Full Description
This book comprehensively reviews the concept, epidemiology, management strategy, possible therapy and future considerations of children requiring continuous ventilatory support. The chapters discuss both invasive and non-invasive therapy, and the transition from hospital to home ventilation, complications, management of tracheostomy and much more. The book offers insight into ways of reducing the number of children requiring mechanical ventilation and how to manage the complicated situation when it happens. As science advances, the population growth, lower mortality, and increasing complexity of diseases have boosted up the number of patients requiring prolonged breathing assistance with mechanical ventilators. However, there is a few cases in one center with children requiring such intensive care medicine, and so there is no agreed-upon management strategy. This book brings together information and experiences from around the world aiming to improve the quality of medical care and to create a foundation for a clear and effective guide to healthcare professionals.
Prolonged and Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children is edited by pioneering scientists and chapters are contributed by international experts. It is thought-provoking for pediatricians, general practitioners, family physicians, nurses and medical staff in pediatrics, pediatric pulmonologists, intensivists and many more associated with hospital and home ventilated cases.
Contents
Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation, Need for Definition.- History and Epidemiology of PMVed children (including home ventilated children).- Overview, Management Strategy of Prolonged and Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children.- Oxygen therapy for Prolonged and Long-term Mechanical Ventilation in Children.- Non-invasive MV of PMVed children.- Invasive MV of PMVed children.- Others (sedation, hemodynamics, nutrition, infection).- WEANING STRATEGY OF MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN PROLONGED MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN CHILDREN.- Prolonged and Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children with cardiac diseases.-PROLONGED MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN CHILDREN BORN WITH PREMATURITY.- Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in children with Neuromuscular Disease.- PMV in children with known respiratory disease.- PMV in children with Hemato-Oncologic Disease.- PMV in resource-poor settings.- Evaluation of respiratory function of PMV'd children.- Management and strategy of Tracheostomy.- Transfer from hospital to HVs (including NIV and MV).- Evaluation of the Child with Home Ventilation.- Care and management of HMV patients at hospital.- Complications of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation.- Long-term Mechanical Ventilation: Respiratory Therapist's Point of View.- The Ethical Point-of-View in Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation and Home Ventilation.- Prolonged Home Mechanical Ventilation - A Nursing Perspective.- Future considerations (research, management).
