Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E. Proceedings of the 21st Postgraduate Course in Critical Medicine: Venice-Mestre, Italy - November 10-13, 2006 /

Developing sectors in the Intensive Care field - and in Critical Care Medicine in general - require specific levels of competence having a same common denominator: an in-depth knowledge of human pathophysiology. Although this volume presents plenty of topics in constant evolution, as witnessed by th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Gullo, A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Temas:
Anesthesiology.
Critical care medicine.
Intensive Care Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethics
  • Dying in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Lung
  • Genetics and molecular biology in acute lung injury
  • Lung, respiratory mechanics, artificial ventilation
  • The pressure-volume curve
  • Methods for assessing expiratory flow limitation during tidal breathing
  • How to ventilate brain-injured patients in respiratory failure
  • Helping surgical patients to give up smoking
  • Respiratory issues and ventilatory strategies for morbidly obese patients
  • Fluid and Electrolyte Emergency
  • Fluid and electrolyte emergency
  • Electrolyte emergencies, anion gap, osmolality
  • Acute renal failure
  • Acute liver failure
  • Infections and Sepsis
  • Pneumonia in ventilated patients. Severe Gram negative infections; the impact on mortality and its prevention
  • Gram-positive ventilator-associated pneumonia: impact on mortality
  • Fungal infections in the ICU
  • Focus on the diagnosis and treatment of severe meningitis
  • Plasma filtration in sepsis: a research protocol
  • Highlights on Circulatory Failure, CPR and Trauma
  • The cell in shock
  • Tissue partial pressure of carbon dioxide tension measurements and microcirculation visualisation. New techniques for the study of low flow states
  • Ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation: contemporary understanding of mechanisms
  • Arterial waveform analysis to determine cardiovascular parameters
  • The Utstein style for the reporting of data from cardiac arrest
  • Challenges in trauma care
  • Advances in trauma care
  • Perioperative Medicine
  • Standards of care in operating theatres
  • Audit
  • Focus on entropy and surgical stress index
  • Neuraxial anaesthesia and anticoagulation
  • Regional anaesthesia in the patient with pre-existing neurological dysfunction
  • Infectious complications of regional anaesthesia
  • The Mayo Clinic total joint analgesic pathway
  • Acute therapy in patients with wide-QRS complex tachyarrhythmias
  • Obstetrics and Paediatrics
  • Obstetrics at high risk
  • Resuscitation of the newborn
  • Regional anaesthesia in neonates
  • Locoregional anaesthesia in children
  • Management of CRRT in paediatrics
  • Severity scores in paediatric intensive care units
  • Analgesia and sedation during mechanical ventilation in paediatrics
  • Computing
  • Latency reduction in clinical and translational research
  • Critical Care Bleeding
  • New frontiers in critical bleeding
  • Evaluation of performance of ICUs.

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