REDUCING MORTALITY IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS

- Identifies the techniques, strategies, and drugs proven by multi
center randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill patients
- Focuses on a specific procedure, device, or drug in each chapter
- Includes helpful "how to do" sections and "key point" boxes
- Written by acknowledged international experts

This book describes the techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated
by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill patients, defined as
those who have acute failure of at least one organ, due to either a pathological condition
or a medical intervention, and require intensive care treatment. Each chapter focuses
on a specific procedure, device, or drug. The scope is accordingly wide, with coverage
of topics as diverse as noninvasive mechanical ventilation, protective ventilation, prone
positioning, intravenous salbutamol in ARDS, high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, mild
hypothermia after cardiac arrest, daily interruption of sedatives, tranexamic acid, diaspirin
cross-linked hemoglobin, albumin, growth hormone, glutamine supplementation,
tight glucose control, supranormal oxygen delivery, and hydroxyethyl starch in sepsis.
The topic selection was made using a democracy-based approach in which hundreds
of specialists from dozens of countries expressed, via the web, whether they agreed
with these topics and whether they used the techniques in their daily clinical practice.
The clear text is supported by "how to do" sections and "key point" boxes that provide
easily accessible practical information. The book will be of interest for a wide variety of
specialists, including intensivists, emergency doctors, and anesthesiologists.

Contents
1.Decision Making in the Democracy-based Medicine Era: The Consensus Conference Process
2.Noninvasive Ventilation
3.Lung-Protective Ventilation and Mortality in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
4.Prone Positioning to Reduce Mortality in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
5.Tranexamic Acid in Trauma Patients
6.Albumin Use in Liver Cirrhosis
7.Daily Interruption of Sedatives to Improve Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients
8.Tight Glycemic Control
9.Hydroxyethyl Starch in Critically Ill Patients
10.Growth Hormone in the Critically Ill
11.Diaspirin Cross-Linked Hemoglobin and Blood Substitutes
12.Supranormal Elevation of Systemic Oxygen Delivery in Critically Ill Patients
13.Does ß
14.High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation
15.Glutamine Supplementation in Critically Ill Patients
16.Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Update
17.Is Therapeutic Hypothermia Beneficial for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest?