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CONTENTS Vol.14No.4 OCTOBER 2007

    HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE

  Review the anticoagulants for continuous renal replacement therapy 511

Hideki SHIMAOKA

  Prevention of postoperative symptomatic cerebral injury after total aortic arch replacement 513

Mitsuhiro KAWATA, Tetsuro MOROTA, Shinichi TAKAMOTO

  Cost effective ways of the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections 516

Norio OHMAGARI

 

Peptic ulcer of reconstructed gastric tube after esophagectomy

517

Nobukazu HOKAMURA, Yuji TACHIMORI

  Tips for the interpretation of (1→3)-β-D-glucan in blood 519

Taminori OBAYASHI

  Clinical implication of quantitative analysis of (1→3)-β-D-glucan in systemic fungal infections   522

Keiichi IKEGAMI

 

Role of BIS monitoring in the intensive care unit  

524

Satoshi HAGIHIRA

    REVIEW ARTICLE

  Molecular mechanism of cerebral nerve injuries during intensive care and perspectives for neuroprotective therapy   527

Hiroyuki UCHINO, Kazuo USHIJIMA, Go HIRABAYASHI,
Nagao ISHII, Futoshi SHIBASAKI, Yasuhiro KURODA

    COMMENTARY ARTICLE

  Intensive care after heart transplantation 551

Yuji TAKAUCHI, Hideaki IMANAKA, Muneyuki TAKEUCHI, Tomoyo NISHIDA
Kazuya TACHIBANA, Takeshi NAKATANI

  An overview of psychometrics 555

Mitsuko YOKOUCHI

    ORIGINAL ARTICLES

  Nafamostat mesilate vs. low dose heparin for anticoagulation during continuous renal replacement therapy 563

Takehiro KITAWAKI, Shigehiko UCHINOEiji KAMIOKA
Jun UEHARA, Takashi MATO

 

Retrospective evaluation of postoperative symptomatic cerebral injury after total arch replacement under selective cerebral perfusion

571

Hironobu HAYASHI, Masahiko KAWAGUCHI, Satoki INOUE
Yoshitaka KAWARAGUCHI, Nobuoki TABAYASHI
Shigeki TANIGUCHI, Katsuji HIRAI, Hitoshi FURUYA

 

Does abolition of regular exchange of CVC increase the rate of catheter-related infections? -The verification of CDC guideline 2002-

577

Yuriko MAKINO, Takuya HASHINO, Wakaba MINAMI
Yoshikazu IKEDA, Yoshikazu SATO, Tomoyuki YAMASHITA
Satoshi BETTYAKU, Mitsugu FUJIMORI

 

Effects of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation on acute respiratory failure after extubation: survey in patients after cardiovascular surgery

585

Hideaki IMANAKA, Muneyuki TAKEUCHI, Naoya IGUCHI, Makiko ICHIKAWA
Chihiro TAKAYAMA, Shinsuke AKAEDA, Yumiko MIZUNO, Tomoyo NISHIDA

    CASE REPORTS

 

A case of shoshin beriberi complicated by acute myocardial infarction

593

Yoshinori NISHIYAMA, Shunsuke MIKAMI

 

A case of penetration of the reconstructed gastric tube ulcer into the pericardium

599

Yoshifumi NAKAUCHI, Mitsugu TANIGUCHI, Yukiko MIYAMURA
Takahiro HAYASHI, Shunichi MIYAZAKI

 

Two cases of deep mycosis with persistently high serum levels of (1→3)-β-D-glucan
after esophargeal surgery

603

Satoshi TAIE, Sayuri BEKKU, Takehiko ASAGA, Yasuyuki IWANAGA
Junichiro ONO, Yoshiharu SAWANOBORI, Masaaki UEKI, Nobuhiro MAEKAWA

    BRIEF REPORTS

 

Transient postural tremor in the convalescent stage of tetanus

 609

Haruko OTA, Masatoshi FUKUMOTO, Naoko TAKEUCHI, Hajime ARIMA

 

A validation study for urine output criteria of RIFLE criteria

611

Shigehiko UCHINO, Hiroshi MORIMATSU, Jun UEHARA, Takashi MATOU

  An attitude survey of physicians and nurses regarding BIS monitoring in ICU 613

Toshiya KOITABASHI, Yasushi INNAMI, Aki TOMINAGA
Takashi OUCHI, Naoji UMEMURA

  A case of sepsis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus treated successfully with linezolid in pediatric patient 615

Yuko FUJIWARA, Akira MATSUNAGA, Waka FUKUDA, Mie SAKAMOTO
Hideki MATSUO, Toru IMABAYASHI, Yasuyuki KAKIHANA, Yuichi KANMURA

 

Reaction time of the intensive care nurses to the vital sign alarm

617

Morikatsu TSUCHIYA, Takashi MATO, Midori USUI
Hiroto KIKUCHI, Haruhiko TSUTSUMI

    LETTER

  Nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia; diagnosis 619

Takeshi YASUKAWA, Yoshihisa FUJITA, Jiro HATA

 

Slipjoint of armored tube

620

Ken NAKATANI

 

Acute pyelonephritis associated with hydronephrosis: pitfalls of diagnosis

621

Haruki KUME

 

Intensive care for critically ill cancer patients

623

Osamu HONDA

 

Fast-track extubation protocol after cardiac surgery

625

Yasuyuki KAKIHANA