1. Surviving sepsis—but for how long?

   • Peter Dodek

   Editorial 28 January 2005 Pages: 171 - 173

2. Turn the ARDS patient prone to improve oxygenation and decrease risk of lung injury

   • Antonia Koutsoukou

   Editorial 18 December 2004 Pages: 174 - 176

3. Year in review in intensive care medicine, 2004. II. Brain injury, hemodynamic monitoring and treatment, pulmonary embolism, gastrointestinal tract, and renal failure

   • Peter Andrews
   • Elie Azoulay
   • Benoit Vallet

   Year in Review 2004 28 January 2005 Pages: 177 - 188

4. Current recommendations for treatment of severe toxic alcohol poisonings

   • Bruno Mégarbane
   • Stephen W. Borron
   • Frédéric J. Baud

   Review 31 December 2004 Pages: 189 - 195

   

5. Why are physicians so skeptical about positive randomized controlled clinical trials in critical care medicine?

   • Jesús Villar
   • Lina Pérez-Méndez
   • Robert M. Kacmarek

   Clinical Commentary 23 November 2004 Pages: 196 - 204

6. Elastic pressure-volume curves in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome

   • Björn Jonson

   Seminal Studies in Intensive Care 17 December 2004 Pages: 205 - 212

   

7. One-year mortality of bloodstream infection-associated sepsis and septic shock among patients presenting to a regional critical care system

   • Kevin B. Laupland
   • David A. Zygun
   • Gordon H. Fick

   Original 22 January 2005 Pages: 213 - 219

   

8. Prone position improves mechanics and alveolar ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome

   • Antoine Vieillard-Baron
   • Anne Rabiller
   • François Jardin

   Original 13 October 2004 Pages: 220 - 226

   

9. Meta-analysis of controlled trials of ventilator therapy in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome: an alternative perspective

   • John L. Moran
   • Andrew D. Bersten
   • Patricia J. Solomon

   Original 28 January 2005 Pages: 227 - 235

   

10. Physiological effects of meals in difficult-to-wean tracheostomised patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    • Michele Vitacca
    • Giovanna Callegari
    • Nicolino Ambrosino

    Original 30 December 2004 Pages: 236 - 242

    

11. Use of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score as a severity score

    • André Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral
    • Fábio Moreira Andrade
    • Jean-Louis Vincent

    Original 25 January 2005 Pages: 243 - 249

    

12. Prognosis of acute renal failure: an evaluation of proposed consensus criteria

    • M. E. Ostermann
    • R. W. S. Chang
    • for the Riyadh ICU Program Users Group

    Original 28 January 2005 Pages: 250 - 256

13. Morphine pharmacokinetics during venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in neonates

    • Jeroen W. B. Peters
    • Brian J. Anderson
    • Dick Tibboel

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 28 January 2005 Pages: 257 - 263

    

14. Increased parathyroid hormone and decreased calcitriol during neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

    • Emily B. Hak
    • Catherine M. Crill
    • Russell W. Chesney

    Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care 01 February 2005 Pages: 264 - 270

    

15. Collateral damage or apocalypse now for European academic research

    • Ernst A. Singer
    • Christiane Druml

    News 20 January 2005 Pages: 271 - 271

16. Topical interleukin-8 antibody attracts leukocytes in a piglet lavage model

    • Tobias Ankermann
    • Tina Wiemann
    • Martin F. Krause

    Experimental 20 October 2004 Pages: 272 - 280

    

17. Characterization of the alteration of nutritional state in brain injury induced by fluid percussion in rats

    • Christophe Moinard
    • Nathalie Neveux
    • Luc Cynober

    Experimental 30 November 2004 Pages: 281 - 288

    

18. Plasma volume measurement in septic patients using an albumin dilution technique: comparison with the standard radio-labelled albumin method

    • Michael P. Margarson
    • Neil C. Soni

    Experimental 04 November 2004 Pages: 289 - 295

    

19. Volume expansion of albumin, gelatin, hydroxyethyl starch, saline and erythrocytes after haemorrhage in the rat

    • Johan Persson
    • Per-Olof Grände

    Experimental 18 December 2004 Pages: 296 - 301

    

20. Repeated generation of the pulmonary pressure-volume curve may lead to derecruitment in experimental lung injury

    • Dietrich Henzler
    • Andreas Mahnken
    • Ralf Kuhlen

    Experimental 09 December 2004 Pages: 302 - 310

    

21. Post mortem examination in the intensive care unit: still useful?

    • J. G. Zijlstra
    • J. J. M. Ligtenberg
    • T. S. van der Werf

    Correspondence 30 December 2004 Pages: 311 - 311

22. Post mortem examination in the intensive care unit: still useful?

    • Jean-Louis Vincent
    • George Dimopoulos
    • Isabelle Salmon

    Correspondence 22 December 2004 Pages: 312 - 312

23. Assessment of corneal epitheliopathy in the critically ill

    • Daniel G. Ezra
    • Marie Healy
    • Andrew Coombes

    Correspondence 23 November 2004 Pages: 313 - 313

24. Status epilepticus during acute hypercapnia: a case report

    • Stephane Legriel
    • Hervé Mentec

    Correspondence 23 November 2004 Pages: 314 - 314

25. Recombinant FVII in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT): a preliminary single centre experience

    • Andrea De Gasperi
    • Francesco Baudo
    • Luciano De Carlis

    Correspondence 09 December 2004 Pages: 315 - 316

26. Severe carbon monoxide poisoning after cleaning a polystyrene tank

    • Bernhard Jahrbeck
    • Boris Perras
    • Christoph Dodt

    Correspondence 09 December 2004 Pages: 317 - 317

27. Post-ICU mortality in critically ill infected patients: an international study

    • Élie Azoulay
    • Corinne Alberti
    • for the European Sepsis Group

    Erratum 25 January 2005 Pages: 318 - 320

28. February 2005

    Announcements 09 February 2005 Pages: 321 - 321