In recent years, intensive care and emergency medicine have emerged as new medical specialties. Better understanding of acute illness and continuous advances in technology have fostered rapid development of new forms of therapy. This volume provides updates in this rapidly expanding field and includes various topics presented by recognized experts in the field.

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Contents: Circulatory Failure: The Importance of Tissue Oxygen Supply.- New Aspects of Sepsis: Relevance to Shock and MOF.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Severe Asthmatic Crisis.- Right Ventricular Failure - Pulmonary Hypertension.- Myocardial Ischemia and Necrosis.- Management of Cardiac Crisis.- Monitoring of the Critically Ill: Invasive and Non-Invasive.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Emergency and Trauma.- Outcome after Trauma.- Cerebral Crisis - Psychological Support.- Imaging in the Critically Ill.- Renal Failure.- Prevention and Treatment.- Metabolic and Nutritional Problems.- Respiratory Support: Old and New Techniques.