Continuing medical education and specialty training procedures represent highly dynamical processes, with a continuously evolving content. The specific teaching methods available (micro-teaching, team teaching, mastery learning, simulation, and e-learning) are essential elements of this process to promote professional updating and teaching at the bedside, aimed at providing an excellent clinical practice. The didactic laboratory is the core of this process: teachers, students and the School must be able to integrate in order to encourage this trend, and following this trend, the Trieste School of Medicine has long recognised the importance of supporting educational aspects and teaching programmes that promote our discipline.

This volume is the result of the co-operation of the Trieste School of Medicine with experts at a national and international level who, in 2005, took part in seminars or micro-teaching sessions held at the Cattinara University Hospital.

Inhalt
Professionalism, Ethics and Curricula for the Renewal of the Health System.- Respiratory Mechanics in Health.- Principles of Respiratory Mechanics and Clinical Correlations.- Understanding the Mechanism of Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury.- Lung Parenchyma Remodelling in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Strategies To Modify Lung Remodelling in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Application of the Negative Expiratory Pressure Technique in Clinical Research.- Non-Invasive Ventilation.- Pulmonary Effects of Acute Normovolaemic Haemodilution.- Microcirculation During Low Flow States.- The Effects of Gasping During Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Perioperative Risk Assessment and Decision Making.- Anaesthesia and Sedation Outside the Operating Room.- Anaesthesia for Endovascular Repair of Abdominal and Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm.- Postoperative Pain Management: Organisation and Audits.- to Trauma Care and Improving Performance.- Fluid Resuscitation in Trauma.- Ongoing Challenges in Sepsis and Organ Dysfunction.- Microdialysis Monitoring of Organ Chemistry in the Intensive Care Unit.- Ethical Dilemmas in Surgical Critical Care.