Description
Mechanical ventilation is an essential life-sustaining therapy for many critically-ill patients. As technology has evolved, clinicians have been presented with an increasing number of ventilator options as well as an ever-expanding and confusing list of terms, abbreviations, and acronyms. Unfortunately, this has made it extremely difficult for clinicians at all levels of training to truly understand mechanical ventilation and to optimally manage patients with respiratory failure.Mechanical Ventilation was written to address these problems. This handbook provides students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians with a clear explanation of essential physiology, terms and acronyms, and ventilator modes and breath types. It describes how mechanical ventilators work and explains clearly and concisely how to write ventilator orders, how to manage patients with many different causes of respiratory failure, how to "wean" patients from the ventilator, and much more. Mechanical Ventilation is meant to be carried and used at the bedside and to allow everyone who cares for critically-ill patients to master this essential therapy.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Essential PhysiologyChapter 1: Respiratory mechanicsChapter 2: Gas exchangeChapter 3: Cardiovascular-pulmonary interactionsSection 2: The Mechanical VentilatorChapter 4: Instrumentation and terminologyChapter 5: Ventilator modes and breath typesChapter 6: Ventilator alarms - causes and evaluationSection 3: Patient ManagementChapter 7: Respiratory failure and the indications for mechanical ventilationChapter 8: How to write ventilator ordersChapter 9: Physiologic assessment of the mechanically-ventilated patientChapter 10: Dynamic hyperinflation and intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressureChapter 11: Patient-ventilator interactions and asynchronyChapter 12: Acute respiratory distress syndromeChapter 13: Severe obstructive lung diseaseChapter 14: Right ventricular failureChapter 15: Discontinuing mechanical ventilationChapter 16: Non-invasive mechanical ventilation
