1. A short goodbye …

   • Laurent Brochard

   Editorial 14 February 2007 Pages: 393 - 395

2. Increasing evidence that the risks of rhAPC may outweigh its benefits

   • Peter Q. Eichacker
   • Charles Natanson

   Editorial 15 February 2007 Pages: 396 - 399

   

3. The search for “objective” criteria of ARDS

   • Daniel P. Schuster

   Editorial 13 January 2007 Pages: 400 - 402

4. Levosimendan in septic shock: another piece in the puzzle, but many pieces are still lacking

   • Daniel De Backer
   • Fabio Silvio Taccone
   • Peter Radermacher

   Editorial 30 January 2007 Pages: 403 - 405

5. Lactate in shock: a high-octane fuel for the heart?

   • Martin Matejovic
   • Peter Radermacher
   • Eric Fontaine

   Editorial 23 January 2007 Pages: 406 - 408

6. Defining and classifying acute renal failure: from advocacy to consensus and validation of the RIFLE criteria

   • Rinaldo Bellomo
   • John A. Kellum
   • Claudio Ronco

   Special Article 13 December 2006 Pages: 409 - 413

   

7. Year in Review in Intensive Care Medicine, 2006. III. Circulation, ethics, cancer, outcome, education, nutrition, and pediatric and neonatal critical care

   • Peter Andrews
   • Elie Azoulay
   • Christian Richard

   Year in Review 2006 14 February 2007 Pages: 414 - 422

8. The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC)

   • V. Marco Ranieri
   • Rui P. Moreno
   • Andy Rhodes

   ESICM Statement 16 February 2007 Pages: 423 - 425

9. Use of Drotrecogin alfa (activated) in Italian intensive care units: the results of a nationwide survey

   • Guido Bertolini
   • Carlotta Rossi
   • Daniele Poole

   Original 15 February 2007 Pages: 426 - 434

   

10. Incidence, treatment, and outcome of severe sepsis in ICU-treated adults in Finland: the Finnsepsis study

    • Sari Karlsson
    • Marjut Varpula
    • Esa M. Rintala

    Original 16 January 2007 Pages: 435 - 443

    

11. Is there a safe plateau pressure in ARDS? The right heart only knows

    • François Jardin
    • Antoine Vieillard-Baron

    Original 01 February 2007 Pages: 444 - 447

    

12. Assessing pulmonary permeability by transpulmonary thermodilution allows differentiation of hydrostatic pulmonary edema from ALI/ARDS

    • Xavier Monnet
    • Nadia Anguel
    • Jean-Louis Teboul

    Original 13 January 2007 Pages: 448 - 453

    

13. Pituitary-adrenal responses to human corticotropin-releasing hormone in critically ill patients

    • Ioanna Dimopoulou
    • Panagiota Alevizopoulou
    • Stylianos Tsagarakis

    Original 22 December 2006 Pages: 454 - 459

    

14. Ionic dialysance: a new valid parameter for quantification of dialysis efficiency in acute renal failure?

    • Christophe Ridel
    • David Osman
    • Christophe Vinsonneau

    Original 18 January 2007 Pages: 460 - 465

    

15. Infectious complications of percutaneous central venous catheterization in pediatric patients

    • M. Ángeles García-Teresa
    • Juan Casado-Flores
    • Cristina Fernández-Pérez

    Pediatric Original 19 January 2007 Pages: 466 - 476

    

16. Procalcitonin and C-reactive protein as markers of systemic inflammatory response syndrome severity in critically ill children

    • Corsino Rey
    • Marta Los Arcos
    • Belen Prieto

    Pediatric Original 27 January 2007 Pages: 477 - 484

    

17. Effects of levosimendan and dobutamine in experimental acute endotoxemia: a preliminary controlled study

    • Arnaldo Dubin
    • Gastón Murias
    • Elisa Estenssoro

    Experimental 30 January 2007 Pages: 485 - 494

    

18. Myocardial lactate deprivation is associated with decreased cardiovascular performance, decreased myocardial energetics, and early death in endotoxic shock

    • Bruno Levy
    • Arnauld Mansart
    • Patrick Lacolley

    Experimental 23 January 2007 Pages: 495 - 502

    

19. Inhaled nitric oxide increases endothelial permeability in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia

    • Florence Ader
    • Rozenn Le Berre
    • Benoit P. Guery

    Experimental 12 January 2007 Pages: 503 - 510

    

20. The effect of melatonin on endotoxemia-induced intestinal apoptosis and oxidative stress in infant rats

    • Durgul Ozdemir
    • Nazan Uysal
    • Hasan Ozkan

    Pediatric Experimental 22 December 2006 Pages: 511 - 516

    

21. Evaluating the use of Drotrecogin alfa (activated) in adult severe sepsis: a Canadian multicenter observational study

    • Salmaan Kanji
    • Marc M. Perreault
    • Lisa Burry

    Brief Report 15 February 2007 Pages: 517 - 523

    

22. Intensive care outcome of adult patients operated on for congenital heart disease

    • Luc Jacquet
    • Olivier Vancaenegem
    • Gebrine El Khoury

    Brief Report 20 December 2006 Pages: 524 - 528

23. Dose-related effects of direct hemoperfusion using a cytokine adsorbent column for the treatment of experimental endotoxemia

    • Takumi Taniguchi
    • Akihide Kurita
    • Hideo Inaba

    Brief Report 08 December 2006 Pages: 529 - 533

    

24. Vascular erosion by central venous catheters used for total parenteral nutrition

    • Criona Walshe
    • Dermot Phelan
    • Donal Buggy

    Brief Report 18 January 2007 Pages: 534 - 537

25. Effect of ornithine α-ketoglutarate on glutamine pools in burn injury: evidence of component interaction

    • L. Cynober
    • E. Lasnier
    • C. Coudray-Lucas

    Brief Report 18 January 2007 Pages: 538 - 541

    

26. Complete recovery from an unusual cause of coma

    • Jörgen M. P. Rovers
    • Elisabeth S. Louwerse
    • C. Peter C. de Jager

    Case Discussion Open access 14 February 2007 Pages: 542 - 544

    

27. Comment on Varpula et al.: Mixed venous oxygen saturation cannot be estimated by central venous oxygen saturation in septic shock

    • Chris Bourdeaux
    • John Hadfield

    Correspondence 19 December 2006 Pages: 545 - 545

28. Mixed venous oxygen saturation cannot be estimated by central venous oxygen saturation in septic shock: reply to Dr. Bourdeaux

    • Marjut Varpula
    • Sari Karlsson
    • Ville Pettilä

    Correspondence 19 December 2006 Pages: 546 - 546

29. Shock during heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: Look for adrenal insufficiency!

    • Nicolas Mongardon
    • Fabrice Bruneel
    • Jean-Pierre Bedos

    Correspondence 22 December 2006 Pages: 547 - 548

    

30. Euthanasia: a word no longer to be used or abused

    • Michael A. Kuiper
    • Leslie M. Whetstine
    • David Crippen

    Correspondence 19 December 2006 Pages: 549 - 550

31. The ACTH test should not be used in the decision to start low dose steroids in catecholamine-dependent septic shock

    • Jack J. Ligtenberg
    • Wilma E. Monteban-Kooistra
    • Jan G. Zijlstra

    Correspondence 13 December 2006 Pages: 551 - 551

32. Gender disparity in radial and femoral arterial size: an ultrasound study

    • Taro Minami
    • Lewis A. Eisen
    • Mangala Narasimhan

    Correspondence 12 January 2007 Pages: 552 - 553

33. Sedation assessment tool, sedation-algorithm, choice of sedation drugs: intricate concepts of an emergent clinical practice

    • Gerald Chanques
    • Samir Jaber

    Correspondence 18 January 2007 Pages: 554 - 555

34. Colistin and rhabdomyolysis: A causative agent or an innocent bystander?

    • Penelope Evagelopoulou
    • Andreas Katsaros
    • George Baltopoulos

    Correspondence 20 January 2007 Pages: 556 - 557

    

35. The “Lund concept”: what it is and what it isn't

    • Carl-Henrik Nordström

    Correspondence 27 January 2007 Pages: 558 - 558

36. The Lund concept: a well-defined therapy within the prescribed norms

    • Per-Olof Grände

    Correspondence 27 January 2007 Pages: 559 - 560

37. Comment on Mackenzie and Woodhouse: C-reactive protein concentrations during bacteraemia: a comparison between patients with and without liver dysfunction

    • Joep M. Droogh
    • Ingeborg M. Noppers
    • Jan G. Zijlstra

    Correspondence Open access 30 January 2007 Pages: 561 - 561

38. Serum C-reactive protein and liver disease in patients with melioidosis

    • Allen C. Cheng
    • Bart J. Currie

    Correspondence 30 January 2007 Pages: 562 - 562

39. C-reactive protein concentrations during bacteraemia: a comparison between patients with and withour liver dysfunction: reply to Droogh et al. and to Cheng and Currie

    • Iain Mackenzie
    • Joe Woodhouse

    Correspondence 30 January 2007 Pages: 563 - 564

40. Pulmonary bacterial co-infection in children ventilated for severe respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis is common

    • Kentigern Thorburn
    • Hendrik Van Saene

    Pediatric Correspondence 20 December 2006 Pages: 565 - 565

41. Announcements

    Announcements 14 February 2007 Pages: 566 - 566