Author's response to reviews Title: Hypothermia predicts mortality in critically ill elderly patients with sepsis Authors:

Author's response to reviews Title: Physicochemical analysis of blood and urine in the course of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: a prospective, observational study Authors:

Title: Physicochemical analysis of blood and urine in the course of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: a prospective, observational study

Using Iron-Chelating Agents in Critically Ill Patients with Iron Overload. Fact or Fiction?

Recently, some evidence has shown that the failure of iron homeostasis may occur in critically ill patients and can lead to iron overload. Elevated ferritin levels as a body iron burden index in critically ill patients may be associated with depressed level of consciousness and greater mortality. However, the necessity of using iron-chelating agents in clinical situation is still unknown for th...

Author's response to reviews Title: Stratification of the severity of critically ill patients with classification trees Authors:

Body temperature abnormalities in non-neurological critically ill patients: a review of the literature

Body temperature abnormalities, which occur because of several infectious and non-infectious etiologies, are among the most commonly noted symptoms of critically ill patients. These abnormalities frequently trigger changes in patient management. The purpose of this article was to review the contemporary literature investigating the definition and occurrence of body temperature abnormalities in ...

Hypothermia predicts mortality in critically ill elderly patients with sepsis

BACKGROUND Advanced age is one of the factors that increase mortality in intensive care. Sepsis and multi-organ failure are likely to further increase mortality in elderly patients.We compared the characteristics and outcomes of septic elderly patients (> 65 years) with younger patients (≤ 65 years) and identified factors during the first 24 hours of presentation that could predict mortality in...