Product Description: Continuing medical education and specialty training procedures represent highly dynamical processes, with a continuously evolving content. The specific teaching methods available (micro-teaching, team teaching, mastery learning, simulation, and e-learning) are essential elements of this process to promote professional updating and teaching at the bedside, aimed at providing an excellent clinical practice...read more

Product Description: by S. GUASCHINO Dean, Trieste University School of Medicine The society we live in is in continual development and has a number of priori­ ties for improving the standards of communication. The scientific sector in par­ ticular thrives on the exchange of information, which is the foundation of progress itself...read more

Product Description: Sepsis evolution and organ dysfunction are still an enigmatic topic. Severe infection causes an important aggression of the whole body, and the so-called inflammation mediators play an important role in this evolution. It is however certain that the immune system is a key factor in sepsis progression...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sepsis represents a life threatening condition to ICU patients. The evolution of sepsis to severe sepsis or septic shock may occur in an unpredictable way. In the coming millennium the prevention and management of sepsis and organ dysfunction will present a real challenge for researchers and clinicians...read more

Product Description: Trauma has assumed a prominent role in contemporary medicine as an event that can significantly influence clinical variables such as morbidity, functional deficits and consequential disability, and mortality. Trauma is the principal cause of death in the population below 40 years of age in industrialized coun­ tries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)