1. European Society of Intensive Care Medicine statement: Intensive care medicine in Europe – structure, organisation and training guidelines of the Multidisciplinary Joint Committee of Intensive Care Medicine (MJCICM) of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)

   • Simon De Lange
   • Hugo Van Aken
   • Hilmar Burchardi

   ESICM Statement Pages: 1505 - 1511

2. Position paper of the ESICM Working Group on Nutrition and Metabolism

   • Gianni Biolo
   • George Grimble
   • Claude Pichard

   ESICM Working Group Pages: 1512 - 1520

3. Statement of the 4th International Consensus Conference in Critical Care on ICU-Acquired Pneumonia – Chicago, Illinois, May 2002

   • R. Hubmayr

   Consensus Conference Pages: 1521 - 1536

4. The presence of shock defines the threshold to initiate thrombolytic therapy in patients with pulmonary embolism

   • Kenneth E. Wood

   PRO/CON Debate Pages: 1537 - 1546

5. The case for thrombolysis in acute major pulmonary embolism: hemodynamic benefits and beyond

   • Stavros Konstantinides

   PRO/CON Debate Pages: 1547 - 1551

6. Intrinsic (or auto-) positive end-expiratory pressure during spontaneous or assisted ventilation

   • Laurent Brochard

   Physiological Note Pages: 1552 - 1554

7. Pyrexia in head-injured patients admitted to intensive care

   • Nino Stocchetti
   • Sandra Rossi
   • Giuseppe Citerio

   Original Pages: 1555 - 1562

8. Effects of therapeutic hypothermia on intracranial pressure and outcome in patients with severe head injury

   • Kees H. Polderman
   • Rudi Tjong Tjin Joe
   • Armand R. Girbes

   Original Pages: 1563 - 1573

9. Acute haemodynamic effects of a hypertonic saline/dextran solution in stable patients with severe sepsis

   • R. Oliveira
   • R. Weingartner
   • G. Friedman

   Original Pages: 1574 - 1581

10. Effect of the humidification device on the work of breathing during noninvasive ventilation

    • François Lellouche
    • Salvatore M. Maggiore
    • Laurent Brochard

    Original Pages: 1582 - 1589

11. Comparison of the effects of heat and moisture exchangers and heated humidifiers on ventilation and gas exchange during non-invasive ventilation

    • Samir Jaber
    • Gérald Chanques
    • Jean-Jacques Eledjam

    Original Pages: 1590 - 1594

12. Pulmonary gas exchange response to weaning with pressure-support ventilation in exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients

    • Miquel Ferrer
    • Raquel Iglesia
    • Robert Rodriguez-Roisin

    Original Pages: 1595 - 1599

13. Value of the plasma protein and hemoglobin concentration in the diagnosis of pulmonary edema in scorpion sting patients

    • Mabrouk Bahloul
    • Mounir Bouaziz
    • Hatem Kallel

    Original Pages: 1600 - 1605

14. Procalcitonin as a prognostic marker in meningococcal disease

    • D. Van der Kaay
    • E. De Kleijn
    • J. Hazelzet

    Original Pages: 1606 - 1612

15. Soluble L-selectin levels predict survival in sepsis

    • Jakob B. Seidelin
    • Ole H. Nielsen
    • Jens Strøm

    Original Pages: 1613 - 1618

16. The Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score (MODS) versus the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score in outcome prediction

    • Daliana Peres Bota
    • Christian Melot
    • Jean-Louis Vincent

    Original Pages: 1619 - 1624

17. Death of terminally ill patients on a stretcher in the emergency department: a French speciality?

    • B. Tardy
    • C. Venet
    • J. Bertrand

    Original Pages: 1625 - 1628

18. Duration of life-threatening antecedents prior to intensive care admission

    • Ken M. Hillman
    • Peter J. Bristow
    • Grant Simmons

    Original Pages: 1629 - 1634

19. Life-threatening hemorrhage in neonates: management with recombinant activated factor VII

    • Alex Veldman
    • Doris Fischer
    • Wolfhardt Kreuz

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Pages: 1635 - 1637

20. Pressurized bag pump and syringe pump arterial flushing systems: an unrecognized hazard in neonates?

    • A. Cornelius
    • J. Fischer
    • M. Weiss

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Pages: 1638 - 1643

21. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome at the intensive care unit of a general university hospital in Brazil

    • Léa Fialkow
    • Silvia Vieira
    • Mary Bozzetti

    Brief Report Pages: 1644 - 1648

22. Conventional coagulation and thromboelastograph parameters and longevity of continuous renal replacement circuits

    • Andrew W. Holt
    • Petra Bierer
    • Andrew Bersten

    Brief Report Pages: 1649 - 1655

23. A randomized prospective trial of immediate vs. next-day feeding after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in intensive care patients

    • Jurgen Stein
    • Arnd Schulte-Bockholt
    • Michael Keymling

    Brief Report Pages: 1656 - 1660

24. Top-down costing: problems in determining staff costs in intensive care medicine

    • Luca Brazzi
    • Guido Bertolini
    • Davide Luciani

    Brief Report Pages: 1661 - 1663

25. Clearance of vancomycin during high-volume haemofiltration: impact of pre-dilution

    • Shigehiko Uchino
    • Louise Cole
    • Rinaldo Bellomo

    Technical Note Pages: 1664 - 1667

26. Optimal lung volume strategy: comment on "High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in experimental lung injury: effects on gas exchange" by Dembinski et al

    • H. van Genderingen
    • A. van Vught

    Correspondence Pages: 1668 - 1668

27. Optimal lung volume strategy: comments on the letter by H. van Genderingen and A. van Vught

    • Rolf Dembinski
    • Martin Max
    • Rolf Rossaint

    Correspondence Pages: 1669 - 1669

28. Comments on: A new prognostic scoring system for meningococcal septic shock in children

    • P. Baines
    • K. Thorburn

    Correspondence Pages: 1670 - 1670

29. Reply to the letter by Thorburn and Baines

    • Álvaro Castellanos-Ortega
    • Javier Llorca
    • Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez

    Correspondence Pages: 1671 - 1672

30. Surgical re-intervention in postoperative peritonitis based on longitudinal scoring systems

    • Bas Lamme
    • Oddeke Van Ruler
    • Marja A. Boermeester

    Correspondence Pages: 1673 - 1673

31. Authors' reply

    • C. Paugam-Burtz
    • H. Dupont
    • J. Mantz

    Correspondence Pages: 1674 - 1674

32. Sonographic appearance of ARDS

    • G. Soldati
    • P. Iacconi

    Correspondence Pages: 1675 - 1675

33. Sample introduction mode: another source of error in saline PCO₂ measurement

    • Balasubramanian Venkatesh
    • Thomas J. Morgan
    • Jonathan Hall

    Correspondence Pages: 1676 - 1677

34. Towards the VI European community framework programme and the European research area

    • Gilda Cinnella

    Correspondence Pages: 1678 - 1679

35. Abdominal compartment syndrome and intrahepatic portal venous gas: a possible complication of endoscopy

    • Mineji Hayakawa
    • Satoshi Gando
    • Osamu Kemmotsu

    Correspondence Pages: 1680 - 1681

36. Leptospirosis presenting with encephalitis-induced coma

    • Ioanna Dimopoulou
    • Panagiotis Politis
    • Charis Roussos

    Correspondence Pages: 1682 - 1682

37. Tacrolimus-induced life-threatening arrhythmia in a pediatric liver-transplant patient

    • Masaji Nishimura
    • Keiwa Kim
    • Takashi Mashimo

    Correspondence Pages: 1683 - 1684

38. Early-onset Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia complicating Norwood II operation in a 3-month-old patient

    • S. Dittrich
    • O. Grollmuss
    • D. Kececioglu

    Correspondence Pages: 1685 - 1686

39. Fatal catecholamine myocarditis in a child with severe scalding injury

    • Thomas Riedel
    • Stephanie Sojcic
    • Jürg Pfenninger

    Correspondence Pages: 1687 - 1688

40. Effect of the degree of tricuspid regurgitation on cardiac output measurements by thermodilution

    • Martin Balik
    • Jan Pachl
    • Jan Hendl

    Erratum Pages: 1689 - 1689

41. November 2002

    Announcements Pages: 1690 - 1690