Advances in respiratory care
By: guest editor, Suzanne M. Burns.
Contributors: Burns, Suzanne M.
Series: Critical care nursing clinics of North America -- v. 16, no. 3
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Treatment
Notes: Spine series title: Critical care nursing clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Management of acute severe asthma / Adam C. Winters; title: Pharmacologic therapy for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : a review / Rebecca Haynes Hockman; title: Caring for the bariatric patient with obstructive sleep apnea / Margaret M. Ecklund and Stefan A. Kurlack; title: Prone positioning in the patient who has acute respiratory distress syndrome : the art and science / Kathleen M. Vollman; title: Airway pressure release ventilation and pediatrics : theory and practice / P Milo Frawley and Nader M. Habashi; title: Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia : evidence-based care / Mary Jo Grap and Cindy L. Munro; title: Sedation assessment : easier said than done! / Marianne Chulay; title: Sedation and comfort issues in the ventilated infant and child / Debbie Brinker; title: The science of weaning : when and how? / Suzanne M. Burns; title: Weaning of the neurologically impaired patient / Dea Mahanes and Rose Lewis; title: The experience of four outcomes managers : an institutional approach to weaning patients from long-term mechanical ventilation / Sidenia Earven ... [et al.]; title: Contemporary issues in adult tracheostomy management / Robert E. St. John and Jill Feldman Malen; title: The pragmatics of feeding the pediatric patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome / Judy T. Verger ... [et al.]; title: Monitoring carbon dioxide in critical care : the newest vital sign? / Tom Ahrens.