Research Catalog

Title

Basics of respiratory mechanics and artificial ventilation / J. Milic-Emili [and others], (eds.).

Publication

Milano ; New York : Springer, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

Milic-Emili, J.

Description

xi, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Topics in anaesthesia and critical care

Uniform Title

Topics in anaesthesia and critical care.

Subject

• Respiration, Artificial
• Respiratory Insufficiency > physiopathology
• Respiratory Mechanics
• Respiratory Physiological Phenomena

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Basics of respiratory mechanics -- Principles of measurement of repiratory mechanics -- Statics of the respiratory system -- Respiratory mechanics during general anaesthesia in healthy subjects -- Resistance measurements. Forced oscillations and plethysmography -- Oscillatory mechanics: principles and clinical applications -- Resistance measurement in ventilator-dependent patients -- Mechanical models of the respiratory system: linear models -- Mechanical models of the respiratory system: non-linear and inhomogeneous models -- Mechanical implications of viscoelasticity -- Alveolar micromechanics -- Partitioning of lung responses into airway and tissue components -- Work of the respiratory system -- How the diaphragm works in normal subjects -- How the diaphragm works in respiratory medicine -- Evaluation of the inspiratory muscle mechanical activity during pressure support ventilation -- Work of breathing -- Artificial ventilation- principles, techniques, clinical applications -- Respiratory mechanics in ARDS -- Altered elastic properties of the respiratory system -- Intrinsic PEEP -- Gas-exchange in mechanically ventilated patients -- Effects of anaesthesia on respiratory mechanics -- Respiratory mechanics during the long-term artificial ventilation -- Closed-loop control mechanical ventilation.

ISBN

8847000467

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries