Bücher der Reihe Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Over the last 10 years the syndrome of severe acute renal failure has progressively changed in its epidemiology. The nutrition of these patients, previously limited by the par tial efficacy of renal replacement therapies, has also become more aggressive and more in tune with the needs of critically ill patients.

Dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract in critically ill patients has recently become a focus of intensive research. Options for monitoring and treating gut dysfunction in critically ill patients are rapidly evolving.

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

There have been tremendous advances in understanding the cellular mechanisms involved in sepsis and contributing to the development of multiple organ dysfunction and mortality in this setting. The chapters in this book provide up-to-date insights into important pathways that are initiated by sepsis.

This volume contains contributions by well-known scientistsand clinicians in the fields of microbiology, infectiousdiseases, physiology, internal medicine, surgery,anaesthesiology, and intensive care medicine.

This book presents a comprehensive survey in which internationally recognized experts discuss specific topics. Update 1990 represents the series' continuous effort to combine the most recent developments in one reference source for all those involved in cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, anesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.

In recent years, intensive care and emergency medicine have emerged as new medical specialties. This volume provides updates in this rapidly expanding field and includes various topics presented by recognized experts in the field.

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.

Measuring the quality of a complex service like critical care that combines the highest technology with the most intimate caring is a challenge. Donabedian [1] pro posed a framework for thinking about the quality of medical care that separates quality into three components: structure, process, and outcome.

Clearly, the face to face opportunities provided by this first conference on Emergency Management And Critical Care Of Stroke (EMACCOS) are required when patient care issues are as complex as these.

A comprehensive survey of recent advances is given in this Update. The wide spectrum of experimental and clinical investigations include the pathophysiologic, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.

This welcome addition to the series Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine emerges from the most recent of a series of meetings organized by Alvar Net and Salvador Benito of Barcelona.

A particular feature of this increased O demand is that it apparently does 2 not stimulate increased 02 extraction, although the limitation in O extraction has 2 not been explored in patients by lowering 02 supply, for obvious reasons.

This Update represents the series' continuous effort to combine the most recent developments in one reference source for all those involved in cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, anesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.

This book proves essential to understanding the problem of brain failure by emphasizing the various therapeutic approaches which have previously been somewhat neglected. The book summarizes the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of the various forms of brain failure, examining in detail structural and examining metabolic causes.

This monograph focuses on splanchnic function in health and disease. It represents a distillate of the communication that took place at the First International Symposium of Applied Physiol ogy of the Peripheral Circulation, "Splanchnic Circulation: No Longer a Silent Partner."

Respiratory failure is a complex disease process whereby the underlying disease and therapeutic measures interact. covers the impact of bronchodilators, corticosteroids, and antibiotics in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;

Nutritional support of critically ill patients is a major treatment modality which will enhance recovery and shorten convalescence. This new knowledge has evolved to a new area of metabolic support which is addressed for the first time by a group of international experts.

This book reviews the most recent developments in the patho-physiology and therapy of ventilatory failure. Of particular inter-estare the descriptions of new modalities of partial andcomplete ventilatory assistance as well as new knowledge re-garding ventilatory control and fatigue during stressfulbreathing.

A concise yet complete overview of the treatment of cardiovascular instability in the critically ill patient. The authors consider all aspects, ranging from basic physiology and pathophysiology to diagnostic tools and established and novel forms of therapy.

Proceedings of the International Congress on Selective De- contamination held in Jersey, UK 1988

Update 1989 represents the series' continuous effort to combine the most recent developments in one reference source for all those involved in cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, anesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.

This book presents a comprehensive survey of acute heart failure. The present volume will help clinicians deal with the important problem of acute heart failure. It will help provide an up-to-date reference for those involved in cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, anesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.

Intensive care in childhood is a relatively new field of medicine. Due to major differences in physiology, many disciplines are involved in the care of the critically ill child. Apart from specific disease patterns, morbidity in direct relation to the stay in the ICU or the underlying disease mainly determine long term morbidity.

Nitric Oxide (NO) is a free radical, a gas, and a pluripotent product of mammalian cells. An internationally recognized group of scientists and clinicians have contributed chapters dealing with cutting-edge science and practical clinical strategies.

This book concentrates on problems generated by acute care in severely traumatized patients during the first 24 hours after injury. During this hectic period, highly complicated problems have to be solved at the site of the accident, during transport to hospital, and in hospital.

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