title: The neglected role of abdominal compliance in organ-organ interactions.
abstract: This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency medicine 2016. Other selected articles can be found online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2016. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.
authors.affiliation: Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, ZNA Stuivenberg, Intensive Care Unit and High Care Burn Unit, B-2060, Antwerp, Belgium. manu.malbrain@skynet.be.
authors.forename: Manu L N G
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Malbrain
authors.affiliation: Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, ZNA Stuivenberg, Intensive Care Unit and High Care Burn Unit, B-2060, Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Yannick
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Peeters
authors.affiliation: Head Clinical Unit Critical Care, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.|South African Peri-operative Research Group, Discipline of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wise
mesh_terms: D034841:Abdominal Cavity / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D059325:Intra-Abdominal Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods