Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - September 2005

Editorials

The interpretation of uncontrolled before-and-after studies: as demonstrated by recent studies of the introduction of medical emergency teams

J. L. Moran, P. J. Solomon

"You see but you do not observe, Watson"

G. M. Clarke

Australasian talent to the fore

P. V. van Heerden

Original articles

A pilot study of pulse contour cardiac output monitoring in patients with septic shock

L. Wan, T. Naka, S. Uchino, R. Bellomo

Outcomes of the morbidly obese having cardiac surgery

W. Cheung

Case reports

Convulsions and coma associated with iatrogenically elevated CSF calcium levels post spinal surgery: a case report

I. Smith

Reviews in neurointensive care

Saline, osmoles and albumin

D. J. Cooper

Clearing the cervical spine in unconscious head injured patients - the evidence

D. J. Cooper, H. M. Ackland

Medical management of haemorrhagic stroke

S. M. Davis

Medical management of ischaemic stroke

R. I. Lindley

Monitoring cerebral perfusion and oxygenation: an elusive goal

B. Venkatesh

Driving cerebral perfusion pressure with pressors: how, which, when?

J. A. Myburgh

"Triple H" therapy for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: real therapy or chasing numbers?

J. A. Myburgh

State of the art

The role of lumbar puncture as a diagnostic tool in 2005.

R. H.. Lawrence

Medicine, ethics and the law

Emerging roles for law and human rights in ethical conflicts surrounding neuro critical care

T. Faunce

When do we stop?

S. Streat

Pro-con debate

Hypothermia does not improve outcome from traumatic brain injury

I. Seppelt

Hypothermia improves outcome from traumatic brain injury

A. R. Davies

Occasional essays

The elephant in the living room. Ethics as a screen for covering one's butt

J. Cassell

Point of view

Valid informed consent: the key to increasing supply of organs for transplantation?

P. M. McEwen

History of medicine

History of mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing. Part 1

R. V. Trubuhovich

Correspondence

Plasma troponins in the critically ill patient

M. McD. Fisher

Recurrent tracheostomy tube cuff damage following percutaneous tracheostomy

A. Kumar, S. Wimbush, J. Brown

Abstracts

Presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine,ANZCA RACP and Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society