Inhaled sedation in the intensive care unit A new option and its technical prerequisites /

• Main Author: Meiser, Andreas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical care medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.

Andreas Meiser summarizes the current literature on inhalation sedation of critically ill patients. To meet clinical demands, he describes the development of new devices to administer volatile anesthetics together with common ICU ventilators. Their basic principle is called anesthetic reflection. Th...

Table of Contents:

• The basic principle of anesthetic reflection
• The AnaConDa, the Mirus, and the AnaConDa-S
• Inhaled sedation in ARDS
• Inhaled sedation and mortality.