1. Putting it all together to predict extubation outcome

   • Scott K. Epstein

   Editorial 25 May 2004 Pages: 1255 - 1257

2. Evaluation of left ventricular performance: an insolvable problem in human beings? The Graal quest

   • Alain Nitenberg

   Editorial 26 May 2004 Pages: 1258 - 1260

3. Critical care outreach: some answers, more questions

   • Michael Parr

   Editorial 22 April 2004 Pages: 1261 - 1262

4. Mannose-binding lectin deficiency provides a genetic basis for the use of SIRS/sepsis definitions in critically ill patients

   • Joseph A. Carcillo

   Editorial 06 May 2004 Pages: 1263 - 1265

   

5. Year in review in intensive care medicine: 2003. II. Brain injury, hemodynamics, gastrointestinal tract, renal failure, metabolism, trauma, and postoperative

   • Edward Abraham
   • Peter Andrews
   • Benoit Vallet

   Special Article 15 June 2004 Pages: 1266 - 1275

6. Role of vasopressin in the management of septic shock

   • Gökhan M. Mutlu
   • Phillip Factor

   Review 21 April 2004 Pages: 1276 - 1291

   

7. Safe paediatric intensive care

   • Bernhard Frey
   • Andrew Argent

   Review 30 April 2004 Pages: 1292 - 1297

8. Hyperemia following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: incidence, diagnosis, clinical features, and outcome

   • Ralf Dirk Rothoerl
   • Chris Woertgen
   • Alexander Brawanski

   Original 09 April 2004 Pages: 1298 - 1302

9. Noninvasive vs invasive ventilation in COPD patients with severe acute respiratory failure deemed to require ventilatory assistance

   • Enzo Squadrone
   • Pamela Frigerio
   • Paolo Navalesi

   Original 12 June 2004 Pages: 1303 - 1310

   

10. Pattern of lung emptying and expiratory resistance in mechanically ventilated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    • Eumorfia Kondili
    • Christina Alexopoulou
    • Dimitris Georgopoulos

    Original 31 March 2004 Pages: 1311 - 1318

    

11. Blind and bronchoscopic sampling methods in suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia

    • Hervé Mentec
    • Laetitia May-Michelangeli
    • Gérard Bleichner

    Original 20 April 2004 Pages: 1319 - 1326

12. Efficacy of adequate early antibiotic therapy in ventilator-associated pneumonia: influence of disease severity

    • Christophe Clec’h
    • Jean-François Timsit
    • Yves Cohen

    Original 09 June 2004 Pages: 1327 - 1333

13. Neurologic status, cough, secretions and extubation outcomes

    • Adil Salam
    • Lisa Tilluckdharry
    • Constantine A. Manthous

    Original 04 March 2004 Pages: 1334 - 1339

    

14. Assessment of peri-extubation pain by visual analogue scale in the adult intensive care unit: a prospective observational study

    • Arnaud Gacouin
    • Christophe Camus
    • Rémi Thomas

    Original 26 February 2004 Pages: 1340 - 1347

    

15. Development of a risk assessment tool for deliberate self-extubation in intensive care patients

    • Philip Moons
    • Kristine Sels
    • Patrick Ferdinande

    Original 25 March 2004 Pages: 1348 - 1355

    

16. Fluid resuscitation with colloids of different molecular weight in septic shock

    • Zsolt Molnár
    • András Mikor
    • Tamás Szakmány

    Original 04 May 2004 Pages: 1356 - 1360

17. Effect of large volume infusion on left ventricular volumes, performance and contractility parameters in normal volunteers

    • Anand Kumar
    • Ramon Anel
    • Joseph E. Parrillo

    Original 07 April 2004 Pages: 1361 - 1369

    

18. Transcardiac conductance for continuous measurement of left ventricular volume: validation vs. angiography in patients

    • Eva M. Staal
    • Jan Baan
    • Paul Steendijk

    Original 04 May 2004 Pages: 1370 - 1376

    

19. Estimation of left ventricular systolic function by single transpulmonary thermodilution

    • Alain Combes
    • Jean-Baptiste Berneau
    • Jean-Louis Trouillet

    Original 23 April 2004 Pages: 1377 - 1383

    

20. Practices in non-neutropenic ICU patients with Candida-positive airway specimens

    • Elie Azoulay
    • Yves Cohen
    • Jean-François Timsit

    Original 18 May 2004 Pages: 1384 - 1389

21. Identifying the potential organ donor: an audit of hospital deaths

    • Helen Ingrid Opdam
    • William Silvester

    Original 13 March 2004 Pages: 1390 - 1397

    

22. Introducing Critical Care Outreach: a ward-randomised trial of phased introduction in a general hospital

    • George Priestley
    • Wendy Watson
    • Jayne Pateraki

    Original 27 April 2004 Pages: 1398 - 1404

    

23. Heat shock protein 72 and apoptosis indicate cardiac decompensation during early multiple organ failure in sheep

    • Hideo A. Baba
    • Jeremias Wohlschlaeger
    • Frank Hinder

    Experimental 24 February 2004 Pages: 1405 - 1413

    

24. Differential reversal of drug-induced small bowel paralysis by cerulein and neostigmine

    • Sonja Fruhwald
    • Eva Herk
    • Helfried Metzler

    Experimental 18 May 2004 Pages: 1414 - 1420

    

25. Role of PARP on iNOS pathway during endotoxin-induced acute lung injury

    • Rainer Kiefmann
    • Kai Heckel
    • Alwin E. Goetz

    Experimental 10 June 2004 Pages: 1421 - 1431

    

26. Crystalloid strong ion difference determines metabolic acid–base change during acute normovolaemic haemodilution

    • Thomas J. Morgan
    • Balasubramanian Venkatesh
    • Jonathan Hall

    Experimental 28 February 2004 Pages: 1432 - 1437

    

27. Increased incidence and severity of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in patients deficient in mannose-binding lectin

    • Katy J. Fidler
    • Peter Wilson
    • Nigel J. Klein

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 04 May 2004 Pages: 1438 - 1445

    

28. Incomplete protection by prophylactic surfactant against the adverse effects of large lung inflations at birth in immature lambs

    • Jónas Ingimarsson
    • Lars J. Björklund
    • Olof Werner

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 25 March 2004 Pages: 1446 - 1453

    

29. Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein in critically ill neonates and children with suspected infection: comparison with procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein

    • Maja Pavcnik-Arnol
    • Sergej Hojker
    • Metka Derganc

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 04 May 2004 Pages: 1454 - 1460

    

30. Reproducibility of the respiratory dead space measurements in mechanically ventilated children using the CO₂SMO monitor

    • Y. Riou
    • F. Leclerc
    • A. Sadik

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 11 May 2004 Pages: 1461 - 1467

    

31. Increased levels of soluble ST2 protein and IgG1 production in patients with sepsis and trauma

    • Markus Brunner
    • Claus Krenn
    • Hendrik Jan Ankersmit

    Brief Report 28 February 2004 Pages: 1468 - 1473

    

32. Liver transplantation in exertional heat stroke: a medical dilemma

    • Eran Hadad
    • Ziv Ben-Ari
    • Yoram Epstein

    Brief Report 23 April 2004 Pages: 1474 - 1478

33. Cortisol dynamics following acute severe brain injury

    • Terence Savaridas
    • Peter J. D. Andrews
    • Bridget Harris

    Brief Report 11 May 2004 Pages: 1479 - 1483

    

34. Maternal brain death: medical, ethical and legal issues

    • Alan Lane
    • Andrew Westbrook
    • John G. Laffey

    Brief Report 24 April 2004 Pages: 1484 - 1486

35. Automatic calculation of the nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score (NEMS) using a patient data management system

    • Axel Junger
    • Florian Brenck
    • Gunter Hempelmann

    Brief Report 15 April 2004 Pages: 1487 - 1490

    

36. Mucociliary function deteriorates in the clinical range of inspired air temperature and humidity

    • Emma Kilgour
    • Nigel Rankin
    • Rodger Pack

    Brief Report 16 March 2004 Pages: 1491 - 1494

    

37. The best place to commit the perfect murder

    • Cory Franklin

    News 01 May 2004 Pages: 1495 - 1496

38. Looking at subgroups in an inhomogeneous population does not make these subgroups more homogeneous

    • Jean Carlet

    Correspondence 13 May 2004 Pages: 1497 - 1497

39. Severe myocardial depression following intravenous nimodipine for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

    • Kandasamy Subramani
    • Murad Ghrew

    Correspondence 28 May 2004 Pages: 1498 - 1499

    

40. Reply to the comment by Skrobik et al.

    • Sophia de Rooij
    • Evert de Jonge

    Correspondence 25 May 2004 Pages: 1500 - 1500

41. Author’s reply to the comments by de Rooij and de Jonge

    • Nicolas Bergeron
    • Yoanna Skrobik

    Correspondence 28 May 2004 Pages: 1501 - 1501

42. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and low tidal volume ventilation: the debate about weight

    • Elisa P. Y. Kam
    • Guy D. Eslick
    • Jonathan P. Benson

    Correspondence 08 June 2004 Pages: 1502 - 1502

43. Intensive Care Medicine, Volume 29, Supplement 1 - 2003, S1 - S214

    Errata 17 June 2004 Pages: 1503 - 1503

44. July 2004

    Announcements 17 June 2004 Pages: 1504 - 1504