ANNUAL UPDATE IN INTENSIVE CARE AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2019

1. Precision Medicine in the Intensive Care Unit: Identifying Opportunities and Overcoming Barriers
2. Precision Delivery in Critical Care: Balancing Prediction and Personalization
3. Acute Respiratory Failure in the Oncologic Patient: New Era, New Issues
4. Universal Low Tidal Volume: Early Initiation of Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in Patients with and without ARDS
5. Recruitment Maneuvers and Higher PEEP, the So-Called Open Lung Concept, in Patients with ARDS
6. ARDS in Obese Patients: Specificities and Management
7. ECMO After EOLIA: The Evolving Role of Extracorporeal Support in ARDS
8. Physiological and Technical Considerations of Extracorporeal CO2 Removal
9. Cardiac Arrest in the Intensive Care Unit
10. Targeted Temperature Management After Cardiac Arrest: Where Are We Now?
11. Left Diastolic Function in Critically Ill Mechanically Ventilated Patients
12. The Effects of Disease and Treatments on Ventriculo-Arterial Coupling: Implications for Long-term Care
13. Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices for Cardiogenic Shock: State of the Art
14. Sodium Thiosulfate: A New Player for Circulatory Shock and Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury?
15. Lactate in Critically Ill Patients: At the Crossroads Between Perfusion and Metabolism
16. Continuous Non-invasive Monitoring of Cardiac Output and Lung Volume Based on CO2 Kinetics
17. Should We Abandon Measuring SvO2 or ScvO2 in Patients with Sepsis?
18. Perioperative Hemodynamic Monitoring: MERCI to Predict Economic Impact
19. The Pulmonary Artery Catheter in the Management of the High-Risk Surgical Patient
20. Resuscitation Fluid Choices to Preserve the Endothelial Glycocalyx
21. Should Albumin be the Colloid of Choice for Fluid Resuscitation in Hypovolemic Patients?
22. What the Intensive Care Physician Should Know About the Transurethral Resection Syndrome
23. Relationship Between Central Venous Pressure and Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Patients
24. Fluid Management in Acute Kidney Injury
25. Diagnostic Implications of Creatinine and Urea Metabolism in Critical Illness
26. New Insights into the Renal Microcirculation in Sepsis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury
27. Atypical Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
28. Latest Developments in Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury
29. Renal Replacement Therapy During Septic Renal Dysfunction
30. Acid-Base Disorders and Regional Citrate Anticoagulation with Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
31. Acute Kidney Injury and Delirium: Kidney–Brain Crosstalk
32. Brain Ultrasound in the Non-neurocritical Care Setting
33. Brain Fog: Are Clearer Skies on the Horizon? A Review of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders
34. Uncovering Consciousness in Unresponsive ICU Patients: Technical, Medical and Ethical Considerations
35. From Influenza-Induced Acute Lung Injury to Multiorgan Failure
36. Multidrug Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in Community-Acquired Pneumonia
37. Light and Shade of Antibiotics Recently Approved and in Advanced Development for Critically Ill Patients
38. Target Controlled Infusion in the ICU: An Opportunity to Optimize Antibiotic Therapy

The Annual Update compiles reviews of the most recent developments in experimental and clinical intensive care and emergency medicine research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in these fields. The book 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