Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - A.P.I.C.E. (eBook, PDF)

Proceedings of the 20th Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine, Trieste, Italy - November 18-21, 2005

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Progress in the field of medicine over the last 50 years has led to important results for society, both in terms of prevention and in the treatment of single or variously associated pathologies. The main objective of modern medicine has been the acquisition of increased skills and highly specialised knowledge in the various disciplines. At the same time, there has been a progressive multidisciplinary and multi-professional interest in acute disease conditions that place the patient in potential or real life-threatening situations. The state of the art of intensive medicine comprises a wide range of sophisticated interventions and collaboration between different medical disciplines, both of which give the patient access to the most advanced forms of treatment that are currently available.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Italia
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788847004078
• Artikelnr.: 37411964

Inhaltsangabe

Basics in Critical Care.- Cellular response to mechanical stress.- Molecular biology: from the bench to clinical application.- Advances in Critical Care.- Autologous bone marrow cells transplantation in ischaemic cardiomyopathy: initial clinical results.- Haemorrhagic shock.- Microdialysis: principles and techniques.- Sidestream dark-field imaging and image analysis of oral microcirculation under clinical conditions.- Perfusion optimisation at the microcirculatory level.- Pacemaker resynchronisation in the treatment of severe heart failure.- The importance of guidelines in airway management.- BioGrid: a collaborative environment for Life Science Research.- Antibiotics.- The classifications of antibiotics.- An overview of antibiotic pharmacokinetics.- Evidence for immediate adequate parenteral antibiotics.- Focus on antibiotics: use and misuse in the intensive care unit, and antibiotics monitoring.- Central Nervous System.- Clinical significance of monitoring the central nervous system in the operation room and the intensive care unit.- Global hypothermia for neuroprotection after cardiac arrest.- Vegetative state.- Cardiovascular.- A personal account from four decades of cardiac care: is there a case for mechanical heart rhythm management?.- Oesophageal pacing and cardioversion-defibrillation.- Thrombolysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.- Cardiac resynchronisation therapy: do we know everything?.- Minimising reperfusion injury in settings of myocardial ischaemia.- Non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring: where we are in 2005.- Role of shock timing in cardiac vulnerability to electric shocks.- Analysis of arterial pulse and ventricular devices.- Ventilatory-metabolic monitoring and analysis of arterial pulse.- The assessment of cardiac performance in critically ill patients.- Haemodynamic monitoring of septic patients with pressure recording analytical method: preliminary observations.- The dark side of the moon: in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.- Lung.- Physiopathology of atelectasis during anaesthesia.- Effect of mechanical ventilation on right ventricular afterload.- Computed tomography evaluation of lung collapse and recruitment manoeuvres during anaesthesia.- Mechanisms of repair and remodelling in ARDS.- Corticosteroids in ARDS: back to the future.- Nitric oxide should be used in ARDS.- Formation and clearance of pulmonary oedema in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome.- Fluid, Electrolytes and Acid/Base Balance.- Diabetic ketoacidosis: incidence, biochemical abnormalities, pathophysiology, and diagnosis.- Endogenous metabolic acid-base abnormalities: lactate and other strong ions.- Metabolic acidosis.- Metabolic alkalosis.- Blood-gas monitoring.- Infections, Sepsis, Mods.- Epidemiology of infections in the PICU.- Strategy in the treatment of secondary peritonitis.- Combination therapy for sepsis: the wave of the future or too complex to consider?.- Implementation of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines.- Perioperative Medicine.- Perioperative cardiac risk stratification.- Risk evaluation and anaesthetic strategy in perioperative myocardial ischaemia.- Practice recommendations guidelines for pulmonary artery catheter.- Perioperative neuroprotection: is it possible to prevent brain injury in high risk patients?.- Drug interactions in anaesthetic practice.- Perioperative myocardial ischaemia.- Left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction.- Challenges in perioperative medicine: positioning.- The neurotoxicity of commonly used general anaesthetics: is it possible?.- Neuroprotection by N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists.- Neuroprotection by dexmedetomidine.- Choice of anaesthetics for neurosurgical anaesthesia.- Brain protection — the clinical reality.- Challenges in perioperative medicine: neuroanaesthesia.- Does anaesthesia influence the apoptosis pathway?.- Anaesthesia in orthopaedic surgery.- Critical Bleeding and Transfusion.- Severe bleeding in critical care.- Transfusion triggers in surgery.- Trauma and Disaster Medicine.- Pre-hospital trauma care: controversial aspects.- The unstable trauma patient.- What to do next: major chest trauma beyond the ‘recipe books’.- Application of new educational methodologies in disaster medicine.- Terrorist attacks: what have we learned?.- Paediatrics.- Difficult airway.- Rationale for the use of noninvasive ventilation in children.- Neonatal helmet-continuous positive airway pressure in preterm infants.- Helmet-delivered CPAP in children with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure.- Pain.- Organisation of an Acute Pain Service.- Pain management and patient satisfaction.- Quality of Care.- Monitoring process quality in intensive care.- Evaluating quality of life after intensive care.