APICE 1998: Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Book

	A Life in Critical Care	23
	Clinics, Technology, Ethics, and Humane Patient-Physician Relationships and Critical Care (Monitoring, Diagnosis, Intervention Strategies)	29
	Cerebral Resuscitation 2000 A.D.	47
	Early Goal-Directed Invasive and Noninvasive Monitoring of High Risk Postoperative and Septic Surgical Patients Improves Outcome	59
	Postresuscitation Myocardial Dysfunction	69
	Telemedicine: Steps into the Future	77
	Evidence-Based Medicine in the ICU	87
	The Problem of Informed Consent in Critically Ill Patients	99
	Progress in Scoring Systems, Safety and Quality of Care in the ICU	105
	Is Mortality the Only Outcome Measure in ICU Patients?	113
	Perioperative Care: Physiology and Practicality	121
	Coagulation Disorders	135
	Neuromuscular Disorders and Anaesthesia	141
	Anaesthesia and Coexisting Diseases: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	147
	Optimization of the Perioperative Period in High-Risk Patients	157
	Standards in Anaesthetic Practice	173
	Hypnotics	185
	Analgesics	193
	Muscle Relaxants in Clinical Anaesthesia: An Update	217
	Total Intravenous Anaesthesia	227
	Perioperative Care of Cardiac Risk Patients: New Pharmacological Strategies	239
	Biochemical Markers of Myocardial Cell Injury	245
	Postoperative Intensive Care Therapy - In Which Patients and for How Long?	251
	Diagnosis in the Early Phase of Aortic Dissection	261
	Surgical Strategies in the Management of Acute Aortic Dissection	269
	Early Complications and Management After Bypass Circulation	279
	New Concepts of Antiarrhythmic Strategies	291
	Emergency Treatment of Bradycardic and Tachycardic Arrhythmias	299
	Perioperative Arrhythmias and Outcome	307
	Therapeutic Monitoring in the Perioperative Period	313
	Uncommon Diseases in Pregnancy	323
	Complications of Obstetric Anaesthesia	335
	Anaesthesia for Emergency Caesarean Section	343
	Obstetric Complications: Consumption Coagulopathy	347
	Perioperative Management of Hypertension	355
	Maternal and Foetal Mortality Rates During Pregnancy, Delivery and Puerperium	367
	Dimension of Fluid Compartments in Severely Ill Patients	375
	Pathophysiology of Acid Base Regulation	383
	Fluid and Electrolyte Management in Intensive Care	393
	Respiratory Acidosis and Alkalosis	411
	Metabolic Acidosis and Metabolic Alkalosis in the Critically Ill	421
	Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Acidosis	429
	Albumin: Is It a Play-Maker, a Carrier or Both?	441
	Capnography	459
	New Insights into Cardiovascular Monitoring: Continuous Arterial Thermodilution and Intrathoracic Blood Volume	471
	Echo Doppler Monitoring for the Evaluation of Cardiovascular Performances in Anaesthesia and in the Intensive Care Units	479
	Pathophysiology of Brain Temperature	489
	Exploring Cerebral Metabolism by Microdialysis	495
	Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Polyneuropathy in Critical Illness	501
	Polyneuropathy in Patients Undergoing a Neuromuscular Junction Blockade	509
	Muscular Wasting as a Consequence of Sepsis	517
	Epidemiology of Trauma	525
	Nitric Oxide in Sepsis and ARDS	531
	Management of Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction	549
	Management of Acute Ischaemic Stroke	557
	Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Cytoprotection	561
	Evidence-Based Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy	573
	Intrinsically Safe Hyperbaric Centres	589
	Lung Function Monitoring in the ICU: Available Techniques and Future Requirements	597
	Mechanical Ventilation and Lung Mechanics	601
	Pulmonary Gas Exchange in the Intensive Care Unit	611
	Pulmonary Haemodynamics in the Intensive Care Unit	621
	PET and Other Nuclear Medicine Techniques	629
	Lung Function Monitoring: Data Provided by CT Scan	635
	Bedside Replacement of Computed Tomography by Electrical Impedance Tomography	641
	Volume Distribution and Ventilatory Modes in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome	649
	Problems Associated with Clinical Determination of Pulmonary Shunting	669
	Pulmonary Hypertension	679
	Pathophysiology of Unresolving ARDS: The Role of the Host Defense Response	693
	Pathophysiology of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia	711
	How to Diagnose Ventilator Associated Pneumonia	721
	Can Hygienic Measures Prevent Pneumonia?	727
	Ventilatory Support in Different Stages of Lung Dysfunction	733
	Strategies to Minimize Alveolar Stretch Injury During Mechanical Ventilation	739
	Modes of Ventilation and Weaning Strategies	749
	Proportional Assist Ventilation: Technique and Implementation	769
	Index	777