MEDICINA
INTENSIVA

Editor: Rui Moreno
Associated-Editors: Eduardo Almeida, Eduardo Silva

Board:
Emília Torres
José Andrade Gomes
José Chaves Caminha
Maria Purificação Oliveira
Paulo Baltazar
Pedro Póvoa
Ricardo Matos
Rui Seca

Scientific Council:
Ana Picado
Cristina Veríssimo
Fernando Rua
Filomena Martins
Isabel Pereira Lopes
Jaime Duarte
Jesus Raposo
Jorge Miranda
Jorge Pimentel
Maria Helena Mota Silva
Maria José Rebocho
Pedro Abecasis

Secretary: Cristina Sousa

• Editorial
  Rui Moreno
• Evaluation of cardiac output by thermodilution: a comparison of intermittent versus continuous determination
  Antero Fernandes, Pedro Póvoa, Pedro Moreira, Rui Mealha, Eduardo Almeida, Henrique Sabino
• Hemodynamic and ventilatory changes during in-hospital transportation of critically ill patients
  Cheila Simões, Sandra Martins
• Administration of drugs by naso-gastric tube
  Ana Maria Bento Serrumbia
• Interpretation of blood lactate levels
  Vitor Lopes
• Nitric oxide: clinical applications
  Pedro Matos Moreira
• Monitoring of gentamicin and vancomycin levels
  Eduardo Almeida, Manuela Rodrigues
• Fungal infections in Intensive Care
  José Artur Paiva
• Echocardiographic analysis of the right ventricular function. Pulmonary artery hypertension
  J. M. Ayuela Azcárate, Francisco González Vilchez
• Collaborative practice: reflections about EURICUS II
  Ana Cristina Rosa
• Recommendations for basic life support
  ERC/ILCOR
• Reanimation algorithm
  ERC/ILCOR
• Peri-arrest disrrythmias
  ERC/ILCOR
• External automatic defibrillation
  ERC/ILCOR
• The diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia in intubated patients: the unsuccessful search for the “El Dorado”
  Dolores Mariscal, Jordi Rello
• Brain death in the ICU. Clinical diagnosis and neurological examination
  Dolores Escudero Augusto
• Surgery of a pheochromocytoma: peri-operative evolution of arterial pressure
  José Andrade Gomes, Eugénia Santos, Isabel Madruga, Rosa Pote, Fernando Cássio
• Acute respiratory insufficiency in an elderly patient
  Lélia Areal, Victor Lopes, Eugénio Teófilo, Chantre Lima, Armindo Ramos, Eduardo Silva
• Recurrent pulmonary edema secondary to papillary muscle rupture
  Paulo Marcelino, Ana Paula Fernandes, Susan Marum, Joaquim Palmeiro Ribeiro
• Radiography of the month
  Victor Brotas
• How I insert a pulmonary artery catheter
  Eduardo Silva

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