TY  - BOOK
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ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Intensive and Critical Care Medicine: Reflections, Recommendations and Perspectives 
SN  - 9788847003507
AV  - RC86-88.9 
U1  - 616.028 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Milano
PB  - Springer Milan
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Anesthesiology
KW  - Critical care medicine
KW  - Internal medicine
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Medicine & Public Health
KW  - Intensive / Critical Care Medicine
KW  - Internal Medicine
N1  - Introduction: World Federation 19931997 -- Consent and Intensive Care: Is It Possible? -- Hepatorenal Syndrome -- HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries -- Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Order -- Molecular Biology in Critical Care: Is It More Than a Look Only? -- Resource Management and Audits in Intensive Care Medicine -- Sepsis and Organ(s) Dysfunction  Key Points, Reflections, and Perspectives -- How to Evaluate Performance of Adult Intensive Care Units: A 30Year Experience -- Research Ethics in Critical Care Medicine -- Scoring Systems and Outcome -- Clinical Decision Making for Non-Invasive Ventilation -- Control of Infections in Intensive Care Units -- Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism -- Critical Care Nursing, a WorldWide Perspective -- Cost of Care in Critical Illness
N2  - The volume will provide an update on problems concerning respiration, cardiovascular medicine, monitoring, organizational aspects and quality of care; other important aspects will be discussed, from critical patients' treatment and informed consent to costs managements, research and auditing, severity scores and control of infections in intensive care. Sepsis and organ dysfunction will be dealt with in detail. A brief account of records of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine introduces some of the drawbacks encountered during its thirty-year-old history
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138416
ER  -