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The Update compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to every on involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

Intensive Care Medicine: Annual Update 2003

'Epithelial-Endothelial Alterations.- Role of Epithelial ICAM-1 in Endotoxin-Induced Lung Injury.- Pulmonary Endothelium-Bound Enzymes in the Normal and the Diseased Lung.- Endothelial Cell Replacement Therapy in the Critically Ill.- Sepsis: Mechanisms and Therapy.- Reconciling Clinical Criteria and the Use of Genetically Engineered Animals in Sepsis Research.- Human Genetics and Human Sepsis: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?.- Microarray Technology in Sepsis: Tool or Toy.- Update on Anti-Endotoxin Therapies.- An Update of Childhood Meningococcal Sepsis.- The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Risk of Sepsis and ARDS.- Supplementing Arginine during Sepsis: from Theory to Clinical Practice.- Coagulation Abnormalities.- Severe Thrombotic Microangiopathy in Critically Ill Patients.- Heparin in the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients on the ICU Patients.- Endogenous Anticoagulants and the Role of Heparin in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis.- Is Recombinant Activated Factor VII a Universal Hemostatic?.- Infectious Challenges.- Nasal Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus: Associated Risks and Preventive Measures.- Current Dilemmas in the Management of Adults with Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia.- Evaluation of Non-Resolving and Progressive Pneumonia.- Candida in Lung Specimens from Non-Neutropenic ICU Patients: Infection or Colonization?.- A Reappraisal of Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract.- Management of Catheter-Related Sepsis in the ICU.- Empiric Antibiotics in Critical Illness: Do they Help or Harm?.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Mortality Rates in Patients with ARDS: What Should be the Reference Standard?.- Sigh in Acute Respiratory Failure.- Ventilatory Support.- The Conditioning of Medical Gases during Spontaneous Breathing.- Recent Innovations in Mechanical Ventilatory Support.- Expiratory Flow Limitation in Mechanically Ventilated Patients.- Respiratory Muscle Unloading during Mechanical Ventilation.- High Frequency Oscillation (HFO): Physiological Basis for a Potentially 'Optimal' Protective Ventilatory Strategy.- Withdrawal from Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with COPD: The Issue of Congestive Heart Failure.- Inhalation Therapies.- Inhalation Therapy during Mechanical Ventilation.- Trials of Surfactant Replacement Therapy in Patients with ARDS.- Surfactant Therapy: Beyond a Rescue Therapy for ARDS.- Perioperative Complications.- High Risk Surgical Patients: Why We Should Pre-Optimize.- Pain Control in the Intensive Care Unit.- Respiratory Failure Post-Coronary Bypass Surgery.- Postoperative Respiratory Management.- Myocardial Ischemia or Cardiac Failure: Which Constitutes the Major Perioperative Risk?.- Cardiac Crises.- Acute Coronary Syndromes.- Pre-Hospital Reperfusion Strategies to Optimize Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Glucose, Free Fatty Acids, and Insulin Following Acute Myocardial Ischemia.- Quantifying Left Ventricular Ejection Effectiveness.- Cardiogenic Shock.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Inhibition of the Sarcolemmal Sodium-Hydrogen Exchanger: A Potential Treatment for Resuscitation from Cardiac Arrest.- Immediate Defibrillation for Out-of-hospital Ventricular Fibrillation.- Monitoring Systems.- Cardiac Output Monitoring: Will New Technologies Replace the Pulmonary Artery Catheter?.- Assessment of Cardiac Preload and Volume Responsiveness using Echocardiography.- Early Transesophageal Echo Doppler Approach in Trauma: Emergence of a New Tool.- Management of Circulatory and Respiratory Failure Using Less Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Minimally Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Oxygen Availability.- Microvascular Alterations in Patients with Circulatory Failure.- Critical Tissue Oxygen Thresholds for the Induction of Apoptosis in Critical Illness.- Reflectance Spectrophotometry and Tissue Oxygenation in Experimental and Clinical Practice.- The Case for Tissue Base Excess.- Clinical Use