Contents 2) enhances oxygenation and increases carbon dioxide clearance in mechanically ventilated patients JAS Ball, R Cusack, A Rhodes, RM Grounds P18 Optimal method of flow and volume monitoring in patients mechanically ventilated with helium–oxygen (He–O
Contents P4 A laboratory assessment of the learning and retention of skills required to use the Combitube and Laryngeal Mask Airway by non-anaesthetists
Springer A++ Viewer Comments Patients who spend a long time in the ITU and do not survive use a huge amount of ITU resources, as well as suffering lengthy and sometimes painful interventions; identifying these patients early and offering palliative rather than aggressive critical care may be both more humane and conserve ITU resources These goals are laudable but difficult to achieve The decision to withdraw
Springer A++ Viewer Introduction It is accepted that early enteral feeding in the intensive care unit (ICU) patientis important, but frequently gastric stasis prevents feeding via thenasogastric tube Feeding via a nasojejeunal feed may improve the abilityto deliver calories and overcome the danger of aspiration of stagnantgastric contents It may also prevent gastric bacterial overgrowth, whichhas been
PSP and NT-proCNP assessed for predisposition to infection As the paper currently appears, it is unclear whether in fact the study aimed at evaluating the predictive value of pancreatic stone protein regenerating protein (PSP) and amino-terminal pro-C-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proCNP) for a predisposition to infection in non-infected systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) trauma patients under mechanical ventilation, or whether it rather
Correction: Bedside quantifi cation of dead-space fraction using . . . Correction: Bedside quantifi cation of dead-space fraction using routine clinical data in patients with acute lung injury: secondary analysis of two prospective trials Hassan Siddiki1, Marija Kojicic2, Guangxi Li2, Murat Yilmaz3, Taylor B Thompson4, Rolf D Hubmayr2 and Ognjen Gajic*2
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Editorial Katrina: an introduction Professor JB Bury Inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History University of Cambridge, 1903 The Gulf Coast Disaster of September 2005 has changed the entire paradigm of how we view public health Our previous visions of disaster relief were predicated on the premise that the most effective after care would involve treating the direct effects of catastrophic, unpredicted trauma
COMMENTARY Interpreting the odds `What Chance does she have doctor?’ This is a common question in intensive care units when discussion is begun with families as to the appropriate-ness of continuing therapy with a goal of cure, or insti-tuting or withdrawing therapy to provide a peaceful appropriate death Limiting therapy is primarily insti-tuted to reduce the likelihood of patient’s inappropriate suffering, but it has
Letter Unusual hypotension in the ITU A 71-year-old man presented to the emergency depart-ment with a history of sudden onset of abdominal pain and feeling extremely unwell He was taken ill suddenly while waiting for a bus The vascular surgeons made a diagnosis of a leaking aortic aneurysm (but which was contained), and he was rushed to the operating theatre