Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - September 2003

Editorials

Does the patient need more fluid?

T. J. Morgan

The toxic shock syndrome: inhibiting superantigens or treating their adverse effects?

L. I. G. Worthley

Oversedation and agitation in the intensive care unit: vacillate or automate

J. A. Botha

Antibiotic prophylaxis. How, when and why

D. L. Gordon

Original articles

Preload response in patients after cardiac surgery: a comparison of systolic blood pressure and systolic area variability and initial volume of distribution of glucose

M. Harvey, L. Voss, J. Sleigh

Interpreting CSF lactic acidosis: effect of erythrocytes and air exposure

B. Venkatesh, T. J. Morgan, R. J. Boots, J. Hall, D. Siebert

Antibiotic prophylaxis for external ventricular drains in neurosurgical patients: an audit of compliance with a clinical management protocol

M. A. Lucey, J. A. Myburgh

Case reports

Iodine induced thyrotoxicosis following povidine-iodine dressings: a case report

V. P. Patil, A. P. Kulkarni, T. Jacques

Activated protein C in toxic shock syndrome: a case report

K. S. Rachakonda

The Atkins™ diet as a possible trigger for an ICU admission: a case report

J. F. Fraser, P. Longden

Special review

Rethinking sedation and agitation management in critical illness

G. M. Shaw, J. G. Chase, A. D. Rudge, C. Starfinger, Z. Lam, D. Lee, G. C. Wake, K. Greenfield, R. Dove

Clinical practice review

Nutrition in the critically ill patient: part III. Enteral nutrition

M. Atkinson, L. I. G. Worthley

Point of view

The interpretation of lack of evidence of a difference in efficacy: equivalence trials and the treatment of fungal infections

J. L. Moran, P. J. Solomon

Investigation vignette

A 70 year old man with aphasia and agitation

P. H. Scott

Occasional essay

In the beginning. The 1952-1953 Danish epidemic of poliomyelitis and Bjørn Ibsen

R. V. Trubuhovich