Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine -- A.P.I.C.E.: Proceedings of the 13th Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine Trieste, Italy -- November 18-21, 1998

The management of the critically ill patients has been in the past few years a discipline at the forefront of development which continues to make progress with the support of basic and clinical research. This w ork is a collection of material that deals with the management of crit ically ill patients, published on the occasion of the 13th APICE congr ess,to take place in Trieste on Nov. 98, which celebrates 40 years of Critical Care Medicine.