Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - June 2007

EDITORIALS

Ronald Valentine Trubuhovich: champion of intensive care medicine

Ross C Freebairn

From respiratory support to critical care: my early days in intensive care medicine

Ronald V Trubuhovich

Rapid response systems: have we MET the need?

Chris Joyce and Colin McArthur

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Relationship between tissue hypoxia and apoptosis: a preliminary observational study

Bala Venkatesh, Glenda Gobe, T John Morgan, Andrea Beindorf, Jonathon Hall and Mark Jones

Prospective evaluation of procalcitonin in sepsis in the Illawarra area of Australia: PEPSIA study

Kumar A Muthiah, Kanaka S Rachakonda, Michael J Davis, Edward G Simmons, Gary Schier and Fernando San Gil

Effect of changes in syringe driver height on flow: a small quantitative study

Andrew I Donald, Meher P Chinthamuneedi and Douglas Spearritt

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

The medical emergency team and end-of-life care: a pilot study

Daryl A Jones, Tammy McIntyre, Ian Baldwin, Inga Mercer, Andrea Kattula and Rinaldo Bellomo

The antimicrobial effect of heparin on common respiratory pathogens

Christopher Zappala, Snehal Chandan, Narelle George, Joan Faoagali and Robert J Boots

A sustained reduction in the transmission of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit

Elizabeth E Gillespie, Fiona J ten Berk de Boer, Rhonda L Stuart, Michael D Buist and Jill M Wilson

Effect of midazolam versus propofol sedation on markers of neurological injury and outcome after isolated severe head injury: a pilot study

Kamran A Ghori, Dominic C Harmon, Abdurrahim Elashaal, Mark Butler, Fergus Walsh, Michael G J O’Sullivan and George D Shorten

The long-term outcome of children managed with extracorporeal life support: an institutional experience

Anna K Taylor, Rachel Cousins and Warwick W Butt

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CASE REPORTS

Methaemoglobinaemia: an explosive case

Steven T Galluccio, Nicholas A Edwards, David G E Caldicott and John E Greenwood

Group B streptococcal meningitis in a middle-aged woman

Adam L Holyoak and Todd A Fraser

Cerebral fat embolism syndrome causing brain death after long-bone fractures and acetazolamide therapy

Criona M Walshe, James D Cooper, Thomas Kossmann, Ivan Hayes and Linda Iles

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REVIEWS

Statistics in review. Part 2: Generalised linear models, time-to-event and time-series analysis, evidence synthesis and clinical trials

John L Moran and Patricia J Solomon

Advancing intensive care research in Australia and New Zealand: development of the binational ANZIC Research Centre

Daryl A Jones, D Jamie Cooper, Simon R Finfer, Rinaldo Bellomo, John A Myburgh, Alisa Higgins, Sandra L Peake, Ian Jenkins and John McNeil

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SURVEYS

The effectiveness of implementation of the medical emergency team (MET) system and factors associated with use during the MERIT study

Michelle A Cretikos, Jack Chen, Ken M Hillman, Rinaldo Bellomo, Simon R Finfer, Arthas Flabouris and the MERIT study investigators

A pilot audit of the process of end-of-life decision-making in the intensive care unit

Martina Zib and Peter Saul

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POINT OF VIEW

The ideal intensive care unit: open, closed or somewhere between?

Lindsay IG Worthley

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HISTORY OF MEDICINE

History of mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Part 3: the 19th to mid-20th centuries and “rediscovery”

Ronald V Trubuhovich

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LETTER AND BOOK REVIEW

Happy Easter!

David Austin

Examination intensive care and anaesthesia: a guide to intensivist and anaesthetist training

Reviewed by Gregory P Comadira

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DEPARTMENTS

Future meetings

Information for authors

About the Journal

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