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Practical Issues Updates in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

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Editors:
  1. Davide Chiumello

    1. Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione e Terapia del Dolore, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Milano, Italy

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  • Provides an authoritative update on hot topics in anesthesia and intensive care

  • Offers practical guidance that will improve outcomes

  • Written by recognized experts

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Prone Position in the Treatment of Patients with ARDS: Problems and Real Utility

    • Davide A. Chiumello, Ilaria Algieri, Matteo Brioni, Giovanni Babini
    Pages 1-13

  3. Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Intensive Care Unit

    • Massimo Girardis, Emanuela Biagioni
    Pages 15-20

  4. Which Among Septic Patients Are the Best Candidate for Immunoglobulins?

    • Giorgio Berlot, Perla Rossini, Federica Turchet
    Pages 21-30

  5. The Role of Noradrenaline, Vasopressin, and Terlipressin in Septic Shock

    • Biagio Allaria
    Pages 31-42

  6. The Most Recent Strategies for VAP (Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia) Prevention

    • Davide A. Chiumello, Silvia Coppola, Sara Froio
    Pages 43-56

  7. Hemodynamic Optimization in the Perioperative Period: General Guidelines and a Comparison of Personalized Strategies

    • Biagio Allaria
    Pages 57-75

  8. Management Strategies in the Postoperative Course, with Particular Attention to Pain Treatment: Revision of the Most Recent Knowledge

    • Gennaro Savoia, Maria Loreto
    Pages 77-89

  9. Optimum Management of Perioperative Coagulation in Patients with Spontaneous Intracranial Haemorrhage

    • Patrizia Fumagalli
    Pages 91-102

  10. Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH): Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment

    • Giorgio Tulli
    Pages 103-137

  11. Noninvasive Ventilation Outside the Critical Care Unit

    • Cesare Gregoretti, Alessio Mattei, Annalisa Carlucci
    Pages 139-147

  12. Interventional Cardiology: The Role of the Anesthesiologist

    • Franco Cavaliere
    Pages 149-155

  13. All You Need to Know About the Meaning of Plasmatic Lactate Level

    • L. di Girolamo, R. Iorio, G. Spinelli, M. Dei Poli
    Pages 157-175

  14. Clinical Use of Indocyanine Green (ICG) Kinetics in Liver Anaesthesia and ICU

    • Andrea De Gasperi, Ernestina Mazza
    Pages 177-199
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About this book

This book describes the state of the art concerning some of the most hotly debated topics in anesthesia and intensive care and is at the same time intended to serve as a useful practical guide that will assist in improving outcomes. The topics covered are wide ranging and include, for example, use of the prone position in ARDS, the role of therapeutic hypothermia in the critically ill, the value of immunoglobulins in the treatment of severe sepsis, drug management of septic shock, new strategies for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia, non-invasive ventilation outside of the ICU, management of postoperative bleeding and prognostic factors in cardiac arrest. Written by recognized experts in the field, the book will offer a comprehensive and easy to understand update for specialists and students of anesthesia and intensive care.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione e Terapia del Dolore, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Milano, Italy

    Davide Chiumello

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practical Issues Updates in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

  • Editors: Davide Chiumello

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18066-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18065-6Published: 14 July 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18066-3Published: 30 June 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 199

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

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

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