Review Article
Nitric Oxide in Septic Shock: Directions for Future Therapy?
In 1980, Furchgott and Zawadzki demonstrated that the relaxation of isolated arteries to acetylcholine required the presence of endothelial cells. This response was mediated...
Ventilatory Strategies for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was first described by Ashbaugh et al in 1967. The original authors detailed the presence of tachypnoea, hypoxaemia, decreased...
The Oxygen Delivery Debate—A Review
Multisystem organ failure occurs in a large proportion of critically ill patients and is a major cause of death in this group of patients....
Severity Scoring Systems in the Modern Intensive Care Unit
The first major general severity adjustment system, the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) system, was published in 1981. Since then, APACHE, the...
Controlled Observations in Critical Care Medicine: The Therapeutic Trial
Central to the combined diagnostic and therapeutic approach to the critically ill subject is the evaluation of both the basal physiologic status and its...
Critical Care Medicine in the Western Pacific Region
The Western Pacific region includes a very diverse group of countries varying in their culture, economic development and per capita income, disease prevalence and...
Critical Care—The Worldwide Perspective
Although special areas for postoperative patients existed 50 years ago, the modern specialty of Critical Care began during the polio epidemic of the 1950s....
Interventional Electrophysiology and its Role in the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Cardiac arrhythmias are disorders of the electrical system of the heart which can present as benign ectopics or as life-threatening arrhythmias and sudden cardiac...
A Review of the Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of Shoulder...
In the evaluation of chronic shoulder pain and dysfunction clinically suspected to be due to shoulder impingement syndrome and rotator cuff tendon tears, magnetic...
Epidural Analgesia in Obstetrics
Most obstetric anaesthetists have their favourite epidural concoction for use in labour, This paper surveys the variation in techniques of drug delivery and types...