Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2021

Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

  • Identifies the techniques, strategies, and drugs proven by multi center randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill patients

  • Focuses on a specific procedure, device, or drug in each chapter

  • Includes helpful "how to do" sections and "key point" boxes

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Decision-Making in the Democracy Medicine Era: The Consensus Conference Process

    • Massimiliano Greco, Maria Luisa Azzolini, Giacomo Monti
    Pages 1-11
  3. Non-invasive Ventilation

    • Luca Cabrini, Margherita Pintaudi, Nicola Villari, Dario Winterton
    Pages 13-24
  4. High-Flow Nasal Cannulae

    • Carolina Soledad Romero Garcia, Esther Romero, Joaquín Moreno
    Pages 25-32
  5. Restrictive Inspiratory Oxygen Fraction

    • Antonio Pisano, Maria Venditto, Luigi Verniero
    Pages 33-41
  6. Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS

    • Antonio Pisano, Rosanna Buonomo, Teresa P. Iovino, Roberta Maj, Federico Masserini, Luigi Verniero
    Pages 43-54
  7. Early Tracheostomy

    • Federico Longhini, Eugenio Garofalo, Andrea Bruni
    Pages 55-60
  8. Pharmacological Management of Cardiac Arrest

    • Vladimir Lomivorotov, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Vladimir Boboshko
    Pages 61-72
  9. Non-pharmacological Management of Cardiac Arrest

    • Evgeny Fominskiy, Egor I. Zakharchenko, Valery A. Nepomniashchikh
    Pages 73-79
  10. Avoidance of Deep Sedation

    • Pasquale Nardelli, Stefano Fresilli, Marta Mucchetti
    Pages 81-92
  11. Hydrocortisone in Sepsis

    • Federico Longhini, Eugenio Garofalo, Andrea Bruni
    Pages 93-98
  12. Goal-Directed Therapy

    • Pasquale Nardelli, Giacomo Senarighi, Carmine D. Votta
    Pages 99-106
  13. Levosimendan in Cardiogenic Shock and Low Cardiac Output Syndrome

    • Vladimir Lomivorotov, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Vladimir Boboshko
    Pages 107-114
  14. Drugs in Myocardial Infarction

    • Margherita Tozzi, Martina Di Piazza, Paolo Meani
    Pages 115-124
  15. Tranexamic Acid in Trauma Patients

    • Annalisa Volpi, Silvia Grossi, Roberta Mazzani
    Pages 125-133
  16. Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Discontinuation

    • Marta Mucchetti, Nicolò Maimeri, Pasquale Nardelli
    Pages 135-147
  17. Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract

    • Luciano Silvestri, Hendrick K. F. van Saene
    Pages 149-156
  18. Nutrition

    • Gianluca Paternoster, Giuseppina Opramolla, Juan Carlos Lopez-Delgado
    Pages 157-170
  19. ECMO and Survival

    • Marina Pieri, Anna Mara Scandroglio
    Pages 171-175
  20. Ultrasounds

    • Francesco Corradi, Ludovica Tecchi, Francesco Forfori
    Pages 177-184

About this book

The 2nd edition of this book describes the recent techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill, defined as those who have acute failure of at least one organ, due to either a pathological condition or a medical intervention, and require intensive care treatment. Each chapter focuses on a specific procedure, device, or drug. The scope is accordingly wide, with coverage of topics as diverse as noninvasive mechanical ventilation, protective ventilation, prone positioning, intravenous salbutamol in ARDS, high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, mild hypothermia after cardiac arrest, daily interruption of sedatives, tranexamic acid, diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin, albumin, growth hormone, glutamine supplementation, tight glucose control, supranormal oxygen delivery, and hydroxyethyl starch in sepsis. The topics selection was performed with the help of hundreds of specialists from dozens of countries; they expressed via web if they agreed or not with these topics and if they used them in their daily clinical practice. The clear text is supported by "how to do" sections and "key point" boxes that provide easily accessible practical information.

Written by acknowledged international experts, Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients is of interest for a wide variety of specialists, including intensivists, emergency doctors, and anesthesiologists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Landoni, Alberto Zangrillo

  • Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

    Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Chiara Sartini

  • Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Australia

    Rinaldo Bellomo

About the editors

Giovanni Landoni is currently Associate Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, where he works as Director Center for Intensive Care and Anesthesiology San Raffaele Scientific Institute. He participated to ideation, writing and implementation of more than 20 grants that got funding from national and international donors. He served as reviewer for over 50 journals (NEJM, JAMA, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Circulation and Intensive Care Medicine among others) and for foreign grant agencies. Prof Landoni was Chief Investigator in successfully completed multicenter randomized clinical trials that enrolled > 5,000 critically ill or perioperative patients over the last 5 years and were published in the NEJM. He ideated, organized and published the findings of the innovative web based International Consensus Conferences with thousands of participants from over 70 countries.

Martina Baiardo Redaelli MD, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Physician at San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
   Chiara Sartini MD, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Physician at San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
   
Alberto Zangrillo is Full Professor in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care and Head of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy, the largest Italian surgical hospital. He’s Vice-rector for clinical activities, Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan and Chief Physician of San Raffaele Scientific Institute. Dr. Zangrillo is among the world’s top 10 fastest publishing clinical scientists in the field of intensive care and anesthes. He was Vice-Chairman of the National Research Committee (CNR) and Chairman of the IInd Committee of the Supreme Public Health Council. He was decorated with the title of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President of the Republic in June 2004 and with the title of Commander by President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, in December 2010.

Rinaldo Bellomo is Director of Intensive Care Research at Austin Health, Director of the Data Analytics Research and Evaluation Centre of the University of Melbourne and of the Centre for Integrated Critical Care at the University of Melbourne and Co-Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC). He is Professor of Intensive care with the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, and holds further leading academic positions in Australia and overseas. In 2014, Professor Bellomo was named in Thomson Reuters the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014. He has been on the list of most cited investigators in Medicine for the last 7 years.  In 2018 he received the Order of Australia for his contribution to Medicine. Professor Bellomo has published more than 1300 papers, written more than 180 book chapters, and edited 15 books in the field of intensive care medicine. He is Editor-in-Chief of Critical Care and Resuscitation. Over the past 10 years, he has been heavily involved in the design, execution, supervision, and publication of several large randomized controlled trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet and JAMA.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

  • Editors: Giovanni Landoni, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Chiara Sartini, Alberto Zangrillo, Rinaldo Bellomo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71917-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71916-6Published: 09 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71919-7Published: 10 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71917-3Published: 08 June 2021

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 227

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pneumology/Respiratory System, Cardiology, Anesthesiology

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access