Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal - September 2007

Editorials

247 Echocardiography training for the intensive care unit in Europe

Alexandre Mebazaa

248 Is cardiac surgery now a geriatric specialty?

Samer AM Nashef

Original Article

251 Efficacy of the CathRite system to guide bedside placement of peripherally inserted central venous catheters in critically ill patients: a pilot study

Simon JG Hockley, Vida Hamilton, Robert J Young, Marianne J Chapman, James Taylor, Stephanie Creed, Donald P Chorley, Desmond B Williams and Marcus de M Tippett

Case Report

256 An unusual cause of right upper- and mid-zone infiltrates on chest x-ray

Robert W McNinch and Martin J McNamara

Medical Education

259 Examinations in intensive care medicine: an international perspective

Bala Venkatesh, Peter Morley, Richard P Lee and P Vernon Van Heerden

Reviews

264 Modelling the cardiovascular system

Geoffrey M Shaw, J Geoffrey Chase, Christina Starfinger, Bram W Smith, Christopher E Hann, Thomas Desaive and Alexandre Ghuysen

270 Congenital heart disease in the 21st century

David Winlaw

276 Is there evidence to support a phase II trial of inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of incipient and persistent ARDS?

Michael C Reade and Eric B Milbrandt

Points of View

286 All intensivists need echocardiography skills in the 21st century

Ian M Seppelt

290 Is there a place for levosimendan in the intensive care unit?

Anthony Delaney, Celia Bradford, John McCaffrey, Sean M Bagshaw and Richard Lee

Pro-Con Debate

293 Cardiac arrest survivors need urgent percutaneous intervention

Tanya V Stewart, Anthony McClelland and Gregory Nelson

297 Cardiac arrest survivors need proof of neurological function before percutaneous coronary intervention

George A Skowronski

Abstracts

299 The Heart of the Matter. Abstracts presented at the JFICM/ANZICS Annual Scientific Meeting

Index of abstracts

Entries for the Felicity Hawker Medal

300 Effects of inhibition of pan-caspase and poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) on apoptosis counts and tissue lactate concentrations in a rat model of haemorrhagic shock injury

Joe Ogg

301 Outcomes of dialysis patients with end-stage renal disease needing intensive care unit admission

Sivagnanavel Senthuran

Free paper abstracts

302 Intensive caring for Iraqi war-wounded with Medécins san Frontières

Nikki Blackwell

302 Regulation (NICE-SUGAR) study: analysis of the first 100 hypoglycaemic events

Natasha Clark

303 Applications of levosimendan in paediatric intensive care

Mark G Davidson

303 Predicted body weight underestimates delivered tidal volume, especially in women

Adam M Deane

304 Effects of changing syringe driver height on flow: a small quantitative study

Andrew I Donald

304 Direct visualisation of the beating heart in vivo in an ovine model

John F Fraser

305 Brain-stem death induces up-regulation of the endothelin axis and increased levels of matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9

John F Fraser

305 Measurement of cardiac output by nurses using a non-invasive cardiac output monitor

Amanda Corley

306 Coronary artery bypass graft surgery dampens neutrophil responsiveness

Yoke Lin Fung

306 Bordetella pertussis in an adult intensive care population: a case series

Angus J Neal

Poster presentations

307 Observational study of the value of continuous SCVO2 analysis in perioperative management of high-risk cardiac surgical patients

John F Fraser

307 When suitable is not suitable enough: medical exclusion to organ donation

Deepak Bhonagiri

Future Meetings

308 Local meetings

309 International meetings

Departments

313 Information for authors

316 About the Journal