Management of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient
- 2nd Edition - July 24, 2006
- Latest edition
- Author: Lynelle N. B. Pierce
- Language: English
The second edition of Management of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient functions as both an educational manual and a clinical reference for those involved in monitoring, managing,… Read more
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Description
Description
The second edition of Management of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient functions as both an educational manual and a clinical reference for those involved in monitoring, managing, and delivering care to patients requiring respiratory intervention or mechanical ventilatory support. The range of coverage and practical approach in this easy to understand guide provides the nurse and other health care professional the clinical practice information needed to deliver safe and effective respiratory care.
Key features
Key features
- Contains cutting-edge coverage of respiratory care to keep nurses and other health care professionals up to date
- Includes valuable information on airways, oxygen delivery devices; lung expansion, bronchial hygiene and aerosol therapies
- Rich in illustrations, boxes and tables to support understanding of information
- Fundamental and advanced, but practical, information about mechanical ventilation from patient selection and application, to monitoring, troubleshooting, and weaning including basic and complex modes
- Specialized techniques such as independent lung ventilation and high frequency oscillatory ventilation
- Comprehensive appendices provide practical and current information including the latest on drugs
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Pulmonary Anatomy
2. Practical Physiology of the Pulmonary System
3. Airway Maintenance
4. Administration of Oxygen, Humidification, and Aerosol Therapy
5. Lung Expansion, Positioning, and Secretion Clearance
6. Mechanical Ventilation: Indications, Basic Principles of Ventilator Performance of the Respiratory Cycle, and Initiation
7. Modes of Mechanical Ventilation
8. Ventilator Graphics and Waveform Analysis
9. Complications of Mechanical Ventilation and Troubleshooting the Patient-Ventilator System
10. Noninvasive Respiratory Monitoring and Invasive monitoring of Direct and Derived Tissue Oxygenation Variables
11. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
12. Specialized Techniques in Mechanical Ventilation
Appendices
Appendix I Pulmonary Symbols and Abbreviations
Appendix II Drugs Used In Intensive Respiratory Care
Appendix III Chest Drainage Systems
Appendix IV Ventilator Withdrawal at End-of-Life
2. Practical Physiology of the Pulmonary System
3. Airway Maintenance
4. Administration of Oxygen, Humidification, and Aerosol Therapy
5. Lung Expansion, Positioning, and Secretion Clearance
6. Mechanical Ventilation: Indications, Basic Principles of Ventilator Performance of the Respiratory Cycle, and Initiation
7. Modes of Mechanical Ventilation
8. Ventilator Graphics and Waveform Analysis
9. Complications of Mechanical Ventilation and Troubleshooting the Patient-Ventilator System
10. Noninvasive Respiratory Monitoring and Invasive monitoring of Direct and Derived Tissue Oxygenation Variables
11. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
12. Specialized Techniques in Mechanical Ventilation
Appendices
Appendix I Pulmonary Symbols and Abbreviations
Appendix II Drugs Used In Intensive Respiratory Care
Appendix III Chest Drainage Systems
Appendix IV Ventilator Withdrawal at End-of-Life
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: July 24, 2006
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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Lynelle N. B. Pierce
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS