Intensive and Critical Care Medicine: Reflections, Recommendations and Perspectives

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Intensive and Critical Care Medicine: Reflections, Recommendations and Perspectives Antonio Gullo, Philip D.Intensive and Critical Care ... Textbook Lumb
Type:	eBook
Released:	2005
Publisher:	Springer
Page Count:	240
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	8847003490
ISBN-13:	9788847003491

This volume is published under the auspices of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine, which consists of 48 members societies (both medical and nursing) - a truly world wide organisation - and whose aim is to promote excellence in the care of critically ill patients. The volume will be distributed to delegates on occasion of the 9th International Congress of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, to be held in Buenos Aires at the end of August 2005. From the Back Cover 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.