Update in intensive care and emergency medicine, 23.
Regional Blood Flow Distribution --;Gut Metabolism and Anion Flux --;The Splanchnic Microcirculation: Cytokines and Cell Adhesion Molecules --;Effects of N-Acetyl-Cysteine on Splanchnic Circulation --;Hepatic Acute-Phase Response --;Effects of Catecholamines on Hepatic Blood Flow: Tissue Oxygenation --;Liver-Lung Interactions in Critical Illness --;Lung-Liver Interface --;Regional Monitoring of Gut Mucosal Viability --;Gastric Intramucosal pH Determination: Limitations of the Technique --;Gut Permeability --;Serum Lactate: Marker of Prognosis, Not Inadequacy of Oxygen Delivery --;Augmentation of Splanchnic Blood Flow --;Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract --;Effect of Aspirin on Central and Peripheral Cardiovascular Adaption to Exercise in Heart Failure: Participation of Splanchnic Flow --;Resuscitation of Trauma Patients.
This volume reviews the splanchnic circulation in the critically ill, focusing on its role of defining gut/hepatic function, and remote organ interactions. Outcome studies of diagnostic/therapeutic organs are presented, and topics from the overall theme of splanchnic blood flow are emphasized.