Management of the mechanically ventilated patient
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St. Louis, Mo. :
Saunders Elsevier ,
c2007
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Pulmonary anatomy
- 2. Practical physiology of the pulmonary system
- 3. Airway maintenance
- 4. Administration of oxygen, humidification, and aerosol therapy
- 5. Lung expansion, and secretion clearance
- 6. Mechanical ventilator performance of the respiratory cycle, and initiation
- 7. Modes of mechanical ventilation
- 8. Ventlator ghrapics and waveform analysis
- 9. Complications of mechanical ventilation and troubleshooting the patient-ventilator system
- 10. Noninvasive respiratory monitoring and invasive monitoring of direct and derived tissue oxygenation variables
- 11. Weaning from mechanical ventilation
- 12. Specialized techniques in mechanical ventilation