Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Basic Approach to Acute Respiratory Failure.- Pathophysiology of Acute Lung Injury.- Involvement of Oxygen Radical in Pulmonary Edema.- Physiological Effects of Increased Airway Pressure.- Cardiopulmonary Interactions in Critical Illness.- Nutritional Effects on Ventilation.- Emergency and Metabolism.- Hypothermia.- Dog, Cat, Human Bites.- General Approach of the Acutely Intoxicated Patient.- The Cardiotoxicity of Drugs and Poisons.- Blood Purification Techniques in Intensive Care Units with Special Reference to Acute Renal Failure.- Hepatocellular Dysfunction in the Critically Ill.- Intensive Care Today.- Study of Intensive Care in France: Methodology of a Multicentric Study and Preliminary Results.- Cardiorespiratory Problems.- Acute Vascular Obstructions: The Internist's Point of View.- Hemodynamic Consequences of Acidemia, Alkalemia.- Hemodynamic and Gasometric Implications of SvO2 Measurements.- Venous Return During Positive Pressure Breathing.- Coagulation Disorders in the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Laryngotracheal Complications After Mechanical Ventilation.- Update in Mechanical Ventilation.- Acute Respiratory Insufficiency: New Aspects of Managing Ventilatory Support.- Weaning from Ventilatory Support.- Status Asthmaticus: Implication for Mechanical Ventilation.- Infection in the Critically Ill.- Antibiotic Management of Severe Peritonitis.- Immunologic Approaches to Control of Gram Negative Infections.- Pulmonary Infection in the Immunocompromized Patient.- Management of Necrotizing Fasciitis, Related Infection.- Update in Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Therapy of Critically Ill Postoperative Patients Based on Outcome Prediction and Prospective Clinical Trials.- Estimation of Pulmonary Capillary Pressure Using Swan-Ganz Catheters.- Infection Due toIntravascular Catheterization.- Measurement of Right Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Thermodilution.- Use of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter for Cardiac Pacing, and Recording of the Intracardiac Electrocardiogram.- Limits of Aerobic Metabolism in Critical Illness.- Nutrition in the Critically Ill.- Energy Expenditure in the Acutely Ill Patient.- Nutritional Support of the Critically Ill Patient.- Fat Metabolism in the Critically Ill.- Practical Aspects of Enteral Nutrition.- Nutrition of the Patient with Mechanical Ventilation.- Acute Metabolic Complications During Artificial Nutrition.- Neurology and Trauma.- Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Treatment of Systemic Hypertension Associated with Acute Cerebral Disorders.- Early Assessment of Outcome in Severe Head Injury by Auditory Brainstem Response ABRs.- Barbiturate Therapy in Severe Head Trauma.- Ventilatory Support for Pulmonary Failure of the Head Trauma Patient.- Blunt Chest Trauma.- Management of Thoracic Trauma.- Coronary Care.- Echocardiography in the Coronary Care Unit.- Coronary Angioplasty in the Treatment of Unstable Angina.- Coronary Angioplasty in Impending and Evolving Myocardial Infarction.- Systemic Versus Intracoronary Thrombolytic Treatment in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Right Ventricular Infarction.- New Aspects of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Shock.- Management of Traumatic Shock.- Hemodynamic Aspects of Septic Shock.- Controversial Aspects About the Management of Septic Shock.- Arachidonic Acid Metabolites, Lung Injury in Sepsis, Trauma.- Respiratory Muscle Fatigue During Cardiogenic Shock.- Circulatory Shock: A Microcirculatory Defect.- Practical Aspects in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.- Management of the Patient on a Ventilator.- Guidelines for the Use of Parenteral Nutrition.- Interpretation of Blood Gases and Related Measurements.- Lactic Acidosis.- Hypertensive Crises.- Hemodynamic Management of Acute Respiratory Failure.- Search for Intra-Abdominal Sepsis: Radiological Diagnosis.- Search for Intra-Abdominal Sepsis: Causes and Clinical Diagnostic Features of Early Postoperative Fever.- Diagnosis of Peritoneal Infection by Simultaneous Measurement of Lactate Concentration in Peritoneal Fluid and Blood.