Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.

Improving standards of care is a real challenge in Intensive Care Medicine. Bettering clinical performance, patient safety, risk management and audit represents the cornerstone for raising the quality of care in ICU patients. Communication is the platform from where to start to reach a consensus in an extremely crowded area, a unique multidisciplinary and multiprofessional environment in which quality of care and, ultimately, patient survival need to be ameliorated.

• Sepsis
• Trauma
• anaesthesia
• critical care
• emergency
• intensive care medicine
• noncardiac surgery
• pain

From the reviews:

"This book, the proceedings from a recent postgraduate course in critical care medicine, is one of a series originating from courses supported by departments of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine in Italy. … Anesthesiologists, internists, and surgeons managing critical illness are an appropriate audience for this book from an international group of authors noted for work in critical illness in each of these disciplines." (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, February 2008)

• Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Head, Postgraduated School of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Catania University Hospital, Catania, Italy

  Antonino Gullo

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