Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Allaria, Biagio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book, written in a straightforward and easy-to-read style, focuses on important and debated current issues in anesthesiology and critical care medicine. The topics considered are wide ranging - particular attention is devoted to general topics of importance to the practitioner such as sedation,...

Table of Contents:

• Critical care medicine in the elderly: clinical, ethical and economic controversies.- Does GDHT still make sense in the perioperative period in the critical patient?
• Abdominal compartment syndrome and intensive care medicine.- Acute liver failure
• The use of diuretics in intensive care medicine
• Hemorrhage and the perioperative period: the hematologist’s opinion
• Hypercapnia
• Are we sure of using drugs in the right way in critical patients?  Decontamination of the digestive tract
• Kidneys, heart and lungs during dysrhythmias
• VAP (Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia)
• Artificial respiration and the asthmatic patient.