Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1997

Applications of Transesophageal Echocardiography.- Fluid Administration.- Prehospital Fluid Replacement.- Volume Therapy: New Aspects of an Old Topic?.- Albumin Physiology in the Septic and Post-Operative Patient.- Effects of Hemoglobin in Sepsis.- Quality of Life Benefit from Avoiding Allogenic Blood Transfusion.- Airway Management.- Tracheostomy.- Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy.- Ventilation with an Unprotected Airway During Cardiac Arrest.- Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support.- Non-Invasive Ventilation.- Workload of Non-Invasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure.- New Modes of Ventilatory Support in Spontaneously Breathing Intubated Patients.- Ventilatory Support.- Patient-Ventilator Interactions.- Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure.- Inflection Point and Alveolar Recruitment in ARDS.- Tracheal Gas Insufflation in ARDS.- Current Status of Prone Position in ARDS.- Experience in Liquid Ventilation.- Pulmonary Infections.- The Inflammatory Response in Pneumonia.- The Challenge of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pneumonia.- Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Children.- Rationale for Surfactant Therapy in Pneumonia.- Gut Dysfunction.- Intestinal Epithelial Hyperpermeability.- Regional Capnometry.- Assessment of Gastric Mucosal Perfusion by Laser-Doppler Flowmetry.- Severe Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis.- Nutrition.- Early Enteral Feeding Improves Outcome.- Nutrition and Survival.- Neurologic Failure.- Focal Cerebral Ischemia.- Cerebral Blood Flow in Acute Brain Injury.- Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head Injury.- Management of the Severe Head Injury in Children.-Neuromuscular Complications of Prolonged Critical Care.- Emergencies.- Near Drowning in Children: How the Fittest will Survive.- SIRS in Heatstroke.- Teaching Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Europe.- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Intensive Care in a Hostile Environment?.- The Medical Services at a Formula One Motoring Racing Grand Prix.- Renal Failure.- Nephrotoxic Acute Renal Dysfunction.- Post-Operative Management.- Immediate Post-Operative Care of Transplant Patients.- Cytokine Responses During Clinical Cardiopulmonary Bypass.- ICU Organization and Ethics.- Quality of Organization in Intensive Care Units.- Costs and Resource Utilization in Intensive Care.- Can Intensive Care Units be Compared?.- End-of-Life Decision-Making.