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 Welcome to Critical Care
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  Editor-in-chief: Jean-Louis Vincent, Brussels, Belgium

 
 
 
 
Article highlight: Vasopressin benefits CPR patients    spacer
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Critical Care 2007, 11:R39
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Optimizing intensive care capacity using individual length-of-stay prediction models
Mark Van Houdenhoven, Tien D Nguyen, Marinus J Eijkemans, Ewout W Steyerberg, Hugo W Tilanus, Diederik Gommers, Gerhard Wullink, Jan Bakker, Geert Kazemier
Critical Care 2007, 11:R42 (27 March 2007)
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Cortisol levels in cerebrospinal fluid correlate with severity and bacterial origin of meningitis
Michal Holub, Ondrej Beran, Olga Dzupova, Jarmila Hnykova, Zdenka Lacinova, Jana Prihodova, Bohumir Prochazka, Miroslav Helcl
Critical Care 2007, 11:R41 (27 March 2007)
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Clinical review: Long-term noninvasive ventilation
Dominique Robert, Laurent Argaud
Critical Care 2007, 11:210 (26 March 2007)
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Clinical review: Update of avian influenza A infections in humans
Christian Sandrock, Terra Kelly
Critical Care 2007, 11:209 (22 March 2007)
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The influence of volume and intensive care unit organization on hospital mortality in patients admitted with severe sepsis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study
Linda Peelen, Nicolette F de Keizer, Niels Peek, Gert Jan Scheffer, Peter HJ van der Voort, Evert de Jonge
Critical Care 2007, 11:R40 (22 March 2007)
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MRI/CT measurement of tumor and edema in a patient admitted for supratentorial meningioma surgery



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How is risk defined in high-risk surgical patient management?
Owen Boyd, Neil Jackson
Critical Care 2005, 9:390-396 (9 February 2005)
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Trials stopped early for benefit? Not so fast!
Alan C Heffner, Eric B Milbrandt, Ramesh Venkataraman
Critical Care 2007, 11:305 (22 February 2007)
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Hypercapnic acidosis in ARDS: A tolerated side effect or an important therapeutic modality?
Adrian A Salmon, John R Hotchkiss
Critical Care 2007, 11:304 (16 February 2007)
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Personal opinion about the article reporting an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury (Jose Ramon Perez Valdivieso, 08spacer Marspacer 2007)
The concern about the lack of consensus criteria to define acute renal failure, and the advocation for it had been requested before [1, 2]. Therefore, dissemination of this... [readspacer fullspacer comment]
Comment on: Mehta RL et al. Critical Care, 11:R31

"Coagulopathy" or co-administration of blood products and response to rFVIIa? (Richard Pugh, 08spacer Febspacer 2007)
This is a very interesting paper. It is the authors' conclusion that the sub-group of patients, from the only RCT to date evaluating rFVIIa efficacy in trauma [1], who are... [readspacer fullspacer comment]
Comment on: Rizoli SB et al. Critical Care, 10:R178

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