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

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

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, published on the occasion of the 13th APICE congress in November 1998, which celebrated 40 years of Critical Care Medicine.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-01-01
Mått:170 x 244 x 42 mm
Vikt:1 333 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:1 000
Upplaga:1999
Förlag:Springer Verlag
ISBN:9788847000513

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Olycksfalls- och akutmedicin inom Medicin
Smärta och smärtbehandling inom Medicin
Omvårdnad inom Medicin

Innehållsförteckning

Progress in Critical Care.- A Life in Critical Care.- Clinics, Technology, Ethics, and Humane Patient-Physician Relationships and Critical Care (Monitoring, Diagnosis, Intervention Strategies).- Cerebral Resuscitation 2000 A.D..- Early Goal-Directed Invasive and Noninvasive Monitoring of High Risk Postoperative and Septic Surgical Patients Improves Outcome.- Postresuscitation Myocardial Dysfunction.- Telemedicine: 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.- Optimization of the Perioperative Period in High-Risk Patients.- Clinical Anaesthesia.- Standards in Anaesthetic Practice.- Hypnotics.- Analgesics.- Muscle Relaxants in Clinical Anaesthesia: 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 PerioperativePeriod.- Obstetric Complications.- Uncommon Diseases in Pregnancy.- Complications of Obstetric Anaesthesia.- Anaesthesia for Emergency Caesarean Section.- Obstetric Complications: 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.- Pathophysiology of Brain Temperature.- Exploring Cerebral Metabolism by Microdialysis.- Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Polyneuropathy in Critical Illness.- Polyneuropathy in Patients Undergoing a Neuromuscular Junction Blockade.- Muscular Wasting as a Consequence of Sepsis.- Current Status of Critical Care.- Epidemiology of Trauma.- Nitric Oxide in Sepsis and ARDS.- Management of Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Management of Acute Ischaemic Stroke.- Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Cytoprotection.- Focus on Hyperbaric Medicine.- Evidence-Based Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.- Intrinsically Safe Hyperbaric Centres.- Lung Function in the ICU.- Lung Function Monitoring in the ICU: AvailableTechniques 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.- Lung Function Monitoring: 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.