1. Let us recruit the lung and keep an open mind

   • P. M. Suter

   EDITORIAL Pages: 491 - 492

2. A role for plasma removal during sepsis?

   • M. P. C. Grooteman
   • A. B. J. Groeneveld

   EDITORIAL Pages: 493 - 495

3. The continuing story of corticosteroids in the treatment of septic shock

   • J. J. Spijkstra
   • A. R. J. Girbes

   REVIEW Pages: 496 - 500

4. Effects of periodic lung recruitment maneuvers on gas exchange and respiratory mechanics in mechanically ventilated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients

   • G. Foti
   • M. Cereda
   • A. Pesenti

   ORIGINAL Pages: 501 - 507

5. The impact of respiratory variables on mortality in non-ARDS and ARDS patients requiring mechanical ventilation

   • O. R. Luhr
   • M. Karlsson
   • C. G. Frostell

   ORIGINAL Pages: 508 - 517

6. Bioelectrical impedance analysis in estimating nutritional status and outcome of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute respiratory failure

   • C. Faisy
   • A. Rabbat
   • J.-P. Laaban

   ORIGINAL Pages: 518 - 525

7. Late steroid therapy in primary acute lung injury

   • T. Varpula
   • V. Pettilä
   • V. Valtonen

   ORIGINAL Pages: 526 - 531

8. Plasmapheresis combined with continuous venovenous hemofiltration in surgical patients with sepsis

   • J. Schmidt
   • S. Mann
   • H. Zirngibl

   ORIGINAL Pages: 532 - 537

9. Endotoxaemia in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock

   • C. Venet
   • F. Zeni
   • J. C. Bertrand

   ORIGINAL Pages: 538 - 544

10. Plasma cortisol is often decreased in patients treated in an intensive care unit

    • A. Rydvall
    • A.-K. Brändström
    • B. G. Stegmayr

    ORIGINAL Pages: 545 - 551

11. Control of fever by continuous, low-dose diclofenac sodium infusion in acute cerebral damage patients

    • M. Cormio
    • G. Citerio
    • A. Pesenti

    ORIGINAL Pages: 552 - 557

12. The increase in CO₂ production induced by NaHCO₃ depends on blood albumin and hemoglobin concentrations

    • J. Levraut
    • P. Garcia
    • D. Grimaud

    ORIGINAL Pages: 558 - 564

13. Acute renal failure following cardiopulmonary bypass: a changing picture

    • M. E. Ostermann
    • D. Taube
    • T. W. Evans

    ORIGINAL Pages: 565 - 571

14. Pericardiocentesis: differential aspects of a common procedure

    • A. Bastian
    • A. Meißner
    • R. Simon

    ORIGINAL Pages: 572 - 576

15. The added value that increasing levels of diagnostic information provide in prognostic models to estimate hospital mortality for adult intensive care patients

    • N. F. de Keizer
    • G. J. Bonsel
    • K. M. Rowan

    ORIGINAL Pages: 577 - 584

16. Effect of hypothermia on ventilation in anesthetized, spontaneously breathing rats: theoretical implications for mechanical ventilation

    • D. Torbati
    • M. T. Camacho
    • J. Wolfsdorf

    EXPERIMENTAL Pages: 585 - 591

17. Subcutaneous oxygen tensions provide similar information to ileal luminal CO₂ tensions in an animal model of haemorrhagic shock

    • B. Venkatesh
    • T. J. Morgan
    • J. Lipman

    EXPERIMENTAL Pages: 592 - 600

18. Accuracy and reproducibility of long-term implanted transit-time ultrasound flow probes in dogs

    • O. Picker
    • A. Schindler
    • T. W. L. Scheeren

    EXPERIMENTAL Pages: 601 - 607

19. Determination of the clearance factor for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents during the manufacturing process of polygeline

    • S. Peano
    • G. Reiner
    • K.-J. Abel

    EXPERIMENTAL Pages: 608 - 612

20. Report from the meeting: Gastrointestinal Tonometry: State of the Art

    • M. V. Chapman
    • M. G. Mythen
    • J. L. Vincent

    REPORT OF MEETING Pages: 613 - 622

21. Fulminant Guillain-Barré syndrome mimicking cerebral death: case report and literature review

    • F. Vargas
    • G. Hilbert
    • J. P. Cardinaud

    BRIEF REPORT Pages: 623 - 627

22. Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome: an unusual cause of respiratory failure in the medical intensive care unit

    • V. DiFresco
    • M. Landman
    • A. C. White

    BRIEF REPORT Pages: 628 - 630

23. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS): diagnosis and management

    • P. Myrianthefs
    • C. Ladakis
    • G. Baltopoulos

    BRIEF REPORT Pages: 631 - 634

24. Goal-oriented haemodynamic therapy: a plea for a closer look at using peri-operative oxygen transport optimisation

    • M. Poeze
    • J. W. M. Greve
    • G. Ramsay

    CURRENT TOPICS Pages: 635 - 637

25. Mechanotransduction, ventilator-induced lung injury and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

    • C. C. dos Santos
    • A. S. Slutsky

    CURRENT TOPICS Pages: 638 - 642

26. Critical Care Therapeutics

    • H. Steltzer

    BOOK REVIEW Pages: 643 - 643

27. Intravenous insecticide injection-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome successfully treated with steroid therapy

    • J.-L. Lin
    • K.-F. Lin

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 644 - 645

28. Milky-white pleural effusion in a patient with acute respiratory failure: a case report

    • K. Valassiadou
    • G. Prinianakis
    • D. Georgopoulos

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 645 - 646

29. Fulminant disease simulating bacterial sepsis with disseminated intravascular coagulation after a trip to East Africa

    • B. M. Sanner
    • C. Doberauer
    • W. Zidek

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 646 - 647

30. Noradrenaline as a vasoactive agent in septic shock

    • S. G. Tordoff
    • J. L. Thompson
    • A. W. Williams

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 648 - 648

31. Severe cardiogenic shock, after cardioversion, reversed by the intraaortic balloon pump

    • D. A. Kontoyannis
    • J. N. Nanas
    • S. F. Stamatelopoulos

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 649 - 649

32. ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Pages: 651 - 652

33. Author's reply

    • F. Lemaire

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: B650 - B650

34. Re: Lemaire F (2000) ARDS and PV curves: the inseparable duet. Intensive Care Med 26: 1–2

    • H.-B. Hopf

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: A650 - A650