OVERVIEW

Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - March 2007

EDITORIALS

Infections in the intensive care unit — important questions remain

David L Paterson and Jeffrey Lipman

Sepsis outcomes have improved, but why?

Steven A R Webb

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The outcome of patients with sepsis and septic shock presenting to emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand

The Australasian Resuscitation in Sepsis Evaluation (ARISE) Investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Adult Patient Database (APD) Management Committee

C-reactive protein concentration as a predictor of in-hospital mortality after ICU discharge: a nested case–control study

Edward Litton, Kwok M Ho, Jenny Chamberlain, Geoffrey J Dobb and Steven A R Webb

Delirium in the intensive care unit: searching for causes and sources

Guy Watts, Brigit L Roberts and Richard Parsons

A technique for the simultaneous measurement of renal ATP, blood flow and pH in a large animal model of septic shock

Clive May, Li Wan, John Williams, Mark R Wellard, Gaby Pell, Christoph Langenberg, Graeme Jackson and Rinaldo Bellomo

Withdrawal of life support and chaplaincy in Australia

Lindsay B Carey and Christopher J Newell

Attitudes of relatives of patients in intensive care and emergency departments to surrogate consent to research on incapacitated participants

Arthur C Stephenson, Stuart Baker and Nikolajs Zeps

CASE REPORTS

Heparin-induced thrombosis with a normal platelet count

George F Alvarez, David Bihari and David Collins

Extreme hypernatraemia: a case report and brief review

Anthony D Holley, Stuart Green and Peter Davoren

REVIEWS

Loop diuretics in the management of acute renal failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sean M Bagshaw, Anthony Delaney, Michael Haase, William A Ghali and Rinaldo Bellomo

The implications of enterococci for the intensive care unit

Indranil Chatterjee, Jonathan R Iredell, Marion Woods and Jeffrey Lipman

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and sepsis

Graeme MacLaren and Warwick Butt

Statistics in review. Part I: graphics, data summary and linear models

John L Moran and Patricia J Solomon

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

91 On the very first, successful, long-term, large-scale use of IPPV

Ronald V Trubuhovich

POINTS OF VIEW

The definition of septic shock: implications for treatment

Paul E Marik and Jeffrey Lipman

Nomenclature for two intravenous solutions

Ronald V Trubuhovich

LETTERS

Finding pneumo: purulent pericarditis presenting with pulsus paradoxus

Christopher C Blyth, Indira Jayakumar, Peter Richmond, Andrew M Bullock and Simon J Erickson

Negative-pressure pulmonary oedema with normal concentration of B-type natriuretic peptide

David J Sturgess, Bala Venkatesh, Chris Perry and Wayne Kelly

Leptospirosis: an unusual presentation

Amanda J Wade, David V Tuxen and Steven L Wesselingh

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