Volume 34, Number 4 / April, 2008

Editorial

ARDS and knowledge translation

Mingyao Liu
Pages 589 - 591
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Hitting new barriers in ventilator-induced lung injury

Wolfgang M. Kuebler
Pages 592 - 594
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Haem oxygenase: A model for therapeutic intervention

Gregory J. Quinlan, Anna L. Lagan, Timothy W. Evans
Pages 595 - 597
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Year in Review 2007

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

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
Pages 598 - 609
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Mini Series: Basic research-related topics in ICM

The role of proteoglycans in pulmonaryedema development

Daniela Negrini, Alberto Passi, Andrea Moriondo
Pages 610 - 618
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Advances in mechanisms of repair and remodelling in acute lung injury

Claudia C. Dos Santos
Pages 619 - 630
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Effects of mechanical ventilation on the extracellular matrix

Paolo Pelosi, Patricia R. Rocco
Pages 631 - 639
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Mini Series: Basic research-related topics

Use of carbon monoxide as a therapeutic agent: promises and challenges

Roberta Foresti, Mohamed G. Bani-Hani, Roberto Motterlini
Pages 649 - 658
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Clinical Commentary

Passive leg raising

Xavier Monnet, Jean-Louis Teboul
Pages 659 - 663
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Original

Factors associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms in a prospective cohort of patients after abdominal sepsis: a nomogram

Kimberly R. Boer, Oddeke van Ruler, Arnold A. P. van Emmerik, Mirjam A. Sprangers, Sophia E. de Rooij, Margreeth B. Vroom, Corianne A. J. M. de Borgie, Marja A. Boermeester, Johannes B. Reitsma
Pages 664 - 674
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Systematic surveillance cultures as a toolto predict involvement of multidrug antibiotic resistant bacteria in ventilator-associated pneumonia

P. Depuydt, D. Benoit, D. Vogelaers, J. Decruyenaere, D. Vandijck, G. Claeys, G. Verschraegen, S. Blot
Pages 675 - 682
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The human response to infection is associated with distinct patterns of interleukin 23 and interleukin 27 expression

Michael J. O’Dwyer, Arun K. Mankan, Mary White, Mathew W. Lawless, Patrick Stordeur, Brian O’Connell, Dermot P. Kelleher, Ross McManus, Thomas Ryan
Pages 683 - 691
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Effects of systemic antibiotic therapy on bacterial persistence in the respiratory tract of mechanically ventilated patients

Stefan Visscher, Carolina A. M. Schurink, Wilhelmina G. Melsen, Peter J. F. Lucas, Marc J. M. Bonten
Pages 692 - 699
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Early coagulation disorders after severe burn injury: impact on mortality

Athina Lavrentieva, Theodore Kontakiotis, Militsa Bitzani, Georgia Papaioannou-Gaki, Angeliki Parlapani, Olimpia Thomareis, Nicolaos Tsotsolis, Maria-Amalia Giala
Pages 700 - 706
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Intra-abdominal hypertensionand acute renal failurein critically ill patients

Lidia Dalfino, Livio Tullo, Ilaria Donadio, Vincenzo Malcangi, Nicola Brienza
Pages 707 - 713
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Duration of adrenal inhibition following a single dose of etomidate in critically ill patients

Marc Vinclair, Christophe Broux, Patrice Faure, Julien Brun, Céline Genty, Claude Jacquot, Olivier Chabre, Jean-François Payen
Pages 714 - 719
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Extracranial complications in patients with acute brain injury: a post-hoc analysis of the SOAP study

Luciana Mascia, Yasser Sakr, Daniela Pasero, Didier Payen, Konrad Reinhart, Jean-Louis Vincent
Pages 720 - 727
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Pediatric Original

A prospective study of phrenic nerve damage after cardiac surgery in children

Robert I. Ross Russell, Peter J. Helms, Martin J. Elliott
Pages 728 - 734
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Brief Report

Assessment of stroke volumeindex with three different bioimpedance algorithms: lack of agreement compared to thermodilution

Eric E. C. de Waal, Maurits K. Konings, Cor J. Kalkman, Wolfgang F. Buhre
Pages 735 - 739
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In vitro validation of a novel methodfor continuous intra-abdominalpressure monitoring

Manu L. N. G. Malbrain, Inneke De laet, Dries Viaene, Karen Schoonheydt, Hilde Dits
Pages 740 - 745
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Transvesical intra-abdominal pressure measurement using minimal instillation volumes: how low can we go?

I. De laet, E. Hoste, Jan J. De Waele
Pages 746 - 750
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Pediatric Brief Report

Acute respiratory distress syndrome: is it underrecognized in the pediatric intensive care unit?

Martin C. J. Kneyber, Arno G. A. Brouwers, Jochem A. Caris, Sunita Chedamni, Frans B. Plötz
Pages 751 - 754
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Experimental

Pharmacokinetics of high-dose nebulized amikacin in mechanically ventilated healthy subjects

Stephan Ehrmann, Emmanuelle Mercier, Laurent Vecellio, David Ternant, Gilles Paintaud, Pierre-François Dequin
Pages 755 - 762
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Terbutaline lessens protein fluxes across the alveolo-capillary barrier during high-volume ventilation

Nicolas de Prost, Didier Dreyfuss, Jean-Damien Ricard, Georges Saumon
Pages 763 - 770
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End of Life: National Legislations

Recommendations on therapy limitation and therapy discontinuation in intensive care units: Consensus Paper of the Austrian Associations of Intensive Care Medicine

Andreas Valentin, Wilfred Druml, Heinz Steltzer, Christian J. Wiedermann
Pages 771 - 776
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Correspondence

Mannose-binding lectin and pulmonary morbidity in premature infants

Rachel S. Agbeko, Mark J. Peters
Page 777
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MBL-2 genotypes and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm neonates

Ettore Capoluongo, Franco Ameglio
Page 778
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The new Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations on glucose control should be reconsidered

Marcus J. Schultz, Mart J. de Graaff, Michael A. Kuiper, Peter E. Spronk
Pages 779 - 780
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The new Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations on glucose control: reply to Schultz et al.

B. Taylor Thompson, Terry P. Clemmer, Tom Ahrens, Mitchell M. Levy, Jean-Louis Vincent, R. Phillip Dellinger
Pages 781 - 782
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Erratum

Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008

R. Phillip Dellinger, Mitchell M. Levy, Jean M. Carlet, Julian Bion, Margaret M. Parker, Roman Jaeschke, Konrad Reinhart, Derek C. Angus, Christian Brun-Buisson, Richard Beale, Thierry Calandra, Jean-Francois Dhainaut, Herwig Gerlach, Maurene Harvey, John J. Marini, John Marshall, Marco Ranieri, Graham Ramsay, Jonathan Sevransky, B. Taylor Thompson, Sean Townsend, Jeffrey S. Vender, Janice L. Zimm
Pages 783 - 785
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Announcements

Announcement

Page 786
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