Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.: Proceedings of the 21st Postgraduate Course in Critical Medicine: Venice-Mestre, Italy - November 10-13, 2006

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Dying in the Intensive Care Unit....Pages 3-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Genetics and molecular biology in acute lung injury....Pages 11-17
Lung, respiratory mechanics, artificial ventilation....Pages 19-27
The pressure-volume curve....Pages 29-40
Methods for assessing expiratory flow limitation during tidal breathing....Pages 41-52
How to ventilate brain-injured patients in respiratory failure....Pages 53-67
Helping surgical patients to give up smoking....Pages 69-74
Respiratory issues and ventilatory strategies for morbidly obese patients....Pages 75-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Fluid and electrolyte emergency....Pages 87-96
Electrolyte emergencies, anion gap, osmolality....Pages 97-108
Acute renal failure....Pages 109-128
Acute liver failure....Pages 129-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Pneumonia in ventilated patients. Severe Gram negative infections; the impact on mortality and its prevention....Pages 143-153
Gram-positive ventilator-associated pneumonia: impact on mortality....Pages 155-161
Fungal infections in the ICU....Pages 163-170
Focus on the diagnosis and treatment of severe meningitis....Pages 171-179
Plasma filtration in sepsis: a research protocol....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The cell in shock....Pages 191-202
Tissue partial pressure of carbon dioxide tension measurements and microcirculation visualisation. New techniques for the study of low flow states....Pages 203-214
Ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation: contemporary understanding of mechanisms....Pages 215-224
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Arterial waveform analysis to determine cardiovascular parameters....Pages 225-236
The Utstein style for the reporting of data from cardiac arrest....Pages 237-245
Challenges in trauma care....Pages 247-255
Advances in trauma care....Pages 257-278
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Standards of care in operating theatres....Pages 281-290
Audit....Pages 291-299
Focus on entropy and surgical stress index....Pages 301-317
Neuraxial anaesthesia and anticoagulation....Pages 319-324
Regional anaesthesia in the patient with pre-existing neurological dysfunction....Pages 325-336
Infectious complications of regional anaesthesia....Pages 337-343
The Mayo Clinic total joint analgesic pathway....Pages 345-352
Acute therapy in patients with wide-QRS complex tachyarrhythmias....Pages 353-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Obstetrics at high risk....Pages 365-375
Resuscitation of the newborn....Pages 377-384
Regional anaesthesia in neonates....Pages 385-395
Locoregional anaesthesia in children....Pages 397-404
Management of CRRT in paediatrics....Pages 405-412
Severity scores in paediatric intensive care units....Pages 413-420
Analgesia and sedation during mechanical ventilation in paediatrics....Pages 421-433
Front Matter....Pages 435-435
Latency reduction in clinical and translational research....Pages 437-446
Front Matter....Pages 447-447
New frontiers in critical bleeding....Pages 449-454
Evaluation of performance of ICUs....Pages 455-464
Back Matter....Pages 465-475