Published January, 2012
By Reginald A. Elson, Emile Letournel and Robert Judet
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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At a time when it is in fashion to evaluate the cost of health care, it is strange to see how public administrators, so keen on evaluating the immediate cost of our opera tions, do not care about the quality of their long-term results, which appears to us, however, to be the best basis for the choice of the initial treatment.

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Published January, 2012
By Alex Staubli, B.R. Simmen, R. Gillespie, J.P. Kostuik, F.L. Hefti, A.E. Staubli and B. R. Simmen
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Published January, 2012
By Alexander Baethmann, Oliver Kempski and Ludwig Schürer
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement
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Great progress has been made in the understanding and prevention of secondary brain damage from acute cerebral disorders, such as trauma and ischemia.

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Published January, 2012
By P.-M. Osswald, Werner F. List, P.M. Osswald and W. F. List
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Komplikationen in der Anasthesie koennen wahrend und nach der Narkose eintreten und zu einer Gefahrdung des Patienten fuhren. In diesem Buch werden die wahrend oder nach der Anasthesie moeglicherweise auftretenden Komplikationen und deren Pravention ausfuhrlich dargestellt.

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Published January, 2012
By U. Heim, Urs Heim and K. M. Pfeiffer
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Published January, 2012
By J. de Castro, J. Meynadier and Michael Zenz
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology
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We are indebted to the authors for introducing the new opioids to regional analgesia with the scientists, who de veloped the potent short and ultrashort acting opioids with high therapeutic indices, which many researchers dreamt about but never before materialized.

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Published January, 2012
By Rinaldo Bellomo and Claudio Ronco
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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Over the last 10 years the syndrome of severe acute renal failure has progressively changed in its epidemiology. The nutrition of these patients, previously limited by the par tial efficacy of renal replacement therapies, has also become more aggressive and more in tune with the needs of critically ill patients.

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Published January, 2012
By Zhi-yang Fang, Ngao Li, Zhi-yong Sheng and Sheng-De Ge
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Published January, 2012
By Michael G. Hennerici, Werner Hacke, Michael Hennerici, Gunter Kramer, Herman J. Gelmers and G. Kramer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Despite a worldwide reduction in its incidence, stroke remains one of the most common diseases generally and the most important cause of premature and persistent disability in the industrialized countries.

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Published January, 2012
By J.J. Marini and C. Roussos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
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This book reviews the most recent developments in the patho-physiology and therapy of ventilatory failure. Of particular inter-estare the descriptions of new modalities of partial andcomplete ventilatory assistance as well as new knowledge re-garding ventilatory control and fatigue during stressfulbreathing.

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