Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - A.P.I.C.E.

Experimental and Clinical Research in Shock.- Cytokine Activity in Experimental Sepsis.- Role of Nitric Oxide in Septic Shock.- Novel Approaches to Improve Tissue Oxygen Extraction Capabilities: Lessons Learned from Experimental Septic Shock Models.- Should Beta-Blockers Have a Place in the Treatment of Septic Shock?.- Respiratory Flow Limitation.- Relationship between Chronic Dyspnea and Expiratory Flow Limitation in Patients with COPD.- Pathophysiology of Flow Limitation.- Pharmacological Reversibility of Flow Limitation in COPD and Asthmatic Patients.- Respiratory Muscle Fatigue in COPD Patients.- Mechanical Ventilation.- Patient-Ventilator Interaction.- Spontaneous Breathing Trial with T-Tube.- Continuous Flow Systems.- Lung Damage by Artificial Ventilation - Proof by Radiological Techniques.- Barotrauma, Volume Trauma and Their Relation to FRC.- Iatrogenic Lung Damage by Artificial Ventilation: What Is the Role of the Pulmonary Surfactant System?.- Side Effects of Mechanical Ventilation: Molecular Mechanisms.- Physiological Rationale to Prevent Ventilation-Induced Lung Injury.- Iatrogenic Lung Damage by Artificial Ventilation - Clinical Confirmation.- Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS: What a Fine Mess!.- Rationale for Reduction of Alveolar Ventilation in ARDS.- Cardiovascular.- Perioperative Hypertension.- Therapy of Perioperative Myocardial Ischemia.- Selection of Patients for Invasive Haemodynamic Monitoring.- Anaesthetic Considerations for Major Cardiovascular Surgery.- Therapeutic Strategies in Patients Suffering from Myocardiopathy (Awaiting Transplantation).- Head Injuries.- Pathophysiology of Head Trauma.- Cerebral Edema in Brain Ischemia and Trauma.- Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism in Severe Head Injury.- Monitoring of Jugular Bulb Hemoglobin Oxygen Saturation (SjvO2).- Integrated Monitoring in Intensive Care Head Injured Patients.- Surgical Management of Severely Head Injured Patients.- Thermoregulation - Metabolism.- Heat Exchange.- Perioperative Hypothermia. Prevention and Treatment.- Alternative Strategies to Deal with Perioperative Hypothermia.- Hypothermia for Neuroprotection.- Metabolism after Injury: The Effects of G. H..- Kidney - Liver - Acid-Base Balance.- Evolution of Hernofiltration.- Prevention of Acute Oliguric Renal Failure.- High Volume Slow Continuous Venovenous Hemofiltration in Septic Nonoliguric Burned Patients.- The Role of the Liver in Acid-Base Regulation.- Acid-Base Disturbances during Fulminant Hepatic Failure.- Acid-Base Regulatory Mechanisms during Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.- Sedation and Acute Pain Management.- Sedation and Analgesia in ICU Paediatric Patients.- The Strategy of Sedation and Analgesia in ICU Patients.- Use of Propacetamol in Postoperative Pain.- Tramadol - Acute Postoperative Pain Management.- Neurology.- Neurological Monitoring in the ICU.- Critical Neurologic Dysfunctions: Status Epilepticus and Guillain-Barré Syndrome.- Hyperbaric Oxygenation.- Hemodynamic Effects of Hyperoxia in Hemorrhagic Shock.- Hyperbaric Oxygen in the Treatment of Posthanging Cerebral Anoxia.- Infections - Sepsis.- The Problem of Fever in ICU Patients.- Diagnosis of Pneumonia: Do We Really Need Invasive Techniques in ICU Patients?.- How and Why to Prevent Respiratory Tract Infections in ICU.- Is Reduction in Mortality in Intensive Care Just Another Holy Grail?.- Clinical Assessment, Monitoring and Therapeutic Strategies for Septic Patients.- Receptor Blocking Agents: Why Did They Fail?.- High-Risk Pregnancy.- Risk Factors and Maternal Mortality.- Decision Making in High Risk ObstetricPatients.- Coagulation Disorders in the Obstetric Patient.- High Risk Patients and ICU Management.- Clinical Anaesthesia.- Biology of Aging and Anaesthesia.- Preoperative Assessment.- Options for Induction and Maintenance of Hypnosis in Anaesthesia.- The Role of Combined Anesthesia: Pros and Cons.- Preemptive Analgesia.- Is It Possible to Monitor the Depth of Anesthesia?.- Remifentanil: When and How to Use It.- Update on the Use of the Laryngeal Mask.- Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.- Training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.- Rationing Resources in the ICU: Perspectives for the Future.- Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care: Steps for the Future.- Critical Care Management.- Perioperative Management of Mentally Handicapped Patients.- Management of Diabetes in the Perioperative Period.- Management of Emergency Aortic Aneurysmectomy.- Acute Abdomen in the Emergency Department.- Metabolic Disorders and Electrolyte Derangement during Hypoperfusion Syndrome.- Organization and Management of Organ Donors.