Acute Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Metabolism in Critical Care Medicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Comparison of Hyper-Iso- and Hypotonic Electrolyte Solutions in Therapy of Severe Burns, Major Operations and Trauma

      • Ch. L. Fox Jr.

      Pages 3-5

   3. Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Hypokalemia

      • R. Kitzes, L. Cohen, J. Rosenfeld

      Pages 6-8

   4. Base Excess: A Questionable Parameter in Metabolic Estimation During Low Tecidual Perfusion States — A Clinical and Experimental Study

      • O. M. Gomes, N. L. T. Barros Moraes, A. I. Fiorelli, S. M. Baldini, G. B. Castro, A. Sayah et al.

      Pages 9-13

   5. Metabolic Acidosis and the Use of Buffers in the Critically III

      • H. Delooz

      Pages 14-23

   6. Safety of Vitamins When Used for Acute Care in Emergencies

      • A. B. Hanck

      Pages 24-26

3. Monitoring of the Critically III Patient

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Tissue pO2 Monitoring. A New Method in the Care of the Critically Ill Patient

      • K. Schönleben, J. P. Hauss, U. Spiegel, H. Bünte, M. Kessler

      Pages 29-33

   3. Non-Invasive Monitoring of Blood Pressure: Patient Studies

      • J. Silva, W. T. Rasmussen

      Pages 34-34

   4. Indwelling Central Venous Catheter. Statistical Analysis of Factors Influencing the Risk of Microbial or Fungal Contamination

      • L. Michel, J. L. Bachy

      Pages 35-55

   5. Monitoring Tissue in Patients Under Arteriosclerosis Occlusive Surgery

      • J. Hauss, K. Schönleben, U. Spiegel, M. Kessler

      Pages 56-59

   6. Improved Clinical Practice in Cholecystectomy-Postoperative Period

      • G. Göransson, S. Bengmark, I. Gustavsson, D. Thomson, T. Viljanen

      Pages 60-60

   7. Hormonal Dysregulation in Stress Following Operation and Trauma

      • W. Stremmel

      Pages 61-69

   8. Cerebral Prognosis Determined During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

      • E. O. Jørgensen

      Pages 70-85

   9. Remote Medical Diagnosis System

      • J. Silva, W. T. Rasmussen

      Pages 86-87

   10. Computer-Assisted Analysis of Intracranial Pressure for Clinical Applications

       • J. Szewczykowski, P. Dytko, S. Sliwka, J. Korsak-Sliwka

       Pages 88-94

   11. Stabilization of the Spine in Vertebral Tumors and Trauma by Means of Spondylodesis with Harrington Rods and Bone Cement

       • W. Heipertz

       Pages 95-100

4. Organization of Intensive Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. The Border Between Life and Death in Critical Care Medicine

      • W. Weissauer, R. Frey

      Pages 103-104

This volume contains the results of the 7th International Symposium on Acute Care, held in Rio de Janeiro from 21st to 24th November 1977. I would like to thank all the participants for their wonderful cooperation which made this Symposium a real success. I am especially grateful to the excellent speakers from all special­ ist fields and from all nations: I assure you, we all learned a great deal! I would also like to thank the members of the organizing and scientific committees whose combined efforts ensured the smooth running of the Symposium, a meeting with a high-level discussion of scientific and philosophic problems as its goal. But first and foremost, we should like to express profound gratitude to the man whose idea it was to hold an annual conference in Rio: Dr. Brenildo Tavares, the Director of the Rio Symposia on Acute Care. He is one of the great pioneers of intensive, critical, acute, and emergency care, not only in.south America, but allover the world. The secret of the success of his symposia lies in his interdisciplinary and international approach. The symposia have brought together a great number of people who have since become close friends and continue to meet throughout the world. We all congratulate and thank him and wish him much success in the future.

• Intensivbehandlung
• Notfallmedizin
• Sepsis
• care
• coronary artery disease
• critical care
• infection
• intensive care
• intensive care medicine
• intensive care unit
• lung function
• pathophysiology
• shock
• surgery
• trauma

• Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

  Brenildo M. Tavares

• Institut für Anaesthesiologie, Universität, Mainz, Germany

  Rudolf Frey

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