An update that shows practical approaches to monitoring and treating critically ill patients with hypoxia or sepsis.

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Intracellular Oxygen Supply: Implications for Intensive Care.- NMR Investigations of Cardiac Metabolism.- Evaluation of Tissue Hypoxia by Optical Methods.- Application of NIR Spectroscopy to Problems of Tissue Oxygenation.- Principal Determinants of Tissue PO2: Clinical Considerations.- Cellular Metabolic Consequences of Altered Perfusion.- Vascular Response to Hypoxia.- Blood Rheology Factors and Capillary Blood Flow.- Physiological and Pathological Oxygen Supply Dependency.- Oxygen Delivery and Utilization in Acute and Chronic Disease.- Oxygen Transport and Uptake in Health and Disease.- Multiple Organ Oxygen Supply-Demand Relationships and Redistribution of Flow.- The Determinants of Maximun Oxygen Utilization: The Role of Hemoglobin Concentration.- Oxygen Cost of Breathing.- Myocardial Oxygen Metabolism in the Sepsis Syndrome.- Tissue Oxygen Utilization in Septic Shock.- Oxygen Supply Dependency in Septic Shock.- Cellular Metabolism in Sepsis.- Multiple Organ Failure: Is It Only Hypoxia?.- Oxygen Demand/Supply Relationship: Role of Hormonal Influences.- The Value of Blood Lactate Monitoring in Clinical Practice.- Clinical Assessment of Tissue Oxygenation: Value of Hemodynamic and Oxygen Transport Related Variables.- Therapeutic Implications of Oxygen Transport in Critically Ill Patients.- The Effects of Anesthesia on Tissue Oxygen Balance.- Clinical Use of Continuous Mixed Venous Oximetry.- Tissue Oxygen Tension Monitoring: Relation to Hemodynamic and Oxygen Transport Variables.- Measurement and Control of Tissue Oxygen Tension in Surgical Patients.- Conditions Associated with Impaired Oxygen Extraction.