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EDITORIALS

3  Tracheostomy teams - filling a void

Antony E Tobin

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5  Why publish statistical analysis plans?

Simon Finfer and Rinaldo Bellomo

 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

8  The relationship between blood glucose level and QTc duration in the critically ill

Ellen Burkett, Gerben Keijzers and James Lind

 

14  Outcomes of patients with spinal cord injury before and after introduction of an interdisciplinary tracheostomy team

Tanis S Cameron, Anita McKinstry, Susan K Burt, Mark E Howard, Rinaldo Bellomo, Douglas J Brown, Jacqueline M Ross, Joanne M Sweeney and Fergal J O'Donoghue

 

20  Operator anaesthesiology training and complications after endotracheal intubation in the intensive care unit: a 3-year, prospective, observational study

Winston Cheung, Elizabeth Fugaccia, David Milliss and Govindasamy Thanakrishnan

 

28  Effect of implementation of a weekly multidisciplinary team meeting in a general intensive care unit

Winston Cheung, David Milliss, Govindasamy Thanakrishnan, Rachel Anderson and Jeffrey TH Tan

 

34  Femoral-radial arterial pressure gradients in critically ill patients

Steven T Galluccio, Marianne J Chapman and Mark E Finnis

 

CASE REPORTS

39  Post-hypoxic myoclonic status: the prognosis is not always hopeless

Sayan Datta, Graeme K Hart, Helen Opdam, Geoff Gutteridge and John Archer

 

42  Survival after a massive overdose of arsenic trioxide

Lawrence H C Kim and Simon J C Abel

 

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS PLANS

46  The NICE-SUGAR (normoglycaemia in Intensive Care Evaluation and Survival Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation) Study: a statistical analysis plan

Simon Finfer and Stephanie Heritier, on behalf of the NICE Study Management Committee and SUGAR Study Executive Committee

 

58  The RENAL (Randomised Evaluation of Normal vs. Augmented Level of Replacement Therapy) study: statistical analysis plan

Simon Finfer, Alan Cass, Martin Gallagher, Joanne Lee, Steve Su and Rinaldo Bellomo, on behalf of the RENAL Study Investigators

 

REVIEWS

67  Albumin is a blood product too - is it safe for all patients?

John A Myburgh and Simon Finfer

 

71  To transfuse, or not to transfuse: that is the question

Balu Bhaskar, Ben P Bidstrup, Yoke L Fung and John F Fraser

 

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

78  19th century pioneering of intensive therapy in North America. Part 3: the Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus and WIlliam P Northrup

Ronald V Trubuhovich