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Non-invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice
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Non-invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice
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Non-Invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice provides up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive information from a prestigious range of worldwide key opinion leaders on different applications for non-invasive ventilation, and closely related techniques, both in hospital and at home. Chapters cover the use of non-invasive ventilat
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I. EQUIPMENT AND PRACTICE
- Chapter 1. Non-invasive ventilation: from the past to the present
- Chapter 2. Positive pressure ventilators
- SECTION A. The equipment
- Chapter 3. Negative pressure ventilation
- Chapter 4. Continuous positive airway pressure
- Chapter 5. Emerging modes for non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 6. Interfaces
- Chapter 7. Quality control of non-invasive ventilation: performance, service, maintenance and infection control of ventilators
- Chapter 8. Humidifiers and drug delivery during non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 9. How to start a patient on non-invasive ventilation
- SECTION B. The practice: acute non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 10. How to set up an acute non-invasive ventilation service
- Chapter 11. Monitoring during acute non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 12. Troubleshooting non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 13. Timing of non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 14. Why non-invasive ventilation works in acute respiratory failure
- SECTION C. The practice: chronic non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 15. The chronic ventilator service
- CHapter 16. Diagnostic tests in the assessment of patients for home mechanical ventilation
- Chapter 17. Patient and caregiver education
- Chapter 18. Discharging the patient on home ventilation
- Chapter 19. Telemedicine
- PART II. THE DISEASES
- SECTION D. COPD
- Chapter 20. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Chapter 21. Treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: acute and chronic
- Chapter 22. Non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Chapter 23. Non-invasive ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- SECTION E. Hypoxaemic respiratory failure
- Chapter 24. Pathophysiology of hypoxaemic respiratory failure
- Chapter 25. Home oxygen therapy in chronic respiratory failure
- Chapter 26. Acute oxygen therapy
- Chapter 27. Equipment for oxygen therapy
- Chapter 28. Non-invasive ventilation for hypoxaemic respiratory failure
- SECTION F. Cardiac failure
- Chapter 29. Pathophysiology and modern management of cardiac failure
- Chapter 30. Acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema
- Chapter 31. Assisted ventilation in chronic congestive cardiac failure
- SECTION G. Neuromuscular disease
- Chapter 32. Muscle disorders and ventilatory failure
- Chapter 33. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure in neuromuscular diseases
- Chapter 34. Slowly progressive neuromuscular diseases
- Chapter 35. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Chapter 36. Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Chapter 37. Central sleep apnoea
- SECTION H. Chest wall deformity
- Chapter 38. Scoliosis
- SECTION I. Obesity
- Chapter 39. The endocrinologist and respiratory failure
- Chapter 40. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure in obesity
- Chapter 41. Non-invasive ventilation in acute and chronic respiratory failure due to obesity
- SECTION J. Other conditions
- Chapter 42. Bronchiectasis and adult cystic fibrosis
- Chapter 43. Non-invasive ventilation in highly infectious conditions: lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Chapter 44. Cancer patients
- Chapter 45. Non-invasive ventilation in the elderly
- Chapter 46. Post-surgery non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 47. Trauma
- Chapter 48. Role of non-invasive respiratory support after spinal cord damage
- SECTION K. Paediatric ventilatory failure
- Chapter 49. Equipment and interfaces in children
- Chapter 50. Chronic non-invasive ventilation for children
- Chapter 51. Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in children with acute respiratory failure
- SECTION L. Special situations
- Chapter 52. Bronchoscopy during non-invasive ventilation
- Chapter 53. Non-invasive ventilation in pregnancy
- Chapter 54. Tracheostomy
- Chapter 55. Non-invasive ventilation in end-of-life care
- SECTION M. Prolonged weaning
- Chapter 56. Epidemiology and cost of weaning failure
- Chapter 57. Pathophysiology of weaning failure
- Chapter 58. Non-invasive ventilation for weaning and extubation failure
- Chapter 59. Weaning strategies and protocols
- Chapter 60. Specialized weaning units
- SECTION N. The physiotherapist and assisted ventilation
- Chapter 61. Respiratory physiotherapy (including cough assistance techniques and glossopharyngeal breathing)
- Chapter 62. Rehabilitation
- SECTION O. Outcome measures
- Chapter 63. Health status and quality of life
- SECTION P. The patient experience of non-invasive ventilation
- CHapter 64. Psychological issues for the mechanically ventilated patient
- Reflection on our times with a resident‘Nippy’ ventilator
- Index
- PART III. APPENDICES
- Appendix A: Invasive respiratory muscle studies
- Appendix B: Weaning strategies and protocols
- Appendix C: Exploring the option of a trach
- Appendix D: Ventilator guidelines for emotional health
- Appendix E: Michael and Alyson Lindley’sphoto album
- Back Cover