1. Searching for evidence: don’t forget the foundations

   • Laurent Brochard
   • Jordi Mancebo
   • Martin Tobin

   Editorial 18 October 2003 Pages: 2109 - 2111

2. Optimizing outcomes for older patients treated in the intensive care unit

   • E. Wesley Ely

   Editorial 17 July 2003 Pages: 2112 - 2115

3. Regional hypoxia and partial pressure of carbon dioxide gradients: what is the link?

   • Daniel De Backer
   • Jacques Creteur

   Editorial 14 October 2003 Pages: 2116 - 2118

4. Efficient literature searching: a core skill for the practice of evidence-based medicine

   • Gordon Stuart Doig
   • Fiona Simpson

   Review 03 September 2003 Pages: 2119 - 2127

   

5. Evaluation and management of decompression illness—an intensivist’s perspective

   • Kay Tetzlaff
   • Erik S. Shank
   • Claus M. Muth

   Review 05 November 2003 Pages: 2128 - 2136

   

6. Critically ill old and the oldest-old patients in intensive care: short- and long-term outcomes

   • Dominique Somme
   • Jean-Michel Maillet
   • Jean-Yves Fagon

   Original 12 November 2003 Pages: 2137 - 2143

   

7. The effects of ICU admission and discharge times on mortality in Finland

   • Ari Uusaro
   • Aarno Kari
   • Esko Ruokonen

   Original 05 November 2003 Pages: 2144 - 2148

8. Follow-up after intensive care: a single center study

   • Reidar Kvåle
   • Atle Ulvik
   • Hans Flaatten

   Original 04 November 2003 Pages: 2149 - 2156

   

9. Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein: a possible diagnostic marker for Gram-negative bacteremia in neutropenic cancer patients

   • Claudi S. M. Oude Nijhuis
   • Edo Vellenga
   • Eveline S. J. M. de Bont

   Original 16 October 2003 Pages: 2157 - 2161

   

10. Candidemia in critically ill patients: difference of outcome between medical and surgical patients

    • Pierre Emmanuel Charles
    • Jean Marc Doise
    • Bernard Blettery

    Original 10 September 2003 Pages: 2162 - 2169

    

11. Impact of adequacy of initial antimicrobial therapy on the prognosis of patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia

    • Olivier Leroy
    • Agnès Meybeck
    • Hugues Georges

    Original 12 September 2003 Pages: 2170 - 2173

12. Pulmonary capillary pressures during the acute respiratory distress syndrome

    • Silvia Nunes
    • Esko Ruokonen
    • Jukka Takala

    Original 29 October 2003 Pages: 2174 - 2179

    

13. Experiences with continuous intra-arterial blood gas monitoring: precision and drift of a pure optode-system

    • Matthias Menzel
    • Jens Soukup
    • Stefan Grond

    Original 03 September 2003 Pages: 2180 - 2186

    

14. The “lung pulse”: an early ultrasound sign of complete atelectasis

    • Daniel A. Lichtenstein
    • Nathalie Lascols
    • Gilbert Mezière

    Original 14 October 2003 Pages: 2187 - 2192

    

15. Temporal changes in muscle glutathione in ICU patients

    • U. B. Fläring
    • O. E. Rooyackers
    • F. Hammarqvist

    Original 18 October 2003 Pages: 2193 - 2198

    

16. HDL-cholesterol level and cortisol response to synacthen in critically ill patients

    • Peter H. J. van der Voort
    • Rik T. Gerritsen
    • Loek de Heide

    Original 18 October 2003 Pages: 2199 - 2203

17. Factors determining the appearance of glucose in upper and lower respiratory tract secretions

    • Barbara J. Philips
    • Jean-Xavier Meguer
    • Emma H. Baker

    Original 28 August 2003 Pages: 2204 - 2210

    

18. Influence of the humidification device during acute respiratory distress syndrome

    • Gwénaël Prat
    • Anne Renault
    • Erwan L'Her

    Original 06 August 2003 Pages: 2211 - 2215

    

19. Validation of the multiple organ dysfunction (MOD) score in critically ill medical and surgical patients

    • Thomas A. Buckley
    • Charles D. Gomersall
    • Sarah J. Ramsay

    Original 18 October 2003 Pages: 2216 - 2222

    

20. Using hierarchical modeling to measure ICU quality

    • Laurent G. Glance
    • Andrew W. Dick
    • Dana Mukamel

    Original 08 October 2003 Pages: 2223 - 2229

    

21. Alcohol withdrawal severity is decreased by symptom-orientated adjusted bolus therapy in the ICU

    • Claudia D. Spies
    • Hilke E. Otter
    • Edward M. Sellers

    Original 14 October 2003 Pages: 2230 - 2238

    

22. Comparison of the bispectral index monitor with the Comfort score in assessing level of sedation of critically ill children

    • Simon P. Courtman
    • Allan Wardurgh
    • Andy J. Petros

    Neonatal And Pediatric Intensive Care 10 September 2003 Pages: 2239 - 2246

    

23. Synthetic and natural surfactant differentially modulate inflammation after meconium aspiration

    • Anne Hilgendorff
    • Daniel Rawer
    • Irwin Reiss

    Neonatal And Pediatric Care 03 September 2003 Pages: 2247 - 2254

    

24. Changes in regional blood flow and pCO₂ gradients during isolated abdominal aortic blood flow reduction

    • Rafael Knuesel
    • Stephan M. Jakob
    • Jukka Takala

    Experimental 17 September 2003 Pages: 2255 - 2265

    

25. A canine study of immunotherapy in scorpion envenomation

    • Fekri Abroug
    • Semir Nouira
    • Alain Carayon

    Experimental 30 August 2003 Pages: 2266 - 2276

    

26. Marked reduction of brainstem blood flow in artificially ventilated newborn piglets during normoxia and normocapnic hypoxia

    • Ulrich Zwiener
    • Bernd Walter
    • Reinhard Bauer

    Experimental 16 October 2003 Pages: 2277 - 2284

    

27. Human leukocyte antigen-DR expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy donors influenced by the sera of injured patients prone to severe sepsis

    • Anke Mueller
    • Ernst Kreuzfelder
    • Hans Grosse-Wilde

    Experimental 04 September 2003 Pages: 2285 - 2290

    

28. Digoxin antibody decreases natriuresis and diuresis in cerebral hemorrhage

    • João C. Menezes
    • Eduardo J. Troster
    • Varujan Dichtchekenian

    Experimental 03 September 2003 Pages: 2291 - 2296

    

29. Fluorocarbons facilitate lung recruitment

    • Peter N. Cox
    • Helena Frndova
    • Charles A. Bryan

    Experimental 13 September 2003 Pages: 2297 - 2302

    

30. Prone ventilation following witnessed pulmonary aspiration: the effect on oxygenation

    • Jason Easby
    • Babu K. Abraham
    • Stephen Graham

    Brief Report 28 August 2003 Pages: 2303 - 2306

    

31. The relationship between labour cost per patient and the size of intensive care units: a multicentre prospective study

    • Guido Bertolini
    • Carlotta Rossi
    • Bruno Simini

    Brief Report 05 November 2003 Pages: 2307 - 2311

    

32. Electrical impedance tomography: a method for monitoring regional lung aeration and tidal volume distribution?

    • Inéz Frerichs
    • Peter A. Dargaville
    • Peter C. Rimensberger

    Brief Report 18 October 2003 Pages: 2312 - 2316

    

33. Elevated troponin T concentrations in critically ill patients

    • Jacqueline M. T. Klein Gunnewiek
    • Joris J. J. P. M. van de Leur

    Original 07 October 2003 Pages: 2317 - 2322

34. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) in critically ill obstetric patients

    • Giuseppe Servillo
    • Pasquale Striano
    • Rosalba Tufano

    Brief Report 06 August 2003 Pages: 2323 - 2326

    

35. Disseminated tuberculosis, pulmonary aspergillosis and cutaneous herpes simplex infection in a patient with infliximab and methotrexate

    • J. M. van der Klooster
    • R. J. Bosman
    • D. F. Zandstra

    Brief Report 05 November 2003 Pages: 2327 - 2329

36. Do different mattresses affect the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation?

    • Gavin D. Perkins
    • Robert Benny
    • Michael J. Tweed

    Original 20 September 2003 Pages: 2330 - 2335

    

37. End of life care in Canada after a murder charge in an ICU

    • Graeme Rocker

    News 23 October 2003 Pages: 2336 - 2337

38. Unusual central venous catheter malposition into the left internal mammary vein: a case report

    • Claudio Sandroni
    • Tommaso Pirronti
    • Massimo Antonelli

    Correspondence 16 October 2003 Pages: 2338 - 2339

    

39. Erratum to: Comparison of effectiveness of two urinary drainage systems in intensive care unit: a prospective, randomized clinical trial

    • Marc Leone
    • Franck Garnier
    • Claude Martin

    Erratum 08 November 2003 Pages: 2340 - 2340

40. Erratum to: Risk factors of nosocomial catheter-associated urinary tract infection in a polyvalent intensive care unit

    • Marc Leone
    • Jacques Albanèse
    • Claude Martin

    Erratum 08 November 2003 Pages: 2341 - 2341

41. December 2003

    Announcements 26 November 2003 Pages: 2342 - 2342

42. 2003

    Acknowledgements to referees 26 November 2003 Pages: 2343 - 2346