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Respiratory Support in Intensive Care / Edition 2

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ISBN-10:: 0727913794
ISBN-13:: 9780727913791
Pub. Date:: 07/09/1999
Publisher:: Wiley

ISBN-10:: 0727913794
ISBN-13:: 9780727913791
Pub. Date:: 07/09/1999
Publisher:: Wiley

Respiratory Support in Intensive Care / Edition 2

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This is a completely revised and updated edition of a highly acclaimed book. It describes the principles underlying the methods used to provide respiratory support and their clinical applications. It chronicles the evolution of, and describes the many types of ventilators available and sets the scene for future developments.

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ISBN-13:	9780727913791
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/09/1999
Series:	Principles and Practice Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Duncan Young is the author of Respiratory Support in Intensive Care, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

Preface to first edition.

Preface to second edition.

Conversion factors, respiratory, and abbreviations used in text.

1.Development of techniques of respiratory support.

2.Physiological background to mechanical ventilation.

3.Mechanical basis of respiratory support.

4.Methods of providing respiratory support.

5.Barotrauma: techniques for reducing peak airway pressure.

6.Modern ventilator technology.

7.Respiratory failure: conservative treatment and indications for providing respiratory support.

8.Selection and care of artificial airways.

9.Care of the patient during respiratory support.

10.Modern ventilator technology.

Appendix 1: Suppliers of respiratory support equipment.

Index

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: David James Dries, MSE, MD (Regions Hospital)
Description: This is the second edition of a book describing respiratory support for patients in the intensive care unit.
Purpose: Provided is an education monograph describing the physiology of mechanical ventilation. The authors successfully maintain the perspective of physiologic application for mechanical respiratory support to patient care.
Audience: The junior practitioner providing multi-disciplinary critical care is the optimal audience for this work. Two senior anesthesiologists in the U.K. are authors.
Features: The authors describe, with effective detail, the physiologic rationale for positive pressure ventilation and the utilization of recently introduced techniques including permissive hypercapnia, prone ventilation, inverse ratio ventilation, airway pressure release, and others. Chapters are written in a straightforward style and include black-and-white line drawings, which reproduce well. A reference list including core publications is provided. References date to within one to three years of publication. The table of contents includes only chapter titles while the index provides adequate access to the content.
Assessment: As mentioned in the preface, this book has been updated since the first edition, now including some of the important recent work on ventilator induced lung injury and new modes of mechanical ventilation. Perhaps the most obvious omission is the recent data concerning separation of the patient from the ventilator. Significant contributions in this area have not been discussed. Detail on inflammatory and infectious complications of mechanical ventilation are also not reviewed. Still, this monograph can be strongly recommended for a consistent physiologic approach to ventilators and their use, which has been appropriately updated, from the first edition.

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2 Stars from Doody

This is the first edition of a softbound textbook of respiratory support with emphasis on techniques of mechanical ventilation. The principles behind techniques of mechanical respiratory support are reviewed in this work to facilitate understanding of continuing developments in this complex field. Although the basis of ventilator design and control are delineated, approaches to application receive incomplete coverage. This is an introductory text for students, trainees, and practitioners in surgery and anesthesiology. The author is a senior anesthesiologist at the University of Oxford with extensive experience in development of ventilator support strategies. Ten chapters comprise this work, which is introduced by a summary of conversion factors and abbreviations. The author emphasizes a historical flavor in developing a theoretical basis for respiratory support and the response to application of mechanical ventilation. Later chapters describe ventilator management to minimize lung injury and technical review considering features of ventilators now available. The book concludes with a review of fundamental management of the patient during various types of ventilatory support. Both invasive and noninvasive techniques for respiratory support are discussed, though the latter receives less emphasis. Illustrations include only black-and-white line drawings. These are of good quality, though in some cases the legends are unclear. The table of contents and index are brief but adequate to allow access to the content of this work. This book is attractive for the consistent presentation style and theoretical coherence provided by one senior author. However, discussion of issues such as therelative contribution of pressure and lung volume to injury with mechanical ventilatory support is sometimes confusing and excludes recent work in this area. Heart lung interaction and diaphragm mechanics might also be more thoroughly discussed and essential work cited. Best for the reader are overviews on mechanical ventilator design and the physiologic response to this organ support. Additional reading will necessary for management of difficult cases and the use of nonmechanical means to promote respiration.

David J. Dries

Respiratory Support in Intensive Care / Edition 2

Respiratory Support in Intensive Care / Edition 2

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