Physics for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists: From Daily Life to Clinical Practice

Physics for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists: From Daily Life to Clinical Practice

This book, now in its 2nd edition, discusses, explains and provides detailed, up-to-date information on physics applied to clinical practice in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, with the aid of simple examples from... read more

Cardiac Anesthesia: The Basics of Evaluation and Management

Cardiac Anesthesia: The Basics of Evaluation and Management

This concise book meets the market need for an accessible and up-to-date guide on understanding and managing cardiac anesthesia patients. It reflects the continual evolution of the very complex field of cardiac anesthesia.... read more

Principles of Intensive Care, CCU, ICU and Dialysis (Book 1): Vascular Access, ICU and Drug Treatment, Hemodynamic Monitoring

Principles of Intensive Care, CCU, ICU and Dialysis (Book 1): Vascular Access, ICU and Drug Treatment, Hemodynamic Monitoring

Anesthesia and intensive care are one of the most important disciplines in medical, paramedical and nursing sciences and requires spending attention, time, gaining enough information and experience to be able to evaluate... read more

Safe Tracheal Extubation After General Anesthesia

Safe Tracheal Extubation After General Anesthesia

Tracheal extubation generates less interest than tracheal intubation. Research, guidelines and clinical anecdotes tend to focus on airway management at the beginning of anesthesia, and it is rare for the challenges of extubation... read more

Etomidate vs. Ketamine for Emergency Endotracheal Intubation

Etomidate vs. Ketamine for Emergency Endotracheal Intubation

While the primary outcome of Day 7 survival was greater in patients randomized to ketamine, there was no significant difference in survival by Day 28. A prospective, randomized, open-label, parallel assignment, single-center... read more

The Importance of Accurate Glucose Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients

The Importance of Accurate Glucose Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients

Critically ill patients are not found just in intensive care units, but throughout the hospital: emergency departments, post-anaesthesia care units, operating rooms, and many other environments now care for the critically... read more

Pressure Support vs. Spontaneous Ventilation during Anesthetic Emergence – Effect on Postoperative Atelectasis

Pressure Support vs. Spontaneous Ventilation during Anesthetic Emergence – Effect on Postoperative Atelectasis

The incidence of postoperative atelectasis was lower in patients undergoing either laparoscopic colectomy or robot-assisted prostatectomy who received pressure support ventilation during emergence from general anesthesia... read more

Nitrous Oxide Avoidance for Patients Undergoing Major Surgery

Nitrous Oxide Avoidance for Patients Undergoing Major Surgery

Avoidance of nitrous oxide and the concomitant increase in inspired oxygen concentration decreases the incidence of complications after major surgery, but does not significantly affect the duration of hospital stay. The... read more

Inhaled Sedation in the ICU: A New Option and Its Technical Prerequisites

Inhaled Sedation in the ICU: A New Option and Its Technical Prerequisites

Andreas Meiser summarizes the current literature on inhalation sedation of critically ill patients. To meet clinical demands, he describes the development of new devices to administer volatile anesthetics together with common... read more

Rapid Sequence Induction: Where Did the Consensus Go?

Rapid Sequence Induction: Where Did the Consensus Go?

The conduct of Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI) in current emergency practice is far removed from the original descriptions of the procedure. Despite this, the principles – rapid delivery of a definitive airway and avoiding... read more

Increasing the Reproducibility of Research Reduces the Problem of Apophenia

Increasing the Reproducibility of Research Reduces the Problem of Apophenia

Apophenia, or the tendency of identifying meaningful patterns where none truly exist, is part of the human condition. We cannot surmount it, but we can strive to manage its influence. In the research context, apophenia can... read more

Midazolam and Ketamine Produce Neural Changes in Memory and Pain

Midazolam and Ketamine Produce Neural Changes in Memory and Pain

Painful stimulation during light sedation with midazolam, but not ketamine, can be accompanied by increased coherence in brain connectivity, even though details are less likely to be recollected as explicit memories. In... read more

Ketamine: A Review of an Established Yet Often Underappreciated Medication

Ketamine: A Review of an Established Yet Often Underappreciated Medication

has proven to be a complex medication with unusual properties, heterogeneous, interconnected mechanisms, and diverse, sometimes contested, clinical uses. Ketamine's story begins in 1956 when scientists identified a new... read more

Practice Recommendations on Neuraxial Anesthesia and Peripheral Nerve Blocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Practice Recommendations on Neuraxial Anesthesia and Peripheral Nerve Blocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

General anesthesia (GA) with airway intervention leads to aerosol generation, which exposes the health care team to risk of transmission of COVID-19 both during intubation and extubation. The odds of transmission of acute... read more