Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2017 (eBook)

Professor Davide Chiumello, MD, is the Chief of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive care medicine at ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo Hospital, Milan, Italy. Prof. Chiumello’s research has largely focused on understanding the pathological and clinical aspects of acute respiratory distress syndrome, with a particular focus on respiratory physiology, esophageal pressure, lung recruitment, lung imaging, ventilator-induced lung injury, the prone position, controlled and assisted mechanical ventilation, and non-invasive ventilation. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Minerva Anestesiologica (the official journal of the Società Italiana di Analgesia, Anestesia e Terapia Intensiva) until 2015. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Critical Care Medicine (the official journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine). He is also a reviewer for a number of international journals and Editor of the Respiratory Failure section for PACT (Patient-Centred Acute Care Training) for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Prof. Chiumello is also the author of more than 140 scientific articles and several chapters in medical textbooks.

Maxillofacial trauma and airways management.- The assessment of the risk for cardiac event after non-cardiac surgery.- Ultrasound in Intensive Care Unit: What to Ask, What to Expect.- Blood Coagulation During Sepsis And Septic Shock: Is There Still Room For Anticoagulants?.- Atrial fibrillation in the perioperative period.- Haemodynamic monitoring during anaesthesia.- Assisted ventilation in the ICU: when and to whom?.- Acute on chronic liver failure: a new and important entity in the ICU.- Sedation and analgesia during non-invasive ventilation.- Critical Care Management Of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- High flow oxygen therapy.- Hypermetabolism in Critical Care: The Role of Metabolism Measurement and its Nutritional Implications.