Annals ofCritical Care Medicine

Volume: 4 - Number: 33 - September 15, 2004

Outstanding

Dead Space Ventilation in Critically Ill Children With Lung Injury

Blockade of Tissue Factor: Treatment for Organ Injury in Established Sepsis

On the Physiologic and Clinical Relevance of Lung-borne Cytokines during Ventilator-induced Lung Injury

Statin Use Is Associated with Improved Function and Survival of Lung Allografts

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Bacteremic Sepsis Does Not Increase Mortality

Critical Care

Dead Space Ventilation in Critically Ill Children With Lung Injury

Short-term Noninvasive Pressure Support Ventilation Prevents ICU Admittance in Patients With Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema

Evaluation of a Practice Guideline for Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure

Critical Care Ethics

Discrepancies between Perceptions by Physicians and Nursing Staff of Intensive Care Unit End-of-Life Decisions

Critical care pespective

On the Physiologic and Clinical Relevance of Lung-borne Cytokines during Ventilator-induced Lung Injury

Lung trasplantation

Statin Use Is Associated with Improved Function and Survival of Lung Allografts

Alveolar Liquid Clearance and Sodium Channel Expression Are Decreased in Transplanted Canine Lungs

A Randomized Trial of Inhaled Nitric Oxide to Prevent Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury after Lung Transplantation

Mechanical Ventilation

Caregivers of Long-term Ventilator Patients: Physical and Psychological Outcomes

Impact of Randomized Trial Results on Acute Lung Injury Ventilator Therapy in Teaching Hospitals

Muscle and pneumonia

Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia Associated With Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis: Serial High-Resolution CT Findings and Functional Correlation

Pediatric critical care

The Feasibility of Conducting Clinical Trials in Infants and Children with Acute Respiratory Failure

Pneumoniae

The Contribution of Blood Cultures to the Clinical Management of Adult Patients Admitted to the Hospital With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Prospective Observational Study

A Rapid Staging System for Predicting Mortality From HIV-Associated Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Sepsis

Blockade of Tissue Factor: Treatment for Organ Injury in Established Sepsis

Characterization of a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the Lipopolysaccharide Binding Protein and Its Association with Sepsis

ß2 Microglobulin Knockout Mice Are Resistant to Lethal Intraabdominal Sepsis

Thrombosis

Cardiac Troponin T Monitoring Identifies High-Risk Group of Normotensive Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism