Accident and emergency medicine

The recent development of the use of spinal opiates as a rational therapy for pain rests on clear and certain experimental data.

The VIth World Congress of Anaesthesiology, held in Mexico City in 1976, offered several European participants the opportunity of discovering their community of views.

In den zurückliegenden Jahren hat die intravenöse Narkose zweifellos an Bedeutung gewonnen und die Verfahren der Inhalationsanästhesie zurückgedrängt.

This volume contains the results of the 7th International Symposium on Acute Care, held in Rio de Janeiro from 21st to 24th November 1977.

The Police Emergency Unit concept for our Community has proven to be unique and highly practical.

With contributions by numerous experts

This first manuscript on cold injuries was written in the period 1945-1946 as the result of personal experience gained in the winter months of the years 1941-1943 on the Northern Front in Russia and subsequent experimental work at the "e;Chirurgische Uni- versitatsklinik"e; in Breslau (Wroclav) between 1943 and 1945.

Severe head injuries are a frequent occurrence in the life of every emergency care specialist, traumatologist, neurosurgeon, and rehabilitation specialist.

To integrate current knowledge in terms of basic and clinical science and to highlight problems, thirty world-renowned experts in the field of acute lung injury describe the state of up to date knowledge regarding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical management of acute lung injury.

This book represents the collective efforts of several excellent,clini- cian-scientists who have devoted many years of their lives and many hours in each day to the application of physiological principles to the bedside care of critically ill patients.

From the viewpoint of a health economist, the intensive care unit (leU) is a particularly fascinating phenomenon.

The manuscripts in this book were generated from a conference occurring at the University of Heidelberg in September 1996.

The yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book.

The maturation phenomenon, first described by Ito et al.

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During recent years important progress in intensive medicine methods has fundamentally changed the approach to and the management of acute chest trauma, which in developed countries is frequently related to road accidents, the number of which is still rising.

This book brings together basic scientists or clinicians from a variety of different backgrounds - immunology, infectious diseases or critical care - who share a common interest in understanding the changes that occur in immune responses in sepsis.

The coronary circulation is central to sustaining myocardial viability.

Measuring the quality of a complex service like critical care that combines the highest technology with the most intimate caring is a challenge.

The Yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book.

Mechanical ventilation and weaning is one of the most common procedures carried out in critically ill patients.