Biochemistry for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists
This book discusses and explains the importance of biochemistry knowledge in understanding what happens to patients during anesthesia and/or to those being in intensive care. It covers a wide range of topics, such as Cerebral Edema, Shock, Blood-Brain Bar
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Biochemistry for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists
Fernando Alemanno Editor
Biochemistry for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists
Editor Fernando Alemanno Anesthesia Resuscitation and Pain Therapy Brescia Nosocomial Institutes Brescia Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-26720-9 ISBN 978-3-030-26721-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26721-6 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Amelia Nicolì, and my father, Francesco Alemanno
Foreword
...“si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait”...
According to Marc Augé (Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age), there are two kinds of nostalgia: nostalgia for the past we have experienced and nostalgia for a past we could have experienced. The former, deduced from our not always completely trustworthy memory, is countered brutally by the irreversibility of time; the second not only wants to go back to a previous time but also wishes to subvert history itself. The same considerations were suggested to me in reading the new book by Fernando Alemanno, who I was fortunate enough to know and admire during my 20 years in Padova. To write this book Biochemistry for Anaesthesiologists and Intensivists, he has let himself be seduced by the magic of a theme which my group merely touched on in 1968 (“The Biochemical Bases of Anaesthesia”), considering it to be an inextricable aporia; but, supported by the knowledge acquired during a life of work and study, the author has laid bare the subject with methodological consistency equalled only by the clarity of his argument, obtaining results which I openly envy and, which I now comment, results which (in another of
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