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Springer Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1st Editon 2001 Softbound by A. Gullo
Basic research, progress in technology and informatics, and the success of clinical pharmacology are the fundamental bases of this interesting field of medicine. Nowadays, critical care medicine is no longer for experts only, but it is a field in which researchers and clinicians, nurses and technical staff work in an interdisciplinary way, each offering their own skills. The volume is divided in six sections, devoted to critical care key issues, to lung diseases, to trauma, to acid-base equilibrium, to perioperative medicine, and to obstetrics. Focus on Key Points on Critical Care.- One Clinicians Lifetime of Bringing Technology into Medicine and its Impact upon Critical Care Patients.- Monitoring in Acute Brain Injury.- Brain Protection.- Respiratory Effects of Anaesthesia.- Aspiration of Airway Dead Space: A New Method to Enhance CO2 Elimination.- Myocardial Preservation during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Reduced Post Resuscitation Myocardial Dysfunction after Low-Energy Biphasic Waveform Defibrillation.- Myocardial Dysfunction in the Perioperative Period.- Trauma Resuscitation.- Monitoring of Intra-Abdominal Pressure and Clinical Challenges in Intensive Care Unit Patients.- Experimenting on Your Fellow Humans in 2001. Update of the Declaration of Helsinki and Progress from the International Conference on Harmonisation.- Ethical, Legal, Practical and Scientific Challenges in Perioperative Medicine.- The WHO and Pain.- High Frequency Percussive Ventilation.- Lung.- Experimental Models of Acute Lung Injury.- Animal Models of Asthma.- Optimization of Ventilation and Perfusion Matching.- Alveolar Recruitment.- How to Open an Atelectatic Lung.- Clinical Experience with Open Lung Management Experience in Trauma Patients.- Semirecumbency Prevents Nosocomial Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients.- Acute Bronchial Asthma: Indications for Intensive Care.- Esophageal Pressure in Anaesthetized Patients: Difficulties and Frequent Mistakes.- Haemodynamic and Metabolic Evaluations by Rebreathing Methods.- Monitoring Pulmonary Capillary Blood Flow and Alveolar Dead Space Using the Combined Methods of Volumetric Capnography and “Partial CO2 Rebreathing” (Nico2).- Application of “Single Breath Volumetric Capnography” Analysis in Open Lung Strategy: Description of a Monitoring Tool.- How Permissive Should Hypercapnia Be?.- Capnography and Cardiac Output Determination.- Improvements in Percutaneous Tracheostomy: the Single-Step Rotational Dilation.- Trauma.- The Challenges of Delivering Acute Medical Services to Trauma Patients in Remote Locations.- Trauma — Stabilization, Assessment and Transportation.- Trauma Intensive Care: Early and Late Challenges.- Trauma Scoring Systems.- Blast Injury.- Prognosis in Cerebral Dysfunction in Patients with Head Trauma.- Respiratory Failure in Brain Injured Patients.- Blunt Chest Trauma.- Chest Trauma: Invasive Thoracic Procedures and Vascular Cannulation.- Abdominal Trauma.- Visceral Trauma: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology.- Trauma Operative Procedures: Timing of Surgery and Priorities.- Trauma in Children.- Trauma in Pregnancy.- Trauma in the Elderly.- Trauma Anaesthesia and Pain Management.- Metabolic Pathways in Trauma.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Trauma and Early Defibrillation.- Acid-Base Disorders.- Homeostasis: Basics, Definitions, Clinical Evidence.- Physical Chemistry and Clinical Acid-Base Physiology.- A “Post-Copernican” Analysis of Intracellular pH.- Physiological Consequences of Acid-Base Disorders.- Clinical Approach to Acid-Base Balance.- Using Base Excess.- Intraoperative Fluid Management.- Fluid Management in GI Surgery.- Postoperative Fluid Management.- Treatment of Acidosis: Sodium Bicarbonate and Other Drugs.- Lactic Acidosis.- Acid-Base Balance During Renal Replacement Therapies.- iPH and Splanchnic Dysfunction Management.- Crystalloids / Colloids: Controversies.- Perioperative Medicine.- Preoperative Assessment.- Patient Informed Consent.- Coordination and Responsibilities in the Operating Theatre.- How to Plan Anaesthesia.- Monitoring and Assessment of Perioperative Vital Functions in Major Non-Cardiac Surgery.- How to Balance General Anaesthesia.- Decision-Making during Anaesthesia.- Anaesthesia for Abdominal Surgery.- Total Intravenous Anaesthesia.- Dobutamine and Esmolol, Opposite Action or Sometime Synergetic Therapeutic Actions.- Intraoperative Spinal Cord Monitoring: Evoked Potentials an