Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

and Mission.- History of Critical Care Medicine: The Past, the Present and the Future.- The Mission of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM).- Professionalism, Ethics and Evidence Based Practice.- Professionalism.- Ethics of Decision Making in Critical Care.- Evidence-Based Medicine in Critical Care.- Clinical Governance.- Clinical Governance: Definitions and Recommendations.- Optimization of Limited Resources and Patient Safety.- Improving Quality of Care in ICUs.- Scoring Systems.- Nursing Perspectives.- Nursing Workforce Management in Intensive Care.- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Perspectives.- Central Nervous System, Circulation and Kidney.- Central Nervous System Monitoring.- Definition, Monitoring, and Management of Shock States.- Plasma Volume Expansion: The Current Controversy.- Predicting the Success of Defibrillation and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Acute Renal Failure.- Respiratory System and Protective Ventilation.- The Evolution of Imaging in Respiratory Dysfunction Failure.- ALI, ARDS, and Protective Lung Ventilation.- Infections Surveillance, Prevention and Management.- From Surveillance to Prevention.- Antibiotic Policy in Critically Ill Patients.- The Physiopathology of Antimicrobial Resistance on the Intensive Care.- Infections in ICU: An Ongoing Challenge.- Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract (SDD). Twenty-five Years of European Experience.- Antifungal Management.- Sepsis, Organ Dysfunction and the Bundles.- Sepsis: Clinical Approach, Evidence-Based at the Bedside.- Intra-Abdominal Infections: Diagnostic and Surgical Strategies.- Surviving Sepsis Campaign and Bundles.- Trauma.- The Trauma: Focus on Triage.- Damage Control in Surgery.- Limited Resource, Disaster.- Emergency Mass Critical Care.- Natural Disaster.- The Needs of Children in Natural or Manmade Disasters.- Special Clinical Conditions.- The Neuroendocrine Response to Sepsis.- Blood Transfusion and Its Components.- Pain Management in Neonates and Children.- Obstetrics at High Risk.- Intensive Care in the Elderly.- Severe Malaria in the ICU.- End-of-Life in the ICU.- Environment and Clinical Research.- Designing Safe Intensive Care Units of the Future.- How to Plan and Design a Clinical Research Project.

From the reviews:

“This book contains presentations … of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine in Florence, Italy. … Senior trainees and practitioners in critical care medicine are an appropriate audience … . Chapters are clearly written and make good use of tables and line drawings … good to excellent quality. … contain ample reference lists citing primary literature and citations date to within one year of publication. … presentations here complement a current textbook of critical care medicine in specific subject areas.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2010)