Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction and Mission

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. History of Critical Care Medicine: The Past, the Present and the Future

      • G. Ristagno, M. H. Weil

      Pages 3-17

   3. The Mission of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM)

      • P. D. Lumb

      Pages 19-26

3. Professionalism, Ethics and Evidence Based Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Professionalism

      • A. Gullo, P. Murabito, J. Besso

      Pages 29-40

   3. Ethics of Decision Making in Critical Care

      • S. Bhagwanjee

      Pages 41-46

   4. Evidence-Based Medicine in Critical Care

      • P. F. Kotur

      Pages 47-57

4. Clinical Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Clinical Governance: Definitions and Recommendations

      • G. Offenstadt

      Pages 61-68

   3. Optimization of Limited Resources and Patient Safety

      • A. O. Gallesio

      Pages 69-80

   4. Improving Quality of Care in ICUs

      • A. Garland

      Pages 81-91

   5. Scoring Systems

      • R. P. Moreno, A. C. Diogo, S. Afonso

      Pages 93-104

5. Nursing Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Nursing Workforce Management in Intensive Care

      • G. F. Williams

      Pages 107-117

   3. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Perspectives

      • G. F. Williams, P. R. Fulbrook, A. W. Alexandrov, W. Cañón Montañez, H. M. Salisu-Kabara, D. W. K. Chan

      Pages 119-132

6. Central Nervous System, Circulation and Kidney

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Central Nervous System Monitoring

      • F. M. B. Maciel

      Pages 135-141

   3. Definition, Monitoring, and Management of Shock States

      • J. -L. Vincent

      Pages 143-150

   4. Plasma Volume Expansion: The Current Controversy

      • C. Hartog, K. Reinhart

      Pages 151-161

The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSIC- CM) has reached the age of maturity. Physicians, nurses, and many others associated with the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine will be coming from all corners of the world to Florence, Italy in August, 2009 to celebrate the 10th quadrennial congress. Every 4 years for the last 36 years, congresses in the magnificent venues of London (1973), Paris (1977), Washington (1981), Jerusalem (1985), Kyoto (1989), Madrid (1993), Ottawa (1997), Sydney (2001), and Buenos Aires (2005) have sig- fied an ever-developing process which has resulted in the four pillars of the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, namely partnership, ethics, professionalism, and competence. The first pillar is based on a stronger interdisciplinary collaboration and a mul- professional partnership in the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. In recent decades, professional activity in medicine has been regulated by well-defined, universal principles, such as the welfare of the patient, autonomy, social justice, and the patient–physician relationship. The second pillar, ethics, has offered welcomed assistance to all these principles in establishing an ethics curriculum.

• Continuing Medical Education (CME)
• Critical Care Medicine
• Defibrillation
• Ethics
• High Risk Patients
• Intensive Care
• Sepsis
• Surgery
• Trauma
• intensive care medicine

From the reviews: “This book contains presentations … of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine in Florence, Italy. … Senior trainees and practitioners in critical care medicine are an appropriate audience … . Chapters are clearly written and make good use of tables and line drawings … good to excellent quality. … contain ample reference lists citing primary literature and citations date to within one year of publication. … presentations here complement a current textbook of critical care medicine in specific subject areas.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2010)

• Department and School of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Catania School of Medicine and University-Hospital, Catania, Italy

  Antonino Gullo

• Department of Anesthesiology, Keck Medical School, Los Angeles, USA

  Philip D. Lumb

• Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Centro Medico de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

  José Besso

• World Federation of Critical Care Nurses C/-Nursing Administration, Gold Coast Health, Southport, Australia

  Ged F. Williams

Policies and ethics