Intensive Care Medicine: Annual Update 2008

ISBN-13: 9780387773827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 916 str.

Jean-Louis Vincent

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Intensive Care Medicine compiles the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

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Genetic Factors.- Are Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics Important for Critically III Patients?.- Genetic Susceptibility in ALI/ARDS: What have we Learned?.- Racial Disparities in Infection and Sepsis: Does Biology Matter?.- Cardiac Issues.- B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: An Emerging Biomarker in Pediatric Critical Care.- Cardiac Dysfunction in Septic Shock.- The Consequences of Cardiac Autonomic Dysfunction in Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome.- Quantification of Improved Left Ventricular Performance during Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.- Diastolic Dysfunction and Cardiac Failure in the Intensive Care Unit.- Pharmacological Support of the Failing Right Ventricle.- Perioperative Cardioprotection.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Improving the Quality of Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Care.- Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation.- Early Cooling in Cardiac Arrest: What is the Evidence?.- Emergencies.- Management of Severe Accidental Hypothermia.- Initial ICU Management of Skin Sloughing Diseases: Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.- Poisonings.- Pathophysiology of Caustic Ingestion.- Extracorporeal Life-Support for Acute Drug-induced Cardiac Toxicity.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Epidemiology of Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation.- Esophagectomy and Acute Lung Injury.- Glucocorticoid Treatment in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Friend or Foe?.- Regional Lung Function in Critically III Neonates: A New Perspective for Electrical Impedance Tomography.- Extracorporeal Lung Assist for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Past, Present and Future.- Ventilatory Support.- Protective Mechanical Ventilation: Lessons Learned From Alveolar Mechanics.- Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Asthma Exacerbations.- Hypercapnia: Permissive, Therapeutic, or Not at All?.- The Cardiopulmonary Effects of Hypercapnia.- High Frequency Oscillation for Acute Respiratory Failure in Adults.- Airway Pressure Release Ventilation: Promises and Potentials for Concern.- Postoperative Non-invasive Ventilation.- Tracheostomy.- Choice of Tracheostomy Tube: Does One Size Fit All?.- What’s new in Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy?.- Infections.- Novel Therapies in the Prevention of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia.- Management of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia.- Flucytosine Combined with Amphotericin B for Fungal Infections: A Postmarketing Surveillance and Future Perspectives.- Cellular Mechanisms in Sepsis.- Apoptosis in Critical Illness: A Primer for the Intensivist.- Regulation of Mitochondrial Function by Hypoxia and Inflammation in Sepsis: A Putative Role for Hypoxia Inducible Factor.- Gram-positive and Gram-negative Sepsis: Two Disease Entities?.- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-induced Sepsis: Role of Nitric Oxide.- Sepsis Therapies.- The Cardiovascular Management of Sepsis.- Terlipressin in Septic Shock: When and How Much?.- Blood Purification Techniques in Sepsis and SIRS.- Glutathione in Sepsis and Multiple Organ Failure.- Selenocompounds and Selenium: A Biochemical Approach to Sepsis.- Metabolic Alterations.- The Role of Hypoxia and Inflammation in the Expression and Regulation of Proteins Regulating Iron Metabolism.- Hyperammonemia in the Adult Critical Care Setting.- Magnesium in the ICU: Sine qua non.- Strict Glycemic Control: Not If and When, but Who and How?.- Cortisol Metabolism in Inflammation and Sepsis.- Fluid Management.- Assessment of Perioperative Fluid Balance.- Fluid Resuscitation and Intra-abdominal Hypertension.- Acute Kidney Injury.- Six Truths about Acute Kidney Injury that the Intensivist Should Be Aware Of.- Role of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Acute Kidney Injury.- From Hemodynamics To Proteomics: Unraveling the Complexity of Acute Kidney Injury in Sepsis.- Hemodynamic Assessment and Management.- Towards Optimal Central Venous Catheter Tip Position.- From Arterial Pressure to Cardiac Output.- Hemodynamic Monitoring: Requirements of Less Invasive Intensive Care — Quality and Safety.- Minimally Invasive Cardiac Output Monitoring: Toy Or Tool?.- Bioreactance: A New Method for Non-invasive Cardiac Output Monitoring.- Goal-directed Hemodynamic Therapy for Surgical Patients.- Tissue Oxygenation.- Use of Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation in ICU Patients.- Early Optimization of Oxygen Delivery in High-risk Surgical Patients.- The Influence of Packed Red Blood Cell Transfusion on Tissue Oxygenation.- Recent Advancements in Microcirculatory Image Acquisition and Analysis.- The Beneficial Effects of Increasing Blood Viscosity.- Anticoagulants in Organ Failure.- Protein C and Antithrombin Levels in Surgical and Septic Patients.- Thrombophilia as a Risk Factor for Outcome in Sepsis.- The Effects of Activated Protein C on the Septic Endothelium.- Improvement in Hemodynamics by Activated Protein C in Septic Shock.- Acute Bleeding.- Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage on the Intensive Care Unit.- Recombinant Activated Factor VII: The Delicate Balance between Efficacy and Safety.- Hepatic Disease.- ICU Management of the Liver Transplant Patient.- Liver Support with Fractionated Plasma Separation and Adsorption and Prometheus®.- Artificial Liver Support: Current Status.- Neurological Crises.- Encephalopathy in Sepsis.- Multimodality Monitoring in Patients with Elevated Intracranial Pressure.- Managing Critically III Patients with Status Epilepticus.- Analgesia and Sedation.- Sedation with Inhaled Anesthetics in Intensive Care.- Sedation or Analgo-sedation in the ICU: A Multimodality Approach.- Outcomes.- Time to Use Computerized Physician Order Entry in all ICUs?.- Quality of Life in Locked-in Syndrome Survivors.- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Intensive Care Unit Survivors.