Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E. Proceedings of the 13th Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine Trieste, Italy — November 18–21, 1998
The management of the critically ill patients has been in the past few years a discipline at the forefront of development which continues to make progress with the support of basic and clinical research. This work is a collection of material that deals with the management of critically ill patients,...
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Springer Milan
1999, 1999
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Table of Contents:
- Steps into the Future
- Evidence-Based Medicine in the ICU
- Ethics and Quality Control in the ICU
- The Problem of Informed Consent in Critically Ill Patients
- Progress in Scoring Systems, Safety and Quality of Care in the ICU
- Is Mortality the Only Outcome Measure in ICU Patients?
- Anaesthesia and Coexisting Diseases
- Perioperative Care: Physiology and Practicality
- Coagulation Disorders
- Neuromuscular Disorders and Anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia and Coexisting Diseases: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Available Techniques and Future Requirements
- Mechanical Ventilation and Lung Mechanics
- Pulmonary Gas Exchange in the Intensive Care Unit
- Pulmonary Haemodynamics in the Intensive Care Unit
- PET and Other Nuclear Medicine Techniques
- An Update
- Total Intravenous Anaesthesia
- Perioperative Care of Cardiac Risk Patients
- Perioperative Care of Cardiac Risk Patients: New Pharmacological Strategies
- Biochemical Markers of Myocardial Cell Injury
- Postoperative Intensive Care Therapy — In Which Patients and for How Long?
- Diagnosis in the Early Phase of Aortic Dissection
- Surgical Strategies in the Management of Acute Aortic Dissection
- Early Complications and Management After Bypass Circulation
- New Concepts of Antiarrhythmic Strategies
- Emergency Treatment of Bradycardic and Tachycardic Arrhythmias
- Perioperative Arrhythmias and Outcome
- Therapeutic Monitoring in the Perioperative Period
- Obstetric Complications
- Uncommon Diseases in Pregnancy
- Complications of Obstetric Anaesthesia
- Consumption Coagulopathy
- Perioperative Management of Hypertension
- Maternal and Foetal Mortality Rates During Pregnancy, Delivery and Puerperium
- Acid-Base Disorders, Diagnosis and Treatment
- Dimension of Fluid Compartments in Severely Ill Patients
- Pathophysiology of Acid Base Regulation
- Fluid and Electrolyte Management in Intensive Care
- Respiratory Acidosis and Alkalosis
- Metabolic Acidosis and Metabolic Alkalosis in the Critically Ill
- Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Acidosis
- Albumin: Is It a Play-Maker, a Carrier or Both?
- Assessment of the Cardiopulmonary Function in the ICU
- Capnography
- New Insights into Cardiovascular Monitoring: Continuous Arterial Thermodilution and Intrathoracic Blood Volume
- Echo Doppler Monitoring for the Evaluation of Cardiovascular Performances in Anaesthesia and in the Intensive Care Units
- Cerebral Homeostasis — Polyneuropathy
- Data Provided by CT Scan
- Bedside Replacement of Computed Tomography by Electrical Impedance Tomography
- Ventilatory Perfusion Mismatch in ARDS
- Volume Distribution and Ventilatory Modes in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Problems Associated with Clinical Determination of Pulmonary Shunting
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Lung Dysfunction and Ventilatory Management
- Pathophysiology of Unresolving ARDS: The Role of the Host Defense Response
- Pathophysiology of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- How to Diagnose Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
- Can Hygienic Measures Prevent Pneumonia?
- Ventilatory Support in Different Stages of Lung Dysfunction
- Strategies to Minimize Alveolar Stretch Injury During Mechanical Ventilation
- Modes of Ventilation and Weaning Strategies
- Proportional Assist Ventilation: Technique and Implementation