Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E. (eBook)

Ethics: Dying in the Intensive Care Unit.- Lung: Genetics and molecular biology in acute lung injury.- Lung, respiratory mechanics, artificial ventilation.- The pressure-volume curve.- Methods for assessing expiratory flow limitation during tidal breathing.- How to ventilate brain-injured patients in respiratory failure.- Helping surgical patients to give up smoking.- Respiratory issues and ventilatory strategies for morbidly obese patients.- Fluid and electrolyte emergency: Fluid and electrolyte emergency.- Electrolyte emergencies, anion gap, osmolality.- Acute renal failure.- Acute liver failure.- Infection and sepsis: Pneumonia in ventilated patients.- Severe Gram negative infections; the impact on mortality and its prevention.- Gram-positive ventilator-associated pneumonia: impact on mortality.- Fungal infections in the ICU.- Focus on the diagnosis and treatment of severe meningitis.- Plasmafiltration in sepsis: a research protocol.- Highlights on circulatory failure, CPR and trauma: The cell in shock.- Tissue partial pressure of carbon dioxide measurements and microcirculation visualisation. New techniques for the study of low flow states.- Ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation: contemporary understanding of mechanisms.- Arterial waveform analysis to determine cardiovascular parameters.- The Utstein style for the reporting of data from cardiac arrest.- Challenges in trauma care.- Advances in trauma care.- Perioperative medicine.- Standards of care in operating theatres.- Audit.- Focus on entropy and surgical stress index.- Neuraxial anaesthesia and anticoagulation.- Regional anaesthesia in the patient with pre-existing neurological dysfunction.- Infectious complications of regional anaesthesia.- The Mayo’s clinical total joint analgesic pathway.- Acute therapy in patients with wide-QRS complex tachyarrhythmias.- Obstetrics andpaediatrics: Obstetrics at high risk.- Resuscitation of the newborn.- Regional anaesthesia in neonates.- Locoregional anaesthesia in children.- Management of CRRT in paediatrics.- Severity scores in paediatric intensive care units.- Analgesia and sedation during mechanical ventilation in paediatrics.- Computing: Latency reduction in clinical and translational research.- Critical care bleeding: New frontiers in critical bleeding.- Evaluation of performance of ICUs.