Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2017

Maxillofacial trauma and airways management.- The assessment of the risk for cardiac event after non-cardiac surgery.- Ultrasound in Intensive Care Unit: What to Ask, What to Expect.- Blood Coagulation During Sepsis And Septic Shock: Is There Still Room For Anticoagulants?.- Atrial fibrillation in the perioperative period.- Haemodynamic monitoring during anaesthesia.- Assisted ventilation in the ICU: when and to whom?.- Acute on chronic liver failure: a new and important entity in the ICU.- Sedation and analgesia during non-invasive ventilation.- Critical Care Management Of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- High flow oxygen therapy.- Hypermetabolism in Critical Care: The Role of Metabolism Measurement and its Nutritional Implications.

Professor Davide Chiumello, MD, is the Chief of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive care medicine at ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo Hospital, Milan, Italy. Prof. Chiumello's research has largely focused on understanding the pathological and clinical aspects of acute respiratory distress syndrome, with a particular focus on respiratory physiology, esophageal pressure, lung recruitment, lung imaging, ventilator-induced lung injury, the prone position, controlled and assisted mechanical ventilation, and non-invasive ventilation. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Minerva Anestesiologica (the official journal of the Società Italiana di Analgesia, Anestesia e Terapia Intensiva) until 2015. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Critical Care Medicine (the official journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine). He is also a reviewer for a number of international journals and Editor of the Respiratory Failure section for PACT (Patient-Centred Acute Care Training) for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Prof. Chiumello is also the author of more than 140 scientific articles and several chapters in medical textbooks.