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Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - September 2006

Editorials

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign

John C Marshall

Lindsay Worthley: a giant who transformed the landscape of Australasian intensive care

Bala Venkatesh

The more ICU, the more I want you

Lindsay IG Worthley

Leptospirosis: a zoonotic disease of many forms

Clayton L Golledge

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Original articles

A double-blind placebo-controlled randomised pilot study of nocturnal melatonin in tracheostomised patients

Murad G Ibrahim, Rinaldo Bellomo, Graeme K Hart, Trevor R Norman, Donna Goldsmith, Samantha Bates and Moritoki Egi

Leptospirosis presenting to an intensive care unit in provincial New Zealand: a case series and review

Bevan Vickery, Sharyn A Flynn, Lester Calder and  Ross C Freebairn

The functional outcome of patients requiring over 28 days of intensive care: a long-term follow-up study

Brian P O’Brien, Warwick Butt, Helge Suhr, Yaw Bimpeh,  Anne-Marie McKenna, Michael J Bailey and   Carlos D Scheinkestel

Comparison of normal or heparinised saline flushing  on function of arterial lines

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

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Case reports

Severe pneumonia with pneumatoceles and  patent foramen ovale in an infant: optimal  ventilation strategy?

Nevin K Chinnan, Ashraf IM Shabaan, Muhammad Saeed and Wael A Samman

Suxamethonium-induced hyperkalaemia in a  patient with a normal potassium level before  rapid-sequence intubation

Yu-Li Pang, Fan-Ling Tseng, Yu-Chuan Tsai and Yen-Chin Liu

Leptospirosis: an unusual presentation

Jane H Thomas and Dianne P Stephens

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Reviews

The epidemiology of sepsis — is Australasia different?

Craig J French

Statins: the next anti-endotoxin

Peter S Kruger

The pathogenesis and molecular biology of sepsis

John C Marshall

Intensive insulin therapy in septic shock

Neil R Orford

Heparin: the cheap alternative for immunomodulation in sepsis?

Megan S Robertson

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Points of view

Vasopressin: the preferred vasopressor in sepsis?  ... not today, not yet

D James Cooper, Vincent Pellegrino and Keith R Walley

Sepsis research: where have we gone wrong?

John C Marshall

The Surviving Sepsis guidelines: evidence-based …  or evidence-biased?

Mervyn Singer

Early goal-directed therapy should be used in septic shock

George A Skowronski

Echocardiography is the best cardiovascular “monitor” in septic shock

Andrew K Hilton

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Pro–con debate

Why I use the pulmonary artery catheter

Andrew D Bersten

Cardiovascular monitoring in sepsis: why pulmonary artery catheters should not be used

Colin J McArthur

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Letters

Yet another steal syndrome

George John

Intentional strychnine use and overdose – an entity of the past?

Jelena Radosavljevic, William S Jeffries and John V Peter

Not every picture is worth a thousand words

Paul Frost

History of mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing: some matters concerning John and Anthony Fothergill

Ronald V Trubuhovich

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Abstracts

Presented at the JFICM/ANZICS Annual Scientific Meeting

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Book reviews

Manual of anaesthesia

Reviewed by Barry Lim

Pocket guide to perioperative and critical care echocardiography

Reviewed by Mark J Lennon

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Departments

Future meetings
Information for authors
About the Journal

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