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