Full Description
The Annual Update compiles the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.
Contents
Part I. Infections and antibiotics.- Interpreting Procalcitonin
at the Bedside.- Reducing Antibiotic Use in the ICU: A Time-based Approach to Rational
Antimicrobial Use.- Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Severe Influenza Infection.-
Critically Ill Patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.-
Part II. Sepsis.- Immunomodulation: The Future for Sepsis?.- Norepinephrine in Septic
Shock: Five Reasons to Initiate it Early.- Myths and Facts Regarding Lactate in
Sepsis.- Part III. Renal issues.- Creatinine-based Definitions: From Baseline Creatinine
to Serum Creatinine Correction in Intensive Care.- The Detrimental Cross-talk between
Sepsis and AKI: New Pathogenic Mechanisms, Early Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies.-
Timing of Acute Renal Replacement Therapy.- (Multiple) Organ Support Therapy beyond
AKI.- Part IV. Fluid therapy.- Crystalloid Fluid Therapy.- Balanced Crystalloids
for Septic Shock Resuscitation.- Part V. Bleeding.- Emergency
Reversal Strategies for Anticoagulants and Anti-platelet Agents.- Part VI. Cardiovascular
system.- Bedside Myocardial Perfusion Assessment with Echocardiography Contrast.-
Pathophysiological Determinants of Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Septic Shock.-
Cardiovascular Response to ECMO.- Mechanical Circulatory Support in the New Era:
An Overview.- Part VII. Cardiac arrest.- Cardiac arrest in the Elderly:
Epidemiology and Outcome.- Regional Systems of Care: The Final Link in the "Chain
of Survival" Concept for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest.- Cardiac Arrest
Centers.- Part VIII. Oxygenation and respiratory failure.- High-flow Nasal
Cannula Oxygen Therapy: Physiological Effects and Clinical Data.- The Potential
Value of Monitoring the Oxygen Reserve Index in Patients Receiving Oxygen.- Variable
Ventilation from Bench to Bedside.- Monitoring Respiratory Effort by Means of
the Electrical Activity of the Diaphragm.- Dissipated Energy is a Key Mediator
of VILI: Rationale for using Low Driving Pressures.- Corticosteroidsas Adjunctive Therapy in Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia.-
Part IX. Abdominal issues.- The Neglected Role of Abdominal Compliance in
Organ-organ Interactions.- Part X Metabolic support.- Metabonomics and Intensive
Care.- The Rationale for Permissive Hyperglycemia in Critically Ill Patients
with Diabetes.- Indirect Calorimetry in Critically Ill Patients. Concept, Current
Use, and Future Challenges.- Part XI. Ethical issues.- Managing Intensive Care
Supply-demand Imbalance.- Advances in the Management of the Potential Organ
Donor after Neurologic Determination of Death.- Humanizing Intensive Care:
Theory, Evidence and Possibilities.- Part XII. Applying new technology.- Ultrasound
Simulation Education for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.- Virtual Patients
and Virtual Cohorts: A New Way to Think about the Design and Implementation of Personalized
ICU Treatments.- Part XIII. Intensive care unit trajectories: The bigger picture.-
Predicting Cardiorespiratory Instability.- Long-termOutcomes after Critical
Illness Relevant to Randomized Clinical Trials.- Long-term Consequences of Acute
Inflammation in the Surgical Patient: New Findings and Perspectives.- Kairotropy:
Discovering Critical Illness Trajectories using Clinical Phenotypes with Big
Data.
