Respiratory system and artificial ventilation are key topics when considering the main aspects of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine: assisted ventilation techniques are essential to preserve the patient's life, but just as any other treatments they can be also extremely pernicious.
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.
La respirazione meccanica è una procedura con cui ogni medico di medicina intensiva e ogni specializzando nelle discipline sia chirurgiche che di medicina generale si deve quotidianamente confrontare.
Developing sectors in the intensive care field - and in critical care medicine in general - require specific levels of competence having a same common denominator: an in-depth knowledge of human pathophysiology.
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.
In modern medicine the most functional methodologies are taking an increasing importance in spreading informations, rendering it credible while at the same time using reliable data to focus interaction between basic science and clinical medicine.
This volume is published under the auspices of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine, which consists of 48 members societies (both medical and nursing) - a truly world wide organisation - and whose aim is to promote excellence in the care of critically ill patients.
El Manual de crisis de anestesia tiene como objetivo principal servir de "ayuda cognitiva" inmediata a los profesionales que se enfrentan a situaciones de crisis tanto en el quirófano como vinculadas a pacientes críticos.
Brain resuscitation is the therapeutic intervention for critically ill patients with severe brain damage, particularly the types caused by ischemia and hypoxia.
Rapid progress in technology and its application to diagnosis and monitoring of brain tissue temperature and metabolism have resulted in advances in the therapy for critically brain-injured patients and breakthroughs in understanding the pathophysiology of brain damage.
This book introduces pathophysiology and practical heart failure (HF) management at the acute, in-hospital stages during hospitalization and also in the end-stages of HF.
The International Brain Hypothermia Symposium 2004, held in Tokyo, was a forum for many of the world's leading researchers and clinicians to present and discuss developments on the cutting edge of this most promising of neurological therapies.
Decision making regarding fluid volume loading, fluid restriction, or administration of vasoactive drugs may vary among physicians, depending solely upon their clinical experience in the absence of evidence-based measurement.
In response to persistent donor organ shortages, organs from marginal donors, such as expanded criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors, are now accepted and have been successfully transplanted, reducing the waiting times for transplantation.
Basiswissen für Mediziner und PflegekräfteDieses Buch vermittelt allen Medizinern und Pflegekräften, die mit neurochirurgischen Intensivpatienten zu tun haben, ein gutes Basiswissen.
Brigitte Guschlbauer erfährt im Jahr 2006 eine unglaubliche Zäsur in ihrem Leben: Ein schwerer septischer Schock mit Multiorganversagen wirft sie völlig aus der Bahn.
In den letzten Jahren zeichnet sich immer deutlicher ab, dass es eine Reihe von geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschieden hinsichtlich Entstehung, Verlauf, Klinik und Prognose von Herzerkrankungen gibt.
Die Sektion 'Kindertraumatologie' der DGU - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie - beschäftigte sich im Rahmen ihrer Jahrestagung mit dem wichtigen Thema "Das kindliche Polytrauma".
In den vergangenen Jahren sind zahlreiche neue Studien, Leitlinien und Techniken aus den Bereichen Kardiologie und Rhythmologie vorgestellt worden, die wesentliche Implikationen für die Intensiv-und Notfallmedizin haben.
Zwölf Jahre nach der Festschreibung der diagnostischen Kriterien der Sepsis werden die SIRS-Kriterien noch immer ignoriert, vor allem im Vorfeld der Intensivmedizin, aber auch auf den Intensivstationen.
"Herz Kreislauf kompakt" ist die Fortsetzung der von Martin Kaltenbach begründeten "Kardiologie kompakt" und behandelt in konzentrierter Form Epidemiologie, Pathophysiologie, Diagnoseverfahren und Behandlungsstrategien von kardiovaskulären Erkrankungen.
The publication of the Vth International Symposium 1995 on "e;Mechanisms of Secondary Brain Damage"e; in Mauls/ltaly is a collection of focused reviews reaching from novel molecular- and cell biological findings to aspects of clinical management in head injury and cerebral ischemia.
Recent technological innovations - influenced primarily by the development of more sophisticated, faster and cheaper computer systems - permitted also the evolution of more affordable systems for Patient Data Management, so called PDM-Systems.
