Topical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Antibiotic dosing during Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT).- Video-laryngoscope: a review of the literature.- Lung ultrasound in the critically ill patient.- Does high frequency ventilation have still a role among the current ventilatory strategies?.- Non-Invasive Assessment Of Respiratory Function: Capnometry, Lung Ultrasound And Electrical Impedance Tomography.- Protective mechanical ventilation In brain-dead organ donors.- Management of perioperative arrhythmias.- Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome: What the anesthesiologist should know.- Post-surgical liver failure.- Postoperative delirium.- Perioperative protection of myocardial function.- Regional anesthesia in ambulatory surgery.- One Lung Ventilation In Anesthesia.

Davide Chiumello, MD, is an intensivist in the Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain Therapy at Fondazione IRCCS - Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Dr. Chiumello's research work has focused on understanding the pathological and clinical aspects of acute respiratory distress syndrome; he has a particular interest in respiratory physiology, esophageal pressure, lung recruitment, lung imaging, ventilator-induced lung injury, the prone position, controlled and assisted mechanical ventilation, and non-invasive ventilation. Since 2009 he has been Editor-in-Chief of Minerva Anestesiologica (official journal of Società Italiana di Analgesia, Anestesia e Terapia Intensiva) and he is also a member of the editorial board of Critical Care Medicine(official journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine). He is a reviewer for a number of international journals and since 2013 has been Editor of the Respiratory Failure section for PACT (Patient-Centred Acute Care Training) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Chiumello is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and a number of chapters in medical textbooks (H-index 24).