Proteomics in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Proteomics is a systems-based methodology for describing the changes in protein expression present in biological samples that can occur with disease processes. Analysis of proteome allows individuating proteins that act as biomarkers, which have many potential roles in clinical practice: diagnosis, response to treatment, risk stratification and prognosis. This chapter summarises the most important proteomics application in anaesthesiology and critical care.