Intensive Care Medicine: Annual Update 2007 (update In Intensive Care Medicine)

INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE 2007 ANNUAL UPDATE JEAN-LOUIS VINCENT INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE AiyniUAL UPDATE 2007 Editor Jean-Louis Vincent MD, PhD, FCCM, FCCP Head, Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels Brussels, Belgium With 192 Figures and 82 Tables Springer Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, FCCM, FCCP Head, Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels Route de Lennik 808 1070 Brussels Belgium ISBN 0-387-49517-7 ISBN 978-0387-49517-0 Printed on acid-free paper. © 2007 Springer Science + Business Media Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science-i-Business Media, Inc., 223 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed in Germany 98765432 1 springer.com Table of Contents The Diagnosis of Sepsis: The Present and the Future A.S. Mc