Inhaled sedation in the intensive care unit

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Andreas Meiser

   Pages 1-8

3. Original Publications

   • Andreas Meiser

   Pages 9-34

4. Discussion

   • Andreas Meiser

   Pages 35-39

5. Future Perspectives

   • Andreas Meiser

   Pages 41-41

6. Back Matter

   Pages 43-50

   PDF

Andreas Meiser summarizes the current literature on inhalation sedation of critically ill patients. To meet clinical demands, he describes the development of new devices to administer volatile anesthetics together with common ICU ventilators. Their basic principle is called anesthetic reflection. The author discusses advantages and drawbacks of these devices in line with clinical studies demonstrating advantages of inhaled versus intravenous ICU sedation.About the Author:
Dr. med. Andreas Meiser is working as a consultant anesthesiologist on the interdisciplinary operative ICU of the Saarland University Medical Center. He has been a pioneer in the field of inhalation ICU sedation. He has been treating patients using the AnaConDa administration devices since 2004, and has published many original articles in scientific journals on the subject.

 

• intensive care unit
• inhaled ICU sedation
• Intensive care medicine
• Inhalation sedation
• Anaesthetic reflection
• Volatile anesthetics
• desflurane
• isoflurane
• sevoflurane
• critically ill patients
• intravenous ICU sedation
• Anesthetic conserving device
• AnaConDa
• AnaConDa-50ml
• Mirus

“The book is primarily for physicians and other staff members working in the intensive care setting, but will also be useful for other physicians, who visit the intensive care department to see patients and for anesthesiologists, who work closely together with intensive care therapists. As far as I know, this is the only book available that focuses solely on this topic … . it is well written and deals with the topic in a clear and straightforward way.” (Ann Merete Møller, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 131 (4), October, 2020)

• Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Saarland University Faculty of Medicine, Homburg, Germany

  Andreas Meiser

Dr. med. Andreas Meiser is working as a consultant anesthesiologist on the interdisciplinary operative ICU of the Saarland University Medical Center. He has been a pioneer in the field of inhalation ICU sedation. He has been treating patients using the AnaConDa administration devices since 2004, and has published many original articles in scientific journals on the subject.

Policies and ethics