Intensive Care Medicine in 10 Years (eBook)

Setting the Stage
Setting the Scene (J.L. Vincent).- Managing and Leading in Critical Care (W.J. Sibbald).- Critical Care from 50,000 Feet (D.C. Angus).- Expectations around Intensive Care – 10 Years on (K. Hillman).- The Safety and Quality Agenda in Critical Care Medicine (T. Dorman).- The Challenge of Emerging Infections and Progressive Antibiotic Resistance (S.M. Opal).- Health Technology Assessment (J. Bakker and P. Verboom).- Trends in Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care in the next 10 Years (R.C. Tasker).- Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Information Technologies Ten Years from Now
The Patient Process as the Basis for the Design of an ICU (B. Regli and J. Takala).- Information Technology (G.D. Martich, D. Van Pelt and D. Lovasik).- Diagnostic Technologies to Assess Tissue Perfusion and Cardiorespiratory Performance (M.R. Pinsky).- Microcirculatory Distress in Critically Ill Patients: Meaning and Future (C. Ince).- Managing Infection: From Agar Plate to Genome Scan (J. Cohen).- Immunological Monitoring, Functional Genomics and Proteomics (E. Abraham).- Improving Organ Function (M. Singer).- The Profile and Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (L. Gattinoni, P. Caironi and E. Carlesso).- The Ventilator of Tomorrow (L. Brochard, M. Dojat and F. Lellouche).- My NeuroICU 10 Years from Now (D.K. Menon).- Disaster Medicine (P.E. Pepe, K.J. Rinnert and J.G. Wigginton).- How Might Critical Care Medicine be Organized and Regulated?
Hospital and Medical School Organization of Critical Care Services (P. Fink).- Physician Staffing in the ICU 10 Years from Now (J.A. Russell and A. Sutherland).- ICU Research – One Decade from Now (J.J. Marini and D.J. Dries).- Organizing Clinical Critical Care Research and Implementing the Results(D. Cook and S. Finfer).- Funding Models and Accountability Relationships (P.M. Suter).- Measuring Performance (G.D. Rubenfeld).- Ethics and End-of-Life Care (J.R. Curtis).- Rationing in the ICU: Fear, Fiction and Fact (M.M. Levy) Training
Training Pathways – Physician and Non-Physician (J. Bion, H. Barrett, and T. Clutton-Brock).- Simulation Training in Critical Care Medicine (P.B. Angood).- The Critical Care 'Agenda'
The Agenda for the Intensivist (V.M. Ranieri and G.L. Rosboch).- Transforming Adult Critical Care Service Delivery in Ontario (H. MacLeod).- Index