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Affiliated to the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine(ISICEM), Brussels, Belgium

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

 
 
 
 
Research highlight: Wound healing slower in sepsis    Open Access
Epidermal healing of blistered skin was slower in septic patients compared with healthy control subjects, whilst wound blood flow was enhanced, possibly due to pronounced systemic inflammation.
Critical Care 2009, 13:R100

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Commentary   
Acoustic monitoring – super sonics?
John J Marini
Critical Care 2009, 13:162 (3 July 2009)
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Research    
Reliability issues in human brain temperature measurement
Charmaine Childs, Graham Machin
Critical Care 2009, 13:R106 (2 July 2009)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]




Research    
Changes in serum adiponectin concentrations in critical illness: a preliminary investigation
Bala Venkatesh, Ingrid Hickman, Janelle Nisbet, Jeremy Cohen, John Prins
Critical Care 2009, 13:R105 (2 July 2009)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]




Commentary   
Incretins in the ICU: is insulin on its way out?
Michelle A Kovalaske, Gunjan Y Gandhi
Critical Care 2009, 13:161 (2 July 2009)
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Research    
Serum Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 are early biomarkers of acute kidney injury and predict prolonged mechanical ventilation in children undergoing cardiac surgery: a case-control study
Kathleen D Liu, Christopher Altmann, Gerard Smits, Catherine D Krawczeski, Charles L Edelstein, Prasad Devarajan, Sarah Faubel
Critical Care 2009, 13:R104 (1 July 2009)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]




Commentary   
Broadening our perspectives on ICU delirium risk factors
Yoanna Skrobik
Critical Care 2009, 13:160 (1 July 2009)
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Latest supplements


Volume 13 Suppl 1
29th ISICEM
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All articles published in supplements are fully peer reviewed.



Free review
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 
Shirley PJ, Mandersloot G
Critical Care 2008, 12:214 (14 May 2008)



From the University of Pittsburgh evidence-based medicine journal club

Journal club critique   
Peter Simon, Eric B Milbrandt, Lillian L Emlet
Critical Care 2008, 12:309 (4 December 2008)


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