Update 1988

Circulatory Failure: The Importance of Tissue Oxygen Supply.- Cardiocirculatory Control Mechanisms in Health and Disease.- Can Primary Resuscitation Therapy Be Improved?.- Oxygen Transport and Utilization in Critically Ill Patients.- Oxygen Transport Following Major Trauma.- Limits of Hemodilution in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.- Pathophysiology of Lactic Acidosis.- Transport and Consumption of Oxygen in Septic Shock.- New Aspects of Sepsis: Relevance to Shock and MOF.- The Molecular Basis of Shock: The Role of Cachectin.- Immunologic Abnormalities Following Hemorrhage and Trauma.- Update in Host Defence Mechanisms.- Selective Elimination of Oropharyngeal and Gastro-Intestinal Flora: A Step Forward in the Control of Infection in ICU?.- Effect of Selective Decontamination on Colonization and Infection Rate in Intensive Care Patients.- Pathogenesis of Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections.- Sepsis in Children: Different Pathophysiology, Different Treatment?.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Changing Concepts of Clinical Evolution and Recovery.- Role of Arachidonic Acid Metabolism in ARDS.- Leukocytes-mediated Pulmonary Injury.- PGE1 Administration in ARDS.- Inhalation Injury.- Respiratory Muscle Insufficiency in Neuromuscular Disorders.- Severe Asthmatic Crisis.- Ventilation-Perfusion Relationships in Acute Asthma.- Clinical Assessment of Severe Asthma.- Can Fatal Asthma Be Prevented?.- Status Asthmaticus: An Approach to Therapy.- Right Ventricular Failure — Pulmonary Hypertension.- The Obscure Right Ventricle — A Historical Review.- The Hemodynamic Effects of Artificial Ventilation.- Respiration Within the Cardiac Cycle.- Right Ventricular Performance During Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS.- Pulmonary Gas Exchange in Pulmonary Vascular Obstruction.- Strategy in Massive Pulmonary Embolism.- Cardiovascular Response to Acute Pulmonary Embolism.- Pathophysiology and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension.- Right Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Cardiac Surgery Patients.- Myocardial Ischemia and Necrosis.- Coronary Vasomotor Tone: Implications in Ischemic Heart Disease.- Out of Hospital Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Pre-hospital Thrombolytic Intervention in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Reperfusion Arrhythmias: An Update.- Positron Emission Tomography for the Assessment of Myocardial Viability in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Approaches for the Treatment of Residual Coronary Lesions Following Thrombolysis.- Right Ventricular Infarction: Pathogenesis of Low Output.- Management of Cardiac Crisis.- New Inotropic Agents in the ICU.- Treatment of Serious Cardiac Arrhythmias.- Interest of Calcium Channel Blockers During the Perioperative Period.- Hemodynamic and Metabolic Response After Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Continuous Monitoring of CO2 Production.- Heart Transplantation at the Free University of Brussels.- Acute Renal Failure Following Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantations.- Monitoring of the Critically Ill: Invasive and Non-Invasive.- Physiological Meaning of Intravascular Pressure.- Technological Advances in Pressure Monitoring.- Systolic Pressure-Dimension Relationship in the Assessment of Left Ventricular Function.- Quantitative Evaluation of Left Ventricular Function by Doppler Echocardiography.- Strategy for Arterial Catheterization.- New Developments in PaO2 Monitoring.- Conjunctival Oxygen Tension Monitoring.- Indications and Limitations of Sv?O2 and ScvO2 Monitoring.- Dual Oximetry.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Automatic Detection of Cardiac Arrest Rhythms.- Teaching Citizen-CPR: A Belgian Experience.- Pharmacology of Drugs in CPR.- Cerebral Resuscitation After Cardiac Arrest: The Role of Calcium Antagonists.- Emergency and Trauma.- Pre-hospital Trauma Care.- Emergency Medical System in Tokyo.- Urban Bomb Blast: Mechanisms of Injury and Principles of Management.- Difficult Intubation.- Severe Birth Asphyxia.- Clinical Use of Benzodiazepine Antagonists.- Outcome After Trauma.- Factors Influencing Outcome After Severe Head Trauma.- Prognosis of Head Injured Patients.- Posttraumatic Stress Disorders.- Cerebral Crisis — Psychological Support.- Management of Acute Cerebral Edema.- Recent Advances in the Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Possible Role of Calcium Antagonists in Acute Ischemic Stroke.- The Child’s Central Nervous System: Assaults, Monitoring, and Therapy.- Acute Anxiety Disorders.- Parental Psychological Distress : Prevention and Treatment.- Imaging in the Critically Ill.- Interpretation of Pulmonary Vascular Congestion.- The Interpretation of the Portable Chest Film in Intensive Care.- Metabolic Imaging with PET in the Critically Ill Patient with Coronary Artery Disease.- The Contribution of Nuclear Medicine in the Care of the Critically Ill Patient.- Computed Tomography of Head and Abdominal Trauma.- Renal Failure: Prevention and Treatment.- Role of Endothelial Injury in the Pathogenesis of Acute Renal Failure.- Value of Diagnostic Investigations in Acute Renal Failure.- Ventilation and the Kidney.- Dopamine Agonists in Intensive Care Medicine: From Receptors to Clinical Applications.- Anticoagulation for Extracorporeal Systems.- Metabolic and Nutritional Problems.- Management of Hypotonic Hyponatremia.- Acute Diabetic Emergencies.- Nutritional Assessment of Critically Ill Patients.- Special Amino-Acid Formulas in Intensive Care Medicine.- Aspects of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Intensive Care.- Respiratory Support: Old and New Techniques.- Methods of Increasing FRC in Acute Respiratory Failure.- Thoraco-Pulmonary Pressure/Volume Relationship During Mechanical Ventilation.- Mechanical Ventilation in Cardiogenic and Septic Shock.- Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation: Revisited.- Inspiratory Pressure Support.- Airway Pressure Release Ventilation.- Independent Lung Ventilation.- High Frequency Ventilation.- Neonatal Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO).