A detailed yet simple guide to mechanical ventilation
Essential to students as well as clinicians working in the intensive care unitPractical 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:
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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 |