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Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - December 2006

Editorials

Evaluation of cardiac output monitoring devices: clarity or confusion?

Hui Ling Tan

When isn’t the cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome important?

Andrew D Bersten

Intensive insulin therapy: does it improve outcomes and is it safe?

Neil Orford

New ownership of the Journal

P Vernon van Heerden

 

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Original articles

Enteral nutrition versus glucose-based or lipid-based parenteral nutrition and tight glycaemic control in critically ill patients

Arina Dan, Theresa C Jacques and Michael J O’Leary

A phase II randomised controlled trial of intensive insulin therapy in general intensive care patients

Imogen Mitchell, Emma Knight, Jelena Gissane, Rohit Tamhane, Rao Kolli, I Anne Leditschke, Rinaldo Bellomo and Simon Finfer, and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group

Effect of heparin in arterial line flushing solutions on platelet count: a randomised double-blind study

Kelly FM Hall, Trish M Bennetts, Rob KS Whitta, Lorraine Welman and Peter Rawlins

Continuous negative extrathoracic pressure in children after congenital heart surgery

Nobuaki Shime, Chiaki Toida, Toshiyuki Itoi and Satoru Hashimoto

Long-term outcome of acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): an observational study

Thomas ST Li, Charles D Gomersall, Gavin M Joynt, Doris PS Chan, Patricia Leung and David SC Hui

Measurement of cardiac output with a non-invasive continuous wave Doppler device versus the pulmonary artery catheter: acomparative study

Janet S Chan, Davendra Segara and Priya Nair

End-of-life care in the intensive care unit: the Irish Ethicus data

Niamh Collins, Dermot Phelan, Brian Marsh and Charles L Sprung

Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Sydney, Australia

Winston Cheung, Michael Flynn, Govindasamy Thanakrishnan, David M Milliss and Elizabeth Fugaccia

The effect of extubation failure on outcome in a multidisciplinary Australian intensive care unit

John R Gowardman, David Huntington and Joy Whiting

Impact of manufacturing improvements on clinical safety of albumin: Australian pharmacovigilance data for 1988-2005

Yan Che, Fiona J Wilson, Joseph Bertolini, Peter Schiff and Darryl W Maher

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Case reports

Conservative management of flail chest after cardiopulmonary resuscitation by continuous negative extrathoracic pressure

David M Linton and Sigal Sviri

An unusual case of vascular catastrophe

Ben Bloom and David C Simes

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Reviews

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia without thrombosis: an evidence-based review of current literature

Enda D O’Connor and John F Fraser

An appraisal of selection and use of catecholamines in septic shock - old becomes new again

John A Myburgh

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Survey

Australasian trends in intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation weaning: results of a postal survey

Peter A Lewis, Daniel V Mullany, Mary Courtney and Fiona Coyer

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Points of view

Chronic hyponatraemia and risk of myelinolysis: why is it so difficult to control the change in plasma sodium?

Lindsay IG Worthley

Relative adrenocorticoid insufficiency exists and should be treated

Steven AR Webb

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Occasional essays

Relative adrenal insufficiency in sepsis: match point or deuce?

Bala Venkatesh, John Prins, David Torpy, Marianne Chapman, Chris Joyce, D Jamie Cooper, Jeremy Cohen, Ingrid Hickman, Daryl Jones and Alicia Higgins

Reflections on being the first Japanese Fellow of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

Yukiko Goto

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History of medicine

Notable Australian contributions to the management of ventilatory failure of acute poliomyelitis

Ronald V Trubuhovich

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Letters

Radiologically assisted cerebrospinal fluid sampling in a morbidly obese patient

Subhabrata Halder and Stephen Wimbush

“In the Flesh: the Monro Dynasty 1720-1846” is now online

Ronald V Trubuhovich

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Departments

Future meetings

Information for authors

About the Journal

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