Isao Ishikawa 2007 Acute Renal Failure with Severe Loin Pain and Patchy Renal Ischemia After Anaerobic Exercise There are two types of exercise-related acute renal failure, one of which is myoglobinuric acute renal failure. In myoglobinuric acute renal failure, strenuous exercise such as marathon running or mountain climbing causes marked rhabdomyolysis, resulting in myoglobinuria.

A. Gullo (Editor) 2007 Proceedings of the 21st Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine Venice-Mestre, Italy – November 10-13, 2006  

By John Papadopoulos 2008 Critical care medicine is a cutting-edge medical field that is highly evidence-based. Studies are continuously published that alter the approach to patient care. As a critical care clinician, I am aware of the tremendous commitment required to provide optimal evidence-based care.

Ferenc Kuhn 2008 This handbook on ocular traumatology follows one I jointly edited/authored with D. Pieramici (Santa Barbara, California) about 5 years ago. When asked recently whether the current book represents a second edition to Ocular Trauma: Principles and Practice , my answer was both no and yes.

Jürgen Schüttler • Helmut Schwilden Editors 2008 Some important constraints of anesthesia must be taken into consideration when the pharmacological properties of modern anesthetics are discussed. The most important of these could be that the target effect be achieved preferably within seconds, at most within a few minutes.  

David W. Crippen Editor 2008 A Global Perspective End-of-life issues in critical care medicine continue to confound and perplex medical consumers and physicians alike. In my first volume, I used the power of the Internet to survey the emerging global village of healthcare providers as to the contrast between their treatment preferences in end-of-life care and their capability to […]

Michael St.Pierre Gesine Hofinger Cornelius Buerschaper 2008 Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High Stakes Environment Providing safe patient care in an acute care setting has always been, and still is, one of the greatest challenges of healthcare. On a regular basis healthcare professionals are faced with problems that are sudden, unexpected, and pose a threat to a […]

John G. Brock-Utne 2008 As anesthesiologists we face from time to time difficult decisions in “near miss” situations. The risk/benefit ratios in these cases are often unknown. The near misses reported in this book come mainly from my over 35 years of experience in clinical anesthesia in Scandinavia, South Africa, and the United States.

Mitchell Fink • Michelle Hayes • Neil Soni Editors 2008 Access to medical information has never been easier or quicker. Everything is at one’s fingertips: Literally everything, and that can in itself be a problem. A search of any popular subject area will provide an almost limitless supply of information, and the difficulty is then sifting through […]