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Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine

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Authors:
  1. Michael R. Pinsky

    1. Dep. of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburg Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Laurent Brochard

    1. Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil Cedex, France

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  3. Jordi Mancebo

    1. Servei Medicina Intensiva, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

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  • Provides a concise review of the important applied physiological issues

  • Written by many of the international leaders in this field

  • A unique volume of practical information

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (51 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Physiological Notes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Pulmonary

      1. Intrinsic (or auto-) PEEP during controlled mechanical ventilation
        • Laurent Brochard
        Pages 3-5
      2. Intrinsic (or auto-) positive end-expiratory pressure during spontaneous or assisted ventilation
        • Laurent Brochard
        Pages 7-9
      3. Work of breathing
        • Belen Cabello, Jordi Mancebo
        Pages 11-14
      4. Interpretation of airway pressure waveforms
        • Evans R. Fernández-Pérez, Rolf D. Hubmayr
        Pages 15-16
      5. Dead space
        • U. Lucangelo, L. Blanch
        Pages 17-20
      6. Alveolar ventilation and pulmonary blood flow: the <span class="mathjax-tex">\( (\dot V_A /\dot Q) \)</span> concept
        • Enrico Calzia, Peter Radermacher
        Pages 21-24
      7. Mechanisms of hypoxemia
        • Robert Rodríguez-Roisin, Josep Roca
        Pages 25-27
      8. Pulse oximetry
        • Amal Jubran
        Pages 29-32
      9. Effects of body temperature on blood gases
        • Andreas Bacher
        Pages 33-36
      10. Venous oximetry
        • Frank Bloos, Konrad Reinhart
        Pages 37-39
      11. Relation between PaO2/FIO2 ratio and FIO2: a mathematical description
        • Jerome Aboab, Bruno Louis, Bjorn Jonson, Laurent Brochard
        Pages 41-44

    4. Metabolism and Renal Function

      1. Lactic acidosis
        • Daniel De Backer
        Pages 69-72
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About this book

Te practice of intensive care medicine is at the very forefront of titration of treatment andmonitoringresponse. Te substrateofthiscareisthe criticallyill patientwho,by defnition, is at the limits of his or her physiologic reserve. Such patients need immediate, aggressive but balanced life-altering interventions to minimize the detrimental aspects of acute illness and hasten recovery. Treatmentdecisionsandresponsetotherapyareusually assessed by measures of physiologic function, such as assessed by cardio-respiratory monitoring. However, how one uses such information is ofen unclear and rarely supported by prospective clinical trials. In reality, the bedside clinician is forced to rely primarily on physiologic principles in determining the best treatments and response to therapy. However, the physiologic foundation present in practicing physicians is uneven and occasionally supported more by habit or prior training than science. A series of short papers published in Intensive Care Medicine since 2002 under the heading Physiologic Notes attempts to capture the essence of the physiologic perspectives that underpin both our understanding of disease and response to therapy. Tis present volume combines the complete list of these Physiologic Notes up until July 2006 with the ass o cia t ed r e vie w a r tic les o v er t h e s a m e in t er val t ha t a ls o addr ess e d t hes e cen tral issues.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dep. of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburg Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

    Michael R. Pinsky

  • Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil Cedex, France

    Laurent Brochard

  • Servei Medicina Intensiva, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Mancebo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine

  • Authors: Michael R. Pinsky, Laurent Brochard, Jordi Mancebo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37363-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-37363-6Published: 19 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 378

  • Number of Illustrations: 111 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Cardiac Surgery

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