E-Book Overview
Continuous update in critical care medicine is a real challenge due to the growing dimensions of its contents; these elements are the result of new research acquisitions, and of those clinical situations where the physician is able to intervene at a given moment, with the use of effective prevention techniques. They are also the result of new technologies able to define complex sub-clinical diagnostic aspects; lastly, they are the result of effective therapeutic techniques available, and of treatment strategies able to influence radically and positively the patient's clinical course. Critical care medicine is playing a key role in the most advanced environments, as it represents a cross-sectional field of action, involving several specialties, such as anaesthesiology, general medicine, surgery, paediatrics.
E-Book Information
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Year: 2,003
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 1,326
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Pages In File: 1,266
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-88-470-0194-7,978-88-470-2215-7
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Doi: 10.1007/978-88-470-2215-7
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Org File Size: 32,377,553
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Extension: pdf
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Tags: Anesthesiology Intensive / Critical Care Medicine
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages II-XXXIFront Matter....Pages 617-617Principles of haemodynamic monitoring....Pages 619-634Cardiovascular integrated monitoring....Pages 635-647Blood measurements of oxygen transport in clinical practice....Pages 649-653The importance of information on volaemia during the perioperative period: new versus old technique....Pages 655-659Assessment of preload....Pages 661-677Left ventricular dysfunction in complicated CABG....Pages 679-708Reperfusion arrhythmias: prevention and management....Pages 709-723Myocardial ischaemia and cardiac function....Pages 725-735Transmural myocardial infarction. Focus on current strategies of myocardial reperfusion....Pages 737-757Does technological evolution justify the use of Swan — Ganz catheters in perioperative haemodynamic monitoring?....Pages 759-769Comparison of haemodynamic parameters derived from invasive and non-invasive control methods....Pages 771-790Thoracic impedance tracing in perioperative hemodynamic monitoring: a technique to be revisited....Pages 791-812Transoesophageal echodoppler: clinical experience and case report....Pages 813-823Clinical governance of perioperative medicine....Pages 827-834Molecular mechanisms of general anaesthesia....Pages 835-8422P domain K + channels: novel targets for volatile general anaesthetics....Pages 843-855Sites of anaesthetic action on ligand-gated ion channels....Pages 857-862Effects of opioid analgesics on the action of general anaesthetics....Pages 863-875Mapping cerebral metabolic and blood flow effects of general anaesthetics....Pages 877-889Recent advances in mechanisms of action of general anaesthetics from genetically engineered animal models....Pages 891-899Front Matter....Pages 617-617Postoperative pain management. Organization and clinical experience....Pages 903-917Post-operative pain management: techniques....Pages 919-935Recovery room: clinical experience....Pages