A practical application-based guide to adult mechanical ventilation

This trusted guide is written from the perspective of authors who have more than seventy-five years' experience as clinicians, educators, researchers, and authors. Featuring chapters that are concise, focused, and practical, this book is unique. Unlike other references on the topic, this resource is about mechanical ventilation rather than mechanical ventilators. It is written to provide a solid understanding of the general principles and essential foundational knowledge of mechanical ventilation as required by respiratory therapists and critical care physicians. To make it clinically relevant, Essentials of Mechanical Ventilation includes disease-specific chapters related to mechanical ventilation in these conditions.

Essentials of Mechanical Ventilation is divided into four parts:

Part One, Principles of Mechanical Ventilation describes basic principles of mechanical ventilation and then continues with issues such as indications for mechanical ventilation, appropriate physiologic goals, and ventilator liberation.

Part Two, Ventilator Management, gives practical advice for ventilating patients with a variety of diseases.

Part Three, Monitoring During Mechanical Ventilation, discusses blood gases, hemodynamics, mechanics, and waveforms.

Part Four, Topics in Mechanical Ventilation, covers issues such as airway management, aerosol delivery, and extracorporeal life support.

Essentials of Mechanical Ventilation is a true “must read” for all clinicians caring for mechanically ventilated patients.

Part I: Principles of Mechanical Ventilation;Chapter 1: Physiologic Effects of MechanicalVentilation;Chapter 2: Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury;Chapter 3: Overview of the Mechanical VentilatorSystem and Classification;Chapter 4: Traditional Modes of MechanicalVentilation;;Chapter 5: New Modes of Mechanical Ventilation;Chapter 6: Flows, Waveforms, and I:E Ratios;Chapter 7: Humidification and the Ventilator Circuit;Chapter 8: Pressure and Volume Ventilation;Chapter 9: FIo2, PEEP, and Mean Airway Pressure:Management of Oxygenation;Chapter 10: Determining Appropriate PhysiologicGoals;Chapter 11: Indications and Initial Settings forMechanical Ventilation;Chapter 12: Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation;Part II: Ventilator Management;Chapter 13: Acute Lung Injury and Acute RespiratoryDistress Syndrome;Chapter 14: Chronic Pulmonary Disease;Chapter 15: Chest Trauma;Chapter 16: Head Injury;Chapter 17: Postoperative Patients;Chapter 18: Neuromuscular Disease and Chest WallDeformities;Chapter 19: Cardiac Failure;Chapter 20: Ashma;Chapter 21: Burns and Inhalation Injury;Chapter 22: Bronchopleural Fistula;Chapter 23: Drug Overdose;Part III: Monitoring During Mechanical Ventilation;Chapter 24: Arterial and Venous Blood Gases;Chapter 25: Indices of Oxygenation and Ventilation;Chapter 26: Pulse Oximetry, Capnography, andTranscutaneous Monitoring;Chapter 27: Hemodynamic Monitoring;Chapter 28: Basic Pulmonary Mechanics duringMechanical Ventilation;Chapter 29: Advanced Pulmonary Mechanics duringMechanical Ventilation;Chapter 30: Nutritional Assessment;Part IV: Topics in Mechanical Ventilation;Chapter 31: Airway Management;Chapter 32: Secretion Clearance, Positioning, andInhaled Aerosol Medication;Chapter 33: Chest Tubes;Chapter 34: Emergency and Transport Ventilation;Chapter 35: Noninvasive Positive PressureVentilation for Acute Respiratory Therapy;Chapter 36: Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation;Chapter 37: Pharmacologic Therapy: Sedatives,Analgesics, and Paralytic Agents;Chapter 38: High Frequency Ventilation, PartialLiquid Ventilation, and Tracheal Gas Insufflation