International Sepsis Forum Free Paper Presentations

Sengupta P Sessler D Maglinger P . Endotracheal tube cuff pressure in three hospitals, and the volume required to produce an appropriate cuff pressure. BMC Anaesthesiol 2004;4: 8.

Jordan P Rooyen D Venter D . Endotracheal tube cuff pressure management in adult critical care units. SAJCC 2012;28: 13–18.

Vyas D Inweregbu K Pittard A . Measurement of tracheal tube cuff pressure in critical care. Anaesthesia 2002;57: 275–77.

Rivers E . Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. N Engl J Med20018;345: 1368–77.

Dellinger RP . Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008. Crit Care Med 2008;36: 296–327.

Chatterjee A DePriest K Blair R . Results of a survey of blood pressure monitoring by intensivist in critically ill patients: a preliminary study. Crit Care Med 2010;38: 2335–38.

Harrison DA Welch CA Eddleston JM . The epidemiology of severe sepsis in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 1996 to 2004: secondary analysis of a high quality clinical database, the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database. Crit Care 2006;10: R42.

Hunter P . Sepsis under siege: a new understanding of sepsis might lead to the development of therapies to treat septic shock. EMBO Rep 2006;7: 667–69.

Angus DC . Drotrecogin alfa (activated) … a sad final fizzle to a roller-coaster party. Crit Care 2012;16: 107.

Boomer JS . Immunosuppression in patients who die of sepsis and multiple organ failure. JAMA 2011;306: 2594–605.

Kroca M Tärnvik A Sjöstedt A . The proportion of circulating γδ T cells increases after the first week of onset of tularaemia and remains elevated for more than a year. Clin Exp Immunol 2000;120: 280–84.

Fraenkel DJ Rickard C Lipman J . Can we achieve consensus on central venous catheter related infections? Anaesth Intensive Care 2000; 28: 475–90.

Crnich CJ Maki DG . Infections caused by intravascular devices: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. In: APIC Text of Infection Control and Epidemiology. 2005; Vol 1. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc; pp 24.21–24.26.

Blot SI Depuydt P Annemans L . Clinical and economic outcomes in critically ill patients with nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infections. Clin Infect Dis 2005;41: 1591–98.

Pittet D Tarara D Wenzel RP . Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients: excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality. JAMA 1994;271: 1598–601.

Rijnders BJ Van Wijngaerden E Peetermans WE . Catheter-tip colonization as a surrogate end point in clinical studies on catheter-related bloodstream infection: how strong is the evidence? Clin Infect Dis 2002; 35: 1053–58.