Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - A.P.I.C.E.: Proceedings of the 19 th Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine. Trieste, Italy - November 12-15, 2004

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Effects of body position on ventilation/perfusion matching....Pages 3-15
Chest pain....Pages 17-25
The electrocardiogram in the emergency department....Pages 27-36
The use of imaging to resolve difficult diagnoses....Pages 37-45
Assessment of pain....Pages 47-58
Titration of opioids for acute pain management....Pages 59-71
Neonatal Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 73-81
Extracorporeal circulation in the intensive care unit....Pages 83-87
Clinical decision-making in the management of sepsis and septic shock....Pages 89-100
Intracranial haemorrhage: the solution offered by recombinant factor VIIa....Pages 101-109
An introduction to Open Source software licensing and use in anaesthesia department....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Lessons we have learnt from microdialysis in animals and humans....Pages 125-138
Secondary brain injury — does microdialysis have a role?....Pages 139-146
Liver graft monitoring with intrahepatic microdialysis....Pages 147-155
Myocardial metabolism during open heart surgery, assessed with microdialysis....Pages 157-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The journey of a drug to the target site: what is decisive?....Pages 167-175
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antimicrobial agents in intensive care unit patients as assessed by microdialysis....Pages 177-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Anaesthetic effects on regional cerebral blood flow and metabolism: three contemporary reasons to care....Pages 187-193
Why and when is inhalation anaesthesia better....Pages 195-204
Analysis and instrumentations for estimating cerebral activity....Pages 205-215
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Neuroimaging pharmacology of attention and memory....Pages 217-225
Intracranial pressure monitoring....Pages 227-235
Improving quality of recovery....Pages 237-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Molecular biology and lung disease What is the impact?....Pages 245-257
Surfactant metabolism: factors affecting lipid uptake in vivo and in vitro....Pages 259-277
Respiratory mechanics at the bedside....Pages 279-295
PEEP and cardiac output....Pages 297-315
Expiratory flow limitation and intrinsic PEEP....Pages 317-322
Mechanical ventilation strategies for lung protection....Pages 323-330
Recruitment and oxygenation....Pages 331-343
Lung oedema in acute lung injury....Pages 345-355
Grading severity of respiratory dysfunction, clinical correlates and indications for mechanical ventilation....Pages 357-369
Weaning as a cardiac stress test....Pages 371-377
Respiratory management in obese patients....Pages 379-394
Is the acute respiratory distress syndrome a systemic disease?....Pages 395-402
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Invasive versus non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring in major vascular surgery....Pages 405-416
Analysis of arterial pulse — clinical implications....Pages 417-423
Beat-by-beat monitoring of cardiac output with pressure recording analytical method....Pages 425-436
Haemodynamic standardisation procedures in high-risk surgery....Pages 437-448
From Frank-Starling relationships to ventriculo-arterial coupling....Pages 449-459
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Pharmacology and selection of inotropic therapy....Pages 461-472
Decision-making in critical care: Cardiac arrhythmias and related topics....Pages 473-482
Management for the patient with an implanted cardiac rhythm management device....Pages 483-494
Hypothermia in cardiac surgery....Pages 495-506
Front Matter....Pages 507-507
Pharmacological management of cardiopulmonary resuscitation....Pages 509-516
Myocardial preservation, reperfusion injury, and postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction....Pages 517-526
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
Regional blood flow distribution in septic, cardiogenic and haemorrhagic shock....Pages 529-534
Orthogonal polarisation spectral imaging: principles, techniques, human studies....Pages 535-542
Carbon dioxide monitoring to evaluate cell oxygenation....Pages 543-556
The microcirculation in distress; monitoring and recruitment....Pages 557-564
Tissue metabolism in different types of shock....Pages 565-575
Organ dysfunction in circulatory shock — altered perfusion, metabolism or tight junctions? Do we need a shift of paradigm?....Pages 577-585
Haemodynamic support of paediatric patients in septic shock....Pages 587-596
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Recent advances in artificial ventilation in paediatric age....Pages 599-609
Complications in paediatric regional anaesthesia....Pages 611-618
Home ventilation in paediatric patients with chronic respiratory failure....Pages 619-631
Decision-making in paediatric extracranial trauma....Pages 633-651
Developments in the treatment of postoperative pain in paediatrics....Pages 653-660
Front Matter....Pages 661-661
Prehospital care: triage and primary survey....Pages 663-671
Spine and spinal cord trauma....Pages 673-681
Front Matter....Pages 661-661
Treatment of acute pneumothorax in the field....Pages 683-691
Front Matter....Pages 693-693
Critical appraisal skills....Pages 695-705
Literature search....Pages 707-718
Study design....Pages 719-747