Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2016

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Interpreting Procalcitonin at the Bedside....Pages 3-14
Reducing Antibiotic Use in the ICU: A Time-Based Approach to Rational Antimicrobial Use....Pages 15-23
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Severe Influenza Infection....Pages 25-33
Critically Ill Patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection....Pages 35-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Immunomodulation: The Future for Sepsis?....Pages 49-59
Norepinephrine in Septic Shock: Five Reasons to Initiate it Early....Pages 61-68
Myths and Facts Regarding Lactate in Sepsis....Pages 69-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Creatinine-Based Definitions: From Baseline Creatinine to Serum Creatinine Adjustment in Intensive Care....Pages 81-89
Detrimental Cross-Talk Between Sepsis and Acute Kidney Injury: New Pathogenic Mechanisms, Early Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies....Pages 91-109
Timing of Acute Renal Replacement Therapy....Pages 111-116
(Multiple) Organ Support Therapy Beyond AKI....Pages 117-129
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Crystalloid Fluid Therapy....Pages 133-148
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Emergency Reversal Strategies for Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Agents....Pages 151-162
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Bedside Myocardial Perfusion Assessment with Contrast Echocardiography....Pages 165-176
Pathophysiological Determinants of Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Septic Shock....Pages 177-184
Cardiovascular Response to ECMO....Pages 185-194
Mechanical Circulatory Support in the New Era: An Overview....Pages 195-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Cardiac Arrest in the Elderly: Epidemiology and Outcome....Pages 219-229
Regional Systems of Care: The Final Link in the “Chain of Survival” Concept for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest....Pages 231-240
Cardiac Arrest Centers....Pages 241-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy: Physiological Effects and Clinical Data....Pages 257-270
The Potential Value of Monitoring the Oxygen Reserve Index in Patients Receiving Oxygen....Pages 271-280
Variable Ventilation from Bench to Bedside....Pages 281-298
Monitoring Respiratory Effort by Means of the Electrical Activity of the Diaphragm....Pages 299-310
Dissipated Energy is a Key Mediator of VILI: Rationale for Using Low Driving Pressures....Pages 311-321
Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia....Pages 323-328
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The Neglected Role of Abdominal Compliance in Organ-Organ Interactions....Pages 331-350
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Metabonomics and Intensive Care....Pages 353-363
The Rationale for Permissive Hyperglycemia in Critically Ill Patients with Diabetes....Pages 365-372
Indirect Calorimetry in Critically Ill Patients: Concept, Current Use, and Future Challenges....Pages 373-381
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Managing Intensive Care Supply-Demand Imbalance....Pages 385-392
Advances in the Management of the Potential Organ Donor After Neurologic Determination of Death....Pages 393-403
Humanizing Intensive Care: Theory, Evidence, and Possibilities....Pages 405-420
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Ultrasound Simulation Education for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine....Pages 423-434
Virtual Patients and Virtual Cohorts: A New Way to Think About the Design and Implementation of Personalized ICU Treatments....Pages 435-448
Front Matter....Pages 449-449
Predicting Cardiorespiratory Instability....Pages 451-464
Long-Term Outcomes After Critical Illness Relevant to Randomized Clinical Trials....Pages 465-474
Long-Term Consequences of Acute Inflammation in the Surgical Patient: New Findings and Perspectives....Pages 475-482
Kairotropy: Discovering Critical Illness Trajectories Using Clinical Phenotypes with Big Data....Pages 483-496
Back Matter....Pages 497-502