Update 1987 [electronic resource] /

Metabolic Crisis -- Metabolism in the Intensive Care Patient. -- Abnormal Metabolic Control in Septic Multiple Organ Failure -- Thermoregulation and Metabolic Rate in Injury and Sepsis -- Prevention of Multiple Organ Failure in the Critically Ill -- Parenteral Nutrition: When and How? -- Parenteral Nutrition: Practical Aspects -- Infectious Crisis -- Role of Complement Activation in Human Sepsis and Septic Shock -- Nosocomial Staphylococcal Infections -- Surgery in Infective Endocarditis -- Antiviral Chemotherapy: Potential Drugs for the Treatment of Severe Virus Infections -- Corticosteroids in the Sepsis Syndrome -- Pulmonary Edema — ARDS -- Formation and Clearance of Pulmonary Edema -- Lung Injury and Prospects for Therapy -- The Role of Pulmonary Surfactant in the Pathogenesis and Therapy of ARDS -- The Role of Prostaglandins in ARDS -- Chromogenic Peptide Substrate Assays: A Growing Concept in Intensive Care Medicine -- Shock Pancreas: A New Entity? -- Can ARDS and MOF Be Prevented? -- Etiology and Multiple Organ System Failure as Prognostic Factors in ARDS -- Altered Gas Exchange -- Management of Decompensated COPD -- Gas Exchange in Obstructive Lung Disease -- Dynamic Hyperinflation: Intrinsic PEEP and Its Ramifications in Patients with Respiratory Failure -- Assessment of Ventilation/Perfusion Abnormalities in the Critically Ill -- Mass Spectrometry in the ICU -- Respiratory Support -- Pulmonary Blood Flow and Blood Volume During Positive Pressure Ventilation -- Pharmacologic Interventions During Respiratory Failure -- Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV): A New Approach to the Management of Acute Lung Injury -- Beneficial Effects of Expiratory Flow Retardation During Mechanical Ventilation -- Role of Respiratory Muscles in Weaning -- Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation: Non-Ventilatory Considerations -- Extracorporeal Support in Acute Respiratory Failure -- Cardiovascular Crisis -- Assessment of Myocardial function -- Advances in the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction -- Thrombolysis in Acute Myocardial Infarction — A Race Against Time -- Inotropic Therapy in Acute Circulatory Failure -- Cardiocirculatory Failure in Children -- Pathophysiology and Treatment of Right Ventricular Dysfunction Due to Pulmonary Embolism -- Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Pulmonary Embolism -- Intensive Care in Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients -- Cerebral Resuscitation -- Cardiovascular Monitoring -- The Utility of Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Evaluation in the Intensive Care Unit -- Monitoring of Right Ventricular Performance in the ICU -- Dual Oximetry in Assessment of Cardiopulmonary function -- S?O2 Monitoring in Anesthesia and Postoperative Intensive Care -- Esophageal Measurement of Aortic Blood Flow by Echo-Doppler -- Two Dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiographic Monitoring of Ventricular Wall Motions -- Traumatic Shock -- Pre-Hospital Management of Severe Haemorrhagic Shock -- Fluid Therapy -- Transfusion of Blood and Blood Products -- Non-Neurological Management of Head Trauma -- Emergencies, Anesthesiology -- Epidemiologic Determinants of an Emergency Department Population -- Obstetrical Emergencies -- Asphyxia: A Re-Appraisal -- Hyperbaric O2 Therapy — New Approaches -- Emergency Abdominal Sonography -- The Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome -- Anesthetic Techniques in Circulatory Shock -- Sedative Therapy -- Indications of Muscle Relaxants and Methods of Paralysis Control in the Intensive Care Unit -- Current Problems -- Oncologic and Hematologic Problems in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unitv -- Prognostic Studies in the ICU: How Do They Affect Our Management? -- Organ Procurement and Donor Maintenance -- Is There a Place for Patients with AIDS in the ICU?.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Vincent, Jean Louis. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1987
Subjects:	Medicine., Emergency medicine., Critical care medicine., Surgery., Medicine & Public Health., Intensive / Critical Care Medicine., Emergency Medicine.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83042-6
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