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

 
 
 
 
Research highlight: Cortisol insufficiency in prolonged illness    Open Access
Decreased cortisol levels in the majority of intensive care unit longstayers suggests the need for repeated adrenal function testing in patients with prolonged critical illness, finds a study of 53 acutely ill patients.
Critical Care 2008, 12:R65

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Research    
Optic nerve sonography in the diagnostic evaluation of adult brain injury
Theodoros Soldatos, Dimitrios Karakitsos, Katerina Chatzimichail, Matilda Papathanasiou, Athanasios Gouliamos, Andreas Karabinis
Critical Care 2008, 12:R67 (13 May 2008)
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Commentary   
Good night, sleep tight: the time is ripe for critical care providers to wake up and focus on sleep
Randall S Friese
Critical Care 2008, 12:146 (12 May 2008)
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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] [PubMed] [Related articles]




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)
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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)
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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   
Scott A Crane, Clifton W Callaway, Eric B Milbrandt, David T Huang
Critical Care 2007, 12:302 (12 March 2008)




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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