Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Reflections, Recommendations and Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gullo, Antonino (Editor), Lumb, Philip D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Internal medicine.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

The volume will provide an update on problems concerning respiration, cardiovascular medicine, monitoring, organizational aspects and quality of care; other important aspects will be discussed, from critical patients' treatment and informed consent to costs managements, research and auditing, s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: World Federation 1993—1997
• Consent and Intensive Care: Is It Possible?
• Hepatorenal Syndrome
• HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
• Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Order
• Molecular Biology in Critical Care: Is It More Than a Look Only?
• Resource Management and Audits in Intensive Care Medicine
• Sepsis and Organ(s) Dysfunction — Key Points, Reflections, and Perspectives
• How to Evaluate Performance of Adult Intensive Care Units: A 30Year Experience
• Research Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
• Scoring Systems and Outcome
• Clinical Decision Making for Non-Invasive Ventilation
• Control of Infections in Intensive Care Units
• Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism
• Critical Care Nursing, a WorldWide Perspective
• Cost of Care in Critical Illness.