R183 (25 February 2005)
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Research
The effect of activated protein C on experimental acute necrotizing pancreatitis
Levent Yamenel, Mehmet Refik Mas, Bilgin Comert, Ahmet Turan Isik, Sezai Aydin, Nuket Mas, Salih Deveci, Mustafa Ozyurt, Ilker Tasci, Tahir Unal
Critical Care 2005, 9:R184-R190 (4 March 2005)
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Research
Isolation of Aspergillus spp. from the respiratory tract in critically ill patients: risk factors, clinical presentation and outcome
José Garnacho-Montero, Rosario Amaya-Villar, Carlos Ortiz-Leyba, Cristóbal León, Francisco Álvarez-Lerma, Juan Nolla-Salas, José R Iruretagoyena, Fernando Barcenilla
Critical Care 2005, 9:R191-R199 (11 March 2005)
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Research
Decreased duration of mechanical ventilation when comparing analgesia-based sedation using remifentanil with standard hypnotic-based sedation for up to 10 days in intensive care unit patients: a randomised trial [ISRCTN47583497]
Des Breen, Andreas Karabinis, Manu Malbrain, Rex Morais, Sven Albrecht, Inge-Lise Jarnvig, Pauline Parkinson, Andrew JT Kirkham
Critical Care 2005, 9:R200-R210 (15 March 2005)
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Research
Tezosentan-induced attenuation of lung injury in endotoxemic sheep is associated with reduced activation of protein kinase C
Vladimir Kuklin, Mikhail Kirov, Mikhail Sovershaev, Thomas Andreasen, Ole C Ingebretsen, Kirsti Ytrehus, Lars Bjertnaes
Critical Care 2005, 9:R211-R217 (14 March 2005)
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Research
Daily enteral feeding practice on the ICU: attainment of goals and interfering factors
JM Binnekade, R Tepaske, P Bruynzeel, EMH Mathus-Vliegen, RJ de Haan
Critical Care 2005, 9:R218-R225 (22 March 2005)
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Research
Continuously assessed right ventricular end-diastolic volume as a marker of cardiac preload and fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated cardiac surgical patients
Christoph Wiesenack, Christoph Fiegl, Andreas Keyser, Sven Laule, Christopher Prasser, Cornelius Keyl
Critical Care 2005, 9:R226-R233 (1 April 2005)
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Research
Does fluid loading influence measurements of intestinal permeability?
Ilkka Parviainen, Jukka Takala, Stephan M Jakob
Critical Care 2005, 9:R234-R237 (21 March 2005)
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Research
Effect of ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis on outcome in patients without chronic respiratory failure: a casecontrol study
Saad Nseir, Christophe Di Pompeo, Stéphane Soubrier, Hélène Lenci, Pierre Delour, Thierry Onimus, Fabienne Saulnier, Daniel Mathieu, Alain Durocher
Critical Care 2005, 9:R238-R245 (31 March 2005)
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Research
Use of intranasal mupirocin to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in intensive care units
Arno Muller, Daniel Talon, Alexandre Potier, Evelyne Belle, Gilles Cappelier, Xavier Bertrand
Critical Care 2005, 9:R246-R250 (31 March 2005)
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Research
Influence of support on intra-abdominal pressure, hepatic kinetics of indocyanine green and extravascular lung water during prone positioning in patients with ARDS: a randomized crossover study
Pierre Michelet, Antoine Roch, Marc Gainnier, Jean-Marie Sainty, Jean-Pierre Auffray, Laurent Papazian
Critical Care 2005, 9:R251-R257 (31 March 2005)
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Research
Worldwide research productivity in critical care medicine
Argyris Michalopoulos, Ioannis A Bliziotis, Michael Rizos, Matthew E Falagas
Critical Care 2005, 9:R258-R265 (4 April 2005)
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Research
In vivo validation of the adequacy calculator for continuous renal replacement therapies
Zaccaria Ricci, Gabriella Salvatori, Monica Bonello, Tirak Pisitkun, Irene Bolgan, Giuseppe D'Amico, Maurizio Dan, Pasquale Piccinni, Claudio Ronco
Critical Care 2005, 9:R266-R273 (7 April 2005)
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Research
High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in children: a single-center experience of 53 cases
Fieke YAM Slee-Wijffels, Klara RM van der Vaart, Jos WR Twisk, Dick G Markhorst, Frans B Plötz
Critical Care 2005, 9:R274-R279 (8 April 2005)
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Research
Fatality after deliberate ingestion of the pesticide rotenone: a case report
David Michael Wood, Hadi Alsahaf, Peter Streete, Paul Ivor Dargan, Alison Linda Jones
Critical Care 2005, 9:R280-R284 (29 April 2005)
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Research
Adhesion of the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum 299v onto the gut mucosa in critically ill patients: a randomised open trial
Bengt Klarin, Marie-Louise Johansson, Göran Molin, Anders Larsson, Bengt Jeppsson
Critical Care 2005, 9:R285-R293 (28 April 2005)
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Commentary
Radiological weapons: what type of threat?
James Mapstone, Stephen Brett
Critical Care 2005, 9:223-225 (17 February 2005)
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Commentary
Withdrawing may be preferable to withholding
Jean-Louis Vincent
Critical Care 2005, 9:226-229 (4 March 2005)
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Commentary
Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining therapies are not the same
Phillip D Levin, Charles L Sprung
Critical Care 2005, 9:230-232 (4 March 2005)
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Commentary
Ethics roundtable debate: Is a physicianpatient confidentiality relationship subservient to a greater good?
Chris Cotton, David W Crippen, Farhad Kapadia, Arthur Morgan, Holt N Murray, Gil Ross
Critical Care 2005, 9:233-237 (25 April 2005)
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Commentary
Recently published papers: Out with the old and in with the new ... then something new for the old!
Simone Carbert, Richard Venn
Critical Care 2005, 9:238-240 (12 May 2005)
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Commentary
French multicentre survey on the use of inotropes after cardiac surgery
Olivier Bastien, Benoit Vallet, the French Study Group AGIR (AGents Inotropes en chiRurgie cardiaque)
Critical Care 2005, 9:241-242 (23 February 2005)
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Commentary
Acute pancreatitis: a possible role for activated protein C?
Linda Kirschenbaum, Mark Astiz
Critical Care 2005, 9:243-244 (13 April 2005)
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Commentary
Endothelin antagonists: new bullets against lung injury?
Marc Leeman
Critical Care 2005, 9:245-246 (14 April 2005)
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Commentary
Narcotic-based sedation regimens for critically ill mechanically ventilated patients
Pratik Pandharipande, E Wesley Ely
Critical Care 2005, 9:247-248 (18 April 2005)
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Commentary
The role of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in paediatric intensive care
Stephen D Playfor
Critical Care 2005, 9:249-250 (18 April 2005)
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Commentary
Intensive care unit nutrition nonsense or neglect?
Jan Wernerman
Critical Care 2005, 9:251-252 (20 April 2005)
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Commentary
Prone position in mechanically ventilated patients the hard or the soft way?
Christian Putensen
Critical Care 2005, 9:253-254 (5 May 2005)
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Commentary
Does ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis need antibiotic treatment?
Antonio Torres, Mauricio Valencia
Critical Care 2005, 9:255-256 (3 May 2005)
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Commentary
Can mupirocin prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections?
Heiman FL Wertheim, Margreet C Vos
Critical Care 2005, 9:257-258 (5 May 2005)
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Review
Bench-to-bedside review: Therapeutic options and issues in the management of ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia
Jordi Rello
Critical Care 2005, 9:259-265 (30 November 2004)
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Review
Bench-to-bedside review: Inotropic drug therapy after adult cardiac surgery a systematic literature review
Michael Gillies, Rinaldo Bellomo, Laurie Doolan, Brian Buxton
Critical Care 2005, 9:266-279 (16 December 2004)
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Review
Bench-to-bedside review: Biotrauma and modulation of the innate immune response
Claudia C dos Santos, Haibo Zhang, Mingyao Liu, Arthur S Slutsky
Critical Care 2005, 9:280-286 (5 January 2005)
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Correction
Correction: The effect of activated protein C on experimental acute necrotizing pancreatitis
Levent Yamanel, Mehmet Refik Mas, Bilgin Comert, Ahmet Turan Isik, Sezai Aydin, Nuket Mas, Salih Deveci, Mustafa Ozyurt, Ilker Tasci, Tahir Unal
Critical Care 2005, 9:286 (18 March 2005)
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Review
Clinical review: Devices and drugs for cardiopulmonary resuscitation opportunities and restraints
Max Harry Weil, Shijie Sun
Critical Care 2005, 9:287-290 (27 September 2004)
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Review
Clinical review: Emergency department overcrowding and the potential impact on the critically ill
Robert M Cowan, Stephen Trzeciak
Critical Care 2005, 9:291-295 (14 October 2004)
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Review
Clinical review: New technologies venturing out of the intensive care unit
Ronny Otero, A Joseph Garcia
Critical Care 2005, 9:296-302 (2 November 2004)
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Letter
Between benzodiazepine over-sedation and neurological damage
Jordan Kountchev, Romuald Bellmann, Michael Joannidis
Critical Care 2005, 9:303 (1 March 2005)
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Letter
Hemorrhagic shock, drag-reducing polymers and 'spherical cows'
Marina V Kameneva, Mitchell P Fink
Critical Care 2005, 9:304-305 (1 March 2005)
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