Contents
Section 1: Cognitive and Soft Skills
1. Mindfulness-based Interventions in Enhancing the Quality of Life of Critical Care Professionals
2. Soft Skills for Critical Care Professionals: Enhancing Communication
Section 2: Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
3. Hemodynamic Monitoring: What is New?
4. Microcirculatory or Mitochondrial Resuscitation in Septic Shock
5. Monitoring Right Heart Function during Mechanical Ventilation
6. What is New in Vasopressor Therapy?
7. Clinical Applications of Ventriculoarterial Coupling
Section 3: Artificial Intelligence
8. Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care can Save Lives: A Reality or Fiction?
9. Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support in Sepsis
10. Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care
Section 4: Sepsis and Infectious Diseases
11. Genomics for Rapid Identification of Pathogens
12. Newer (Lesser Known) Nonfermenter Gram-negative Bacilli in the Intensive Care Unit
13. Hyperferritinemic Sepsis: Diagnosis and Management
14. Enigma of Cytomegalovirus: Whether and When to Treat?
15. Antibiotic-associated Harm in the Critically Ill
16. Tissue Penetration of Antimicrobials: Moving from Therapeutic Drug Monitoring to Model Informed Precision Dosing
17. Antibiotic Drug Delivery Systems and their Applications
18. Nonantibiotic Antibacterial Materials
19. How Can We Make Resistant Bugs Susceptible Again?
Section 5: Neurocritical Care
20. Brain-computer Interface in Critical Care
21. Disorders of Consciousness: Lessons from the Curing Coma Campaign
22. Super-refractory Status Epilepticus: Drugs and Targets
23. Futuristic Intensive Care Units: Can We Avoid Delirium Completely?
Section 6: Drug Therapy
24. The Newer Vaptans: Conivaptan and Lixivaptan
25. Ciprofol and Remimazolam
26. Vernakalant and Other Newer Antiarrhythmic Drugs