Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2016 (Paperback, 2016)

Part I. Infections and antibiotics.- Interpreting Procalcitonin at the Bedside.- Reducing Antibiotic Use in the ICU: A Time-based Approach to Rational Antimicrobial Use.- Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Severe Influenza Infection.- Critically Ill Patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.- Part II. Sepsis.- Immunomodulation: The Future for Sepsis?.- Norepinephrine in Septic Shock: Five Reasons to Initiate it Early.- Myths and Facts Regarding Lactate in Sepsis.- Part III. Renal issues.- Creatinine-based Definitions: From Baseline Creatinine to Serum Creatinine Correction in Intensive Care.- The Detrimental Cross-talk between Sepsis and AKI: New Pathogenic Mechanisms, Early Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies.- Timing of Acute Renal Replacement Therapy.- (Multiple) Organ Support Therapy beyond AKI.- Part IV. Fluid therapy.- Crystalloid Fluid Therapy.- Balanced Crystalloids for Septic Shock Resuscitation.- Part V. Bleeding.- Emergency Reversal Strategies for Anticoagulants and Anti-platelet Agents.- Part VI. Cardiovascular system.- Bedside Myocardial Perfusion Assessment with Echocardiography Contrast.- Pathophysiological Determinants of Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Septic Shock.- Cardiovascular Response to ECMO.- Mechanical Circulatory Support in the New Era: An Overview.- Part VII. Cardiac arrest.- Cardiac arrest in the Elderly: Epidemiology and Outcome.- Regional Systems of Care: The Final Link in the "Chainof Survival" Concept for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest.- Cardiac Arrest Centers.- Part VIII. Oxygenation and respiratory failure.- High-flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy: Physiological Effects and Clinical Data.- The Potential Value of Monitoring the Oxygen Reserve Index in Patients Receiving Oxygen.- Variable Ventilation from Bench to Bedside.- Monitoring Respiratory Effort by Means of the Electrical Activity of the Diaphragm.- Dissipated Energy is a Key Mediator of VILI: Rationale for using Low Driving Pressures.- Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy in Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia.- Part IX. Abdominal issues.- The Neglected Role of Abdominal Compliance in Organ-organ Interactions.- Part X Metabolic support.- Metabonomics and Intensive Care.- The Rationale for Permissive Hyperglycemia in Critically Ill Patients with Diabetes.- Indirect Calorimetry in Critically Ill Patients. Concept, Current Use, and Future Challenges.- Part XI. Ethical issues.- Managing Intensive Care Supply-demand Imbalance.- Advances in the Management of the Potential Organ Donor after Neurologic Determination of Death.- Humanizing Intensive Care: Theory, Evidence and Possibilities.- Part XII. Applying new technology.- Ultrasound Simulation Education for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.- Virtual Patients and Virtual Cohorts: A New Way to Think about the Design and Implementation of Personalized ICU Treatments.- Part XIII. Intensive care unit trajectories: The bigger picture.- Predicting Cardiorespiratory Instability.- Long-term Outcomes after Critical Illness Relevant to Randomized Clinical Trials.- Long-term Consequences of Acute Inflammation in the Surgical Patient: New Findings and Perspectives.- Kairotropy: Discovering Critical Illness Trajectories using Clinical Phenotypes with Big Data.