07.05.2018 | Editorial
Could resuscitation be based on microcirculation data? We are not sure
verfasst von:
Xavier Monnet, Bernd Saugel
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 6/2018
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Excerpt
Malpighi described the connections between the arteries and veins in 1661 by observing the capillaries under the microscope. In intensive care, though the physiological importance of microcirculation has been known for a long time [
1], an important step was taken in the late 1990s, when a technology borrowed from intraoperative neurosurgical exploration allowed direct visualisation of the microvessels in vivo. Since then, a considerable number of experimental and clinical studies have been carried out in this field. …