Title | The Sepsis Text [electronic resource] / edited by Jean-Louis Vincent, Jean Carlet, Steven M. Opal |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b112942 |
Descript | XX, 848 p. online resource |
Generalities -- Sepsis: The Magnitude of the Problem -- Diagnosis and Source of Sepsis: The Utility of Clinical Findings -- Organ Failure -- Markers of Sepsis -- Genetic Predisposition -- Quantifying Risk in Sepsis: A Review of Illness Severity and Organ Dysfunction Scoring -- Pathophysiology -- The Pathogenesis of Gram-Negative Sepsis -- The Pathophysiology of Gram-Positive Shock -- Immunopathogenesis of Gram-Negative Shock -- Involvement of Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Sepsis -- Pathophysiology of Immunodepression in ICU Patients -- Pathophysiology of Sepsis: The Role of Nitric Oxide -- Apoptosis and the Resolution of Inflammation in Sepsis -- Microvascular Alterations in Sepsis -- Cytopathic Hypoxia -- Monitoring Systems -- Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring -- Value of SvO2 in Sepsis -- Blood Lactate Concentrations in Sepsis -- Veno-Arterial PCO2 Gradient -- Gas Tonometry -- General Support -- General Hemodynamic Support -- Fluid Administration -- Blood Transfusion and Sepsis -- Catecholamine Therapy -- Regional Effects of Catecholamines -- Management of Respiratory Dysfunction in Patients with Severe Sepsis -- The Role of Nutritional Support in Sepsis -- Microbial Aspects -- The Sources of Sepsis -- Catheter-Related Sepsis -- Control of the Source of Sepsis -- Empirical Antibiotic Therapy for Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock -- Candida Infections in the Intensive Care Unit -- Why, When, and How to Isolate ICU Patients -- Complications -- The Lung in Sepsis -- The Heart in Sepsis -- The Brain in Sepsis -- The Gut in Sepsis -- The Kidney in Sepsis -- The Coagulation System in Sepsis -- Anti-sepsis Therapies -- Shoulder Fever be Treated in Sepsis? -- Anti-Cytokine Therapy -- Heat Shock Proteins and Sepsis: A Hot Story -- Immunodepression in the Surgical Patient and Increased Susceptibility to Infection -- The Place of Corticosteroids -- The Place of Immunonutrition -- Interference with the Coagulation System -- Hemofiltration and Plasmapheresis -- Endotoxin Analogs in the Treatment of Septic Shock -- Vaccines Against Bacterial Endotoxins