Download or read book Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E. written by A. Gullo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic research, progress in technology and informatics, and the success of clinical pharmacology are the fundamental bases of this interesting field of medicine. Nowadays, critical care medicine is no longer for experts only, but it is a field in which researchers and clinicians, nurses and technical staff work in an interdisciplinary way, each offering their own skills. The volume is divided in six sections, devoted to critical care key issues, to lung diseases, to trauma, to acid-base equilibrium, to perioperative medicine, and to obstetrics.