Too big, too small, or just right

The QT interval: too long, too short or just right.

Four Inches ! Too Close , Too Far , Just Right ?

The July 1992 Indoor Radon and Radon Decay Product Measurement Device Protocols, EPA 402-R-92-004 (EPA 1992) provides five measurement device location selection criteria that should be followed when placing a device within a room for measurement of the radon concentration. These criteria include: (1) a place where the device will not be disturbed and there is adequate room for the device, (2) a...

The Worldwide Spread of Noninvasive Ventilation; Too Much, Too Little or Just Right?

In the past 20 years, use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has increased from rare to highly prevalent in many ICUs around the world. In a single 26-bed French ICU, NIV use for patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) due to COPD and cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) increased from 20% of ventilator starts in 1994 to nearly 90% in 2001, associated with reductions in health care acquired pn...

Born too small or too soon.

In The Lancet Global Health, Anne Lee and colleagues from the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) make an important contribution to our understanding of the global burden of intrauterine growth restriction. What is new in this work is the evidence that the majority of growth-restricted neonates (assessed with the proxy of small-forgestational-age birth) weigh 2500 g or more at bir...

Considering age when making treatment decisions in the ICU: too little, too much, or just right?

There are a number of studies providing evidence that age is associated with treatment decisions for critically ill adults, although most of these studies have been unable to fully account for both prehospital health status and severity of acute illness. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Turnbull and colleagues present a well-executed study analyzing data from a prospective cohort study o...