Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1997 [Paperback]

The Yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergeny medicine.Basic Mechanisms in Sepsis and ARDS.- Importance of Cell Wall Components of Gram-Positive Bacteria in Gram-Positive Septic Shock.- Inflammatory Responses During Human Endotoxemia.- Activation of Nuclear Factor-?B in Sepsis and ARDS.- The Cytokine Response to Hemorrhagic Shock.- Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule Expression in Acutely Inflamed Tissues.- TNF in Septic Shock and Cerebral Malaria.- Interleukin-1-Mediated Acute Lung Injury.- Cytokine-Networks and ARDS.- Disordered Apoptosis as a Mechanism for Adverse Outcome.- Apoptosis in the Resolution of Systemic Inflammation.- New Therapeutic Interventions in Sepsis.- Cytokine-Mediated Enhancement of Host Defense.- Is it Beneficial to Augment or to Inhibit Neutrophil Function in Severe Infections and Sepsis?.- Hemofiltration in Sepsis and Septic Shock.- Extracorporal Techniques to Accelerate Clearance of TNF-? and IL-1? in Septic Patients.- Clinical Trials for the Evaluation of Sepsis Therapies.- Outcome from Sepsis and Organ Failure.- Prognostic Factors in Pre-Septic States.- Determinants of Outcome from Sepsis and Septic Shock.- The Logistic Organ Dysfunction System.- Nitric Oxide.- Nitric Oxide: A Modulator of the Inflammation Response.- Cytokine Regulation of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase.- Activation of Poly-(ADP-Ribose) Synthetase by Peroxynitrite.- Clinical Effects of Cell-Free Hemoglobin, a Scavenger of Nitric Oxide, in Septic Shock.- Cardiovascular Failure in Sepsis.- Mechanisms of Decreased Cardiac Function in Sepsis.- Septic Myocardial Dysfunction: Role of Cytokines and Nitric Oxide.- O2 Transport in the Peripheral Circulatil�