Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2016 [Paperback]

Part I. Infections and antibiotics.- Interpreting Procalcitoninat the Bedside.- Reducing Antibiotic Use in the ICU: A Time-based Approach to RationalAntimicrobial 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 SepticShock: Five Reasons to Initiate it Early.- Myths and Facts Regarding Lactate inSepsis.- Part III. Renal issues.- Creatinine-based Definitions: From Baseline Creatinineto Serum Creatinine Correction in Intensive Care.- The Detrimental Cross-talk betweenSepsis and AKI: New Pathogenic Mechanisms, Early Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies.-Timing of Acute Renal Replacement Therapy.- (Multiple) Organ Support Therapy beyondAKI.- Part IV. Fluid therapy.- Crystalloid Fluid Therapy.- Balanced Crystalloidsfor Septic Shock Resuscitation.- Part V. Bleeding.- EmergencyReversal Strategies for Anticoagulants and Anti-platelet Agents.- Part VI. Cardiovascularsystem.- 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 ArrestCenters.- Part VIII. Oxygenation and respiratory failure.- High-flow NasalCannul#: