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Essentials of mechanical ventilation / Dean R. Hess, Robert M. Kacmarek ; foreword by Martin J. Tobin.

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Essentials of mechanical ventilation / Dean R. Hess, Robert M. Kacmarek ; foreword by Martin J. Tobin.
Author
Hess, Dean.
Publication
New York : McGraw-Hill, Health Professions Division, [1996], ©1996.

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Kacmarek, Robert M.
Description
xvii, 269 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Artificial respiration
  • Respiration, Artificial
  • Ventilators, Mechanical
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Martin J. Tobin -- Ch. 1. Physiologic Effects of Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 2. Overview of the Mechanical Ventilator System and Classification -- Ch. 3. Modes of Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 4. Flows, Waveforms, and I:E Ratio -- Ch. 5. The Patient-Ventilator Interface -- Ch. 6. Pressure and Volume Ventilation -- Ch. 7. Fractional Inspired Oxygen, Positive End-Expiratory Pressure, and Mean Airway Pressure: Management of Oxygenation -- Ch. 8. Determining Appropriate Physiologic Goals -- Ch. 9. Indications and Initial Settings for Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 10. Weaving from Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 11. Adult Respiratory Distress Sydrome -- Ch. 12. Chronic Pulmonary Disease -- Ch. 13. Chest Trauma -- Ch. 14. Head Injury -- Ch. 15. Postoperative Patients -- Ch. 16. Neuromuscular Disease and Chest Wall Deformities -- Ch. 17. Cardiovascular Failure -- Ch. 18. Asthma -- Ch. 19. Burns and Smoke Inhalation -- Ch. 20. Bronchopleural Fistula --
  • Ch. 21. Drug Overdose -- Ch. 22. Arterial and Venous Blood Gases -- Ch. 23. Indices of Oxygenation and Ventilation -- Ch. 24. Pulse Oximetry, Capnography, and Transcutaneous Monitoring -- Ch. 25. Hemodynamic Monitoring -- Ch. 26. Basic Pulmonary Mechanics during Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 27. Advanced Pulmonary Mechanics during Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 28. Nutritional Assessment -- Ch. 29. Airway Management -- Ch. 30. Secretion Clearance, Positioning, and Inhaled Aerosol Medication -- Ch. 31. Pharmacologic Therapy: Sedatives, Analgesics, and Paralytic Agents -- Ch. 32. Chest Tubes: Placement, Underwater Seal Systems, and Monitoring Function -- Ch. 33. Emergency and Transport Ventilation -- Ch. 34. Nonivasive Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 35. Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation -- Ch. 36. Miscellaneous Techniques.
ISBN
0070284369 (alk. paper)
LCCN
95052216
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries