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CURRENT DIAGNOSIS & TRTMT CRITICAL CARE

CURRENT DIAGNOSIS & TRTMT CRITICAL CARE

CARE AT THE CLOSE OF LIFE

CARE AT THE CLOSE OF LIFE

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF MECH VENTILATN

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A detailed yet simple guide to mechanical ventilation

Essential to students as well as clinicians working in the intensive care unit

Practical Applications of Mechanical Ventilation is a concise basic textbook on mechanical ventilators valuable to students as well as practitioners. It provides a thorough overview of the physiologic basis of ventilation and details various ventilatory strategies for different disease states requiring intensive care.

The book is comprised of 43 chapters grouped into six parts to cover all aspects of ventilatory management. Sections include:

  • Respiratory Physiology
  • Effects of Controlled Ventilation
  • Know Your Ventilator
  • Ventilatory Parameter
  • Modes of Ventilation
  • Ventilation Strategy
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Author KAMAT
Table Of Content

CONTENTS

Part–I Respiratory physiology

1. Anatomy of Respiration............................................................. 3

2. Respiratory Mechanics.............................................................. 16

3. Applied Respiratory Physiology............................................... 26

4. Distribution of Ventilation........................................................ 35

5. Compliance............................................................................... 46

6. Resistance................................................................................. 58

7. Shunt......................................................................................... 70

8. Distribution of Ventilation and Perfusion................................. 77

9. Diffusion Defects...................................................................... 82

10. Lung Volumes and Capacities................................................... 88

11. Work of Breathing.................................................................... 98

Part–II Effects of controlled ventilation

12. Physiological Effects of Spontaneous v/s Controlled

Respiration ............................................................................. 117

13. Harmful Effects of Controlled Ventilation.............................. 125

14. Minimizing the Harmful CVS Effects of Controlled

Respiration.............................................................................. 144

Part–III Know your ventilator

15. Ventilator: At a Glance........................................................... 149

Part–IV Ventilator parameter

16. Fractional Inspired Oxygen Concentration............................. 175

17. Tidal Volume during Mechanical Ventilation ......................... 189

18. Inspiratory Flow Rate............................................................. 197

19. Peak Inspiratory Pressure....................................................... 207

20. Breathing Cycle and Inspiratory/Expiratory Time................. 212

21. Distribution of Inspired Gas and Ventilator Rate................... 222

22. Ventilator Alarm Settings....................................................... 226

23. Waveforms of Mechanical Ventilation.................................... 236

24. Time Constants in Mechanical Ventilation.............................. 257

25. Monitoring of Lung Mechanics............................................... 272

Part–V Modes of ventilation

26. What is Mode?........................................................................ 285

27. Controlled Mandatory Ventilation......................................... 291

28. Assisted Controlled Mandatory Ventilation........................... 296

29. Volume Controlled Ventilation............................................... 301

30. Pressure Controlled Ventilation.............................................. 312

31. Synchronized Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation................. 324

32. Biphasic Positive Airway Pressure ......................................... 334

33. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure and Extrinsic

Positive End-expiratory Pressure............................................ 352

34. Pressure Support Ventilation.................................................. 381

35. Volume Support Ventilation, Pressure

Regulated Volume Control Ventilation, Automode................ 404

36. Intrinsic Positive End-expiratory Pressure.............................. 415

Part–VI Ventilatory Strategy

37. Application of Basic Principles in Respiratory Failure............. 429

38. Ventilatory Management of Severe Asthma........................... 439

39. Ventilatory Management of Chronic Obstructive

Pulmonary Diseases................................................................ 460

40. Ventilatory Strategy for ARDS............................................... 476

41. Ventilatory Strategy for Head/Brain Injury........................... 509

42. Ventilatory Strategy for Neuromuscular Diseases.................. 518

43. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation.................................... 523

Index........................................................................................ 551

Publish Date 5 Feb 2010
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