APICE 1999 : Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Respiratory Care.- Principles of Laboratory Research on Respiratory Mechanics.- Static and Dynamic Pressure - Volume Curves.- Lung Function Evaluation by Capnography.- Clinical Implications of the Mechanical Effects of Heat and Moisture Exchangers.- Pulmonary Hypertension in ARDS: Management Strategies.- Focus on Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Thromboembolic Disease.- Rationale for Exogenous Surfactant in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Surfactant in the Airways: Function and Relevance in Asthma.- Alveolar Surfactant and Inflammatory Mediators.- Role of Surfactant in Ventilation-Induced Lung Injury.- Has ARDS Epidemiology Changed in the Last 30 Years?.- Mechanism of ARDS.- Dynamics of Recruitment and Collapse of the Lung in Models of ARDS.- Regional Lung Blood Flow and Inhalation of Nitric Oxide.- Mechanisms and Detection of Tidal Expiratory Flow Limitation.- Clinical Consequences of the Airflow Limitation.- Mechanisms of Intrinsic PEEP.- Static and Dynamic Intrinsic PEEP and Respiratory Mechanics in Mechanically Ventilated COPD Patients.- Respiratory Rehabilitation.- Perioperative Medicine.- Clinical Biochemistry of N2O: Recent Advances.- Anticholinergics: Towards Selective Antimuscarinic Agents?.- Evolution of the Use of Anaesthetic Drugs: Neuromuscular Blocking Agents.- Working Mechanisms of Anaesthetic Agents.- Fast-Track Anaesthesia in Cardiac Surgery and Postoperative Care.- Fast-Track Program for Abdominal Surgery.- Fast-Track Anaesthesia and Postoperative Care: Orthopaedic Surgery.- Failure to Regain Consciousness After Anaesthesia.- New Insights into Mechanical Ventilation During Paediatric Anaesthesia.- Perioperative Management Strategy for Cardiac Surgery in Paediatrics.- Anaesthetic Management of Obstetric Emergencies.- Neonatal Resuscitation.- Preoperative Cardiovascular Assessment.- Perioperative Haemodynamic Monitoring: Invasive Vs. Non-Invasive.- Extracorporeal Circulation: Prevention and Management of Complications.- Beta Blockers and General Anaesthesia: Prevention of Myocardial Ischaemia.- Heart and Electrolytes.- Patient-Assessment in the Postanaesthesia Care Unit (PACU).- How to Set Up Acute Pain Services.- Central Nervous System.- Neural Development in the CNS: Biochemical Mechanisms of Cell Fate Determination.- Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Damage.- Repair Mechanisms in the CNS.- Stroke in the Young: Epidemiology.- Pathogenesis of Stroke in Young Adults.- Trauma Operative Procedures.- Update on Trauma Scoring.- Trauma Management: From the Field to the Emergency Department.- Intensive Care for Trauma Patients: The First 24 Hours.- Intensive Treatment of the Patient with Hepatic Trauma.- Mistakes in the Management of Trauma Patients.- Integrated Intensive Care Management of Severe Head Injury.- Metabolism, Artificial Nutrition, CRRT.- Organ Transplantation and Metabolism.- Clinical Aspects of Nutrition in Acute Renal Failure.- The Tricks and Traps of Enteral Nutrition.- Update on CRRT Therapy.- Haemofiltration in Neonates.- Drugs in ICU - Use, Abuse and Misuse.- Use, Abuse and Misuse of Drugs in ICU: Muscle Relaxants.- Use of Corticosteroids in the Severely Ill Patient.- Advances in CPR.- On Field Resuscitation.- The Chain of Survival: Focus on Early Defibrillation.- Evidence-Based Medicine and Policy in the ICU.- Evidence-Based Medicine in the ICU.- The Performance of an ICU.- Care of Dying Patients in ICU.- Cost-Effectiveness in the ICU.