The Right Imaging Study

The Right Imaging Study-1

Editors Ronald L. Eisenberg Alexander R. Margulis 2008 A Guide for Physicians In the last three decades, medical imaging has undergone tremendous advances, changing from a valuable diagnostic adjunct to an essential tool for diagnosis, selection of the optimal therapeutic approach, and treatment follow-up. It is now common practice that specialists summoned by emergency room staff will not see a […]

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Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery

Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery

Georg E. Cold ⋅ Niels Juul (Eds.) 2008 Everyone interested in neuroanaesthesia talks about intracranial pressure (ICP), but in daily clinical practice nobody measures it during craniotomy. This was our view ten years ago, when Dr. Cold was asked by an international congress to make a speech with the title: Is hyperventilation mandatory during craniotomy? Panic triggered our intellectual […]

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Selective Digestive Tract Decontamination in Intensive Care Medicine: a Practical Guide to Controlling Infection

Selective Digestive Tract Decontamination in Intensive Care Medicine-1

Peter H.J. van der Voort • Hendrick K.F. van Saene Editors 2008 Infection control in intensive care units is a continuing challenge. Since 1984, intensivists trying to prevent infection have had the option of applying a well-balanced and thoroughly studied approach called selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD). Over 20 years of clinical SDD research, 56 randomised […]

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Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation

Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation-1

Umberto Lucangelo • Paolo Pelosi Walter A. Zin • Andrea Aliverti 2008 Intellectual undertakings, such as publishing a medical book—in this case, one concerning the respiratory tract and artificial support techniques—offer an important incentive for experts in a particular field, in that, as authors, they have the opportunity to share research results, whether their own or those of […]

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