Intensive Care Fundamentals

This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) textbook series, is a graphical, dense and concise text describing fundamental theoretical concepts needed for doctors and other professionals new to the field of Intensive Care Medicine.

The book serves two main purposes: as study material for any junior doctor, nurse or other allied healthcare professional who is time-pressured and wants to quickly learn the essentials; and as a course volume of new ESICM educational initiative called Intensive Care Fundamentals©. The overarching goal of this initiative is to offer standardised high-quality introductory education to all starters in intensive care.

There are two key elements of this initiative: the book, which is the prerequisite reading for attending the two day face-to-face course and the materials, registration of candidate and training and certifying the trainers that will be provided by ESICM.

Auteur

Series EditorsProf. Maurizio Cecconi is Head of Department Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Units, IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy and Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele (MI), Italy. His main fields of research are haemodynamic monitoring, haemodynamic optimisation and physiology of the critically ill patient. He has published extensively and has specific interest in haemodynamic monitoring and fluid management of the critically ill.

Prof. Daniel De Backer is Professor of Intensive Care at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Head of Intensive Care Departments of CHIREC Hospitals (Brussels and Braine l'Alleud-Waterloo). His main fields of investigation are severe sepsis, organ dysfunction, acute circulatory failure and its treatment (in particular vasoactive agents), haemodynamic monitoring, hepato-splanchnic circulation and microcirculatory disorders.

Volume editors

Frantisek Duska is a head of Intensive Care and associate professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Charles University, Third Medical Faculty and FNKV University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic.

Mo Al-Haddad is a consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care and Honorary Professor of School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow. Mo has been an editor in chief of the ESICM Academy.

Maurizio Ceccioni is the director of the Residency School of Anaesthesia at Humanitas University in Rozzano, Italy and Head of the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Department at Humanitas Research Hospital. He is also the President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2020-2022).