Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients: a review of indices used in intensive care
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   Chapter 2 Different techniques to measure intra-abdominal pressure (IAP): time for a critical re-appraisal
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   Chapter 3 Tissue capnometry: does the answer lie under the tongue?
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   Chapter 4 Noninvasive monitoring of peripheral perfusion
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   Chapter 5 Ultrasonographic examination of the venae cavae
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   Chapter 6 Passive leg raising
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   Chapter 7 Sleep in the intensive care unit
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   Chapter 8 Magnesium in critical illness: metabolism, assessment, and treatment
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    Chapter 9 Pulmonary endothelium in acute lung injury: from basic science to the critically ill
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    Chapter 10 Pulmonary and cardiac sequelae of subarachnoid haemorrhage: time for active management?
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    Chapter 11 Permissive hypercapnia — role in protective lung ventilatory strategies
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    Chapter 12 Right ventricular function and positive pressure ventilation in clinical practice: from hemodynamic subsets to respirator settings
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    Chapter 13 Acute right ventricular failure—from pathophysiology to new treatments
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    Chapter 14 Red blood cell rheology in sepsis
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    Chapter 15 Stress-hyperglycemia, insulin and immunomodulation in sepsis
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    Chapter 16 Hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction in critically ill patients with traumatic and nontraumatic brain injury
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    Chapter 17 Matching total body oxygen consumption and delivery: a crucial objective?
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    Chapter 18 Normalizing physiological variables in acute illness: five reasons for caution
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    Chapter 19 Interpretation of the echocardiographic pressure gradient across a pulmonary artery band in the setting of a univentricular heart
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    Chapter 20 Ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction: the clinical relevance of animal models
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    Chapter 21 Understanding organ dysfunction in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
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    Chapter 22 What is normal intra-abdominal pressure and how is it affected by positioning, body mass and positive end-expiratory pressure?
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    Chapter 23 Determinants of regional ventilation and blood flow in the lung
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    Chapter 24 The endothelium: physiological functions and role in microcirculatory failure during severe sepsis
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    Chapter 25 Vascular hyporesponsiveness to vasopressors in septic shock: from bench to bedside
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    Chapter 26 Monitoring the microcirculation in the critically ill patient: current methods and future approaches
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    Chapter 27 The role of vasoactive agents in the resuscitation of microvascular perfusion and tissue oxygenation in critically ill patients
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    Chapter 28 Interpretation of blood pressure signal: physiological bases, clinical relevance, and objectives during shock states
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    Chapter 29 Deadspace ventilation: a waste of breath!
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    Chapter 30 The role of the right ventricle in determining cardiac output in the critically ill
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    Chapter 31 Beyond global oxygen supply-demand relations: in search of measures of dysoxia
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    Chapter 32 Breathing as exercise: The cardiovascular response to weaning from mechanical variation
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    Chapter 33 Variability of splanchnic blood flow measurements in patients with sepsis – physiology, pathophysiology or measurement errors?
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    Chapter 34 Functional hemodynamic monitoring
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    Chapter 35 Non-invasive ventilation in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a new gold standard?
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    Chapter 36 The adrenergic coin: perfusion and metabolism
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    Chapter 37 Death by parenteral nutrition
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    Chapter 38 Ventilator-induced lung injury, cytokines, PEEP, and mortality: implications for practice and for clinical trials
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    Chapter 39 Helium in the treatment of respiratory failure: why not a standard?
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    Chapter 40 Is parenteral nutrition guilty?
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    Chapter 41 Using ventilation-induced aortic pressure and flow variation to diagnose preload responsiveness
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    Chapter 42 Evaluation of left ventricular performance: an insolvable problem in human beings? The Graal quest
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    Chapter 43 Evaluation of fluid responsiveness in ventilated septic patients: back to venous return
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    Chapter 44 Mask ventilation and cardiogenic pulmonary edema: “another brick in the wall”
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    Chapter 45 Does high tidal volume generate ALI/ARDS in healthy lungs?
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    Chapter 46 Weaning failure from cardiovascular origin
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    Chapter 47 The hidden pulmonary dysfunction in acute lung injury
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    Chapter 48 Can one predict fluid responsiveness in spontaneously breathing patients?
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    Chapter 49 The “open lung” compromise
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    Chapter 50 Acute respiratory failure: back to the roots!
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    Chapter 51 Is right ventricular function the one that matters in ARDS patients? Definitely yes
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    Chapter 52 Strong ion gap and outcome after cardiac arrest: another nail in the coffin of traditional acid–base quantification
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    Chapter 53 Prone positioning for ARDS: defining the target