Overview
Mechanical ventilation is an essential life-sustaining therapy for many critically-ill patients. As technology has evolved, clinicians have been presented with an increasing number of ventilator options as well as an ever-expanding and confusing list of terms, abbreviations, and acronyms. Unfortunately, this has made it extremely difficult for clinicians at all levels of training to truly understand mechanical ventilation and to optimally manage patients with respiratory failure. Mechanical Ventilation was written to address these problems. This handbook provides students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians with a clear explanation of essential physiology, terms and acronyms, and ventilator modes and breath types. It describes how mechanical ventilators work and explains clearly and concisely how to write ventilator orders, how to manage patients with many different causes of respiratory failure, how to wean patients from the ventilator, and much more. Mechanical Ventilation is meant to be carried and used at the bedside and to allow everyone who cares for critically-ill patients to master this essential therapy.
Full Product Details
Author: John W. Kreit (Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh) ,
John A. Kellum (Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.80cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 20.20cm
Weight: 0.276kg
ISBN: 9780190670085
ISBN 10: 0190670088
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 19 January 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This is a sophisticated introduction to the major therapy in contemporary critical care medicine. Despite its small size, it includes significant detail. -- DOODY'S This is a sophisticated introduction to the major therapy in contemporary critical care medicine. Despite its small size, it includes significant detail. -- DOODY'S
Featured on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018
Author Information
Dr. John W. Kreit is professor of medicine and anesthesiology in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His career has been devoted to the education of students, residents, and fellows. He is the former director of the fellowship training program in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and was the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Educator Award from the American Thoracic Society.
