Recently published papers: treating sepsis, measuring troponin and managing the obese

Sepsis and septic shock continue to contribute to our workload and stimulate our research activities although many fundamental questions remain. Studies reported on here focus on inotrope use and a novel way of predicting inotrope response. Continuing this theme more fundamental work is reported exa...

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Published inCritical care (London, England) Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 535 - 537
Main Authors Mansfield, Nicholas D, Forni, Lui G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England National Library of Medicine - MEDLINE Abstracts 01.01.2005
BioMed Central Ltd
BioMed Central
Subjects
Biomarkers - blood
Cardiotonic Agents - therapeutic use
Critical Care - methods
Critical Care - trends
Female
Humans
Male
Mitochondria - metabolism
Obesity - therapy
Predictive Value of Tests
Prognosis
Sepsis - diagnosis
Sepsis - metabolism
Sepsis - therapy
Troponin I - blood
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Summary:Sepsis and septic shock continue to contribute to our workload and stimulate our research activities although many fundamental questions remain. Studies reported on here focus on inotrope use and a novel way of predicting inotrope response. Continuing this theme more fundamental work is reported examining the mitochondrial respiratory chain and the effects of sepsis coupled with interesting work on lactic acidosis. Troponin raises its head again and we are still left quizzing over its value in the ICU. Finally we discuss a paper on the outcome of the obese patient on a general ICU. Like sepsis a continuing challenge.
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ISSN:1364-8535
1466-609X
DOI:10.1186/cc3947