Mechanical ventilation made easy

✍ Scribed by S Ahanatha Pillai

• Publisher: JAYPEE BROTHERS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 484
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book imparts knowledge to handle on the spot situations, acute crisis and also when it is safe to wean away the patient from the ventilator * The text is presented very clearly starting from the applied anatomy and physiology to explain mechanics of breathing and how clinical application of mechanical ventilation is done * All essential aspects are discussed in a very simple style explaining fundamental principles involved in ventilator support system, its modes and settings * Describes the management of a patient from incubating to connecting with the ventilator and making the initial settings work in an intensive therapy unit

✦ Table of Contents

Prelims_2......Page 1
Chapter-01_Introduction to Mechanical Ventilation......Page 18
Chapter-02_History of Mechanical Ventilation......Page 27
Chapter-03_Anatomy of Respiratory System......Page 45
Chapter-04_Applied Physiology of Respiration......Page 80
Chapter-05_Oxygen......Page 109
Chapter-06_Mechanics of Respiration......Page 143
Chapter-07_Mechanical Ventilation Machine-assisted Breathing......Page 202
Chapter-08_Mechanical Ventilator Basic Concepts......Page 242
Chapter-09_Available Modes of Ventilation......Page 284
Chapter-10_Acid-base Regulation......Page 342
Chapter-11_Indications for Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Failure......Page 359
Chapter-12_Maintenance of Airway and Tracheal Intubation......Page 376
Chapter-13_Complications of Mechanical Ventilation......Page 412
Chapter-14_Weaning from Ventilator......Page 450
Index_2......Page 475

✦ Subjects

Mechanical ventilation