Only very few therapeutic modalities are used as extensively as mechanical ventilation in intensive care units, during anaesthesia and in emergency situations.
This volume contains contributions by well-known scientistsand clinicians in the fields of microbiology, infectiousdiseases, physiology, internal medicine, surgery,anaesthesiology, and intensive care medicine.
This welcome addition to the series Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine emerges from the most recent of a series of meetings organized by Alvar Net and Salvador Benito of Barcelona.
Disturbances in peripheral O extraction can be produced in dogs treated with 2 endotoxin and thereby provide an opportunity to test theories for the origin of pathological O supply dependency or to try different treatment modalities.
Selective decontamination is a technique which combines short-term and long-term antimicrobials to prevent or treat the acquisition and subsequent carriage of microorganisms causing late colonization and infections.
Mit der Verlagerung des Schwerpunktes der Behandlung chronisch psychisch Kranker aus dem Krankenhaus in die Gemeinde werden neue Evaluationsstrategien zum Nachweis der Wirksamkeit einzelner Versorgungskomponenten erforderlich.
Der routinemäßige Einsatz des EEG zur Überwachung des Intensivpatienten hat sich als entscheidende Hilfe für die aktuelle Beurteilung der zerebralen Situation im Verlauf einer Intensivtherapie erwiesen.
