In recent years, intensive care and emergency medicine have emerged as new medical specialties. Better understanding of acute illness and continuous advances in technology have fostered rapid development of new forms of therapy. This volume provides updates in this rapidly expanding field and includes various topics presented by recognized experts in the field.

Contents: Circulatory Failure: The Importance of Tissue Oxygen Supply

New Aspects of Sepsis: Relevance to Shock and MOF
Acute Respiratory Failure
Severe Asthmatic Crisis
Right Ventricular Failure - Pulmonary Hypertension
Myocardial Ischemia and Necrosis
Management of Cardiac Crisis
Monitoring of the Critically Ill: Invasive and Non-Invasive
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Emergency and Trauma
Outcome after Trauma
Cerebral Crisis - Psychological Support
Imaging in the Critically Ill
Renal Failure
Prevention and Treatment
Metabolic and Nutritional Problems
Respiratory Support: Old and New Techniques.