Jul y 2010 Volume 26 No. 1
SA JCC
THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE
Editor
daniel j ncayiyana Deputy Editor j P de V Van nieKeRK Scientific Editor lance MicHell Nursing Science Editor nicOla FOUcHÉ Assistant Editor eMMa BUcHanan Technical Editors MaRijKe MaRee ROBeRT MaTZdORFF PaUla Van deR Bijl Senior News Journalist cHRiS BaTeMan Head of Publishing ROBeRT aRendSe Production Manager eMMa cOUZenS Art Director SiOBHan TilleManS Design & DTP clinTOn MaRK GRiFFin TRaViS aRendSe Distribution Manager edWaRd MacdOnald Sales Director diane SMiTH Tel. (012) 481-2069 Sales Team
liSa Reid, aZad yUSUF, KeiTH Hill, andReW cROSS Associate Editors andReW aRGenT (UcT) SaTS BHaGWanjee (Wits) dean GOPalan
(University of KwaZulu-natal) iVan jOUBeRT (UcT) daVid linTOn
(Hadasa University, jerusalem) RUdO MaTHiVa (Wits) MeRVyn MeR (Wits) SaM MOKGOKOnG (MedUnSa) FaTiMa PaRUK (UcT) Helen PeRRie (Wits) GUy RicHaRdS (Wits) jUan ScRiBanTe (Wits)
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CONTENTS
News Editorial
• Nosocomial infection in South African intensive care units
W L Michell
Articles
• Antibiotic therapy of surgical infections
G A Richards
• Evaluation of a protocol to control methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSa) in a surgical cardiac intensive care unit
K Kindness, P Brysiewicz
• Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (s-TREM-1) from endotracheal aspirates in critically ill patients: a potential marker of the dynamic inflammatory burden of the lower respiratory tract
Gregory R Tintinger, C Laubscher, H Flickl, R Anderson
• The effect of penetrating trunk trauma and mechanical ventilation on the recovery of adult survivors after hospital discharge
H van Aswegen, C Eales, G A Richards, J Goosen, P Becker
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