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Respiratory failure is a complex disease process whereby the underlying disease and therapeutic measures interact. This book contains an extensive bibliographic review, focusing on preventive and therapeutic studies, that was methodologically standardized, with authors assessing and classifying studies according to statutes of evidence-based medicine. It considers the epidemiology and outcome of mechanical ventilation; addresses ventilator modes and utility of pulmonary mechanics monitoring for treatment; analyzes physiologic effect and patient-outcomes of pulmonary recruitment and lung...

Respiratory failure is a complex disease process whereby the underlying disease and therapeutic measures interact. This book contains an extensive bibliographic review, focusing on preventive and therapeutic studies, that was methodologically standardized, with authors assessing and classifying studies according to statutes of evidence-based medicine. It considers the epidemiology and outcome of mechanical ventilation; addresses ventilator modes and utility of pulmonary mechanics monitoring for treatment; analyzes physiologic effect and patient-outcomes of pulmonary recruitment and lung...

Hemodynamic monitoring is one of the major diagnostic tools available in the acute care setting to diagnose cardiovascular insufficiency and monitor changes over time in response to interventions. However, the rationale and efficacy of hemodynamic monitoring to affect outcome has come into question. We now have increasing evidence that outcome from critical illness can be improved by focused resuscitation based on existing hemodynamic monitoring, whereas non-specific aggressive resuscitation impairs survival. Thus, this book frames hemodynamic monitoring into a functional perspective...

Advances in Critical Care Testing contains clinical and laboratory studies related to critically ill patients involving new technology, therapy, and application or interpretation of new tests. The subject matter of the book is of interest to both clinicans and laboratory scientists with a wide range of topics including inflammation, infection, stress, hypoxia, ischaemia, cardiology, haemodynamics, blood gases, electrolytes, trace elements, nephrology, gastroenterology, haematology and new technologies.

Le condizioni di sepsi, sepsi grave e shock settico rappresentano i livelli gerarchici della risposta sistemica all'infezione normalmente causata da batteri in grado di determinare una condizione di disfunzione d'organo. Il quadro clinico e le citokine proinfiammatorie sono elementi importanti nella evoluzione della sepsi e l'elevato standard di cure rappresenta un elemento chiave per la sopravvivenza; in particolare il trattamento dell'infezione, la precoce stabilizzazione emodinamica e la terapia immunomodulatrice rappresentano alcuni dei punti cardine del trattamento della sepsi. Questo...

In this book are discussed topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. Chapter topics are the causes for heart failure; the pathophysiology of heart failure; coronary heart disease and ischemic preconditioning; hypertensive urgencies and emergencies; diagnosis of heart failure; preoperative cardiac risk assessment; hemodynamic monitoring in patients with heart failure; electrocardiography of heart failure - features and arrhythmias; pharmacologic management for patients with heart failure; devices for management of...

More than 20 years ago it was recognized by Stoutenbeek and colleagues that patients in the intensive care unit suffered from infections developed whilst being treated. Moreover, the majority of these infections appeared to originate from bacteria that were acquired in the intensive care leading to pathologic colonisation and overgrowth in the gut, subsequently leading to organ site infections. Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) is an antibiotic strategy which aims to prevent secondary infections in critically ill patients. This book provides both the scientific...

Eine Entscheidung zwischen Leben und Tod treffen zu mussen, gehort zu den schwierigsten Situationen fur die meisten Arzte.

Namhafte Vertreter der Medizin und Intensivmedizin, der Theologie, der Philosophie und des Rechts haben zu diesem aktuellen und diskussionswurdigen Thema Tatsachen und Gedanken zusammengetragen und praxisnah aufbereitet. Der Patient in Grenzsituationen Das Erleben von Grenzsituationen. Philosophie und Theologie: Lebensende: Ende oder Anfang der Philosophie - Leiden ohne Ende Lebenserhalt um jeden Preis. Grenzsituationen in einzelnen Fachgebieten:...

All the essentials of critical care in an instant

This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine.

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• Compact review of key board-type material for specialization in critical care medicine
• Trusted insights from a...