Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Acute Lung Injury.- Acute Lung Injury: The Pathophysiology.- The Role of Adhesion Molecules in Acute Lung Injury.- The Critical Role of Alveolar Epithelial Barrier in Acute Lung Injury.- Pulmonary Dysfunction after Remote Ischemia and Reperfusion.- Surfactant Therapy in Respiratory Failure.- What is the Mortality of ARDS?.- Mechanical Ventilation.- Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS: Interaction of Respiratory Mechanics and Gas Exchange.- Mechanical Ventilation should be Individually Optimized in Patients with ARDS.- Use of Pressure and Flow Waveforms to Monitor Mechanically Ventilated Patients.- Patient-Ventilator Interaction: Physiology of the Triggering Function.- Influence of Time on Alveolar Recruitment in Acute Lung Injury.- Partial Ventilatory Support: Pathophysiologic Effects of Interfacing Spontaneous and Mechanical Ventilation.- The Concept of Analgo-Sedation depends on the Concept of Mechanical Ventilation.- Effect of Position and Posture on the Respiratory System.- Mechanical Ventilation in Circulatory Failure.- Current Status of Extracorporeal Life Support in Neonatal Respiratory Failure.- Ventilatory Methods used to Wean Patients from Mechanical Ventilation.- Medical Management of Post-Intubation Tracheal Stenosis.- Respiratory Mechanics.- Total Respiratory System, Lung and Chest Wall Mechanics in ARDS Patients.- Airway Occlusion Pressure.- Measurement of Respiratory Mechanics during Partial Ventilatory Support: The Interrupter Technique.- Decompensated Respiratory Failure.- Mask CPAP in Acute and Acute on Chronic Respiratory Failure: A Real Progress or a Dangerous Step Backwards?.- Left Ventricular Function in COPD.- Pulmonary Hemodynamics.- Similarities between the Oxygen Sensors of the Carotid Body and the Pulmonary Vascular Bed.- Therapeutic Manipulation of the Pulmonary Circulation in Acute Lung Injury.- Inhaled Nitric Oxide in ARDS.- Inhaled Nitric Oxide: State-of-the-Art.- Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Acute Respiratory Failure.- Inhaled Nitric Oxide in ARDS: Just a Replacement Therapy?.- Long-term Nitric Oxide Inhalation.- The Cytokine Response.- The Interplay of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines and Anti-Inflammatory Mediators during Severe Infection.- Endogenous Mechanisms Regulating TNF and IL-1 during Sepsis.- Proinflammatory Cytokines and the Host Response to Cancer.- Oxidative Stress and Oxygen-Dependent Cytokine Production.- Therapy of Sepsis.- Clinical Trials of Novel Therapeutic Agents: Why did they fail?.- Traditional and Novel Approaches to Interleukin-1 Antagonism.- G-CSF and the Inflammatory Response in Sepsis.- Antithrombin Replacement in DIC and MOF.- Effects of Antibiotics on Endotoxin Release.- Emergence of Bacterial Resistance during Therapy.- Cardiovascular Alterations in Sepsis.- "Obligatory" Role of Endothelial Cells in Regulating Myocardial Contraction?.- Endothelial Modulation of Myocardial Contraction: A Novel Cardioregulatory Mechanism?.- Ventricular Dysfunction during Sepsis.- Towards a more Causal Treatment of Septic Cardiomyopathy.- Microangiodynamic Abnormalities in Sepsis.- Vascular Reactivity and Tissue Oxygenation.- In Defense of Blood Pressure.- Monitoring.- Quantification of Left Ventricular Function Using Transesophageal Echocardiography.- Transpulmonary Indicator Dilution: An Alternative Approach for Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Measurement of Cardiac Output in Children.- Impedance Cardiography: Non-Invasive Monitoring of Hemodynamics in the ICU.- Indirect Calorimetry.- Bedside Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow: Thermodilution Techniques.- Near Infrared Spectroscopy: From Clinical Research toClinical Application.- Gut Function.- The Impact of Critical Illness on the Gastrointestinal Tract.- Barrier Function of the Intestine: Role of Immunonutrition.- Gut Permeability: Mechanisms, Measurement and Clinical Applications.- Possible Therapeutic Approaches to Deal with Bacterial/Endotoxin Translocation.- Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract for the Prevention of Infection.- Nosocomial Pneumonia.- The Pathogenesis of Nosocomial Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients.- Nosocomial Pneumonia in the ICU - New Perspectives on Current Controversies.- Invasive Methods for the Diagnosis of Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia: Is their Value Overestimated?.- Renal Failure.- Hemodialysis in Acute Renal Failure: Which Type of Dialysis Membrane?.- Liver Dysfunction.- Heterogeneity of Hepatic Perfusion in Shock.- Chronic Alcoholics: High-Risk ICU Patients.- Nutrition in Liver Disease.- Indications and Contraindications for Liver Transplantation.- Controversies in Managing Children with Fulminant Liver Failure.- Severe Trauma.- Trauma in the Elderly.- Bacteremia, Pneumonia, and Acute Renal Failure in Trauma Patients.- Head Injury.- Current Concepts in Brain Resuscitation.- Cerebral Perfusion Pressure and Neurointensive Care.- Treatment of Post-Traumatic Brain Edema.- Emergency Drug Therapy of Closed Head Injury.- Monitoring Intracranial Pressure and Intracranial Compliance in Head Injury.- Hypothermia for Cerebral Injury.- Neurological Vignettes.- Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the 1990's.- Emergencies.- Treatment of Hypovolemic Shock.- Hypertonic Solutions in Emergency Medicine.- Dopaminergic Drugs in Cardiovascular Emergencies.- Emergency Management of Broad QRS Complex Tachycardia.- Emergency Medical Services forChildren.- Heatstroke: Marathons to Mecca.- ICU Management.- Continuous Quality Improvement.- Rationing and Triage.- Neural Networks in Critical Care.