Anaesthesia, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.

Part I. Advances on Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

1. Combining Clinical Practices and Technology in Critical Care Medicine
Younsuck Koh

2. Ultrasound In Critical Care: A Holistic Discipline
Daniel A. Lichtenstein

3. Assessment and Management of Circulatory Failure
Kamen Valchanov

4. Simulation in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Paolo Persona, Carlo Ori

Part II. Trauma

5. Trauma Care Organisation
Roderick Mackenzie, Simon Lewis, Basil F. Matta

Part III. Cardiovascular System

6. Cardiovascular Risk in Non-cardiac Surgery
Luca Ferdinando Lorini, Lorenzo Filippo Mantovani

Part IV. Kidney

7. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Challenges and Evidences
Giorgio Berlot, Antoinette Agbedjro

Part V. Lung

8. Postoperative Respiratory Complications
Maria Vargas, Yuda Sutherasan, Paolo Pelosi

9. Old and New Strategies on Artificial Ventilation in ARDS Patients
Paolo Pelosi, Maria Vargas, Iole Brunetti

10. Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Marcello Migliore

Part VI. Severe Infections, Sepsis and MODS

11. Diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Luciano Silvestri, Hendrick K. F. Saene, Serena Tomasino

12. Rationale of Antibiotics Anti-MRSA in Pneumonia
Francesco Scaglione

13. The Role of Microbiology for Diagnosis of Fungal Infections
Salvatore Oliveri, Laura Trovato

14. Sepsis and Organ(s) Dysfunction
A. Gullo, C. M. Celestre, A. L. Paratore, L. Silvestri, H. K. van Saene

15. Immunoglobulin as Adjunctive Therapy in Sepsis
Massimo Girardis, Giulia Serafini, Ilaria Cavazzuti

Part VII. Cardiac Arrest: Optimization of Current Protocols

16. Determinants for More Efficient Defibrillation Waveforms
Yongqin Li, Bihua Chen

17. Post-Resuscitation Hypothermia and Monitoring
Tommaso Pellis, Filippo Sanfilippo, Andrea Roncarati, Vincenzo Mione

Part VIII. Humanization

18. Palliative Care in Pediatric Patients
Marinella Astuto, Giuliana Arena, Rita Scalisi, Carmelo Minardi

19. End of Life Care
Cristina Santonocito

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