Intensive and Critical Care Medicine: Reflections, Recommendations and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9788847003491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 236 str.

A. Gullo; Antonio Gullo; Philip D. Lumb

Opis

Published under the auspices of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine, which consists of 48 members societies, both medical and nursing. It is a world wide organisation whose aim is to promote excellence in the care of critically ill patients.

Spis treści

Introduction: World Federation 1993—1997.- Consent and Intensive Care: Is It Possible?.- Hepatorenal Syndrome.- HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries.- Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Order.- Molecular Biology in Critical Care: Is It More Than a Look Only?.- Resource Management and Audits in Intensive Care Medicine.- Sepsis and Organ(s) Dysfunction — Key Points, Reflections, and Perspectives.- How to Evaluate Performance of Adult Intensive Care Units: A 30Year Experience.- Research Ethics in Critical Care Medicine.- Scoring Systems and Outcome.- Clinical Decision Making for Non-Invasive Ventilation.- Control of Infections in Intensive Care Units.- Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism.- Critical Care Nursing, a WorldWide Perspective.- Cost of Care in Critical Illness.

Blurb

The volume will provide an update on problems concerning respiration, cardiovascular medicine, monitoring, organizational aspects and quality of care; other important aspects will be discussed, from  critical patients'  treatment and informed consent  to  costs managements,  research and auditing, severity scores and  control of infections in intensive care. Sepsis and organ dysfunction will be dealt with in detail. A brief account of records of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine introduces some of the drawbacks encountered during its thirty-year-old history.