ARTICLE OF THE MONTH

The Chair of the Editorial and Publication Committee, Salvatore Maggiore together with the journal Editor-in-Chief, Massimo Antonelli, select one (or more) article(s) per month among all of the manuscripts published in Intensive Care Medicine Online First and the print issue. The aim of this exercise is to provide you with a recently published manuscript on a timely topic that is commented and highlighted. It can serve as a basis for fruitful discussions and exchange of information within the Society and also with the co-authors.

April 2012 (Two articles):

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

Massimo Antonelli, Marc Bonten, Jean Chastre, Giuseppe Citerio, Giorgio Conti, J. Randall Curtis, Daniel De Backer, Goran Hedenstierna, Michael Joannidis, Duncan Macrae, Jordi Mancebo, Salvatore M. Maggiore, Alexandre Mebazaa, Jean-Charles Preiser, Patricia Rocco, Jean-François Timsit, Jan Wernerman, Haibo Zhang; Year in Review 2011; Volume 38, Issue 4 / April, 2012: 542 - 556

Recommendations for sepsis management in resource-limited settings

Martin W. Dünser, Emir Festic, Arjen Dondorp, Niranjan Kissoon, Tsenddorj Ganbat, Arthur Kwizera, Rashan Haniffa, Tim Baker, Marcus J. Schultz; Volume 38, Issue 4 / April, 2012: 557 - 574

For Clinical Implications, please see the April LIFEline Newsletter.

March 2012 (Two articles):

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2011. II. Cardiovascular, infections, pneumonia and sepsis, critical care organization and outcome, education, ultrasonography, metabolism and coagulation

Consensus statement of the ESICM task force on colloid volume therapy in critically ill patients

Konrad Reinhart, Anders Perner, Charles L. Sprung, Roman Jaeschke, Frederique Schortgen, A. B. Johan Groeneveld, Richard Beale, Christiane S. Hartog; Volume 38, Issue 3 / March, 2012: 368 - 383

For Clinical Implications, please see the March Newsletter.

February 2012 (Two articles):

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2011: I. Nephrology, epidemiology, nutrition and therapeutics, neurology, ethical and legal issues, experimentals

Contemporary extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult respiratory failure: life support in the new era

Graeme MacLaren, Alain Combes, Robert H. Bartlett; Review; Volume 38, Issue 2 / February , 2012: 210 - 220

For Clinical Implications, please see the February Newsletter.

January 2012 (Two articles):

Why substitute decision makers provide or decline consent for ICU research studies: a questionnaire study

Sangeeta Mehta, Friederike Quittnat Pelletier, Maedean Brown, Cheryl Ethier, David Wells, Lisa Burry, Rod MacDonald; Volume 38, Issue 1 / January , 2012: 47 – 54

Early detection of deteriorating ventilation by monitoring bilateral chest wall dynamics in the rabbit

Dan Waisman, Anna Faingersh, Carmit Levy, Eugene Konyukhov, Fatmi Ifat Colman Klotzman, Avi Rotschild, Amir Landesberg; Volume 38, Issue 1 / January , 2012: 120 – 127

For Clinical Implications, please see the January Newsletter.

December 2011 (Two articles):

The ALIEN Study: Incidence and outcome of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the era of lung protective ventilation

Jesús Villar, Jesús Blanco, José Manuel Añón, Antonio Santos-Bouza, Lluís Blanch, Alfonso Ambrós, Francisco Gandía, Demetrio Carriedo, Fernando Mosteiro, Santiago Basaldúa, Rosa Lidia Fernández, Robert M. Kacmarek  Original Volume 37, Issue 12 / December, 2011: 1932 - 1941

Predicting the success of non-invasive ventilation in preventing intubation and re-intubation in the paediatric intensive care unit

Christopher S. James, Christopher P. J. Hallewell, Dominique P. L. James, Angie Wade, Quen Q. Mok  Paediatric Original  Volume 37, Issue 12 / December, 2011: 1994 - 2001

For Clinical Implications, please see the December Newsletter.

November 2011:

Is influenza A(H1N1) pneumonia more severe than other community-acquired pneumonias? Results of the GiViTI survey of 155 Italian ICUs

Guido Bertolini, Carlotta Rossi, Daniele Crespi, Stefano Finazzi, Marco Morandotti, Sandra Rossi, Mario Peta, Martin Langer, Daniele Poole Original Volume 37, Issue 11 / November, 2011: 1746 - 1755

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