Classic Papers in Critical Care

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fink, Mitchell (Editor), Hayes, Michelle (Editor), Soni, Neil (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Edition: 2.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

Every medical specialty has at its basis a core of classic papers, which both reflect the historical background and give insight into present and future developments. The papers discussed in this book are considered classics for many reasons, but in all cases they highlight landmarks in the developm...

Table of Contents:

• Ventilation
• Lung injury
• The Heart
• Severe traumatic brain injury
• The gut and its role in circulatory shock
• Renal support
• The liver in critical illness
• Burns
• Trauma
• Clinical sepsis
• Nutrition and metabolism
• Fluids
• Infection in the intensive care unit
• Infectious diseases: an intensive care clinician’s perspective
• Vasoactive and cardiotonic drugs
• Pain relief and sedation in intensive care
• Monitoring
• Scoring systems
• Ethics
• Cytokines
• Pediatric critical care
• Recent papers.