Developments in critical care medicine and anaesthesiology, 19.
Regional Differences in the Lung --;Regulation of the Pulmonary Circulation --;New Concepts in the Regulation of the Pulmonary Vasculature: Biochemical Activities of Endothelial Cells that influence Pulmonary Vascular Tone and Blood Flow --;Pathophysiology of Pulmonary Edema: Implications for Clinical Management --;Control of Breathing --;Pulmonary Surfacant: An Endogenous Mediator of Alveolar Stability and a Therapeutic Agent --;High Altitude Diseases --;Preparing the Patient with COPD for Surgery --;Anesthetic Influences on the Pulmonary Circulation --;Ventilation-Perfusion Mismatching During Anesthesia --;Anesthesia and Changes in Lung Volume --;Oximetry I: Nomenclature, History, Accuracy and Uses --;What is the Required Inspired Oxygen Consumption During Anesthesia? --;Postoperative Hypoxia --;The 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Mt. Everest --;Effects of Anesthetics on Pulmonary Gas Exchange --;Oximetry II: Limitations and Effects on Other Monitors --;Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery: Part I --;Double-Lumen Tube Intubation --;Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery: Part II --;Management of One-Lung Ventilation --;Anesthetic Management of the Patient with Reactive Airways --;Differential Lung Ventilation --;Physiologic Effects of Raised Airway Pressure --;HFJV, PS, IRV, MMV, APRV, 'New' Ventilatory Modes --;Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome --;Hemodynamics and Therapy in ARDS --;Septic Shock --;Respiratory Mechanics in ICU Patients --;Dynamic Hyperinflation: Intrinsic PEEP and Its Ramifications in Patients with Respiratory Failure --;Why Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation (IMV) Fails? --;Weaning from Ventilatory Support --;ECMO: A View from the East.
The chapters reflect recent advances in the diagnosis, pre-, intra-, and postoperative anesthetic management of patients with lung disease, presenting for pulmonary and non-pulmonary surgery. They also deal with ventilation-perfusion issues, the lung as a metabolic organ, the effects of anesthesia on pulmonary mechanics and pulmonary blood flow.