Anaesthesia and its interactions with the components of critical care medicine

The aim of this thesis is to show how anaesthesia and CCM are essentially interactive and how the quality and standard of care in these two specialities are interdependent. As a direct result of this thesis some of the old and well-established principles in anaesthesia and CCM were revised and new options in therapy were created. The investigations, and eventual results, could only be realised because the author has had the opportunity to work in both specialities at the same time