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• Journal of critical care · Oct 2011

  Editorial

  Introduction: ECCC-IPACCMS-WFSICCM 2011 Annual Meeting Third Asia-Africa World Federation Societies Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Conference.

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• Journal of critical care · Oct 2011

  Comment Letter

  Tracheostomy scar and severe cough: more lessons.

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• Journal of critical care · Oct 2011

  Biography Historical Article

  Max Harry (Hal) Weil, MD, PhD, ScD (hon), MACP Master, FCCP, FACC, FCCM, FAHA 1927 to 2011.

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• Journal of critical care · Oct 2011

  Comment Letter

  Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection is not an independent risk factor for mortality in critically ill patients with hematologic malignancy.

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• Journal of critical care · Aug 2011

  Colorimetric capnography, a new procedure to ensure correct feeding tube placement in the intensive care unit: an evaluation of a local protocol.

  Radiography is the criterion standard method to ensure correct placement of a feeding tube. Recently, excellent results were reported using a combination of colorimetric capnography and epigastric auscultation, but the impact of this technique has not been studied to date. Objectives were to assess whether our local procedure, using colorimetric capnography to ensure proper feeding tube placement, improves the patient's care, satisfies nurses, and decreases costs compared with the standard procedure requiring systematic radiography. ⋯ The use of colorimetric capnography and epigastric auscultation to confirm feeding tube placement improves nurse's organization of care, saves time, and decreases costs.

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