1. Wasted efforts and dyssynchrony: Is the patient-ventilator battle back?

   • A. Rossi
   • L. Appendini

   Editorial Pages: 867 - 870

2. Respiratory response and inspiratory effort during pressure support ventilation in COPD patients

   • S. Nava
   • C. Bruschi
   • A. Braschi

   Original Pages: 871 - 879

3. Effects of breathing patterns on mechanically ventilated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and dynamic hyperinflation

   • D. Georgopoulos
   • I. Mitrouska
   • N. R. Anthonisen

   Original Pages: 880 - 886

4. Effect of low-level PEEP on inspiratory work of breathing in intubated patients, both with healthy lungs and with COPD

   • M. Sydow
   • W. Golisch
   • H. Burchardi

   Original Pages: 887 - 895

5. Inspiratory effort and measurement of dynamic intrinsic PEEP in COPD patients: Effects of ventilator triggering systems

   • V. M. Ranieri
   • L. Mascia
   • R. Guiliani

   Original Pages: 896 - 903

6. Respiratory effects of tracheal gas insufflation in spontaneously breathing COPD patients

   • G. Nakos
   • A. Lachana
   • H. Tsagaris

   Original Pages: 904 - 912

7. Comparison of the effects of pressure support ventilation delivered by three different ventilators during weaning from mechanical ventilation

   • L. Brochard
   • J. Mancebo
   • F. Lemaire

   Original Pages: 913 - 919

8. Topical upper airway anaesthesia with lidocaine increases airway resistance by impairing glottic function

   • L. Beydon
   • A. -M. Lorino
   • F. Bonnet

   Original Pages: 920 - 926

9. Improved bronchial cleansing in intensive care patients with a new double-lumen catheter

   • Ch. Schmidt
   • R. Düsing
   • A. Savramis

   Original Pages: 927 - 932

10. The impact of HIV testing on blood utilization in the intensive care unit in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding

    • M. R. Ravry
    • H. L. Paz

    Original Pages: 933 - 936

11. Systemic lithium reabsorption from lithium-chloride-coated heat and moisture exchangers

    • R. Rosi
    • A. Buscalferri
    • A. Stanca

    Original Pages: 937 - 940

12. Inhaled cigarette smoke selectively reverses human hypoxic vasoconstriction

    • P. M. Dupuy
    • J. -P. Lançon
    • C. G. Frostell

    Rapid Publication Pages: 941 - 944

13. The delivery of aerosolized steroids from MDIs with nozzle extensions: Quantitative laboratory evaluation of a method to improve aerosol delivery to intubated patients

    • D. Hess
    • D. Fisher
    • R. M. Kacmarek

    Technique Pages: 945 - 951

14. The economics and cost-effectiveness of critical care medicine

    • D. B. Chalfin
    • I. L. Cohen
    • J. Lambrinos

    Review Article Pages: 952 - 961

15. Announcements

    Announcement Pages: 962 - 962