Volume 32, Number 1 / January, 2006

Editorial

Publishing the review process: an initiative for readers, authors and (future) reviewers

Laurent Brochard
Pages 1 - 2
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The intensive care support of patients with malignancy: do everything that can be done

Élie Azoulay, Bekele Afessa
Pages 3 - 5
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End-of-life care: is euthanasia the answer?

Robert D. Truog
Pages 6 - 8
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Echocardiography in the ICU: time for widespread use!

Bernard P. Cholley, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Alexandre Mebazaa
Pages 9 - 10
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Statins: the next step in adjuvant therapy for sepsis?

Armand Mekontso-Dessap, Christian Brun-Buisson
Pages 11 - 14
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Transcending the silos: toward an interdisciplinary approach to end-of-life care in the ICU

J. Randall Curtis, Sarah E. Shannon
Pages 15 - 17
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Acute kidney injury in septic shock—do not under-treat!

Michael Joannidis
Pages 18 - 20
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Vasopressin and splanchnic blood flow: vasoconstriction does not equal vasoconstriction in every organ

P. Asfar, P. Radermacher, B. Hauser
Pages 21 - 23
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Seminal Study

Ventilator-induced lung injury: from the bench to the bedside

Lorraine N. Tremblay, Arthur S. Slutsky
Pages 24 - 33
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Review

Bedside waveforms interpretation as a tool to identify patient-ventilator asynchronies

Dimitris Georgopoulos, George Prinianakis, Eumorfia Kondili
Pages 34 - 47
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Echocardiography in the critically ill: current and potential roles

S. Price, E. Nicol, D. G. Gibson, T. W. Evans
Pages 48 - 59
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Original

Trends in sedation practices in Danish intensive care units in 2003: a national survey

Ingrid Egerod, Birgitte V. Christensen, Lena Johansen
Pages 60 - 66
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Selection of resistance during sequential use of preferential antibiotic classes

Pierre Damas, Jean-Luc Canivet, Didier Ledoux, Mehran Monchi, Pierrette Melin, Monique Nys, Patrick De Mol
Pages 67 - 74
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Statin therapy is associated with fewer deaths in patients with bacteraemia

Peter Kruger, Kenneth Fitzsimmons, David Cook, Mark Jones, Graeme Nimmo
Pages 75 - 79
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Early isovolaemic haemofiltration in oliguric patients with septic shock

Pasquale Piccinni, Maurizio Dan, Stefano Barbacini, Rizzieri Carraro, Emanuela Lieta, Silvio Marafon, Nereo Zamperetti, Alessandra Brendolan, Vincenzo D’Intini, Ciro Tetta, Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco
Pages 80 - 86
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Changes in muscle tissue oxygenation during stagnant ischemia in septic patients

Roman Parežnik, Rajko Knezevic, Gorazd Voga, Matej Podbregar
Pages 87 - 92
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Outcome in severely ill patients with hematological malignancies who received intravenous chemotherapy in the intensive care unit

Dominique D. Benoit, Pieter O. Depuydt, Koenraad H. Vandewoude, Fritz C. Offner, Tom Boterberg, Carole A. De Cock, Lucien A. Noens, Ann M. Janssens, Johan M. Decruyenaere
Pages 93 - 99
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Anemia during and at discharge from intensive care: the impact of restrictive blood transfusion practice

Timothy S. Walsh, Robert J. Lee, Caroline R. Maciver, Magnus Garrioch, Fiona MacKirdy, Alexander R. Binning, Stephen Cole, D. Brian McClelland
Pages 100 - 109
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Alveolar plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 predicts ARDS in aspiration pneumonitis

Ali A. El Solh, Milapchand Bhora, Lilibeth Pineda, Alan Aquilina, Laurie Abbetessa, Eileen Berbary
Pages 110 - 115
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Biochemical parameters of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in fat embolism

Georgia Karagiorga, George Nakos, Eftychia Galiatsou, Marilena E. Lekka
Pages 116 - 123
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Measuring satisfaction in family members of critically ill cancer patients in Brazil

Renata Rego Lins Fumis, Inês Nobuko Nishimoto, Daniel Deheinzelin
Pages 124 - 128
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Nurse involvement in end-of-life decision making: the ETHICUS Study

Julie Benbenishty, Freda DeKeyser Ganz, Anne Lippert, Hans-Henrik Bulow, Elisabeth Wennberg, Beverly Henderson, Mia Svantesson, Mario Baras, Dermot Phelan, Paulo Maia, Charles L. Sprung
Pages 129 - 132
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Pediatric Original

The use of drugs with a life-shortening effect in end-of-life care in neonates and infants

Veerle Provoost, Filip Cools, Johan Bilsen, José Ramet, Peter Deconinck, Robert Vander Stichele, Anne Vande Velde, Inge Van Herreweghe, Freddy Mortier, Yvan Vandenplas, Luc Deliens
Pages 133 - 139
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Experimental

Dynamic alveolar mechanics in four models of lung injury

Joseph D. DiRocco, Lucio A. Pavone, David E. Carney, Charles J. Lutz, Louis A. Gatto, Steve K. Landas, Gary F. Nieman
Pages 140 - 148
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The effect of N-acetylcysteine on posttraumatic changes after controlled cortical impact in rats

Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale, Martin Griebenow, Stefan-Nikolaus Kroppenstedt, Andreas W. Unterberg, John F. Stover
Pages 149 - 155
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Brief Report

A virologic survey of patients admitted to a critical care unit for acute cardiorespiratory failure

Fabrice Carrat, Marianne Leruez-Ville, Marc Tonnellier, Jean-Luc Baudel, Juliette Deshayes, Pascal Meyer, Eric Maury, Julie Galimand, Christine Rouzioux, Georges Offenstadt
Pages 156 - 159
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Statin therapy prior to ICU admission: protection against infection or a severity marker?

Rafael Fernandez, Victor Jose De Pedro, Antonio Artigas
Pages 160 - 164
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Weaning from mechanical ventilation with pressure support in patients failing a T-tube trial of spontaneous breathing

Eric Ezingeard, Eric Diconne, Stéphane Guyomarc’h, Christophe Venet, Dominique Page, Pierre Gery, Régine Vermesch, Monique Bertrand, Juliette Pingat, Bernard Tardy, Jean-Claude Bertrand, Fabrice Zeni
Pages 165 - 169
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Arginine vasopressin does not alter mucosal tissue oxygen tension and oxygen supply in an acute endotoxemic pig model

Hans Knotzer, Stephan Maier, Martin W. Dünser, Walter R. Hasibeder, Hans Hausdorfer, Julia Brandner, Christian Torgersen, Hanno Ulmer, Barbara Friesenecker, Claudia Iannetti, Werner Pajk
Pages 170 - 174
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