ANNUAL UPDATE IN INTENSIVE CARE AND EMERGENCY 2016

1. Interpreting Procalcitonin at the Bedside
2. Reducing Antibiotic Use in the ICU: A Time-Based Approach to Rational Antimicrobial Use
3. Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Severe Influenza Infection
4. Critically Ill Patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection
5. Immunomodulation: The Future for Sepsis?
6. Norepinephrine in Septic Shock: Five Reasons to Initiate it Early
7. Myths and Facts Regarding Lactate in Sepsis
8. Creatinine-Based Definitions: From Baseline Creatinine to Serum Creatinine Adjustment in Intensive Care
9. Detrimental Cross-Talk Between Sepsis and Acute Kidney Injury: New Pathogenic Mechanisms, Early Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies
10. Timing of Acute Renal Replacement Therapy
11. (Multiple) Organ Support Therapy Beyond AKI
12. Crystalloid Fluid Therapy
13. Emergency Reversal Strategies for Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Agents
14. Bedside Myocardial Perfusion Assessment with Contrast Echocardiography
15. Pathophysiological Determinants of Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Septic Shock
16. Cardiovascular Response to ECMO
17. Mechanical Circulatory Support in the New Era: An Overview
18. Cardiac Arrest in the Elderly: Epidemiology and Outcome
19. Regional Systems of Care: The Final Link in the “Chain of Survival” Concept for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
20. Cardiac Arrest Centers
21. High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy: Physiological Effects and Clinical Data
22. The Potential Value of Monitoring the Oxygen Reserve Index in Patients Receiving Oxygen
23. Variable Ventilation from Bench to Bedside
24. Monitoring Respiratory Effort by Means of the Electrical Activity of the Diaphragm
25. Dissipated Energy is a Key Mediator of VILI: Rationale for Using Low Driving Pressures
26. Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
27. The Neglected Role of Abdominal Compliance in Organ-Organ Interactions
28. Metabonomics and Intensive Care
29. The Rationale for Permissive Hyperglycemia in Critically Ill Patients with Diabetes
30. Indirect Calorimetry in Critically Ill Patients: Concept, Current Use, and Future Challenges
31. Managing Intensive Care Supply-Demand Imbalance
32. Advances in the Management of the Potential Organ Donor After Neurologic Determination of Death
33. Humanizing Intensive Care: Theory, Evidence, and Possibilities
34. Ultrasound Simulation Education for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
35. Virtual Patients and Virtual Cohorts: A New Way to Think About the Design and Implementation of Personalized ICU Treatments
36. Predicting Cardiorespiratory Instability
37. Long-Term Outcomes After Critical Illness Relevant to Randomized Clinical Trials
38. Long-Term Consequences of Acute Inflammation in the Surgical Patient: New Findings and Perspectives
39. Kairotropy: Discovering Critical Illness Trajectories Using Clinical Phenotypes with Big Data

The Annual Update compiles the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

Features
• Comprehensively documents the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research in intensive care and emergency medicine
• Written by acknowledged experts in the field
• Broad appeal for all who work in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine

Author
Dr Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the University of Brussels, and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. He is President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and a Past-President of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the Royal Medical Academy of Belgium.
Dr. Vincent has signed more than 850 original articles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, 930 original abstracts, and has edited 99 books. He is co-editor of the Textbook of Critical Care (Elsevier Saunders, 7th Edition) and the “Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine” (Springer). He is editor-in-chief of "Critical Care", "Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management" and member of the editorial boards of about 30 journals.
For 36 years, Dr Vincent has been chairman of the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the largest international meeting in this field, which gathers more than 6000 participants every year in Brussels.
He has received several awards, including the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians He is a recipient of the "Society Medal” (lifetime award) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and has received the prestigious Belgian scientific award of the FRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences biomédicales cliniques).