•Intelligent ventilation in the ICU – history and potential
• Endotracheal tube cuff pressure management
• Intra-abdominal pressure – a predictor of severity and
mortality in severe acute pancreatitis
• Predicting mortality in elderly patients admitted to the ICU

Stewardship and the nursing profession
Oral care practices in the intensive care unit
Oral chorhexidine in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia

• Malpractice in the ICU
• Intensive care nursing in South Africa
• The effect of intra-abdominal hypertension on gastro-intestinal function
• COPICON Congress 2011: Abstracts

PTSD and burnout in critical care nurses
Providing psychosocial support to families of critical ill trauma patients
Psychological sequelae following ICU admission
Critical Care Congress abstracts

Antibiotic therapy of surgical infections
A protocol to control MRSA in a surgical cardiac ICU
Role of soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells from endotracheal aspirates
Recovery after penetrating trunk trauma and mechanical ventilation

Providing oral care in the ICU
Validity and reliability of the TISS-28 in a public sector hospital
Prevention and management of ventilator-associated pneumonia

Critical Care in the Developing World
Critical care in Africa
Pattern of admissions to a Nigerian teaching hospital ICU
Unplanned postoperative ICU admissions in Nigeria
Paediatric airway management

Rising to the nursing challenge
Benner is back!
From ICU to Outreach
CABG in Cape Town - patient profile and lenght of stay
Measuring intra-abdominal pessure

National credit of critical care resources
Pressure sores in spinal cord injury
Avoiding etomidate for emergency intubation
Improving the quality of care of the critically ill patients
Critical Care Congress abstracts

The OSD - a threat to quality nursing care?
The care bundle approach in the ICU
Oral hygiene care in the critically ill
Nurse allocation in a cardiothoracic ICU
Postgraduate critical care nursing research, 2006

Enterocyte protection
Accuracy in estimating backrest elevation
The abdominal compartment syndrome
Guideline - insulin in the ICU
Critical Care Congress abstracts

The critical care nursing workforce surveyed
A profile of critical care nursing research in SA
Psychosocial intervention for famalies of the critically ill
Caring for the dying patient
Drug safety in the ICU

Intravascular catheter-related infection
ICU outcome evaluation
Cardiopulmonary interactions
Emergency medical care in North-West province
Critical Care Congress abstracts