OVERVIEW
EDITORIALS
Critical care medicine in Australia and New Zealand: an extraordinary decade
Rinaldo Bellomo
POSITION STATEMENT
Peter Hicks and D James Cooper
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Board and Clinical Trials Group Executive Committee
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Predicted body weight during mechanical ventilation: using arm demispan to aid clinical assessment
Adam M Deane, David A Reid and Antony E Tobin
Megan S Robertson, Stuart J Wilson and John F Cade
Fencl–Stewart analysis of acid–base changes immediately after liver transplantation
David A Story, Rakesh Vaja, Stephanie J Poustie and Larry McNicol
Improving the documentation of medical emergency team reviews
Andrew J Casamento, Catherine Dunlop, Daryl A Jones and Graeme Duke
Long-distance transport of critically ill children on extracorporeal life support in Australia
Armando Perez, Warwick W Butt, Kenneth J Millar, Derek Best, Timothy Thiruchelvam, Andrew D Cochrane, Martin Bennett and Lara S Shekerdemian
SURVEYS
Critical care outcome prediction equation (COPE) for adult intensive care
Graeme J Duke, John Santamaria, Frank Shann, Peter Stow, David Pilcher, David Ernest and Carol George
Stuart L Hastings, Vincent A Pellegrino, Arthur Preovolos and Robert F Salamonsen
Basic science research in Australian intensive care practice
Gordon A Laurie, Bala Venkatesh, Peter S Kruger, T John Morgan and Ranald L S Pascoe
CASE REPORTS
Infective endocarditis with Abiotrophia defectiva: the first Australian experience
Anthony F Van Assche and Dianne P Stephens
Intensive care in an unusual setting: management of pneumonia in a chimpanzee
Alex J Psirides and Peter R Hicks
REVIEWS
Design of Australasian intensive care units: time for change or time for more research?
Winston Cheung
LETTERS
A clinical audit of the efficacy of tegaserod as a prokinetic agent in the intensive care unit
Adam Deane, Robert Young, Marianne Chapman and Robert Fraser
A clinical audit of the efficacy of tegaserod as a prokinetic agent in the intensive care unit
Dianne P Stephens, Jane H Thomas, Sarah J Collins, Paul B Goldrick and Stephen Fowler
Is there a place for levosimendan in the intensive care unit?
Bart L De Keulenaer and Ian R Jenkins
Is there a place for levosimendan in the intensive care unit?
Anthony Delaney, Celia Bradford, John McCaffrey, Sean M Bagshaw and Richard Lee
DEPARTMENTS
Correction
Future meetings
Information for authors
Copyright transfer statement
Cover: Infant receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a Victorian air ambulance (see page 30).
