Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine -- A. P. I. C. E.: Proceedings of the 18th Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine Trieste, Italy -- November 14-17, 2003 Volume II

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 anesthesiology, general medicine, surgery, pediatrics. Front Matter....Pages II-XXXI Front Matter....Pages 687-687 Preoperative assessment from a clinical point of view....Pages 689-699 Intraoperative volume optimisation....Pages 701-716 News on muscle relaxants....Pages 717-723 Cerebral protection during anaesthesia....Pages 725-737 Anaesthesia and splanchnic perfusion....Pages 739-747 Remifentanil+desflurane for inhalational induction without airway irritation and rapid post-anaesthetic recovery. Preliminary results in 100 patients....Pages 749-757 Perioperative b-adrenergic blocking drugs: from concept to applications....Pages 759-770 Beta blockers in premedication of the cardiac patient — a must in 2003?!....Pages 771-780 Interactions of anaesthetic drugs with herbal medicines....Pages 781-787 Awareness during anaesthesia: incidence and clinical and legal aspects....Pages 789-795 Infection control in operating theatres....Pages 797-807 Perioperative medicine: organisation of operating theatres and recovery room....Pages 809-825 Perioperative cardiac anaesthesia: anaesthesia for off-pump coronary artery bypass graft....Pages 827-834 Perioperative paediatric anaesthesia....Pages 835-840 Continuous peripheral nerve blocks in paediatrics....Pages 841-852 Regional analgesia in children: which drug? which block?....Pages 853-862 Ketamine, a general anaesthetic agent and more. A review on its use in and out the clinical setting....Pages 863-879 Neuroimaging studies on ketamine....Pages 881-891 Neuroprotection by ketamine....Pages 893-901 Pain relief by ketamine....Pages 903-913 Front Matter....Pages 687-687 Neurotoxicity of ketamine and nitrous oxide....Pages 915-932 Models of acute pain service....Pages 933-945 Front Matter....Pages 947-947 Platelet transfusion: when, how and how much?....Pages 949-957 Erythropoietin in the critically ill....Pages 959-964 Acute normovolaemic haemodilution....Pages 965-975 Front Matter....Pages 977-977 Acute neuropathies in sepsis....Pages 979-989 Stroke management in the early phase....Pages 991-1007 Guillain-Barré syndrome....Pages 1009-1016 Front Matter....Pages 1017-1017 Pre-hospital care and triage in trauma....Pages 1019-1034 Severe thermal burn injury: assessment and early management....Pages 1035-1049 Front Matter....Pages 1051-1051 Perioperative obstetric anaesthesia — haemorrhage and coagulation....Pages 1053-1057 Caesarean section in an emergency....Pages 1059-1068 Obstetric emergencies and anaesthesia....Pages 1069-1079 Pre-eclampsia and anaesthesia....Pages 1081-1092 Prevention and management of eclampsia....Pages 1093-1106 Front Matter....Pages 1107-1107 The organisation of palliative care....Pages 1109-1118 Death in the ICU: why integrate palliative care?....Pages 1119-1133 Nursing the dying in intensive care....Pages 1135-1145 Front Matter....Pages 1147-1147 Planning, designing and writing up scientific research....Pages 1149-1242 Back Matter....Pages i-xxvii