Improving standards of care is a real challenge in Intensive Care Medicine. Bettering clinical performance, patient safety, risk management and audit represents the cornerstone for raising the quality of care in ICU patients. Communication is the platform from where to start to reach a consensus in an extremely crowded area, a unique multidisciplinary and multiprofessional environment in which quality of care and, ultimately, patient survival need to be ameliorated.

Written for:
Anaesthesiologists, intensivists

Table of contents
Clinical Decision Making in Obstetric Patients. Organisation of Obstetric Services. Techniques and Drugs in Paediatrics: TIVA and TCI. Warning Symptoms of Sudden Cardiac Death. Management of Hypoxia During One Lung Ventilation. Regional Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery. Why the Obese Patient is at Risk for Perioperative Complications. Clinical Decision Making in Paediatric Anaesthesia. Vasopressors During Cardiac Arrest. Use of Pulse Oximeter Waveform as a Non Invasive Functional Haemodynamic Monitoring Technique. Head Injury Treatment in Year 2007. Penetrating Injuries to the Neck: Operation, Observation or Angiointervention. Organisation of the Rapid Response System. Depth of Anaesthesia Monitoring in Children. Perioperative Beta-Blockade: Myths and Realities. Airway Management: The Essential. Transeophageal Echocardiography: Clinical Assessment, Techniques and Procedures in Critical Care and ICU. General Anaesthesia and the Developing Brain. Incidents Provoked Specifically by Certain Drugs Used in Anaesthesia. Operating Theatres: Organisation, Costs and Audit. Side Effects Induced by Anaesthetic Manipulation or by Surgical Operation. Predisposition to Sepsis. Perioperative Care in Neurosurgery Intraoperative Monitorino. Best Method to Establish the Grade of Difficult Airway. Clinical Assessment, Techniques and Procedures in Critical Care and ICU. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients with Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome. Use and Misuse of Preoperative Cardiac Testing for Noncardiac Surgery. New Aspects of Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Research: From Clinically Relevant Animal Models to Cells. Out-Of-Hospital Airway Management: Knowledge and Equipment. Perioperative Care in Paediatrics: Organisation. Practical Aspects to Manage Extubation of the Difficult Airway. Continuous Monitoring of Organ Chemistry a Paradigm Shift in Management of Intensive Care. SOFA Score: A Keystone for Grading MODS.