1. Selective decontamination in European intensive care patients

   • Evelien A. N. Oostdijk
   • Bastiaan H. J. Wittekamp
   • Marc J. M. Bonten

   Editorial Open access 01 February 2012 Pages: 533 - 538

2. Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: is it ultimately only a matter of gravity?

   • Ioannis Pneumatikos

   Editorial 18 February 2012 Pages: 539 - 541

3. Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2011: III. ARDS and ECMO, weaning, mechanical ventilation, noninvasive ventilation, pediatrics and miscellanea

   • Massimo Antonelli
   • Marc Bonten
   • Haibo Zhang

   Year in Review 2011 Open access 14 February 2012 Pages: 542 - 556

4. Recommendations for sepsis management in resource-limited settings

   • Martin W. Dünser
   • Emir Festic
   • Global Intensive Care Working Group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

   Special Article Open access 14 February 2012 Pages: 557 - 574

   

5. Erratum to: Recommendations for sepsis management in resource-limited settings

   • Martin W. Dünser
   • Emir Festic
   • Global Intensive Care Working Group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

   Erratum Open access 10 March 2012 Pages: 575 - 576

6. International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound

   • Giovanni Volpicelli
   • Mahmoud Elbarbary
   • International Liaison Committee on Lung Ultrasound (ILC-LUS) for the International Consensus Conference on Lung Ultrasound (ICC-LUS)

   Conference Reports and Expert Panel 06 March 2012 Pages: 577 - 591

   

7. Prognostic implications of tissue oxygen saturation in human septic shock

   • J. Mesquida
   • C. Espinal
   • A. Artigas

   Original 07 February 2012 Pages: 592 - 597

   

8. Prospectively defined indicators to improve the safety and quality of care for critically ill patients: a report from the Task Force on Safety and Quality of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

   • A. Rhodes
   • R. P. Moreno
   • A. Valentin

   Original 26 January 2012 Pages: 598 - 605

   

9. Peripheral vasoconstriction influences thenar oxygen saturation as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy

   • Alexandre Lima
   • Michel Egide van Genderen
   • Jasper van Bommel

   Original Open access 14 February 2012 Pages: 606 - 611

   

10. Socioeconomic status, severity of disease and level of family members’ care in adult surgical intensive care patients: the prospective ECSSTASI study

    • Thomas Bein
    • Kathrin Hackner
    • Michael Leitzmann

    Original Open access 25 January 2012 Pages: 612 - 619

    

11. Development of demographics and outcome of very old critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units

    • Gerald C. Ihra
    • Judith Lehberger
    • Philipp G. H. Metnitz

    Original 22 February 2012 Pages: 620 - 626

    

12. Sleep and other factors associated with mental health and psychological distress after intensive care for critical illness

    • Sharon McKinley
    • Leanne M. Aitken
    • Doug Elliott

    Original 09 February 2012 Pages: 627 - 633

    

13. Dyslipidemia: a prospective controlled randomized trial of intensive glycemic control in sepsis

    • Sylas B. Cappi
    • Danilo T. Noritomi
    • Francisco G. Soriano

    Original 02 February 2012 Pages: 634 - 641

    

14. Standard subcutaneous dosing of unfractionated heparin for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in surgical ICU patients leads to subtherapeutic factor Xa inhibition

    • Sara S. Cheng
    • Kristen Nordenholz
    • Paul Wischmeyer

    Original 10 January 2012 Pages: 642 - 648

    

15. Validation of pediatric index of mortality 2 (PIM2) in a single pediatric intensive care unit in Japan

    • Toshihiro Imamura
    • Satoshi Nakagawa
    • Takeo Fujiwara

    Original 20 January 2012 Pages: 649 - 654

    

16. Interfaces for long-term noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in children

    • Adriana Ramirez
    • Vincent Delord
    • Brigitte Fauroux

    Pediatric Original 06 March 2012 Pages: 655 - 662

    

17. Implications of different fluid overload definitions in pediatric stem cell transplant patients requiring continuous renal replacement therapy

    • Rebecca M. Lombel
    • Mallika Kommareddi
    • Michael Heung

    Pediatric Original 11 February 2012 Pages: 663 - 669

    

18. Accuracy of non-invasive blood pressure monitoring in very preterm infants

    • Kai König
    • Dan M. Casalaz
    • Andrew Watkins

    Pediatric Original 06 March 2012 Pages: 670 - 676

    

19. Effects of tracheal orientation on development of ventilator-associated pneumonia: an experimental study

    • Alberto Zanella
    • Massimo Cressoni
    • Theodor Kolobow

    Experimental 18 February 2012 Pages: 677 - 685

    

20. In vivo conditioning of acid–base equilibrium by crystalloid solutions: an experimental study on pigs

    • T. Langer
    • E. Carlesso
    • L. Gattinoni

    Experimental 25 January 2012 Pages: 686 - 693

    

21. Time course of metabolic activity and cellular infiltration in a murine model of acid-induced lung injury

    • Vanessa Zambelli
    • Giuseppe Di Grigoli
    • Rosa Maria Moresco

    Experimental 26 January 2012 Pages: 694 - 701

    

22. Titin and diaphragm dysfunction in mechanically ventilated rats

    • Hieronymus W. H. van Hees
    • Willem-Jan M. Schellekens
    • Leo M. A. Heunks

    Experimental Open access 11 February 2012 Pages: 702 - 709

    

23. Pattern of end-of-life decisions in two Tunisian intensive care units: the role of culture and intensivists’ training

    • Islem Ouanes
    • Néji Stambouli
    • Fekri Abroug

    End of Life: National Legislations 11 February 2012 Pages: 710 - 717

    

24. Dismissal of the utility of free cortisol measurement is premature

    • Jeremy Cohen
    • Carel Pretorius
    • Bala Venkatesh

    Correspondence 06 March 2012 Pages: 718 - 718

25. Dismissal of the utility of free cortisol measurement is premature: response to Cohen et al.

    • Nienke Molenaar
    • Albertus Beishuizen
    • Johan A. B. Groeneveld

    Correspondence Open access 06 March 2012 Pages: 719 - 720

26. Cardiac arrest in pregnancy: lessons to be learned!

    • Virginie H. van Waning
    • Robin M. F. van der Weiden
    • Arjen J. B. W. Brouwers

    Correspondence 10 February 2012 Pages: 721 - 721

27. Work of breathing to optimize noninvasive ventilation in bronchiolitis obliterans

    • Lisa Giovannini-Chami
    • Sonia Khirani
    • Brigitte Fauroux

    Correspondence 21 January 2012 Pages: 722 - 724

    

28. Moxifloxacin-induced rhabdomyolysis

    • S. Sanjith
    • A. Raodeo
    • D. R. Karnad

    Correspondence 10 February 2012 Pages: 725 - 725

29. Effect of do-not-resuscitate orders on the penumbra of care

    • Angélique M. E. Spoelstra-de Man
    • Johannes G. van der Hoeven
    • Leo M. A. Heunks

    Correspondence 19 January 2012 Pages: 726 - 727

30. Human metapneumovirus in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of critically ill patients with suspected pneumonia

    • Marijke J. Vanspauwen
    • Walther N. van Mook
    • Catharina F. M. Linssen

    Correspondence 05 January 2012 Pages: 728 - 729

31. Diffuse digestive bezoar: a rare and severe complication of enteral nutrition in the intensive care unit (ICU)

    • Jean-Paul Bouwyn
    • Thomas Clavier
    • Nicolas Devos

    Correspondence 07 December 2011 Pages: 730 - 731

    

32. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Concomitant measurement of copeptin and high-sensitivity troponin for fast and reliable rule out of acute myocardial infarction

    • Yonathan Freund
    • Camille Chenevier-Gobeaux
    • Patrick Ray

    Original 01 February 2012 Pages: 732 - 732

33. Retraction of “Concomitant measurement of copeptin and high-sensitivity troponin for fast and reliable rule out of acute myocardial infarction”

    • Yonathan Freund
    • Camille Chenevier-Gobeaux
    • Patrick Ray

    Correspondence 10 March 2012 Pages: 733 - 734