Published August, 2014
By J.L. Rombeau and J. Takala
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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Dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract in critically ill patients has recently become a focus of intensive research. Options for monitoring and treating gut dysfunction in critically ill patients are rapidly evolving.

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Published November, 2013
By J.J. Marini and Timothy W. Evans
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Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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To integrate current knowledge in terms of basic and clinical science and to highlight problems, thirty world-renowned experts in the field of acute lung injury describe the state of up to date knowledge regarding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical management of acute lung injury.

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Published April, 2012
By Arthur Revhaug
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Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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This aim of this book is to focus on a very common situation seen in medical practice, the acute catabolic state.

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Published February, 2012
By Konrad Reinhart, Klaus Eyrich and Charles Sprung
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Published February, 2012
By Maurice Lamy and Lambert G. Thijs
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This volume contains contributions by well-known scientistsand clinicians in the fields of microbiology, infectiousdiseases, physiology, internal medicine, surgery,anaesthesiology, and intensive care medicine.

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Published January, 2012
By Rinaldo Bellomo and Claudio Ronco
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Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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Over the last 10 years the syndrome of severe acute renal failure has progressively changed in its epidemiology. The nutrition of these patients, previously limited by the par tial efficacy of renal replacement therapies, has also become more aggressive and more in tune with the needs of critically ill patients.

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Published January, 2012
By J.J. Marini and C. Roussos
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Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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This book reviews the most recent developments in the patho-physiology and therapy of ventilatory failure. Of particular inter-estare the descriptions of new modalities of partial andcomplete ventilatory assistance as well as new knowledge re-garding ventilatory control and fatigue during stressfulbreathing.

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Published December, 2011
By R. Goris and O. Trentz
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Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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This book concentrates on problems generated by acute care in severely traumatized patients during the first 24 hours after injury. During this hectic period, highly complicated problems have to be solved at the site of the accident, during transport to hospital, and in hospital.

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Published December, 2011
By M.P. Fink and D. Payen
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Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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Nitric Oxide (NO) is a free radical, a gas, and a pluripotent product of mammalian cells. An internationally recognized group of scientists and clinicians have contributed chapters dealing with cutting-edge science and practical clinical strategies.

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Published December, 2011
By Douglas W. Wilmore and Yvon A. Carpentier
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Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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Nutritional support of critically ill patients is a major treatment modality which will enhance recovery and shorten convalescence. This new knowledge has evolved to a new area of metabolic support which is addressed for the first time by a group of international experts.

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