Description
The contents of this book, based on data collected and used to prepare the annual ATI14 course which provides a comprehensive overview of key issues in Anesthesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care, are designed for healthcare professionals and revised and updated by international key opinion leaders.
The book provides a broad and insightful overview of key topics that shape modern clinical practice. From environmental sustainability in healthcare to the evolving role of anesthesiologists in perioperative care, exploring the latest guidelines and innovations in managing critically ill patients.
Special focus is given to anesthesia in specific scenarios such as cesarean sections or thoracic surgery perioperative cutting edges as are hemodynamic optimization and pharmacological issues, ensuring practical relevance for everyday clinical challenges.
The Intensive Care module delves into advanced monitoring techniques, emergency management, and the treatment of postoperative complications, providing professionals essential tools to face high-stakes decision-making.
The aim of this book is to provide both Specialists and Residents in Anesthesia and Intensive Care with valuable insights into the latest recommendations and evidence-based practices.
Part I. Anesthesia.- Hypotension in Anesthesia and in the Critically Ill Patient: Mechanisms and Prevention.- Perioperative Hemodynamic Optimization.- Management of Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) in the Perioperative Period for Elective and Emergency Procedures: Discontinuation (if and when necessary), Resumption, Reversal (if and when necessary) Update 2026.- Prediction of (difficult) airway management: from statistics to clinical practice and artificial intelligence.- Anesthesia for Cesarean Section.- Perioperative management of patients undergoing oncologic pulmonary resection surgery.- Management of Allergies in Surgical Patients.- New ESAIC Guidelines on Neuromuscular Blockade.- Anesthetic Management of Pregnant Women with Neuromuscular Disorders.- Patient positioning for surgical procedures and invasive interventions: what the anesthesiologist needs to know.- Postoperative Delirium and Neurocognitive Decline.- Airway Management and One-Lung Ventilation: Current Techniques and Scientific Evidence.- Neuraxial and Fascial Plane Blocks in Pediatric Age.- Intraoperative Mechanical Ventilation.- Actions to make sustainable the impact of clinical practice in Anesthesia and Intensive Care.- Part II. Care of the Critically Ill Patient.- The human factor in airway management.- Role of Echocardiography in Hemodynamic Instability.- Assessment and Admission Criteria in the Intensive Care Unit.- Rationalization of Opioid Use in Intensive Care.- Post-anoxic coma.- Management of Adult Cardiac Arrest: Update 2025.- Cardiac Arrest in Children.- Diuretics in Critically Ill Patients: An Update.-International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG).- Intensive Care Issues in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH).- Cardiorespiratory monitoring in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.- The Therapeutic Alliance and Healthcare Responsibility in the Care of Jehovah s Witness Patients.
Professor Dr. Davide Chiumello is the Head of Department at the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, San Paolo University Hospital in Milan, Italy. His skills and expertise include lung, respiratory mechanics, mechanical ventilation, ARDS, acute lung injury, lung diseases, ventilation, and respiratory physiology. He is the author of more than 400 publications on international journals with a very high number of citations.
Andrea De Gasperi, Doctor of Medicine, is the former Head at Azienda Ospedaliera Niguarda Ca' Granda in Milan, Italy. He is member of several international scientific Societies and author of scientific publications on international journals. His main areas of interest are Anesthesia / CCM; Major General and Vascular Surgery; Abdominal Organ Transplantation; and Perioperative CCM (Ventilation / Hemodynamics / Infections) Infections in the ICU.
