Respiratory Critical Care

✍ Scribed by Craig Davidson, David Treacher

• Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Series: Hodder Arnold Publication
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

GKT School of Medicine, UK. Reference provides practical information on the sciences underlying respiratory critical care, and how it relates to the patient. Provides a review of developments in the last decade. Features key issues, commentaries from experts on controversial issues, and emphasizes the importance of ethics in critical care medicine.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
1 Respiratory muscles, pulmonary mechanics and ventilatory control......Page 13
2 Mechanical ventilation: the basics......Page 33
3 Mechanical ventilation: ventilatory strategies......Page 44
4 Ventilator-patient interaction......Page 59
5 Non-invasive mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory failure......Page 70
6 Contemporary issues in critical care physiotherapy......Page 82
7 Diagnostic methods in respiratory intensive care medicine......Page 92
8 Monitoring......Page 100
9 Respiratory emergencies I: Medical......Page 117
10 Respiratory emergencies II: Chest trauma, air leaks and tracheostomy......Page 140
11 Pathophysiology of acute lung injury......Page 154
12 Management of acute lung injury......Page 169
13 Weaning from mechanical ventilation......Page 186
14 Community-acquired pneumonia......Page 197
15 Nosocomial pneumonia......Page 208
16 Infection in the immunocompromised patient......Page 217
17 Pleural disease......Page 233
18 Acute interstitial lung disease......Page 251
19 Pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension......Page 265
20 Organizational issues in respiratory critical care......Page 279
21 Ethical issues in the intensive care unit......Page 287
22 Respiratory failure: new horizons, new challenges......Page 294
Index......Page 310