Understanding Mechanical Ventilation: A Practical Handbook

✍ Scribed by Ashfaq Hasan (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 554
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The care of patients with multiple life-threatening problems is a monumental challenge. Burgeoning information has deluged the generalist and placed increasing reliance on the specialist. Predictably, this has led to the evolution of a team approach, but this does not assist the novice in critical care, with little practical and relevant information available on learning specific procedures and best practice.

This new edition of Understanding Mechanical Ventilation: a Practical Handbook familiarizes physicians, nurses and respiratory technologists with the concepts that underlie mechanical ventilation. Physiological concepts are stressed throughout this book in order to address the specifics of mechanical ventilation, while currently accepted strategies for patients with specific disorders are reviewed in detail. Ventilator waveforms, airway humidification, aerosol therapy and the use of novel software-based modes of ventilation in the ICU are also included.

The emphasis throughout the book is on presenting material in a reader-friendly, practical style incorporating numerous figures and tables. In this way, it will be a vital reference to all involved in the management of patients requiring mechanical ventilation in the ICU.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Historical Aspects of Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 1-8
The Indications for Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 9-17
Physiological Considerations in the Mechanically Ventilated Patient....Pages 19-69
The Conventional Modes of Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 71-113
Ventilator Settings....Pages 115-140
Ventilator Alarms....Pages 141-148
Monitoring Gas Exchange in the Mechanically Ventilated Patient....Pages 149-187
Monitoring Lung Mechanics in the Mechanically Ventilated Patient....Pages 189-240
Mechanical Ventilation in Specific Disorders....Pages 241-304
The Complications of Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 305-341
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia....Pages 343-389
Discontinuation of Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 391-414
Noninvasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure....Pages 415-440
Negative Pressure Ventilation....Pages 441-448
Airway Humidification in the Mechanically Ventilated Patient....Pages 449-461
Aerosol Therapy in the Mechanically Ventilated Patient....Pages 463-478
Nonconventional Modes and Adjunctive Therapies for Mechanical Ventilation....Pages 479-503
Case Studies....Pages 505-525
Back Matter....Pages 527-543

✦ Subjects

Intensive / Critical Care Medicine; Anesthesiology; Pneumology/Respiratory System

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