Intensive and critical care medicine. Reflections, recommendations and perspectives

This volume is published under the auspices of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine, which consists of 48 members societies (both medical and nursing) - a truly world wide organisation - and whose aim is to promote excellence in the care of critically ill patients. The volume will be distributed to delegates on occasion of the 9th International Congress of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, to be held in Buenos Aires at the end of August 2005. TOC:Informed consent in critical care.- Cost of care in critical illness.- The role of the family in ICU patients (quality of life after ICU stay).- Do-not-resuscitate order.- Research in critical care.- Audit on resource consuming in critical care.- Scoring system and outcome.- Control of infections in ICU.- Clinical decision making for NIV.- Acute pulmonary embolism.- What is new in hepato-renal syndrome? AIDS patients in the ICU. Monitoring of splanchnic tissue perfusion.- Critical key points in organ donation. Molecular biology in critical care, is it more than a look only?- What we have learnt after four decades of ARDS.- Sepsis nad organ dysfunction ? The challenge continues.- World Federation 1993-1997.