Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation offers thorough content incorporating current scientific, technical and clinical standards on mechanical ventilation.

Features:

• Up-to-the-minute, rigorous coverage that addreses every important scientific, clinical and technical aspet of the field
• 70 well-organized chapters encompassing the full scope of mechanical ventilation, including the physical basis of mechanical ventilation; conventional, alternative, noninvasive, and unconventional methods of ventilator support; complications and airway management; ethics and economics
• 24 new chapters on current issues in mechanical ventilation: closed loop ventilation, inhaled antibiotic therapy, sleep and speec in the ventilated patient, mechanical ventilation in ARDS, ventilation outside the ICU, and more
• Highly relevant new chapters on pharmacological and adjuvant therapy
• Greater use of tables and lists that conveniently summarize key information and solidify chapter concepts

Contents

1. Historical Background
2. Physical Basis of Mechanical Ventilation
3. Indications
4. Conventional Methods of Ventilatory Support
5. Alternative Methods of Ventilator Support
6. Noninvasive Methods of Ventilator Support
7. Unconventional Methods of Ventilator Support
8. Ventilator Support in Specific Settings
9. Physiologic Effects of Mechanical Ventilation
10. Artificial Airways and Management
11. Complications in Ventilator-Supported Patients
12. Evaluation and Monitoring of Ventilator-Supported Patients
13. Management of the Ventilator-Supported Patient
14. Adjunctive Therapy
15. Ethics and Economics

Index

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