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Continuing Medical Education: Can I Think what I Read?.-Clinical Pharmacology: Pharmacological Manipulation in ICU.- Kidney: Renal Injury.- Ventilation: Adult and Paediatric: Respiratory Mechanics: Principles, Utility and Advances. Capnometry/capnography in Prehospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation. Ventilatory Strategies in Acute Lung Injury. Mechanical Ventilation beyond the PICU.- Cardiovascular Monitoring: The NEXFIN Monitor – A Totally Non-Invasive Cardiac Output Monitor. Doppler Echocardiography in ICU Patients: Does It Improve Outcome?.- Management of Cardiac Arrest: Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest. Nasopharyngeal Cooling during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. “Amplitude Spectrum Area” as a Predictor of Successful Defibrillation.- Advances in Experimental and Clinical Research: Physiopathology and Severity of Post-Resuscitation Myocardial Dysfunction: Effects of Sodium-Hydrogen Exchanger Isoform-1 (NHE-1) Inhibitors and Erythropoietin. Experimental Treatment for Preservation of Mechanically Competent Cardiac Activity following Cardiac Arrest. Erythropoietin Facilitates Return of Spontaneous Circulation and Survival in Victims of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.- Infections, Sepsis and Organ Dysfunction: Pathophysiology of Resistance amongst Aerobic Gram-negative Bacilli in Particular Acinetobacter Species. What Have we Learned from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign? Source Control. Immunoglobulins in Sepsis. Extracorporeal Endotoxin Removal in Sepsis.- Perioperative Medicine: Perioperative Medicine – An Introduction. Neuraxial Analgesia for Caesarean and Vaginal Delivery and Childhood Learning Disabilities. Off-label Drugs in Perioperative Medicine: Clonidine.- Spinal Cord Stimulation. Cost Effectiveness of Spinal Cord Stimulation in Management of Severe Angina.- Spinal Cord Stimulation: Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures in Neurotrauma.- Disaster Medicine: Disaster Preparedness. Medical Emergency Response in Toxicological Mass Casualty.- Quality of Care: Telemedicine to Improve Care in the Critically Ill. Professionalism, Quality of Care and Pay-for-Performance Services.