The Splanchnic Circulation No Longer a Silent Partner

This compendium offers the reader a single source from which to review or reference the field of splanchnic circulation in the critically ill, focusing on its role of defining gut and hepatic function, and remote organ interactions. Clinically relevant outcome studies of novel and evolving diagnosti...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pinsky, Michael R. (Editor), Dhainaut, Jean-Francois (Editor), Artigas, Antonio (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Series:Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Regional Blood Flow Distribution
  • Gut Metabolism and Anion Flux
  • The Splanchnic Microcirculation: Cytokines and Cell Adhesion Molecules
  • Effects of N-Acetyl-Cysteine on Splanchnic Circulation
  • Hepatic Acute-Phase Response
  • Effects of Catecholamines on Hepatic Blood Flow: Tissue Oxygenation
  • Liver-Lung Interactions in Critical Illness
  • Lung-Liver Interface
  • Regional Monitoring of Gut Mucosal Viability
  • Gastric Intramucosal pH Determination: Limitations of the Technique
  • Gut Permeability
  • Serum Lactate: Marker of Prognosis, Not Inadequacy of Oxygen Delivery
  • Augmentation of Splanchnic Blood Flow
  • Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract
  • Effect of Aspirin on Central and Peripheral Cardiovascular Adaption to Exercise in Heart Failure: Participation of Splanchnic Flow
  • Resuscitation of Trauma Patients