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  1. Heat stroke induces coagulofibrinolytic activation, which leads to life-threatening disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). However, treatment strategies for DIC in heat stroke have not yet been establis...

    Authors: Hironori Matsumoto, Jun Takeba, Kensuke Umakoshi, Yuki Nakabayashi, Naoki Moriyama, Suguru Annen, Muneaki Ohshita, Satoshi Kikuchi, Norio Sato and Mayuki Aibiki

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2019 7:2

    Content type: Case report

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  2. Despite the evidence for calibrated cardiac monitored devices to determine fluid responsiveness, there is minimal evidence that the use of cardiac output monitor devices leads to an overall change in IV fluid ...

    Authors: Timothy G. Scully, Robert Grealy, Anthony S. McLean and Sam R. Orde

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2019 7:1

    Content type: Research

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  3. Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is a known risk factor for increased mortality in cardiac surgery. However, the association between RV performance and ICU morbidity is largely unknown.

    Authors: Inge T. Bootsma, Thomas W. L. Scheeren, Fellery de Lange, Johannes Haenen, Piet W. Boonstra and E. Christaan Boerma

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:85

    Content type: Research

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  4. Based on promising results over the past 10 years, the method of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has developed from being used as a ‘rescue therapy’ to become an accepted treatment option for patien...

    Authors: Norbert Banjas, Hans-Bernd Hopf, Ernst Hanisch, Benjamin Friedrichson, Julia Fichte and Alexander Buia

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:84

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Intensive Care 2019 7:8

  5. In patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), an association between hypocapnia and poor clinical outcomes has been reported. However, the optimal arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) remains unkn...

    Authors: Shota Yokoyama, Toru Hifumi, Tomoya Okazaki, Takahisa Noma, Kenya Kawakita, Takashi Tamiya, Tetsuo Minamino and Yasuhiro Kuroda

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:83

    Content type: Research

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  7. Data regarding trends of muscle loss on ultrasonography (USG) and its relationship with various outcomes among critically ill patients is limited. This study aimed to describe the trends of loss of muscle thic...

    Authors: Vijay Hadda, Rohit Kumar, Gopi Chand Khilnani, Mani Kalaivani, Karan Madan, Pawan Tiwari, Saurabh Mittal, Anant Mohan, Ashu Seith Bhalla and Randeep Guleria

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:81

    Content type: Research

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  8. Physical rehabilitation (PR) interventions in the intensive care unit (ICU) can improve patients’ functional outcomes, yet systematic reviews identified discordant effects and poor reporting. We conducted a sc...

    Authors: Julie C. Reid, Janelle Unger, Devin McCaskell, Laura Childerhose, David J. Zorko and Michelle E. Kho

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:80

    Content type: Research

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  9. Nuclear histone proteins are released into the extracellular space during sepsis and act as major mediators of death. However, circulating histone levels have not been precisely quantified.

    Authors: Takashi Ito, Mayumi Nakahara, Yoshiki Masuda, Sachie Ono, Shingo Yamada, Hiroyasu Ishikura, Hitoshi Imaizumi, Chinatsu Kamikokuryo, Yasuyuki Kakihana and Ikuro Maruyama

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:79

    Content type: Research

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  11. We have read the case report about a decompression sickness that was unresponsive to hyperbaric oxygen treatment in your journal. Presented case is intriguing; however, we think there are some contradictive is...

    Authors: Bengusu Mirasoglu and Samil Aktas

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:77

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  13. A recombinant form of antithrombin (AT), called AT gamma, is being developed as an alternative to AT derived from human plasma. To compare the efficacy and safety of AT gamma to plasma-derived AT (pAT), we con...

    Authors: Shigeatsu Endo and Ryutaro Shimazaki

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:75

    Content type: Research

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  14. High red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with worse outcome in diverse scenarios, including in critical illness. The Sabadell score (SS) predicts in-hospital survival after ICU discharge. We ...

    Authors: Rafael Fernandez, Silvia Cano, Ignacio Catalan, Olga Rubio, Carles Subira, Jaume Masclans, Gina Rognoni, Lara Ventura, Caroline Macharete, Len Winfield and Josep Mª. Alcoverro

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:74

    Content type: Research

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  15. It is not clear whether vasopressin versus norepinephrine changed mortality in clinical practice in the Vasopressin and Septic Shock Trial (VASST) coordinating center hospital after VASST was published. We tes...

    Authors: James A. Russell, Hugh Wellman and Keith R. Walley

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:73

    Content type: Research

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  16. Sepsis biomarker panels that provide diagnostic and prognostic discrimination in sepsis patients would be transformative to patient care. We assessed the mortality prediction and diagnostic discriminatory accu...

    Authors: Christopher Duplessis, Michael Gregory, Kenneth Frey, Matthew Bell, Luu Truong, Kevin Schully, James Lawler, Raymond J. Langley, Stephen F. Kingsmore, Christopher W. Woods, Emanuel P. Rivers, Anja K. Jaehne, Eugenia B. Quackenbush, Vance G. Fowler, Ephraim L. Tsalik and Danielle Clark

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:72

    Content type: Research

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  19. Candida spp. infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Candida auris is an emerging multi-drug-resistant fungus that is rapidly spreading worldwide. Since the first repor...

    Authors: Andrea Cortegiani, Giovanni Misseri, Teresa Fasciana, Anna Giammanco, Antonino Giarratano and Anuradha Chowdhary

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:69

    Content type: Review

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  21. Patients who require a prolonged weaning process comprise a highly heterogeneous group of patients amongst whom the outcome differs significantly. The present study aimed to identify the factors that predict w...

    Authors: Friederike Sophie Magnet, Hannah Bleichroth, Sophie Emilia Huttmann, Jens Callegari, Sarah Bettina Schwarz, Claudia Schmoor, Wolfram Windisch and Jan Hendrik Storre

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:67

    Content type: Research

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  22. Pneumonia complicated by septic shock is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Classification and regression tree methodology is an intuitive method for predicting clinical outcomes using binary...

    Authors: Jaime L Speiser, Constantine J Karvellas, Geoffery Shumilak, Wendy I Sligl, Yazdan Mirzanejad, Dave Gurka, Aseem Kumar and Anand Kumar

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:66

    Content type: Research

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  23. Several advanced and developing countries are now entering a superaged society, in which the percentage of elderly people exceeds 20% of the total population. In such an aging society, the number of age-relate...

    Authors: Shigeaki Inoue, Masafumi Saito and Joji Kotani

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:65

    Content type: Review

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  25. Community-acquired gram-negative bacillary meningitis is rare to occur without preexisting conditions like trauma, organ dysfunction, and immunocompromised state, and very few case reports with Escherichia coli h...

    Authors: Rajesh Kasimahanti, Sai Kandraju Satish and Mridu Anand

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:63

    Content type: Case report

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  26. Analgosedation is a cornerstone therapy for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units (ICU). To avoid inadequate sedation and its complications, monitoring of analgosedation is of great importan...

    Authors: Richard J. Nies, Carsten Müller, Roman Pfister, Philipp S. Binder, Nicole Nosseir, Felix S. Nettersheim, Kathrin Kuhr, Martin H. J. Wiesen, Matthias Kochanek and Guido Michels

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:62

    Content type: Research

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  27. Cefepime can be removed by continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) due to its pharmacokinetics. The purpose of this study is to define the optimal cefepime dosing regimens for critically ill patients recei...

    Authors: Weerachai Chaijamorn, Taniya Charoensareerat, Nattachai Srisawat, Sutthiporn Pattharachayakul and Apinya Boonpeng

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:61

    Content type: Research

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  28. Both anaemia and red blood cell (RBC) transfusion are common and associated with adverse outcomes in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of this study was to determine whether serum hep...

    Authors: Edward Litton, Stuart Baker, Wendy Erber, Shannon Farmer, Janet Ferrier, Craig French, Joel Gummer, David Hawkins, Alisa Higgins, Axel Hofmann, Bart De Keulenaer, Julie McMorrow, John K. Olynyk, Toby Richards, Simon Towler, Robert Trengove…

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:60

    Content type: Research

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  29. Fluoxetine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) commonly used in the treatment of depression. While most intoxications with SSRI’s have favorable outcomes and do not require interventions other t...

    Authors: Jan Albert Nicolaas Groot, Leonore ten Bokum and Hubertus Laurentius Antonius van den Oever

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:59

    Content type: Case report

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  30. Recent, large trials of high-frequency oscillation (HFO) versus conventional ventilation (CV) in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) reported negative results. This could be explained by an HFO-induced ...

    Authors: Spyros D. Mentzelopoulos, Hector Anninos, Sotirios Malachias and Spyros G. Zakynthinos

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:58

    Content type: Research

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  31. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between treatment in a closed ICU and survival at discharge in patients with sepsis.

    Authors: Takayuki Ogura, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Kunihiko Takahashi, Kazuki Nishida, Daisuke Kobashi and Shigeyuki Matsui

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:57

    Content type: Research

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  32. We aimed to determine predictors of, and outcomes after, veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation instituted within 48 h after cardiac surgery (early ECMO) in young infants.

    Authors: Gabriela A. Kuraim, Daniel Garros, Lindsay Ryerson, Fahimeh Moradi, Irina A. Dinu, Gonzalo Garcia Guerra, Diane Moddemann, Gwen Y. Bond, Charlene M. T. Robertson and Ari R. Joffe

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:56

    Content type: Research

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  33. Intravenous glycerol treatment, usually administered in the form of a 5% fructose solution, can be used to reduce intracranial pressure. The administered fructose theoretically influences blood lactate levels,...

    Authors: Shinshu Katayama, Ken Tonai, Yuya Goto, Kansuke Koyama, Toshitaka Koinuma, Jun Shima, Masahiko Wada and Shin Nunomiya

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:55

    Content type: Research

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  34. Although chest compression is a standard technique in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, it is well recognized that manual chest compression causes various internal injuries, of which major injuries are often fata...

    Authors: Shigeaki Aoyagi, Tomokazu Kosuga, Kumiko Wada, Shin-ichi Nata and Hiroshi Yasunaga

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:54

    Content type: Case report

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  35. An updated meta-analysis incorporating nine randomized trials (n = 816) investigating low-to-moderate dose prolonged glucocorticoid treatment in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) show moderate-to-high qu...

    Authors: Gianfranco Umberto Meduri, Reed A. C. Siemieniuk, Rachel A. Ness and Samuel J. Seyler

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:53

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  36. Fluid responsiveness prediction with continuously available monitoring is an unsettled matter for the vast majority of critically ill patients, and development of new and reliable methods is desired. We hypoth...

    Authors: Simon Tilma Vistisen, Martin Buhl Krog, Thomas Elkmann, Mikael Fink Vallentin, Thomas W. L. Scheeren and Christoffer Sølling

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:52

    Content type: Research

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  37. Intravenous fluids are one of the most used medical therapy for patients, especially critically ill patients. We conducted a meta-analysis comparing between balanced crystalloids and normal saline in criticall...

    Authors: Yazan Z. M. Zayed, Ahmed M. Y. Aburahma, Mahmoud O. Barbarawi, Kewan Hamid, Momen R. N. Banifadel, Laith Rashdan and Ghassan I. Bachuwa

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:51

    Content type: Review

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  38. Echocardiography is often used to guide septic shock resuscitation, but without evidence for efficacy. We conducted an intensive care unit (ICU)-based randomized controlled feasibility trial comparing echocard...

    Authors: Michael J. Lanspa, Rebecca E. Burk, Emily L. Wilson, Eliotte L. Hirshberg, Colin K. Grissom and Samuel M. Brown

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:50

    Content type: Research

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  39. Endotracheal intubation in critically ill is a high-risk procedure requiring significant expertise in airway handling as well as understanding of pathophysiology of the disease process.

    Authors: Armin Ahmed and Afzal Azim

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:49

    Content type: Review

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  40. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a syndrome which has a broad range of etiologic factors depending on different clinical settings. Because AKI has significant impacts on prognosis in any clinical settings, early d...

    Authors: Kent Doi, Osamu Nishida, Takashi Shigematsu, Tomohito Sadahiro, Noritomo Itami, Kunitoshi Iseki, Yukio Yuzawa, Hirokazu Okada, Daisuke Koya, Hideyasu Kiyomoto, Yugo Shibagaki, Kenichi Matsuda, Akihiko Kato, Terumasa Hayashi, Tomonari Ogawa, Tatsuo Tsukamoto…

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:48

    Content type: Guideline

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  41. The main problem of hospitalized patients in intensive care units is feeding, and if the patient does not receive the daily caloric intake required to his body, he will have malnutrition and problems related t...

    Authors: Farzad Momenfar, Alireza Abdi, Nader Salari, Ali Soroush and Behzad Hemmatpour

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:47

    Content type: Research

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  42. Quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) is a new screening system for sepsis. The prognostic performance of qSOFA for patients with suspected infections outside the intensive care unit (ICU) is s...

    Authors: Fumiaki Tokioka, Hiroshi Okamoto, Akio Yamazaki, Akihiro Itou and Tadashi Ishida

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:46

    Content type: Research

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  44. Extubation failure is associated with mortality and morbidity in the intensive care unit. Ventilator weaning protocols have been introduced, and extubation is conducted based on the results of a spontaneous br...

    Authors: Yugo Okabe, Takehiko Asaga, Sayuri Bekku, Hiromi Suzuki, Kanae Kanda, Takeshi Yoda, Tomohiro Hirao and Gotaro Shirakami

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:44

    Content type: Research

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  45. New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) is a newly defined critical disease entity characterized by prolonged periods of refractory epileptic seizure with no readily identifiable cause in otherwise hea...

    Authors: Satoshi Kodama, Noritoshi Arai, Akiyoshi Hagiwara, Akio Kimura and Sousuke Takeuchi

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:43

    Content type: Case report

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  48. Every day in the ICU, legal issues arise while treating sedated, unconscious, and legally incapacitated patients. Whenever a life-saving treatment cannot be discussed in a timely manner with an unconscious pat...

    Authors: Doreen Stark, Ruth Stiller, Min Xie, Damian Weber, Marco Maggiorini and Matthias Peter Hilty

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:40

    Content type: Case report

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  49. Continuous electroencephalogram (CEEG) monitoring is increasingly being used for brain monitoring in neurocritical care setting. This is because of the proven effectiveness of CEEG in diagnosing nonconvulsive ...

    Authors: Yuichi Kubota, Hidetoshi Nakamoto, Satoshi Egawa and Takakazu Kawamata

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:39

    Content type: Review

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  50. Since the 2009 pandemic influenza, we have nationally established a committee of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) project. This project involves adequate respiratory management for severe respira...

    Authors: Shinichiro Ohshimo, Nobuaki Shime, Satoshi Nakagawa, Osamu Nishida and Shinhiro Takeda

    Citation: Journal of Intensive Care 2018 6:38

    Content type: Research

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