Debate

Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure/ARDS: the Show Must Go on

• Cesare Gregoretti
• Andrea Cortegiani
• Giuseppe Accurso
• Santi Maurizio Raineri
• Antonino Giarratano

Nitrous Oxide is an Effective and Safe Anesthetic

• Daniel I. Sessler

Judicious Use of Noninvasive Ventilatory Modalities for Severe Pneumonia/ARDS

• Nicholas S. Hill
• Erik Garpestad
• Greg Schumaker
• Giulia Spoletini

Should we Still use Nitrous Oxide in our Clinical Practice? No!

• Rolf Rossaint
• Mark Coburn
• Jan-Peter Jantzen

Should we Still use Nitrous Oxide in our Clinical Practice? No! Rebuttal to Daniel Sessler “Pro Nitrous oxide”

• Rolf Rossaint
• Mark Coburn
• Jan-Peter Jantzen

Response to Rossaint and Colleagues

• Daniel I. Sessler

Programmed Intermittent Epidural Boluses (PIEB) for Maintenance of Labor Analgesia: A Superior Technique to Continuous Epidural Infusion?

• Edward T. Riley
• Brendan Carvalho

Programmed Intermittent Epidural Boluses (PIEB): A Superior Technique for Maitenance of Labor Analgesia

• Allana Munro
• Ronald B. George

Programmed Intermittent Epidural Boluses (PIEB) for Maintenance of Labor Analgesia: A Superior Technique and Easy to Implement

• Allana Munro
• Ronald B. George

Deep Neuromuscular Block Facilitates Laparoscopic Surgery- or Probably Does Not?

• Béla Fülesdi
• László Asztalos
• Edömér Tassonyi

Programmed Intermittent Epidural Boluses (PIEB) for Maintenance of Labor Analgesia: An Incremental Step Before the Next Paradigm Shift?

• Brendan Carvalho
• Edward T. Riley

Neuromuscular Block and Blocking Agents in 2018

• Christoph Unterbuchner

Is Deep Neuromuscular Relaxation Beneficial in Laparoscopic, Abdominal Surgery?

• Christoph Unterbuchner

Does Deep Neuromuscular Block Facilitate Laparoscopic Surgery? The Picture is Not Clear

• Béla Fülesdi
• László Asztalos
• Edömér Tassonyi

Blood Transfusions Correct Anemia and Improve Tissue Oxygenation in Surgical and Critically ill Patients

• Can İnce

The Yin and Yang of Blood Transfusion

• Aryeh Shander
• Tamara Friedman

Optimum PEEP During Anesthesia and in Intensive Care is a Compromise but is Better than Nothing

• Göran Hedenstierna

General Anesthesia Closes the Lungs: Keep Them Resting

• Paolo Pelosi
• Lorenzo Ball
• Marcelo Gama de Abreu
• Patricia R. M. Rocco

Hydroxyethyl starch: the Paradigm of Eminence-Based Versus Evidence-Based Medicine-1

• Federico Bilotta
• Giovanni Giordano
• Fabrizio Caroletti
• Francesco Pugliese

Better Physiology does not Necessarily Translate Into Improved Clinical Outcome

• Paolo Pelosi
• Lorenzo Ball
• Marcelo Gama de Abreu
• Patricia R. M. Rocco

Open is Better Than Closed

• Göran Hedenstierna

The European Medicines Agency and the Authorization for Hydroxyethyl starch Containing Solutions–Killing the Cow to Get Rid of Ticks?

• Jakob Wittenstein
• Paolo Pelosi
• Marcelo Gama de Abreu

What is the Goal of Fluid Management “Optimization”?

• Giorgio Della Rocca
• Luigi Vetrugno

Fluid Therapy in Thoracic Surgery: A Zero-Balance Target is Always Best!

• Marc Licker
• Frédéric Triponez
• Christoph Ellenberger
• Wolfram Karenovics

Less Fluids and a More Physiological Approach

• Marc Licker
• Frédéric Triponez
• Christoph Ellenberger
• Wolfram Karenovics

Fluid Therapy Today: Where are We?

• Giorgio Della Rocca
• Luigi Vetrugno

Intensive Care Medicine: Enterprise and Journey

• Jozef Kesecioğlu

Educational and Training Programs in Intensive Care Medicine are the Right Way

• Lorenzo Ball
• Chiara Riforgiato
• Paolo Pelosi

Should we Administer Antifungal Drugs Before the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infection in Non-Neutropenic Critically Ill Patients?

• Andrea Cortegiani
• Vincenzo Russotto
• Santi Maurizio Raineri
• Cesare Gregoretti
• Antonino Giarratano

Appropriate Treatment of Invasive Candidiasis in ICU: Timing, Colonization Index, Candida Score & Biomarkers, Towards deEscalation?

• Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa
• Silvia Corcione
• Giorgia Montrucchio
• Luca Brazzi
• Giovanni Di Perri

Antifungal Treatment Strategies in the ICU: Beyond Meta-analysis

• Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa
• Silvia Corcione
• Giorgia Montrucchio
• Luca Brazzi
• Giovanni Di Perri

Dying with or Because of Invasive Fungal Infection? The Role of Immunity Exhaustion on Patient Outcome

• Andrea Cortegiani
• Vincenzo Russotto
• Santi Maurizio Raineri
• Cesare Gregoretti
• Antonino Giarratano

Intensive Care Medicine: Organization, Education and Politics

• Jozef Kesecioğlu

Intensive Care Medicine: Different Recipes for Shared Goals

• Lorenzo Ball
• Chiara Riforgiato
• Paolo Pelosi

Noninvasive Ventilation in Hypoxemic Patients: an Ongoing Soccer Game or a Lost One?

• Cesare Gregoretti
• Andrea Cortegiani
• Santi Maurizio Raineri
• Antonino Giarrjatano

Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure/ARDS – is There a Role?

• Nicholas S. Hill
• Erik Garpestad
• Greg Schumaker
• Giulia Spoletini

Letter to the Editor

Comment on Debate: Blood is Friend or/and Foe?

• Raghuraman MS