All great truths are iconoclastic: selective decontamination of the digestive tract moves from heresy to level 1 truth

HKF van Saene, AJ Petros, G Ramsay, D Baxby - Intensive care medicine, 2003 - Springer
Objective The objective was to compare evidence of the effectiveness, costs and safety of
the traditional parenteral antibiotic-only approach against that gathered from 53 randomised …

Propofol stimulates nitric oxide release from cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells

AJ Petros, RG Bogle, JD Pearson - British Journal of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Propofol, an intravenous anaesthetic agent, causes marked vasodilatation in vivo. In the
present study the effects of propofol on the release of nitric oxide (NO) from vascular …

Cardiopulmonary interactions in healthy children and children after simple cardiac surgery: the effects of positive and negative pressure ventilation

LS Shekerdemian, A Bush, C Lincoln, DF Shore… - Heart, 1997 - heart.bmj.com
Objective To investigate the effects of cuirass negative pressure ventilation on the cardiac
output of a group of anaesthetised children after occlusion of an asymptomatic persistent …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of the bispectral index monitor with the Comfort score in assessing level of sedation of critically ill children

SP Courtman, A Wardurgh, AJ Petros - Intensive care medicine, 2003 - Springer
Objective To compare the value of bispectral index as a monitor of sedation in critically ill
children with a validated sedation scoring system. Design Prospective convenience sample …

Effect of patient-and team-related factors on stabilization time during pediatric intensive care transport

EL Borrows, DH Lutman, MA Montgomery… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To examine the effects of patient-and transport-related factors on the time spent
at the referring hospital by an intensive care retrieval team to stabilize critically ill children …

Energy metabolism of infants and children with systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis

RA Turi, AJ Petros, S Eaton, L Fasoli, M Powis… - Annals of …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Objective To evaluate whether critically ill children with systemic inflammatory response
syndrome (SIRS) or sepsis have altered resting energy expenditure (REE) and substrate …

Terlipressin bolus induces systemic vasoconstriction in septic shock

MJ Peters, RA Booth, AJ Petros - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Terlipressin bolus induces systemic vasoconstriction in sept... : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Terlipressin bolus induces systemic vasoconstriction in septic shock* : Pediatric Critical Care …

Familial persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn resulting from misalignment of the pulmonary vessels (congenital alveolar capillary dysplasia).

HB Vassal, M Malone, AJ Petros… - Journal of medical …, 1998 - jmg.bmj.com
Misalignment of the pulmonary veins with congenital alveolar capillary dysplasia, although
rare, has been reported as a cause of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn …

Systemic antibiotics fail to clear multidrug-resistant Klebsiella from a pediatric ICU

AJ Petros, M O'Connell, C Roberts, P Wade… - Chest, 2001 - Elsevier
Study objectives: To determine the magnitude of infection rate and antimicrobial resistance
in a pediatric ICU (PICU), and to evaluate the efficacy of using broad-spectrum antibiotics …

The management of pulmonary hypertension.

AJ Petros, CM Pierce - Pediatric Anesthesia, 2006 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on the management of pulmonary hypertension in pediatric anesthesia.
The authors state the good reason for each therapy used as it affects the different steps in …