25 Years of Progress and Innovation in Intensive Care Medicine

General intensive care medicine (Nutrition, Sedation and analgesia in ICU, Acute abdominal crises in the critically ill patient, Acute severe pancreatitis, Acute renal failure, From renal replacement therapy (RRT) to multiple organ support therapy (MOST), Coagulation disturbances in critically ill patients, Catastrophes); Acute respiratory insufficiency and mechanical ventilation (The epidemiology of mechanical ventilation, Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Principles of mechanical ventilation, Ventilator-associated pneumonia, From invasive to non invasive ventilation in patients with COPD exacerbation, Recruiting the lung); Sepsis and infection (Sepsis, Epidemiology of Severe Sepsis, Pathophysiology of septic shock, Antibiotics in the ICU, Early goal-directed therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock, Multidrug resistant infections in the ICU); Cardiac problems in intensive care medicine (Acute coronary syndromes, Acute heart failure, Cardiac arrest);

Circulation (Shock, Monitoring microcirculation, Non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring, Haemodynamic monitoring using the pulmonary artery catheter, Assessing fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients); Neuro intensive care medicine (Acute Non-traumatic Coma, Brain Trauma); Health services research and outcomes (History of intensive care medicine in Europe, The roles of intensive care societies, Breaking the paradigm: the ICU without walls, Organization of intensive care, Training in intensive care medicine, Nursing and allied health professionals in ESICM, The history and lessons from investigation into the nature and causes of human error in the ICU, The role of information technologies in the ICU, The patient care continuum: From the emergency department to the Intensive Care Unit, Admission and discharge of the critically ill patient, Performance evaluation in the ICU, Principles of risk-adjustment in the critically ill patient, Long-term outcomes after intensive care, Health related quality of life after ICU discharge, Cognitive impairment and critical illness: The immediate and long-term consequences, An alternative to refusing ICU admission of cancer patients); Ethics (Communication with families of dying patients in the ICU, End-of-life care for patients in the Intensive Care Unit)