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• Assessing LV function
• Status of percutaneous tracheostomy
• Relevance of animal models in sepsis research
• Extracorporeal life support for severe hypercapnia

Editorial advisory board

Editor:

Dr J Denis Edwards

Editorial Advisory Board

• Professor R Bellomo, Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne and Director of Intensive Care Research, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
• Dr M Brückmann, Faculty of Clinical Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
• Professor P Carli, Director of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, SAMU de Paris, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
• Dr D De Backer, Assistant Professor, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
• Professor G Gutierrez, Professor of Medicine and Anaesthesiology, Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
• Dr K Hankeln, Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Zentralkrankenhaus, Bremen, Germany
• Professor H Hirasawa, Chairman, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
• Professor C-G Krenn, Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Anaesthesia and General Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital Vienna, Austria
• Professor H Matsuda, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
• Professor P Pelosi, Head of Section, Anesthesiology & Pain Management, Servizio di Anestesia e Rianimazione B, Ospedale di Circolo e Fondazione Macchi, Varese, Italy
• Professor A Perel, Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Dr K Polderman, Department of Intensive Care, Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Dr J Pugin, Attending Physician, Division of Medical Intensive Care, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
• Professor K Reinhart, Director, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller University Hospital, Jena, Germany
• Dr T Stewart, Associate Professor of Medicine and Anaesthesia, Director, Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada
• Dr R Tasker, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
• Dr A Torres, Associate Professor of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, Cap de Servei de Pneumologia i Allèrgia Respiratòria, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain
• Professor J-L Vincent, Clinical Director, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
• Dr J Wendon, Senior Lecturer & Honorary Consultant Physician, Institute of Liver Studies, King¹s College Hospital, London, UK
• Dr D Wyncoll, Consultant Intensivist, Guy¹s & St Thomas¹ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK