1. Dying at the end of your life

   • Armand R. J. Girbes

   Editorial 29 October 2004 Pages: 2143 - 2144

2. Antibiotic pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic considerations in critical illness

   • Rina Mehrotra
   • Raffaele De Gaudio
   • Mark Palazzo

   Review 05 November 2004 Pages: 2145 - 2156

3. Tissue capnometry: does the answer lie under the tongue?

   • Alexandre Toledo Maciel
   • Jacques Creteur
   • Jean-Louis Vincent

   Review 02 October 2004 Pages: 2157 - 2165

   

4. Consensus Meeting on Microdialysis in Neurointensive Care

   • Bo-Michael Bellander
   • Emmanuel Cantais
   • Niels Vidiendal Olsen

   Consensus Report 10 November 2004 Pages: 2166 - 2169

5. Matching total body oxygen consumption and delivery: a crucial objective?

   • Pierre Squara

   Clinical Commentary 21 September 2004 Pages: 2170 - 2179

   

6. Sustained moderate reductions in arterial CO₂ after brain trauma Time-course of cerebral blood flow velocity and intracranial pressure

   • Luzius A. Steiner
   • Marcella Balestreri
   • David K. Menon

   Original 12 October 2004 Pages: 2180 - 2187

   

7. Dexmedetomidine infusion for more than 24 hours in critically ill patients: sedative and cardiovascular effects

   • Yahya Shehabi
   • Urban Ruettimann
   • Mathieu Ickeringill

   Original 26 August 2004 Pages: 2188 - 2196

   

8. A 12-month clinical survey of incidence and outcome of acute respiratory distress syndrome in Shanghai intensive care units

   • Yueming Lu
   • Zhifang Song
   • Shanghai ARDS Study Group

   Original Article 06 November 2004 Pages: 2197 - 2203

   

9. Endotracheal tube intraluminal diameter narrowing after mechanical ventilation: use of acoustic reflectometry

   • M. C. Boqué
   • B. Gualis
   • J. Rello

   Original 02 October 2004 Pages: 2204 - 2209

   

10. Changes in lung volume with three systems of endotracheal suctioning with and without pre-oxygenation in patients with mild-to-moderate lung failure

    • Maria-del-Mar Fernández
    • Enrique Piacentini
    • Rafael Fernández

    Original 12 October 2004 Pages: 2210 - 2215

    

11. Withholding and withdrawing life-support therapy in an Emergency Department: prospective survey

    • Philippe Le Conte
    • Denis Baron
    • Gille Potel

    Original 29 October 2004 Pages: 2216 - 2221

12. Preferred plasma volume expanders for critically ill patients: results of an international survey

    • Frédérique Schortgen
    • Nicolas Deye
    • for the CRYCO Study Group

    Original 28 September 2004 Pages: 2222 - 2229

    

13. Usefulness of B-type natriuretic peptide in elderly patients with acute dyspnea

    • Patrick Ray
    • Martine Arthaud
    • the EPIDASA Study Group

    Original 22 October 2004 Pages: 2230 - 2236

14. Dynamic microsimulation to model multiple outcomes in cohorts of critically ill patients

    • Gilles Clermont
    • Vladimir Kaplan
    • Derek C. Angus

    Original 21 October 2004 Pages: 2237 - 2244

    

15. Performance of two measures of general health-related quality of life, the EQ-5D and the RAND-36 among critically ill patients

    • Anne Kaarlola
    • Ville Pettilä
    • Pertti Kekki

    Original 03 November 2004 Pages: 2245 - 2252

    

16. Central venous catheters and cardiac tamponade in preterm infants

    • Marco Pezzati
    • Luca Filippi
    • Firmino F. Rubaltelli

    Neonatal And Pediatric Intensive Care 28 October 2004 Pages: 2253 - 2256

17. The neuroendocrine stress response and severity of acute respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis in infancy

    • Robert C. Tasker
    • Michael F. E. Roe
    • D. Roddy O’Donnell

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 06 November 2004 Pages: 2257 - 2262

    

18. Influence of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on histopathological and bacteriological aspects of pneumonia during low tidal volume mechanical ventilation

    • Pierre Emmanuel Charles
    • Laurent Martin
    • Pascal Chavanet

    Experimental 04 November 2004 Pages: 2263 - 2270

    

19. Septic diaphragmatic dysfunction is prevented by Mn(III)porphyrin therapy and inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibition

    • Nicolás Nin
    • Adriana Cassina
    • F. Javier Hurtado

    Experimental 02 September 2004 Pages: 2271 - 2278

    

20. Severe vagal response after endotoxin administration in humans

    • Lucas T. G. J. van Eijk
    • Peter Pickkers
    • Johannes G. van der Hoeven

    Brief Report 26 October 2004 Pages: 2279 - 2281

21. Superior vena cava collapsibility as a gauge of volume status in ventilated septic patients

    • Dinis Reis Miranda
    • Joris Mekel
    • Diederik Gommers

    Correspondence 12 October 2004 Pages: 2282 - 2282

22. Superior vena caval collapsibility as a gauge of volume status in ventilated septic patients

    • Antoine Vieillard-Baron

    Correspondence 10 November 2004 Pages: 2283 - 2283

    

23. Hypothermia in practice: role of cytokines, haemodynamic management and prevention of complications

    • Kees H. Polderman

    Correspondence 11 September 2004 Pages: 2284 - 2285

24. Practical aspects and prevention of complications during therapeutic hypothermia

    • Mayuki Aibiki

    Correspondence 14 September 2004 Pages: 2286 - 2286

25. Therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest: class I evidence?

    • Kees H. Polderman
    • James H. Ware

    Correspondence 11 September 2004 Pages: 2287 - 2287

26. Application of therapeutic hypothermia in the intensive care unit

    • John L. Moran
    • Patricia J. Solomon

    Correspondence 14 September 2004 Pages: 2288 - 2288

27. Unplanned extubation in medical and surgical ICUs

    • Farhad Kapadia

    Correspondence 17 September 2004 Pages: 2289 - 2289

28. Reasons for the higher incidence of unplanned extubation in medical ICUs than in surgical ICUs: reply to the letter by F. Kapadia

    • Philip Moons
    • Patrick Ferdinande

    Correspondence 15 September 2004 Pages: 2290 - 2290

29. December 2004

    Announcements 11 November 2004 Pages: 2291 - 2291