1. What's in a beat?

   • Mervyn Singer

   Editorial 19 July 2003 Pages: 1617 - 1620

2. Weapons of pressure resuscitation for septic shock

   • Claudio Martin

   Editorial 27 August 2003 Pages: 1621 - 1622

3. Inhaled nitric oxide for ARDS: searching for a more focused use

   • Luca M. Bigatello
   • Judith Hellman

   Editorial 03 September 2003 Pages: 1623 - 1625

4. Health status after critical illness: beyond descriptive studies

   • Gordon D. Rubenfeld
   • J. Randall Curtis

   Editorial 25 July 2003 Pages: 1626 - 1628

5. Is high frequency oscillation the best lung protective ventilatory approach for ARDS?

   • Robert M. Kacmarek

   Editorial 16 August 2003 Pages: 1629 - 1631

6. Antioxidant therapy in sepsis

   • Gerd Albuszies
   • Uwe Bernd Brückner

   Editorial 16 August 2003 Pages: 1632 - 1636

7. Hypothermia in the management of traumatic brain injury

   • William R. Henderson
   • Vinay K. Dhingra
   • Juan J. Ronco

   Review 12 August 2003 Pages: 1637 - 1644

   

8. Hypotension during intermittent hemodialysis: new insights into an old problem

   • Frédérique Schortgen

   Physiological Note 12 September 2003 Pages: 1645 - 1649

   

9. Middle cerebral artery flow velocity decreases and electroencephalogram (EEG) changes occur as acute hypercapnia reverses

   • Pinchas Halpern
   • Miri Y. Neufeld
   • Patrick Sorkine

   Original 02 August 2003 Pages: 1650 - 1655

   

10. High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in adult acute respiratory distress syndrome

    • Matthias David
    • Norbert Weiler
    • Balthasar Eberle

    Original 25 July 2003 Pages: 1656 - 1665

    

11. Helium-oxygen reduces work of breathing in mechanically ventilated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    • Marc Gainnier
    • Jean-Michel Arnal
    • Jean-Marie Sainty

    Original 25 July 2003 Pages: 1666 - 1670

    

12. Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation delivered by helmet vs. standard face mask

    • Davide Chiumello
    • Paolo Pelosi
    • Luciano Gattinoni

    Original 12 June 2003 Pages: 1671 - 1679

    

13. Head helmet versus face mask for non-invasive continuous positive airway pressure: a physiological study

    • Nicolò Patroniti
    • Giuseppe Foti
    • Antonio Pesenti

    Original 28 August 2003 Pages: 1680 - 1687

    

14. Improved survival of critically ill cancer patients with septic shock

    • Jérôme Larché
    • Élie Azoulay
    • Benoît Schlemmer

    Original 12 September 2003 Pages: 1688 - 1695

    

15. Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide and brain natriuretic peptide are increased in septic shock: impact of interleukin-6 and sepsis-associated left ventricular dysfunction

    • Rochus Witthaut
    • Christian Busch
    • Karl Werdan

    Original 12 August 2003 Pages: 1696 - 1702

    

16. Hyperreninemic hypoaldosteronism: a possible etiological factor of septic shock-induced acute renal failure

    • D. du Cheyron
    • A. Lesage
    • P. Charbonneau

    Original 28 August 2003 Pages: 1703 - 1709

    

17. A prospective randomized trial of enteral glutamine in critical illness

    • John C. Hall
    • Geoffrey Dobb
    • Rosalie McCauley

    Original 16 August 2003 Pages: 1710 - 1716

    

18. Gastric emptying in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: effect of neuromuscular blocking agent

    • Fabienne Tamion
    • Karine Hamelin
    • Guy Bonmarchand

    Original 30 July 2003 Pages: 1717 - 1722

    

19. Urgent bedside endoscopy for clinically significant upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage after admission to the intensive care unit

    • Yi-Chia Lee
    • Hsiu-Po Wang
    • Jaw-Town Lin

    Original 12 August 2003 Pages: 1723 - 1728

20. Change in stroke volume in response to fluid challenge: assessment using esophageal Doppler

    • Margareta Roeck
    • Stephan M. Jakob
    • Jukka Takala

    Original 09 April 2003 Pages: 1729 - 1735

    

21. Universal fresh frozen plasma (Uniplas): a safe product in open-heart surgery

    • Stein Tølløfsrud
    • Harald Noddeland
    • Bjarte G. Solheim

    Original 04 September 2003 Pages: 1736 - 1743

    

22. Quality of life in acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors may be no worst than in other ICU survivors

    • Cristina Granja
    • Edite Morujão
    • Altamiro Costa-Pereira

    Original 27 May 2003 Pages: 1744 - 1750

23. Determinants of post-intensive care mortality in high-level treated critically ill patients

    • Gaetano Iapichino
    • Alberto Morabito
    • Dinis Reis Miranda

    Original 16 August 2003 Pages: 1751 - 1756

    

24. Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is upregulated in rapid progressive pulmonary hypertension of the newborn

    • Thomas Hoehn
    • Anthony A. Preston
    • Roger M. Wadsworth

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 02 August 2003 Pages: 1757 - 1762

    

25. Inability to predict outcome of acute respiratory distress syndrome in children when using high frequency oscillation

    • Natalie Anton
    • Kenneth M. Joffe
    • Ari R. Joffe

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 16 August 2003 Pages: 1763 - 1769

    

26. Gender-based differences in children with sepsis and ARDS: The ESPNIC ARDS Database Group

    • Lutz Bindl
    • Stephan Buderus
    • Verena Varnholt

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 15 August 2003 Pages: 1770 - 1773

    

27. Norepinephrine and vital organ blood flow during experimental hyperdynamic sepsis

    • David Di Giantomasso
    • Clive N. May
    • Rinaldo Bellomo

    Original 16 April 2003 Pages: 1774 - 1781

    

28. Oxidative parameters and mortality in sepsis induced by cecal ligation and perforation

    • Cristiane Ritter
    • Michael Andrades
    • Felipe Dal-Pizzol

    Experimental 29 May 2003 Pages: 1782 - 1789

    

29. Inhaled nitric oxide reduces lung edema during fluid resuscitation in ovine acute lung injury

    • Henning D. Stubbe
    • Martin Westphal
    • Frank Hinder

    Experimental 24 May 2003 Pages: 1790 - 1797

    

30. Efficiency of a cysteine-taurine-threonine-serine supplemented parenteral nutrition in an experimental model of acute inflammation

    • Sylwia Osowska
    • Jean-Pascal De Bandt
    • Luc Cynober

    Original 17 July 2003 Pages: 1798 - 1801

    

31. The calcium sensitizer levosimendan attenuates endotoxin-evoked myocardial dysfunction in isolated guinea pig hearts

    • Matthias Behrends
    • Jürgen Peters

    Experimental 17 July 2003 Pages: 1802 - 1807

    

32. Low tidal volume ventilation induces proinflammatory and profibrogenic response in lungs of rats

    • Pedro Caruso
    • Sibele Inacio Meireles
    • Daniel Deheinzelin

    Experimental 02 August 2003 Pages: 1808 - 1811

    

33. Ketamine inhibits endotoxin-induced inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes

    • Akira Kudoh
    • Hiroshi Katagai
    • Tomoko Takazawa

    Experimental 16 August 2003 Pages: 1812 - 1817

    

34. A European Directive for clinical research

    • François J. P. Lemaire
    • and an ESICM Task Force

    News 18 September 2003 Pages: 1818 - 1820

35. Incidence and circumstances of serum creatinine increase after abdominal aortic surgery

    • Frédérique Ryckwaert
    • Pierre Alric
    • Pascal Colson

    Brief Report 27 August 2003 Pages: 1821 - 1824

36. Changes in cerebral interstitial glycerol concentration in head-injured patients; correlation with secondary events

    • Saskia M. Peerdeman
    • Armand R. J. Girbes
    • W. Peter Vandertop

    Brief Report 20 June 2003 Pages: 1825 - 1828

    

37. Right atrial thrombus formation associated with central venous catheters utilization in hemodialysis patients

    • Mohammad K. Ghani
    • Fernando Boccalandro
    • Eddy Barasch

    Brief Report 25 July 2003 Pages: 1829 - 1832

    

38. Pulmonary glutamine production: effects of sepsis and pulmonary infiltrates

    • Karel W. E. Hulsewé
    • René R. W. J. van der Hulst
    • Peter B. Soeters

    Brief Report 25 July 2003 Pages: 1833 - 1836

    

39. Massive hemoptysis due to Rasmussen aneurysm: detection with helicoidal CT angiography and successful steel coil embolization

    • Clément Picard
    • Antoine Parrot
    • Marie France Carette

    Brief Report 13 September 2003 Pages: 1837 - 1839

    

40. Life-threatening hemoptysis in adults with community-acquired pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine leukocidin-secreting Staphylococcus aureus

    • Véronique Boussaud
    • Antoine Parrot
    • Jacques Cadranel

    Brief Report 02 August 2003 Pages: 1840 - 1843

41. Pharmacokinetics and the most suitable dosing regimen of fluconazole in critically ill patients receiving continuous hemodiafiltration

    • Kazuaki Yagasaki
    • Satoshi Gando
    • Ken Iseki

    Technical Note 13 September 2003 Pages: 1844 - 1848

    

42. Fluid leakage past tracheal tube cuffs: evaluation of the new Microcuff endotracheal tube

    • Alexander Dullenkopf
    • Andreas Gerber
    • Markus Weiss

    Technical Note 16 August 2003 Pages: 1849 - 1853

    

43. Difficult weaning from mechanical ventilation following Wernicke's syndrome developing after gastroplasty

    • Bénédicte Vanderperren
    • Michela Rizzo
    • Philippe Hantson

    Correspondence 06 August 2003 Pages: 1854 - 1854

44. Differentiated HFO and CMV for independent lung ventilation in a pediatric patient

    • F. B. Plötz
    • M. B. F. Hassing
    • D. G. Markhorst

    Correspondence 28 August 2003 Pages: 1855 - 1855

45. Reproducibility of mini-BAL culture results using 10 ml or 20 ml instilled fluid

    • Veysel Erden
    • Gökcen Basaranoglu
    • Nıhal Sanlı Hamzaoglu

    Correspondence 11 September 2003 Pages: 1856 - 1856

46. Serum tumour necrosis factor α levels in severe malaria: effect of partial exchange transfusion

    • Sanjeev Kumar
    • Dilip R. Karnad
    • Nirmala N. Rege

    Correspondence 28 August 2003 Pages: 1857 - 1858

    

47. October 2003

    Announcements 14 October 2003 Pages: 1859 - 1860