reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. carbon dioxide 30 [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] mmHg and median temperature 37.1 [36.8-37.3]°C. After removal of artefacts, the mean monitoring time was 22 h08 (8 h54). All patients had impaired cerebral autoregulation during their monitoring time. The mean IAR index was 17 (9.5) %. During H 0 H 6 and H 18 H 24 , the majority of our patients; respectively 53 and 71 % had an IAR index > 10 %. Conclusion According to our data, patients with septic shock had impaired cerebral autoregulation within the first 24 hours of their admission in the ICU. In our patients, we described a variability of distribution of impaired autoregulation according to time. ReferencesSchramm P, Klein KU, Falkenberg L, et al. Impaired cerebrovascular autoregulation in patients with severe sepsis and sepsis-associated delirium. Crit Care 2012; 16: R181. Aries MJH, Czosnyka M, Budohoski KP, et al. Continuous determination of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure in traumatic brain injury. Crit. Care Med. 2012.

I . Total skinfold thicknesses (sum of seven sites) were measured in fifty-seven pregnant women with low energy and protein intake, at weeks 24,30 and 35 of gestation.2 . Women were classified in two groups (overweight and low weight), according to their weight-forheight at week 24 of gestation.3. Half of the women did not increase, or even reduced the amount of subcutaneous fat during the observation period. The lowest mean value of total skinfold thickness was found in the low-weight women who showed a reduction of the subcutaneous fat.4. This finding shows that a significant proportion of malnourished women do not follow the average pattern of subcutaneous fat accumulation seen in healthy pregnant women without food intake restriction, during the second half of pregnancy.It has been reported that the average healthy pregnant woman, without food intake restriction, deposits a fair amount of subcutaneous fat between weeks 10 and 30 of gestation and this deposition, which is greater in primiparae and in women with low initial weight, slows down after this time (Taggart, Holliday, Billewicz, Hytten 8t Thomson, 1967). However, it is not known if pregnant women from populations with a high prevalence of energy-protein malnutrition and restricted food intake show the same pattern.The present work aims to describe the magnitude and variability of the subcutaneous fat deposition during the second half of pregnacy in such a group of women of rural and urban origin.