Accident and emergency medicine

Über das für dieses Workshop ausgewählte Thema "Therapie mit Blutkomponenten" ist in den zurückliegenden Jahren auf Kongressen und Symposien immer wieder be­ richtet und diskutiert worden, es entstand eine reichhaltige Literatur.

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.

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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.

Emergency care is improving throughout the world and thousands of lives are being saved each year.

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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Critically ill and critically injured patients require specialized nutrition support to avoid the complications of progressive malnutrition.

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.

Cerebral Blood Flow: Quantifying Consciousness Although the heart may be the source of energy needed to generate blood flow,and other organs absolutely essential for normal living,the brain is the reason we are alive.

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.

The pathophysiology of sepsis can be regarded as a series of steps, beginning with the invasion of normally sterile tissue by microbes and the elaboration of various pro-inflammatory mediators.

For many years, intensive care has focused on avoiding immediate death from acute, life-threatening conditions.

Es ist eine wesentliche Aufgabe des Anästhesisten, optimale Bedingungen für die Operation zu schaffen und deren physiologische und psychologische Folgen so weit wie möglich zu begrenzen, ja sie sogar völlig auszuschalten.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This aim of this book is to focus on a very common situation seen in medical practice, the acute catabolic state.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

There currently is a clear tendency to an increasing number of accidental injuries in elderly people, in sport injuries and car crashes also in countries which recently joined the European Union and candidates to join the European Union.

The two previous editions of Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine proved extremely successful, and the book has now been revised and split into two volumes to enhance ease of use.

The two previous editions of Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine proved extremely successful, and the book has now been revised and split into two volumes to enhance ease of use.

In order to reduce the number of deaths from severe head injuries, systematic management is essential.