The mission of health operators and hospitals is nowadays patient satisfaction, which is to be achieved through the provision of high-quality medical care and the training of graduates and postgraduates with the highest level of proficiency, integrity and skill. This book offers a broad panorama of recent progress in the fields of perioperative medicine, critical care and end-of-life care, thus contributing to achieve these aims in the fields of anaesthesia and critical care.
Education.- 1 - Educational Challenges: Past, Present and Future.- Quality and Standards of Care.- 2 - Quality Has its Price - Costs of Anaesthesiological Care.- 3 - The Best Weaning after Cardiac Transplantation.- Basics.- 4 - Basic Physics for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.- Focus.- 5 - To Tube or Not To Tube? A Critical Point in Emergency and Trauma.- Advances.- 6 - Recent Observations on Pharmacological. Interventions During CPR.- Perioperative Medicine.- 7 - Respiratory Mechanics and Lung Parenchyma Remodelling in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- 8 - Pulmonary Diseases of Interest for Anaesthesiologists.- 9 - Paediatric Respiratory Diseases.- 10 - Informed Consent: Origin, Controversies, Contradictions and Sociological Aspects.- 11 - Total Intravenous Anesthesia and Respiratory System.- 12 - Determining a Rationale for the Choice of Neuromuscular Blocking Agents in Anaesthesia Practice.- 13 - Recovery Room.- 14 - Post-operative Respiratory Complications.- Intensive Care.- 15 - Debate on Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy.- 16 - Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Hemodynamic Aspects and Treatment.- 17 - Pulmonary Infections in the Intensive Care Unit.- 18 - Intravascular Catheter- Related Infections: An Update on Epidemiology and Prevention.- Palliative Care.- 19 - Challenges in End-of-Life Care.