Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sepsis and Inflammation: The Process of Dying from Critical Illness....Pages 3-10
Recognition of Bacteria and Bacterial Products by Host Immune Cells in Sepsis....Pages 11-23
Endotoxin Immune Status and Protection Against Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in the Surgical Patient....Pages 24-38
Cardiovascular Function in Septic Shock....Pages 39-44
Changes in Cardiac Signal Transduction in Septic Shock....Pages 45-56
Recent Advances in the Hemodynamic Therapy of Septic Shock....Pages 57-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Cytokine Gene Polymorphisms in Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases....Pages 73-82
Neutrophil-induced Oxidative Stress....Pages 83-95
Antioxidant Therapy in Critical Illness....Pages 96-104
Interleukin-10 Production during Septic Shock....Pages 105-110
Potential Role for Human Interleukin-11 in Bacterial Sepsis....Pages 111-118
Cellular Response to Inflammation and its Antagonism by β2-Adrenoceptor Agonists....Pages 119-134
Sepsis Treatment and Prophylaxis with Immunoglobulins: A Critical Appraisal....Pages 135-149
Low Dose G-CSF to Augment Host Defense and Counteract Progression of Sepsis....Pages 150-164
Rethinking the Anti-Inflammatory Approach to Septic Shock....Pages 165-176
Immunotherapy of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Is there a Future?....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Intestinal Ischemia/Reperfusion: A Role for Mast Cells and Neutrophils....Pages 197-207
Bacterial Translocation: Cause or Effect of Multiple Organ Failure?....Pages 208-218
Gut Oxygenation after Reduced Oxygen Delivery....Pages 219-226
Peri-Operative Gastrointestinal Tonometry....Pages 227-240
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Prokinetic Use to Facilitate Enteral Feeding....Pages 241-249
Early Postinjury Enteral Nutrition: Does it make a Difference?....Pages 250-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
The Cell, the Mitochondrion, Oxygen and Sepsis....Pages 263-274
The Role of Microcirculation in Sepsis....Pages 275-286
Sepsis, Anemia, and Tissue O 2 Availability....Pages 287-295
Critical Analysis of Venoarterial CO 2 Gradient as a Marker of Tissue Hypoxia....Pages 296-307
Does Cardiovascular Optimization Reduce Mortality?....Pages 308-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Pressure-Flow Relationships in Liver Vascular Beds during Sepsis....Pages 321-332
β-Adrenergic Drugs to improve Gastrointestinal Mucosal Blood Flow in Sepsis....Pages 333-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Role of Nitric Oxide in the Pathogenesis of Gram-positive Shock....Pages 345-357
Nitric Oxide Involvement in Septic Shock: Do Human Beings behave like Rodents?....Pages 358-365
Nitric Oxide: Effects on the Airways....Pages 366-371
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
A Broader View of ARDS....Pages 375-388
Strategies to minimize Alveolar Stretch Injury during Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 389-397
Lung Protective Ventilatory Strategies in ARDS....Pages 398-410
Positive End-Expiratory Pressure and Permissive Hypercapnia in ARDS....Pages 411-419
Methods to improve Matching between Ventilation and Perfusion during Ventilatory Support in ARDS....Pages 420-433
Pharmacologic Approach of Hypoxemia in ARDS Patients....Pages 434-465
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
Management of Life-Threatening Airflow Obstruction....Pages 469-486
Airway Resistance and Bronchodilator Responsiveness in ARDS....Pages 487-498
Front Matter....Pages 499-499
Conditioning of Air in Mechanically Ventilated Patients....Pages 501-519
New Histopathological Aspects of Human Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia....Pages 520-530
Front Matter....Pages 531-531
Necrotizing Fasciitis....Pages 533-541
Acinetobacter Infections in Intensive Care Units....Pages 542-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Fungal Infection in the Organ Transplant Recipient: Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 555-566
When to Start Antifungal Therapy in the Non-Neutropenic Critically III?....Pages 567-577
Front Matter....Pages 579-579
Hemorrhage and Injury: Cardiovascular and Regional Blood Flow Responses....Pages 581-594
Front Matter....Pages 595-595
Detection of Myocardial Viability and Inducible Ischemia with Dobutamine....Pages 597-609
Continuous Electrocardiographic Monitoring for Myocardial Ischemia....Pages 610-616
Do ACE Inhibitors have a Place in the Critically III?....Pages 617-631
Front Matter....Pages 633-633
Critical Hematocrit....Pages 635-642
Acquired Coagulopathies....Pages 643-655
Front Matter....Pages 657-657
Acetaminophen Overdose and Acute Liver Failure: Modern Management....Pages 659-671
Front Matter....Pages 673-673
Renal Rescue: Management of Impending Renal Failure....Pages 675-689
Continuous High Flux Dialysis: An Efficient Renal Replacement....Pages 690-696
Front Matter....Pages 697-697
Non-traumatic Coma and Status Epilepticus in Infants and Children....Pages 699-706
Guidelines for Management of Severe Head Injury in Adults....Pages 707-715
Goal-Directed Therapy in Neurotrauma....Pages 716-730
How to Interpret Jugular Bulb Oximetry?....Pages 731-741
New Treatment Modalities to Improve Outcome after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage....Pages 742-751
Front Matter....Pages 753-753
Pain Measurement in Children....Pages 755-760
Pharmacokinetics and Drug-Protein Binding....Pages 761-770
Front Matter....Pages 771-771
The Role of Emergency Medical Services in Mass Casualties....Pages 773-779
Overview of 10 Years (1983–1992) of Poisoning Data....Pages 780-790
Front Matter....Pages 791-791
Resuscitation Decisions....Pages 793-798
Active Compression-Decompression Resuscitation....Pages 799-804
Front Matter....Pages 805-805
Customized Probability Models for Early Severe Sepsis in Adult Intensive Care Patients....Pages 807-815
Neural Networks: A New Tool for Predictive Models....Pages 816-829
Front Matter....Pages 831-831
Expanding the Role of Intensive Care Medicine....Pages 833-841
Internet as a New Source of Information in the Intensive Care Field....Pages 842-851
Back Matter....Pages 853-859