Respiratory Management in Critical Care

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Internationally respected authors contribute practical clinical chapters on the management of respiratory conditions on the Intensive Care unit. A series of clinical cases illustrate the real life situation.

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Full title :Respiratory Management in Critical Care.

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Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Blackwell Pub
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (145 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780585494968, 0585494967, 1280285370, 9781280285370
oclc:ocn437065730
LC Classification:RC735.R48R47 2004eb
Dewey Decimal:616.200428

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Pulmonary investigations for acute respiratory failure; 2 Oxygen delivery and consumption in the critically ill; 3 Critical care management of community acquired pneumonia; 4 Nosocomial pneumonia; 5 Acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome: definitions and epidemiology; 6 The pathogenesis of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome; 7 Critical care management of severe acute respiratory syndrome; 8 Ventilator induced lung injury; 9 Ventilatory management of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome.

10 Non-ventilatory strategies in acute respiratory distress syndrome11 Difficult weaning; 12 Critical care management of respiratory failure resulting from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 13 Acute severe asthma; 14 The pulmonary circulation and right ventricular failure; 15 Thoracic trauma, inhalation injury and post-pulmonary resection lung injury in intensive care; 16 Illustrative case 1: cystic fibrosis; 17 Illu.