Critical Care Sedation

1. Critical Care Sedation: The Concept
Giovanni Zagli, Lorenzo Viola

2. The Stress Response of Critical Illness: Which Is the Role of Sedation?
A. Raffaele Gaudio, Matteo Bonifazi, Stefano Romagnoli

3. Pain Management in Critically Ill Patient
Cosimo Chelazzi, Silvia Falsini, Eleonora Gemmi

4. Common Practice and Guidelines for Sedation in Critically Ill Patients
Massimo Girardis, Barbara Rossi, Lorenzo Dall’Ara, Cosetta Cantaroni

5. The Subjective and Objective Monitoring of Sedation
Carla Carozzi, Dario Caldiroli

6. Intravenous Sedatives and Analgesics
Francesco Barbani, Elena Angeli, A. Raffaele Gaudio

7. Volatile Anesthetics for Intensive Care Unit Sedation
Giovanni Landoni, Omar Saleh, Elena Scarparo, Alberto Zangrillo

8. Regional Anaesthesia Techniques for Pain Control in Critically Ill Patients
Francesco Forfori, Etrusca Brogi

9. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
Elena Bignami, Francesco Saglietti

10. Sedation and Hemodynamics
Federico Franchi, Loredana Mazzetti, Sabino Scolletta

11. Sedation and the Immune System
Gianluca Villa, Chiara Mega, Angelo Senzi

12. Sleep in the ICU
Stefano Romagnoli, Rosa Giua, A. Raffaele Gaudio

13. Delirium in the Critically Ill Patients
Fulvio Pinelli, Elena Morettini, Elena Cecero

14. Sedation in Pediatric Critically Ill Patients
Cristiana Garisto, Alessandra Rizza, Zaccaria Ricci

15. Sedation in Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit
Sergio Bevilacqua, Ilaria Galeotti

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Anesthesiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine