Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

• and Mission.- History of Critical Care Medicine: The Past, the Present and the Future.- The Mission of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM).- Professionalism, Ethics and Evidence Based Practice.- Professionalism.- Ethics of Decision Making in Critical Care.- Evidence-Based Medicine in Critical Care.- Clinical Governance.- Clinical Governance: Definitions and Recommendations.- Optimization of Limited Resources and Patient Safety.- Improving Quality of Care in ICUs.- Scoring Systems.- Nursing Perspectives.- Nursing Workforce Management in Intensive Care.- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Perspectives.- Central Nervous System, Circulation and Kidney.- Central Nervous System Monitoring.- Definition, Monitoring, and Management of Shock States.- Plasma Volume Expansion: The Current Controversy.- Predicting the Success of Defibrillation and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Acute Renal Failure.- Respiratory System and Protective Ventilation.- The Evolution of Imaging in Respiratory Dysfunction Failure.- ALI, ARDS, and Protective Lung Ventilation.- Infections Surveillance, Prevention and Management.- From Surveillance to Prevention.- Antibiotic Policy in Critically Ill Patients.- The Physiopathology of Antimicrobial Resistance on the Intensive Care.- Infections in ICU: An Ongoing Challenge.- Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract (SDD). Twenty-five Years of European Experience.- Antifungal Management.- Sepsis, Organ Dysfunction and the Bundles.- Sepsis: Clinical Approach, Evidence-Based at the Bedside.- Intra-Abdominal Infections: Diagnostic and Surgical Strategies.- Surviving Sepsis Campaign and Bundles.- Trauma.- The Trauma: Focus on Triage.- Damage Control in Surgery.- Limited Resource, Disaster.- Emergency Mass Critical Care.- Natural Disaster.- The Needs of Children in Natural or Manmade Disasters.- Special Clinical Conditions.- The Neuroendocrine Response to Sepsis.- Blood Transfusion and Its Components.- Pain Management in Neonates and Children.- Obstetrics at High Risk.- Intensive Care in the Elderly.- Severe Malaria in the ICU.- End-of-Life in the ICU.- Environment and Clinical Research.- Designing Safe Intensive Care Units of the Future.- How to Plan and Design a Clinical Research Project.

From the reviews: "This book contains presentations ... of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine in Florence, Italy. ... Senior trainees and practitioners in critical care medicine are an appropriate audience ... . Chapters are clearly written and make good use of tables and line drawings ... good to excellent quality. ... contain ample reference lists citing primary literature and citations date to within one year of publication. ... presentations here complement a current textbook of critical care medicine in specific subject areas." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, January, 2010)