Intensive Care Medicine

From the reviews:“This is the latest volume in an annual collection of review presentations in critical care medicine. … Practitioners and senior trainees in critical care medicine are an appropriate audience for this work. … Chapters contain a reference list of 10 to 30 citations. … This is a worthwhile update for … practitioners in intensive care medicine. … Use of faculty from an international critical care conference supports overall strength of this work.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, July, 2010)

• The Microcirculation.- The Microcirculation and Oxidative Stress.- Diagnosis and Treatment of the Septic Microcirculation.- Targeted Treatment of Microvascular Dysfunction.- Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Diagnosing Hypovolemia in Critically III Patients.- Measuring Stroke Volume Using Electrical Impedance Tomography.- Direct Arterial Pressure Monitoring: Pattern Recognition in the Management of Circulatory Failure.- Choosing Patient-tailored Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Resuscitation Issues.- Airway and Ventilation during CPR.- The Role of Gasping in Resuscitation.- Recent Concepts in Burn Resuscitation.- Intra-aortic Balloon Counterpulsation in Cardiogenic Shock.- IV Inflammatory Responses in the Lung.- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Acute Lung Injury.- Role of CD14 in Lung Inflammation and Infection.- V Mechanical Ventilation.- Measurement of Functional Residual Capacity during Mechanical Ventilation.- New and Conventional Strategies for Lung Recruitment in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Consequences of Pleural Effusions for Respiratory Mechanics in Ventilated Patients.- Weaning Failure of Cardiac Origin: Recent Advances.- Respiratory Failure.- The Effects of Pleural Effusion.- Fluid Management in Acute Lung Injury and ARDS.- Life-threatening Respiratory Failure from H1N1 Influenza: Lessons from the Southern Cone Outbreak.- Infections.- Cytomegalovirus Infections in Non-immunocompromised Critically III Patients.- Prevention of Central Venous Catheter-related Infection in the Intensive Care Unit.- Standardization of Care to Improve Outcomes of Patients with Ventilator-associated Pneumonia and Severe Sepsis.- Strategies for Implementation of Evidence-based Guidelines for Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infection.- Antibiotic Stewardship: Possibilities when Resources Are Limited.- Metabolic Support.- Vitamin D in Critical Illness.- Anticoagulant Therapies.- Update on Antithrombin for the Treatment of Burn Trauma and Smoke Inhalation Injury.- Update on Physiological Anticoagulant Factor Concentrates in Patients with Sepsis.- Anemia and Blood Transfusions.- Venous Oxygen Saturation as a Physiologic Transfusion Trigger.- Tissue Protective Activities of Erythropoietin.- Renal Disease and Therapy.- Doppler-Based Renal Resistive Index: A Comprehensive Review.- Atrial Natriuretic Peptide in Postoperative Acute Renal Failure.- Renal Dysfunction in Chronic Liver Disease.- Hemofiltration and Hybrid Therapies in 2010.- Timing of Renal Replacement Therapy.- Neurological Aspects.- Multimodal Monitoring: A Critical Tool in the Neuro-ICU.- Hemodynamic Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury.- Quantitative CT Scan and CT-Estimated Brain Specific Gravity in TBI.- Cerebral Perfusion in Sepsis.- Systemic Complications after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Perioperative Management.- Epidural Anesthesia: New Indications for an Old Technique?.- Risk Assessment and Prevention of Perioperative Stroke.- Overview of Chronic Post-thoracotomy Pain: Etiology and Treatment.- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- The Polycompartment Syndrome: What’s all the Fuss About?.- Laparostomy: Why and When?.- Drug Distribution and Clearance.- Augmented Renal Clearance: Unraveling the Mystery of Elevated Antibiotic Clearance.- Drug Distribution: Is it a more Important Determinant of Drug Dosing than Clearance?.- Risk Stratification.- Risk Stratification in Severe Sepsis: Organ Failure Scores, PIRO or Both?.- Critical Care Outreach.- On the Response to Acutely Deteriorating Patients.- Identifying Cardiorespiratory Insufficiency Outside the ICU.- End-of-life Issues.- An Update onICU Management of the Potential Organ Donor.- End-at-lite Care in the ICU: Commonalities and Differences between North America and Europe.- Patient Care.- Do Sleep Disorders have an Impact on Outcome in ICU Patients?.- Communication in Crisis: The Importance of ‘Verbal Dexterity’.- Patient Safety and Acute Care Medicine: Lessons for the Future, Insights from the Past.