Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

1. Intensive Care for Elderly Patients: Clinical, Ethical and Economic Considerations
2. Is It Still Worth Treating At-Risk Patients with Perioperative Goal-Directed Haemodynamic Therapy?
3. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and Fluid Replacement: a Dog That Bites Its Own Tail?
4. Acute Liver Failure in Intensive Care
5. Diuretics in Intensive Care: Positive and Negative Aspects
6. Perioperative and Intensive Care Management of Haemorrhage: the Opinion of the Haemathologist
7. Hypercapnic Acidosis in Protective Mechanical Ventilation (a Tolerated Compromise or Another Means of Protection?)
8. Are We Sure We Are Using Drugs Correctly in Critical Patients?
9. The Problem of Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Gastric Acid Suppression in Intensive Care
10. Renal, Cardiac and Pulmonary Involvement in Patients with Supraventricular Tachycardia: a Typical Holistic Vision by an Intensive Care Physician
11. VAP (Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia)
12. Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Acute Severe Asthma

The contents of this book are a selection taken from materials that have been developed during the preparation of continuing education courses (distance learning), whose scientific advisor is the volume editor, Professor Allaria, and that have never previously been published. The topics considered are wide ranging; particular attention is devoted to general topics of importance to the practitioner, but specific controversial issues, such as the role of goal-directed hemodynamic therapy, are also addressed. All of the authors are recognized experts on the subjects they discuss. The book is part of a wider project that aims to provide updated information each year not only in anesthesiology but also in other fields, including cardiology, ophthalmology, and nephrology.