The management of the critically ill patients has been in the past few years a discipline at the forefront of development which continues to make progress with the support of basic and clinical research.

Progress in Critical Care.- A Life in Critical Care.- Clinics, Technology, Ethics, and Humane Patient-Physician Relationships and Critical Care (Monitoring, Diagnosis, Intervention Strategies).- Cerebral Resuscitation 2000 A.D..- Early Goal-Directed Invasive and Noninvasive Monitoring of High Risk Postoperative and Septic Surgical Patients Improves Outcome.- Postresuscitation Myocardial Dysfunction.- Telemedicine: Steps into the Future.- Evidence-Based Medicine in the ICU.- Ethics and Quality Control in the ICU.- The Problem of Informed Consent in Critically Ill Patients.- Progress in Scoring Systems, Safety and Quality of Care in the ICU.- Is Mortality the Only Outcome Measure in ICU Patients?.- Anaesthesia and Coexisting Diseases.- Perioperative Care: Physiology and Practicality.- Coagulation Disorders.- Neuromuscular Disorders and Anaesthesia.- Anaesthesia and Coexisting Diseases: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.- Optimization of the Perioperative Period in High-Risk Patients.- Clinical Anaesthesia.- Standards in Anaesthetic Practice.- Hypnotics.- Analgesics.- Muscle Relaxants in Clinical Anaesthesia: An Update.- Total Intravenous Anaesthesia.- Perioperative Care of Cardiac Risk Patients.- Perioperative Care of Cardiac Risk Patients: New Pharmacological Strategies.- Biochemical Markers of Myocardial Cell Injury.- Postoperative Intensive Care Therapy — In Which Patients and for How Long?.- Diagnosis in the Early Phase of Aortic Dissection.- Surgical Strategies in the Management of Acute Aortic Dissection.- Early Complications and Management After Bypass Circulation.- New Concepts of Antiarrhythmic Strategies.- Emergency Treatment of Bradycardic and Tachycardic Arrhythmias.- Perioperative Arrhythmias and Outcome.- Therapeutic Monitoring in the PerioperativePeriod.- Obstetric Complications.- Uncommon Diseases in Pregnancy.- Complications of Obstetric Anaesthesia.- Anaesthesia for Emergency Caesarean Section.- Obstetric Complications: Consumption Coagulopathy.- Perioperative Management of Hypertension.- Maternal and Foetal Mortality Rates During Pregnancy, Delivery and Puerperium.- Acid-Base Disorders, Diagnosis and Treatment.- Dimension of Fluid Compartments in Severely Ill Patients.- Pathophysiology of Acid Base Regulation.- Fluid and Electrolyte Management in Intensive Care.- Respiratory Acidosis and Alkalosis.- Metabolic Acidosis and Metabolic Alkalosis in the Critically Ill.- Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Acidosis.- Albumin: Is It a Play-Maker, a Carrier or Both?.- Assessment of the Cardiopulmonary Function in the ICU.- Capnography.- New Insights into Cardiovascular Monitoring: Continuous Arterial Thermodilution and Intrathoracic Blood Volume.- Echo Doppler Monitoring for the Evaluation of Cardiovascular Performances in Anaesthesia and in the Intensive Care Units.- Cerebral Homeostasis — Polyneuropathy.- Pathophysiology of Brain Temperature.- Exploring Cerebral Metabolism by Microdialysis.- Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Polyneuropathy in Critical Illness.- Polyneuropathy in Patients Undergoing a Neuromuscular Junction Blockade.- Muscular Wasting as a Consequence of Sepsis.- Current Status of Critical Care.- Epidemiology of Trauma.- Nitric Oxide in Sepsis and ARDS.- Management of Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Management of Acute Ischaemic Stroke.- Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Cytoprotection.- Focus on Hyperbaric Medicine.- Evidence-Based Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.- Intrinsically Safe Hyperbaric Centres.- Lung Function in the ICU.- Lung Function Monitoring in the ICU: AvailableTechniques and Future Requirements.- Mechanical Ventilation and Lung Mechanics.- Pulmonary Gas Exchange in the Intensive Care Unit.- Pulmonary Haemodynamics in the Intensive Care Unit.- PET and Other Nuclear Medicine Techniques.- Lung Function Monitoring: Data Provided by CT Scan.- Bedside Replacement of Computed Tomography by Electrical Impedance Tomography.- Ventilatory Perfusion Mismatch in ARDS.- Volume Distribution and Ventilatory Modes in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Problems Associated with Clinical Determination of Pulmonary Shunting.- Pulmonary Hypertension.- Lung Dysfunction and Ventilatory Management.- Pathophysiology of Unresolving ARDS: The Role of the Host Defense Response.- Pathophysiology of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.- How to Diagnose Ventilator Associated Pneumonia.- Can Hygienic Measures Prevent Pneumonia?.- Ventilatory Support in Different Stages of Lung Dysfunction.- Strategies to Minimize Alveolar Stretch Injury During Mechanical Ventilation.- Modes of Ventilation and Weaning Strategies.- Proportional Assist Ventilation: Technique and Implementation.

GPSR Compliance The European Union's (EU) General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) is a set of rules that requires consumer products to be safe and our obligations to ensure this. If you have any concerns about our products you can contact us on ProductSafety@springernature.com. In case Publisher is established outside the EU, the EU authorized representative is: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Europaplatz 3 69115 Heidelberg, Germany ProductSafety@springernature.com