A Guide to Mechanical Ventilation in Emergency Room (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

SECTION 1: BASICS OF RESPIRATION 1 The Act of Breathing 2 Pulmonary Gas Exchange 3 Respiratory Physiology SECTION 2: MECHANICAL VENTILATION 4 Mechanical Ventilators 5 Initiation of Mechanical Ventilation 6 Drugs used in Mechanical Ventilation 7 Ventilatory Modes 8 Noninvasive Ventilation 9 Inspiratory Pressures 10 Pressure-controlled Ventilation 11 Positive End Expiratory Pressure 12 General Settings in a Ventilator 13 Monitoring of Ventilated Patients 14 Ventilatory Complications in Emergency Room 15 Ventilator-induced Lung Injury and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia 16 Weaning Parameters 17 Ventilatory Strategies 18 Ventilatory Graphics