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Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine, 2007. III. Ethics and legislation, health services research, pharmacology and toxicology, nutrition and paediatricsOpen access

Massimo Antonelli, Elie Azoulay, Marc Bonten, Jean Chastre, Giuseppe Citerio, Giorgio Conti, Daniel De Backer, François Lemaire, Herwig Gerlach, Johan Groeneveld, Goran Hedenstierna, Duncan Macrae, Jordi Mancebo, Salvatore M. Maggiore, Alexandre Mebazaa, Philipp Metnitz, Jerôme Pugin, Jan Wernerman, Haibo Zhang
Year in Review 2007
Volume 34, Issue 4 / April , 2008

Pages 598 - 609

No abstract available.

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  58. Capoluongo E, Vento G, Rocchetti S, Giardina E, Concolino P, Sinibaldi C, Santonocito C, Vendettuoli V, Tana M, Tirone C, Zuppi C, Romagnoli C, Novelli G, Giardina B, Ameglio F (2007) Mannose-binding lectin polymorphisms and pulmonary outcome in premature neonates: a pilot study. Intensive Care Med 33:1787–1794
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  64. Staquet P, Lemee L, Verdier E, Bonmarchand G, Laudenbach V, Michel C, Lemeland JF, Marret S, Blanc T (2007) Detection of Neisseria meningitidis DNA from skin lesion biopsy using real-time PCR: usefulness in the aetiological diagnosis of purpura fulminans. Intensive Care Med 33:1168–1172
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  66. Garcia-Teresa MA, Casado-Flores J, Delgado Dominguez MA, Roqueta-Mas J, Cambra-Lasaosa F, Concha-Torre A, Fernandez-Perez C (2007) Infectious complications of percutaneous central venous catheterization in pediatric patients: a Spanish multicenter study. Intensive Care Med 33:466–476
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  68. Di Filippo S, Lai Y, Manrique A, Pigula F, Munoz R (2007) Intensive care course after stage 1 Norwood procedure: are there early predictors of failure? Intensive Care Med 33:111–119
  69. Bontadelli J, Moeller A, Schmugge M, Schraner T, Kretschmar O, Bauersfeld U, Bernet-Buettiker V, Albisetti M (2007) Enoxaparin therapy for arterial thrombosis in infants with congenital heart disease. Intensive Care Med 33:1978–1984
  70. Lemmer J, Stiller B, Heise G, Alexi-Meskishvili V, Hubler M, Weng Y, Berger F (2007) Mid-term follow-up in patients with diaphragmatic plication after surgery for congenital heart disease. Intensive Care Med 33:1985–1992
  71. Shankar V, Haque A, Churchwell KB, Russell W (2007) Insulin glargine supplementation during early management phase of diabetic ketoacidosis in children. Intensive Care Med 33:1173–1178
  72. Mehta NM, Halwick DR, Dodson BL, Thompson JE, Arnold JH (2007) Potential drug sequestration during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: results from an ex vivo experiment. Intensive Care Med 33:1018–1024
  73. Kneyber MC, Hersi MI, Twisk JW, Markhorst DG, Plotz FB (2007) Red blood cell transfusion in critically ill children is independently associated with increased mortality. Intensive Care Med 33:1414–1422
  74. Kuzniewicz M, Draper D, Escobar GJ (2007) Incorporation of physiological trend and interaction effects in neonatal severity of illness scores: an experiment using a variant of the Richardson score. Intensive Care Med 33:1602–1608
  75. Wolfler A, Silvani P, Musicco M, Salvo I (2007) Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 score in Italy: a multicenter, prospective, observational study. Intensive Care Med 33:1407–1413
  76. Schieveld JN, Leroy PL, van Os J, Nicolai J, Vos GD, Leentjens AF (2007) Pediatric delirium in critical illness: phenomenology, clinical correlates and treatment response in 40 cases in the pediatric intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med 33:1033–1040
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