OVERVIEW

Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - June 2008

EDITORIALS

 THE ANZICS CORE: An evolution in registry activities for intensive care in Australia and New Zealand

    Graeme K Hart

 
No abstract.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Observational study of patients admitted to intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand after interhospital transfer

    Arthas Flabouris, Graeme K Hart and Carol George

Outcomes of patients admitted to tertiary intensive care units after interhospital transfer: comparison with patients admitted from emergency departments

    Arthas Flabouris, Graeme K Hart and Carol George

The very elderly in intensive care: admission characteristics and mortality

    Donal Ryan, Diamh Conlon, Dermott Phelan and Brian Marsh

Missed opportunities? An observational study of vital sign measurements

    Chris H Van Leuvan and Imogen Mitchell

Hypothermia on arrival in the intensive care unit after surgery

    Dharshi Karalapillai and David Story

Critically ill obstetric patients in Australia: a retrospective audit of 8 years' experience in a tertiary intensive care unit

    Shymala Sriram and Megan S Robertson

SURVEYS

Terror Australis 2004: preparedness of Australian hospitls for disasters and incidents involving chemical, biological and radiological agents

    Nicholas A Edwards, David G E Caldicott, Peter Aitken, Christine C Lee and Tony     Eliseo

CASE REPORTS

Burkholderia pseudomallei sepsis presenting with pericardial effusion and tamponade

    Bart L De Keulenaer, Simon R Van Hooland, Prabha R Damodaran, Bart J Currie,
    Bruce Powell and Ian R Jenkins

A change of heart: acute cardiac dextroversion with cardiogenic shock after partial lung resection

    Dharshi Karalapillai, Marco Larobina, Kushlani Stevenson and Laurie Doolan

Independent lung ventilation in the intensive care unit: desperate measure or viable treatment option?

    Kiran Shekar, Carole L Foot and John F Fraser

POINTS OF VIEW

Guidelines, protocols, regimens, procedures and processes: a recommendation for standardized terminology in ICU patient care activities, while we "bundle along"!

    David M Linton and P Vernon van Heerden

 No abstract.

Standardized terminology for guidelines, protocols, regimens, procedures and processes: the other side of the "bundle"

    John A Myburgh

No abstract.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

19th century pioneers of intensive therapy in North America. Part 2: Joseph O'Dwyer

    Ronald V Trubuhovich

OBITUARY

Peter JF Baskett. A pioneer and a personality

    Malcolm M Fisher

 No abstract.

BOOK REVIEWS

Trauma

    Reviewed by Rinaldo Bellomo

Resuscitation greats

    Reviewed by Ronald V Trubuhovich