Bookedited by Antonino Gullo.
Summary: The APICE 2013 yearbook examines recent advances in various aspects of critical care medicine and highlights the importance of effective communication among researchers, scientists, and clinicians. Among the many topics addressed are trauma care organization, the management of patients with cardiovascular, kidney, and lung disorders, issues relating to severe infections and sepsis, and the humanization of end of life care. The overriding goal of the book is to provide guidance and stimulate further thought on how professional performance in critical care medicine can be improved. Triple B translational research, from the bench to the bedside and back again (via the translation of clinical observations into new research questions), will play a major role in this context, and is particularly discussed in the chapter about sepsis and organ dysfunction. There is no doubt that the transfer of far-reaching and dynamic developments in molecular and cellular biology into clinical practice will be a key component in delivering the care required by individual patients.
Contents:
Part I. Advances on Intensive and Critical Care Medicine
1. Combining Clinical Practices and Technology in Critical Care Medicine / Younsuck Koh
2. Ultrasound in Critical Care: A Holistic Discipline / Daniel A. Lichtenstein
3. Assessment and Management of Circulatory Failure / Kamen Valchanov
4. Simulation in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care / Paolo Persona and Carlo Ori
Part II. Trauma
5. Trauma Care Organisation / Roderick Mackenzie, Simon Lewis and Basil F. Matta
Part III. Cardiovascular System
6. Cardiovascular Risk in Non-cardiac Surgery / Luca Ferdinando Lorini and Lorenzo Filippo Mantovani
Part IV. Kidney
7. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Challenges and Evidences / Giorgio Berlot and Antoinette Agbedjro
Part V. Lung
8. Postoperative Respiratory Complications / Maria Vargas, Yuda Sutherasan and Paolo Pelosi
9. Old and New Strategies on Artificial Ventilation in ARDS Patients / Paolo Pelosi, Maria Vargas and Iole Brunetti
10. Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery / Marcello Migliore
Part VI. Severe Infections, Sepsis and MODS
11. Diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia / Luciano Silvestri, Hendrick K. F. van Saene and Serena Tomasino
12. Rationale of Antibiotics Anti-MRSA in Pneumonia / Francesco Scaglione
13. The Role of Microbiology for Diagnosis of Fungal Infections / Salvatore Oliveri and Laura Trovato
14. Sepsis and Organ(s) Dysfunction / A. Gullo, C. M. Celestre, A. L. Paratore, L. Silvestri and H. K. van Saene
15. Immunoglobulin as Adjunctive Therapy in Sepsis / Massimo Girardis, Giulia Serafini and Ilaria Cavazzuti
Part VII. Cardiac Arrest: Optimization of Current Protocols
16. Determinants for More Efficient Defibrillation Waveforms / Yongqin Li and Bihua Chen
17. Post-Resuscitation Hypothermia and Monitoring / Tommaso Pellis, Filippo Sanfilippo, Andrea Roncarati and Vincenzo Mione
Part VIII. Humanization
18. Palliative Care in Pediatric Patients / Marinella Astuto, Giuliana Arena, Rita Scalisi and Carmelo Minardi
19. End of Life Care / Cristina Santonocito.