Background: Sepsis is associated with generalised endothelial injury and capillary leak and
has traditionally been treated with large volume fluid resuscitation. Some patients with …

Background Japanese (JPN) guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis were
published in 2006. The severity assessment criteria for acute pancreatitis were later revised …

Abstract Objective The European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) has developed
clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta …

Members of this Guideline Writing Committee (GWC) were selected by the European Society
for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) to represent physicians involved in the management of patients …

Abstract Purpose To update the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
(WSACS) consensus definitions and management statements relating to intra-abdominal …

This report summarizes current physiological and technical knowledge on esophageal
pressure (Pes) measurements in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. The respiratory …

The earliest mention of the term cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) came about from a 2004
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group conference evaluating the …

Purpose Acute gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction and failure have been increasingly
recognized in critically ill patients. The variety of definitions proposed in the past has led to …

Venous congestion has emerged as an important cause of renal dysfunction in patients with
cardiorenal syndrome. However, only limited progress has been made in differentiating this …

The clinical determination of the intravascular volume can be extremely difficult in critically ill
and injured patients as well as those undergoing major surgery. This is problematic because …