Antonio Gullo – författare

This critical care medicine book deals with acute patients in critical conditions, intended for those who, in their activity, need a continuous and in-depth interdisciplinary approach to optimize the quality of the treatments offered to critically ill patients. It offers an understanding of the limits of human intervention and aims at supplying updated guidelines; in particular, it is intended for those who, although having to guarantee continuity and top-quality therapies, must decide when and why the collaboration with, and intervention by, experts is necessary.

At the APICE '96 research scientists and clinicians were provided with updated guidelines for the treatment of patients with acute and chronic critical conditions. This volume contains 100 chapters,in which the main pathophysiological concepts were reviewed, with special emphasis on the cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, and neurologic systems. Special reference is made to the pharmacologic and biotechnologic strategies currently being used to support those vital functions that are affected by severe and sometimes devastating diseases. The topics of infection, sepsis,and SIRS have been reviewed and updated in keeping with the most recent information available, and particular focus has been directed to ethics.

The management of critically ill patients has,in the past few years, been a discipline at the forefront of development which continues to make progress with the support of basic and clinical research in the broadest sense. The application of biotechnology in this particular area has revealed itself to be essential in an attempt to provide the best interpretation of the bio-humoral and functional alterations present in a long series of often complex clinical conditions. The care of the critically ill is also at the forefront in the application of increasingly sophisticated clinical monitoring systems that also contribute to standardizing certain procedures, establish guidelines, and evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic interventions and their costs.

Il volume è destinato a migliorare gli standards di formazione e di aggionarmento nel settore anestesiologico. I contenuti vogliono essere una guida per operare meglio in funzione del paziente. Il testo è rivolto sia agli specialisti del settore che agli specializzandi in anestesia.