Overview
Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - December 2007
EDITORIALS
319 Managing acute heart failure in the intensive care unit
Alexandre Mebazaa
No abstract
320 Echocardiography training for the intensivist
Anthony McLean and Konstantin Yastrebov
323 Managing risk to improve cardiac surgical outcomes
Samer AM Nashef
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
327 Long-stay patients in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units:
demographics and outcomes
Tim M E Crozier, David V Pilcher, Michael J Bailey, Carol George and Graeme
K Hart
334 Mortality and outcomes of elderly patients admitted to the intensive care unit
at Cairns Base Hospital, Australia
Robert F Grace, Michelle Gosley and Patricia Smith
CASE REPORTS
338 Atypical neuroleptic malignant syndrome with long-term clozapine
Carmela E Corallo and David Ernest
341 Deep accidental hypothermia during the Queensland summer
Andrew A Udy, Marc D Ziegenfuss and John F Fraser
REVIEWS
344 The left heart can only be as good as the right heart: determinants of function
and dysfunction of the right ventricle
Sheldon Magder
352 Catecholamines for shock: the quest for high-quality evidence
John A Myburgh
357 Thrombolysis is not warranted in submassive pulmonary embolism: a
systematic review and meta-analysis
Naresh Ramakrishnan
POINTS OF VIEW
364 “Don’t flog the heart!” — development of specific drug therapies for heart
failure
Helge H Rasmussen and Gemma Figtree
370 Percutaneous coronary intervention in the 21st century — making surgeons
irrelevant?
Mark R Adams
374 Should doctors keep calling medicines “drugs”?
Ronald V Trubuhovich
No abstract
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
377 19th century pioneers of intensive therapy in North America. Part 1: George
Edward Fell
Ronald V Trubuhovich
LETTERS
395 Is there a place for levosimendan in the intensive care unit?
David C Simes
OBITUARIES
396 G A (Don) Harrison. “He taught”
By Richard Lee
398 Bjørn Ibsen: commemorating his life, 1915–2007
By Ronald V Trubuhovich
BOOK REVIEWS
404 Last minute emergency medicine
Reviewed by Matthew Anstey
404 Marshall and Ruedy’s on call: principles and protocols
Reviewed by Sam Orde
405 Goldfrank’s manual of toxicologic emergencies
Reviewed by Jason M Armstrong
DEPARTMENTS
406 Future meetings
409 Information for authors
