Tissue Oxygenation in Acute Medicine. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine: Band 33 Book

From the contents: Role of the Cardiorespiratory System in Delivering Oxygen.- Intraorgan Heterogeneity of Blood Flow, Oxygen Consumption and Tissue Oxygenation.- The Microcirculation and Tissue Oxygenation.- Oxygen Distribution and Consumption by the Microcirculation and the Determinants of Tissue Survival.- Oxygen Signaling Cascades in Mammalian Cells.- Hypoxic Hypoxia.- Circulatory Hypoxia.- Anemic Hypoxia.- Cellular Responses to Hypoxia: Possible Relevance to Multiple Organ Failure in Critical Illness.- The Mihondrial Permeability Transition.- Measuring Tissue Oxygenation: The Available Clinical Tools - Oxygen-Derived Variables, Lactate and pHi.- Monitoring the Systemic Circulation in Sepsis with Microelectrodes.- Oxygen Electrodes, Optode Microsensing, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Spectrophotometry.- The Optimal and Critical Hemoglobin in Health and Acute Illness.- Hemoglobin-Based Artificial Oxygen Carriers (HBOC).- Perfluorocarbones as Oxygen Carriers.