The role of HIV infection and drug and alcohol dependence in hospital mortality among critically ill patients, 05 July 2007
A. Palepu, N.A. Khan, M. Norena, H. Wong, D.R. Chittock, P.M. Dodek
pages 275-280
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The role of transport intervals in outcomes for critically ill patients who are transferred to referral centers, 10 December 2007
Dean Belway, Peter M. Dodek, Sean P. Keenan, Monica Norena, Hubert Wong
pages 287-294
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Factors predicting adherence to the Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for nutrition support in mechanically ventilated, critically ill adult patients, 06 December 2007
Naomi E. Jones, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Andrew G. Day, Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz, Daren K. Heyland
pages 301-307
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Hospital mortality among adults admitted to and discharged from intensive care on weekends and evenings, 18 April 2008
Kevin B. Laupland, Reza Shahpori, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, H. Thomas Stelfox
pages 317-324
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District nurses' attitudes toward patient consent: The case of mechanical ventilation on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients: Results from a French national survey, 24 April 2008
Patrick Peretti-Watel, Marc-Karim Bendiane, Anne Galinier, Roger Favre, Claude Ribiere, Jean-Marc Lapiana, Yolande Obadia
pages 332-338
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Conscious sedation in the critically ill ventilated patient, 05 July 2007
Marco Cigada, Davide Corbella, Giovanni Mistraletti, Chiara Reali Forster, Concezione Tommasino, Alberto Morabito, Gaetano Iapichino
pages 349-353
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Discrepancy between inferior vena cava and right atrial oxygen saturations as a sign of ischemia in the mesenteric circulation, 18 April 2008
Kristopher S. Lyons, John Strange, Robert C.N. Clarke
pages 357-358
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Risk factors for the development of early-onset delirium and the subsequent clinical outcome in mechanically ventilated patients, 03 February 2007
Shu-Min Lin, Chien-Da Huang, Chien-Ying Liu, Horng-Chyuan Lin, Chun-Hua Wang, Pei-Yao Huang, Yueh-Fu Fang, Meng-Heng Shieh, Han-Pin Kuo
pages 372-379
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Early decompressive craniectomy for patients with severe traumatic brain injury and refractory intracranial hypertension—A pilot randomized trial, 06 December 2007
D. James Cooper, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Lynnette Murray, Rory Wolfe, Jennie Ponsford, Andrew Davies, Paul D'Urso, Vincent Pellegrino, Gregory Malham, Thomas Kossmann
pages 387-393
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Reduced heart rate multiscale entropy predicts death in critical illness: A study of physiologic complexity in 285 trauma patients, 06 December 2007
Patrick R. Norris, Phyllis K. Stein, John A. Morris
pages 399-405
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Histamine 2 receptor antagonists vs intravenous proton pump inhibitors in a pediatric intensive care unit: A comparison of gastric pH, 18 April 2008
Nancy M. Tofil, Kim W. Benner, M. Paige Fuller, Margaret K. Winkler
pages 416-421
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A case of severe hyperkalemia: fast, safe and effective treatment is required, 06 December 2007
Manish M. Sood, Robert P. Pauly
pages 431-433
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Microsatellite polymorphism of the human leptin gene and risk of obesity
Abeeha Z. Gardezi, Yalda Z. Ziaei, Sahar M. Marashi
pages 440-444
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Comparison of early enteral feeding versus parenteral nutrition after resection of esophageal cancer
Mohammad Reza Vahdat Farimani, Nahid Naghibzadeh Bajestani
page 448
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Effects of levosimendan in acute heart failure and cardiogenic and septic shock
Jamal A. Alhashemi, Qamar A. Alotaibi, Ghadah M. Abdullah, Sanaa Shalabi
page 450
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