Background: The recruitment maneuver (RM) in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
can cause hemodynamic derangement. We evaluated circulatory and cardiac changes …

Kaum ein klinischer Bereich hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten die moderne Medizin
tiefgreifender beeinflusst als die Intensivtherapie. Durch die Entwicklung …

Einem vielfach geäußerten Leserwunsch folgend haben die Autoren dort, wo es ihnen
möglich erschien, Therapieempfehlungen im Sinne der evidenzbasierten Medizin jeweils …

The field of intensive care in nephrology is a rapidly evolving one, with research starting to
translate into clinical guidelines and standards. Encompassing core subjects in critical care …

Choosing mechanical ventilators should begin by defining the algorithms of how to ventilate
a patient. Once this is done, a ventilator should allow the transformation of specific strategies …

The adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a modem disease which has achieved
prominence because of developments in intensive care medicine which have meant that …

Background Oxygen is frequently administered to intensive care patients, for both treatment
and prophylaxis. Arterial oxygen content (CaO 2) represents the total amount of oxygen in …

Acute renal failure can occur in transplanted patients due to several pathologic events. The
time at which the function of the transplanted kidney presents a sudden impairment may vary …

BACKGROUND: ARDS mortality is lower among subjects participating in randomized
controlled trials (RCTs) compared to subjects in observational studies. Excluding potential …

It has been almost 15 years since the National Institutes of Health created the Acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Trials Network (ARDS Network) and nearly a …