Care of Trauma Patients: In-hospital Phase

Abstract

This critical care medicine book substantially differs from others due to the range of peculiarities that characterize it. Since it deals with acute patients in critical conditions, this is, as it were, a 'borderline'book, in the sense that it is intended for those, who, in their activity, need a continuous and in-depth interdisciplinary approach to optimize the quality of the treatments offered to critically-ill patients. This book helps to have a better understanding of the current limits of human intervention and aims at supplying updated guidelines; in particular, it is intended for those who, although having to guarantee continuity and top-quality therapies, must decide when and why the collaboration with and intervention by experts is necessary. Basics of Critical Care Medicine -- Anaesthesia -- Pain -- Homeostasis -- Metabolism -- Pharmacology -- Injury and Tissue Damage -- Organ Perfusion -- Cellular and Humoral Activity in Trauma and Sepsis -- Chest Imaging in the ICU -- Pulmonary Oedema -- Pulmonary Embolism -- New Modes of Artificial Ventilation -- Artificial Ventilation at the Bedside -- Advances in Respiratory Mechanics -- Invasive and Noninvasive Haemodynamic Monitoring -- Trauma Operative Procedures (T.O.P.) -- Cerebral and Spinal Dysfunction -- Scoring Systems '95 -- Perioperative Problems in Obese Patients -- Anaesthesiological and Surgical Problems in Lung Transplantation -- Technological and Clinical Advances -- Laryngeal Mask in Clinical Anaesthesia -- Controversies in the Management of Critically Ill Patients -- Updating Computer Usage in the ICU -- Advances in Inhalatory Anaesthesia -- Total Intravenous Anaesthesia -- Management in Anaesthesia.