A practical guide to mechanical ventilation
By: edited by Jonathon Truwit and Scott Epstein
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470058077
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: NIV introduction; title: NIV physiology; title: NIV acute respiratory dailure COPD; title: NIV acute respiratory failure CHF; title: NIV acute respiratory failure other than COPD or CHF; title: NIV for chronic respiratory failure-COPD; title: NIV chronic repiratory failure other than COPD; title: NIV weaning; title: Respiratory failure; title: Airway management chapters; title: Ventilator mechanics; title: Ventilator modes; title: Assessing lung physiology; title: Mechanical ventilation in restrictive lung disease; title: Mechanical ventilation in obstructive lung disease; title: Ancillary methods to mechanical ventilation; title: Patient outcomes post mechanical ventilation; title: Definitions; title: Readiness testing and predictors; title: Physiologic barriers; title: Ventilatory modes used during weaning; title: Extubation; title: Adjuncts to facilitate weaning; title: Tracheostomy; title: Putting it all together : protocols and algorithms.