Advances in Critical Care -- Effects of body position on ventilation/perfusion matching -- Chest pain -- The electrocardiogram in the emergency department -- The use of imaging to resolve difficult diagnoses -- Assessment of pain -- Titration of opioids for acute pain management -- Neonatal Mechanical Ventilation -- Extracorporeal circulation in the intensive care unit -- Clinical decision-maki…
Respiratory Failure -- Exacerbations of COPD: The Role of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation -- Acute Respiratory Failure after Abdominal Surgery -- Tracheostomy in Critically Ill Patients: The Right Technique in the Right Patient -- Percutaneous Tracheostomy: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives -- Acute Lung Injury -- Role of iNOS-derived Excessive Nitric Oxide in the Pathogenesis of Acute Lun…
Background -- General Philosophy -- A Brief History of Emergency Abdominal Surgery -- Before the Operation -- The Acute Abdomen -- Rational Diagnostic Procedures -- Abdominal Imaging -- Optimizing the Patient -- Pre-operative Antibiotics -- Family, Ethics, Informed Consent and Medicolegal Issues -- Before the Flight: Pre-op Checklist -- The Operation -- The Incision -- Abdominal Exploration: Fi…