Volume 33, Number 9 / September, 2007

Editorial

Mini-broncho-alveolar lavage: a simple and promising method for assessment of antibiotic concentration in epithelial lining fluid

Olivier Mimoz, Claire Dahyot-Fizelier
Pages 1495 - 1497
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Acute kidney injury in sepsis: Is renal blood flow more than just an innocent bystander?

Martin Matejovic, Peter Radermacher, Michael Joannidis
Pages 1498 - 1500
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Future trends in illness severity scores

Gareth Parry
Pages 1501 - 1502
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CRRT – still far from being a standardised BEST treatment?

Michael Joannidis, Lui G. Forni
Pages 1503 - 1505
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Systematic Review

The prevalence of post traumatic stress disorder in survivors of ICU treatment: a systematic review

John Griffiths, Gillian Fortune, Vicki Barber, J. Duncan Young
Pages 1506 - 1518
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Original

Reliability of mini-bronchoalveolar lavage for the measurement of epithelial lining fluid concentrations of tobramycin in critically ill patients

Emmanuel Boselli, Dominique Breilh, Sarah Djabarouti, Christian Guillaume, Thomas Rimmelé, Jean-Baptiste Gordien, Fabien Xuereb, Marie-Claude Saux, Bernard Allaouchiche
Pages 1519 - 1523
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Prolonged use of carbapenems and colistin predisposes to ventilator-associated pneumonia by pandrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Spyros D. Mentzelopoulos, Maria Pratikaki, Evangelia Platsouka, Helen Kraniotaki, Dimitris Zervakis, Antonia Koutsoukou, Serafim Nanas, Olga Paniara, Charis Roussos, Evangelos Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Christina Routsi, Spyros G. Zakynthinos
Pages 1524 - 1532
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De-escalation therapy rates are significantly higher by bronchoalveolar lavage than by tracheal aspirate

Elpis Giantsou, Nikolaos Liratzopoulos, Eleni Efraimidou, Maria Panopoulou, Eleonora Alepopoulou, Sofia Kartali-Ktenidou, Konstantinos Manolas
Pages 1533 - 1540
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Genetic variants in the NOD2/CARD15 gene are associated with early mortality in sepsis patients

Julia Brenmoehl, Hans Herfarth, Thomas Glück, Franz Audebert, Stefan Barlage, Gerd Schmitz, Dieter Froehlich, Stefan Schreiber, Jochen Hampe, Jürgen Schölmerich, Ernst Holler, Gerhard Rogler
Pages 1541 - 1548
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The prognostic value of muscle StO2 in septic patients

Jacques Creteur, Tiziana Carollo, Giulia Soldati, Gustavo Buchele, Daniel De Backer, Jean-Louis Vincent
Pages 1549 - 1556
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Renal arterial resistance in septic shock: effects of increasing mean arterial pressure with norepinephrine on the renal resistive index assessed with Doppler ultrasonography

Stéphane Deruddre, Gaëlle Cheisson, Jean-Xavier Mazoit, Eric Vicaut, Dan Benhamou, Jacques Duranteau
Pages 1557 - 1562
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Announcements

Announcements

Page 1678
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Original

Continuous renal replacement therapy: A worldwide practice survey

Shigehiko Uchino, Rinaldo Bellomo, Hiroshi Morimatsu, Stanislao Morgera, Miet Schetz, Ian Tan, Catherine Bouman, Ettiene Macedo, Noel Gibney, Ashita Tolwani, Heleen Oudemans-van Straaten, Claudio Ronco, John A. Kellum
Pages 1563 - 1570
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Enoxaparin vs. unfractionated heparin for anticoagulation during continuous veno-venous hemofiltration: a randomized controlled crossover study

Michael Joannidis, Jordan Kountchev, Markus Rauchenzauner, Nicola Schusterschitz, Hanno Ulmer, Andreas Mayr, Romuald Bellmann
Pages 1571 - 1579
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Management of 350 aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages in 22 Italian neurosurgical centers

Guiseppe Citerio, Sergio M. Gaini, Guistino Tomei, Nino Stocchetti
Pages 1580 - 1586
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B-type natriuretic peptide as a marker for heart failure in patients with acute stroke

Matthew A. Koenig, H. Adrian Puttgen, Vivek Prabhakaran, Daniel Reich, Robert D. Stevens
Pages 1587 - 1593
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Prolonged exposure to inhaled nitric oxide does not affect haemostasis in piglets

Johanna Albert, Piotr Harbut, Stanisław Zieliński, Stanisław Ryniak, Caroline Gillis-Haegerstrand, Robert Lindwall, Leszek Solski, Jon O. Lundberg, Jan Svensson, Waldemar Goździk
Pages 1594 - 1601
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Pediatric original

Incorporation of physiological trend and interaction effects in neonatal severity of illness scores: an experiment using a variant of the Richardson score

Michael Kuzniewicz, David Draper, Gabriel J. Escobar
Pages 1602 - 1608
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Adrenal response in children with septic shock

Carlos Henrique Casartelli, Pedro Celiny Ramos Garcia, Ricardo Garcia Branco, Jefferson P. Piva, Paulo Roberto Einloft, Robert C. Tasker
Pages 1609 - 1613
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Brief report

Renal blood flow and function during recovery from experimental septic acute kidney injury

Christoph Langenberg, Li Wan, Moritoki Egi, Clive N. May, Rinaldo Bellomo
Pages 1614 - 1618
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Influence of an acute increase in systemic vascular resistance on transpulmonary thermodilution-derived parameters in critically ill patients

Jan Kozieras, Oliver Thuemer, Samir G. Sakka
Pages 1619 - 1623
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Association of cell-free plasma DNA with hospital mortality and organ dysfunction in intensive care unit patients

Katri Saukkonen, Päivi Lakkisto, Marjut Varpula, Tero Varpula, Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki, Ville Pettilä, Kari Pulkki
Pages 1624 - 1627
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Postresuscitation accelerated idioventricular rhythm: a potential prognostic factor for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors

Min-Shan Tsai, Chien-Hua Huang, Hung-Ren Chen, Cheng-Chun Hsieh, Wei-Tien Chang, Chiung-Yuan Hsu, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma, Shyr-Chyr Chen, Wen-Jone Chen
Pages 1628 - 1632
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Is hyperlipasemia in critically ill patients of clinical importance? An observational CT study

Christof Denz, Leonie Siegel, Karl-Jürgen Lehmann, Jean-Charles Dagorn, Fritz Fiedler
Pages 1633 - 1636
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Experimental

Pharmacodynamics and organ storage of hydroxyethyl starch in acute hemodilution in pigs: Influence of molecular weightand degree of substitution

Christoph Eisenbach, Alexander H. Schönfeld, Norbert Vogt, Moritz N. Wente, Jens Encke, Wolfgang Stremmel, Eike Martin, Ernst Pfenninger, Markus A. Weigand
Pages 1637 - 1644
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Comparison of lung injury after normal or small volume optimized resuscitation in a model of hemorrhagic shock

Antoine Roch, Dorothée Blayac, Patrice Ramiara, Bruno Chetaille, Valérie Marin, Pierre Michelet, Dominique Lambert, Laurent Papazian, Jean-Pierre Auffray, Jean-Pierre Carpentier
Pages 1645 - 1654
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Pediatric Experimental

A comparison of the effectiveness of open and closed endotracheal suction

Beverley Copnell, David G. Tingay, Nicholas J. Kiraly, Magdy Sourial, Michael J. Gordon, John F. Mills, Colin J. Morley, Peter A. Dargaville
Pages 1655 - 1662
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Case Discussion

Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe interstitial lung disease in a child with dermatomyositis

Francesco Zulian, Maria Martha Martinez Toledo, Angela Amigoni, Giorgia Martini, Caterina Agosto, Andrea Pettenazzo
Pages 1663 - 1666
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Correspondence

Some more applications of transcranial Doppler in the ICU

Jesús A. Álvarez-Fernández, Raquel Pérez-Quintero
Pages 1667 - 1668
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Continuous terlipressin infusion in patients with septic shock: less may be best, and the earlier the better?

Andrea Morelli, Christian Ertmer, Matthias Lange, Martin Westphal
Pages 1669 - 1670
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Enlarged adrenals during septic shock

Gérald Chanques, Djillali Annane, Samir Jaber, Benoit Gallix
Pages 1671 - 1672
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Pediatric Correspondence

Use of recruitment maneuvers during mechanical ventilation in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in the Netherlands

Feico J. J. Halbertsma, Michiel Vaneker, Johannes G. van der Hoeven
Pages 1673 - 1674
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Traumatic pediatric brain injury and intracranial pressure monitoring: does it really improve outcome?

Frans B. Plötz, Martin Kneyber, Marc van Heerde, Dick Markhorst
Page 1675
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Adenosine for salbutamol-induced supraventricular tachycardia

Daniel Trachsel, Christopher J. L. Newth, Juerg Hammer
Page 1676
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Erratum

Subsyndromal delirium in the ICU: evidence for a disease spectrum

Sébastien Ouimet, Richard Riker, Nicolas Bergeron, Mariève Cossette, Brian P. Kavanagh, Yoanna Skrobik
Page 1677
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