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Section edited by Matthias Eikermann
This section deals with all manuscripts related to critical care and ICU medicine.
Research article
To investigate the effect of systemic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on function of hippocampus and corpus callosum (CC) in adult rats.
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:105
Published on: 14 August 2017
Research article
It is important to inform medical educators and workforce planners in Anaesthesia about early career choices for the specialty, factors that influence them and to elucidate how recent choices of men and women ...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:100
Published on: 25 July 2017
Research article
The aim of the present work was to assess cerebral hemodynamic changes in a porcine model of E.coli induced fulminant sepsis.
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:98
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research article
Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are often physically unable to communicate with their physicians. Thus, the sharing of information about the on-going treatment of the patients in ICUs is directly relat...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:97
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research article
Severe sepsis and septic shock are often lethal syndromes, in which the autonomic nervous system may fail to maintain adequate blood pressure. Heart rate variability has been associated with outcomes in sepsis...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:82
Published on: 17 June 2017
Research article
Head injury is one of the top three diagnosis leading to intensive care unit (ICU) admission in Malaysia. There has been growing interest in using immunonutrition as a mode of modulating the inflammatory respo...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:81
Published on: 15 June 2017
Research article
We tested the hypothesis that moxifloxacin monotherapy is equally effective and safe as a betalactam antibiotic based combination therapy in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) evoked by s...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:78
Published on: 14 June 2017
Research article
Breaking bad news (BBN) to patients and their relatives is a complex and stressful task. The ideal structure, training methods and assessment instruments best used to teach and assess BBN for anesthesiology re...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:77
Published on: 14 June 2017
Research article
The duration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an important factor associated with the outcomes for an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, the appropriate CPR duration remains unclear considering ...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:59
Published on: 21 April 2017
Research article
The normobaric oxygen paradox states that a short exposure to normobaric hyperoxia followed by rapid return to normoxia creates a condition of ‘relative hypoxia’ which stimulates erythropoietin (EPO) productio...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:49
Published on: 23 March 2017
Study protocol
Patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) are often treated with intravenous (IV) vasopressors. Persistent hypotension and dependence on IV vasopressors in otherwise resuscitated patients lead to delay i...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:47
Published on: 21 March 2017
Research article
Despite increased interest in non-invasive arterial pressure monitoring, the majority of commercially available technologies have failed to satisfy the limits established for the validation of automatic arteri...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:48
Published on: 21 March 2017
Research article
Aspiration of subglottic secretions past the endotracheal tube (ETT) cuff is a prerequisite for developing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Subglottic secretion drainage (SSD) ETTs reduce aspiration of s...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:36
Published on: 4 March 2017
Research article
This study aimed to identify predictors of early (7-day) mortality in patients with septic acute kidney injury (AKI) who required continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:21
Published on: 7 February 2017
Research article
The value of cardiac troponin as a risk assessment tool for cardiac disease in the setting of end-stage renal diseases (ESRD) is not equivalent to its value in those with normal renal function. This considerat...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:15
Published on: 31 January 2017
Research article
Sub-Saharan Africa has a great burden of critical illness with limited health care resources. We evaluated the feasibility and utility of the modified Sequential Organ Function Assessment (mSOFA) score in asse...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:12
Published on: 26 January 2017
Research article
The association between CD14-159C/T polymorphism and sepsis has been assessed but results of current studies appeared conflicting and inconstant. This analysis was aimed to determine whether the CD14-159C/T po...
BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:11
Published on: 25 January 2017
Research article
It is not rare for a small-bore feeding tube to be inserted incorrectly into the respiratory system in critically ill patients. Thus, monitoring is necessary to prevent respiratory malplacement of the tube. We...
BMC Anesthesiology 2016 16:122
Published on: 9 December 2016
Research article
Critically ill patients frequently suffer muscle weakness whilst in critical care. Ultrasound can reliably track loss of muscle size, but also quantifies the arrangement of the muscle fascicles, known as the m...
BMC Anesthesiology 2016 16:119
Published on: 29 November 2016
Research article
Unexplained coma after critical illness can be multifactorial. We evaluated the diagnostic ability of bedside Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter [ONSD] as a screening test for non-traumatic radiographic cerebral edema.
BMC Anesthesiology 2016 16:106
Published on: 25 October 2016
