Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Sepsis: Underlying Mechanisms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Lipid Mediators in the Pathogenesis and Resolution of Sepsis and ARDS

      • B. Hamilton, L. B. Ware, M. A. Matthay

      Pages 3-11

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   3. Immune Paralysis in Sepsis: Recent Insights and Future Development

      • B. M. Tang, V. Herwanto, A. S. McLean

      Pages 13-23

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   4. Persistent Inflammation, Immunosuppression and Catabolism after Severe Injury or Infection

      • P. A. Efron, F. A. Moore, S. C. Brakenridge

      Pages 25-35

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3. Infections and Antimicrobial Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Current Trends in Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance in Neonatal Sepsis

      • S. Chavez-Bueno, R. J. McCulloh

      Pages 39-51

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   3. Prolonged Infusion of Beta-lactam Antibiotics in Critically Ill Patients: Revisiting the Evidence

      • S. A. M. Dhaese, V. Stove, J. J. De Waele

      Pages 53-69

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   4. Colistin Dosing in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

      • P. M. Honore, M. L. N. G. Malbrain, H. D. Spapen

      Pages 71-76

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4. Cardiovascular Concerns

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in the Critically Ill

      • F. Guarracino, P. Bertini, M. R. Pinsky

      Pages 79-88

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   3. Management of Intraoperative Hypotension: Prediction, Prevention and Personalization

      • T. W. L. Scheeren, B. Saugel

      Pages 89-97

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   4. Vasodilatory Shock in the ICU: Perils, Pitfalls and Therapeutic Options

      • S. Vallabhajosyula, J. C. Jentzer, A. K. Khanna

      Pages 99-111

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   5. Angiotensin in Critical Care

      • A. Hall, L. W. Busse, M. Ostermann

      Pages 113-122

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5. Cardiovascular Resuscitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Making Sense of Early High-dose Intravenous Vitamin C in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

      • A. M. E. Spoelstra-de Man, P. W. G. Elbers, H. M. Oudemans‐van Straaten

      Pages 125-139

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   3. Optimal Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Targets During and after Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest

      • M. B. Skrifvars, G. M. Eastwood, R. Bellomo

      Pages 141-153

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   4. Outcome after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

      • C. J. R. Gough, J. P. Nolan

      Pages 155-164

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   5. Medico-economic Evaluation of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patient Management

      • G. Geri

      Pages 165-173

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6. Respiratory Support

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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The Annual Update compiles reviews of the most recent developments in experimental and clinical intensive care and emergency medicine research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in these fields. The book is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

• emergency management
• respiratory failure
• intensive care unit
• sepsis
• hemodynamic monitoring

• Dept. of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  Jean-Louis Vincent

Prof. Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the University of Brussels, and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. He is President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and a Past-President of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the Royal Medical Academy of Belgium.

Prof. Vincent has signed more than 900 original articles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, 1000 original abstracts, and has edited 102 books. He is co-editor of the Textbook of Critical Care (Elsevier Saunders) and the “Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine” (Springer). He is editor-in-chief of "Critical Care", "Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management & Practice" and member of the editorial boards of about 30 journals.

For 37 years, Prof. Vincent has been chairman of the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the largest international meeting in this field, which gathers more than 6000 participants every year in Brussels.

He has received several awards, including the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians He is a recipient of the "Society Medal” (lifetime award) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and has received the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the FRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences Biomédicales Cliniques). In recognition of these achievements, he was awarded the title of Baron by King Albert II of Belgium in 2013.

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