[Intensive care medicine 2004].
The following survey is supposed to present the most important new therapeutic approaches und the current standard of treatment in intensive care medicine including pathophysiological and diagnostic aspects of important diseases, particularly sepsis, septic and cardiogenic shock. Furthermore, advances in the following issues are summarized in detail: ventilation, especially acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and the broad spectrum of non-invasive ventilation, new therapeutic options in the field of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the importance of albumin dialysis in acute liver failure.
Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin III, Klinikum Kröllwitz der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Ernst-Grube-Strasse 40, 06120 Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. sereith@gmx.de
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D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D003422:Critical Care; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D017114:Liver Failure, Acute / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D018805:Sepsis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000935:Antifungal Agents