Research Catalog

Title

New therapies for neonatal respiratory failure : a physiological approach / edited by Bruce R. Boynton, Waldemar A. Carlo, Alan H. Jobe ; foreword by John B. West.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boynton, Bruce R., 1948-
• Carlo, Waldemar A.
• Jobe, Alan H.

Description

xvii, 357 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Nitric Oxide > pharmacology
• Pulmonary Surfactants > physiology
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult > therapy
• Ventilators, Mechanical
• Respiratory therapy for newborn infants
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation > methods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Composition and structure of pulmonary surfactant / Jeffrey A. Whitsett -- 2. Surfactant function and metabolism / Alan H. Jobe -- 3. Surfactant inactivation / Machiko Ikegami -- 4. Surfactant in the prevention and treatment of respiratory distress syndrome / Roger F. Soll, T. Allen Merritt and Mikko Hallman -- 5. Lung surfactant replacement for neonatal abnormalities other than primary respiratory distress syndrome / Jonathan M. Davis and Robert H. Notter -- 6. The mechanics of breathing: developmental aspects and practical applications / Gregory P. Heldt -- 7. Pulmonary gas exchange: basic principles and the effects of mechanical ventilation / Bruce R. Boynton and Michael D. Hammond -- 8. Advances in conventional mechanical ventilation / Waldemar A. Carlo, Anne Greenough and Robert L. Chatburn -- 9. Patient-initiated mechanical ventilation / Gregory P. Heldt and Graham Bernstein -- 10. Physiological monitoring / M. Douglas Cunningham --
• 11. Oscillatory mechanics: the pressure cost of high-frequency ventilation / Jose G. Venegas and Jeffrey J. Fredberg -- 12. Pulmonary gas exchange during high-frequency ventilation / Bruce R. Boynton and Waldemar A. Carlo -- 13. High-frequency oscillatory ventilation and high-frequency flow interruption / Patricio Fernandez-Martorell and Bruce R. Boynton -- 14. High-frequency jet ventilation / Carl H. Coghill, Waldemar A. Carlo and Richard J. Martin -- 15. Negative-pressure ventilation / Eduardo Bancalari -- 16. Techniques of oxygenation and ventilation with continuous gas flow / Jesus Villar and Arthur S. Slutsky -- 17. Liquid ventilation / Thomas H. Shaffer, Jay S. Greenspan and Marla R. Wolfson -- 18. Extracorporeal respiratory assist for acute respiratory failure / Kyoji Tsuno and Theodor Kolobow -- 19. Clinical use of ECMO / Billie Lou Short -- 20. Physiology of nitric oxide in the perinatal lung / Jesse D. Roberts and Steven H. Abman.

ISBN

0521431611 (hc)

LCCN

93035750

OCLC

• 28892146
• ocm28892146
• SCSB-4777980

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries