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Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation

Physiological and Clinical Applications

  • 6th Edition - May 4, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Jimmy M. Cairo
  • Language: English

Learn everything you need to safely and compassionately care for patients requiring ventilator support with Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation: Physiological and Clinical Appli… Read more

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Learn everything you need to safely and compassionately care for patients requiring ventilator support with Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation: Physiological and Clinical Applications, 6th Edition. Known for its simple explanations and in-depth coverage of patient-ventilator management, this evidence-based text walks readers through the most fundamental and advanced concepts surrounding mechanical ventilation and guides them in properly applying these principles to patient care. This new edition features a completely revised chapter on ventilator graphics, additional case studies and clinical scenarios, plus all the reader-friendly features that promote critical thinking and clinical application — like key points, AARC clinical practice guidelines, and critical care concepts — that have helped make this text a household name among respiratory care professionals.

Key features

  • UNIQUE! Chapter on ventilator associated pneumonia
    • provides in-depth, comprehensive coverage of this challenging issue.
  • Brief patient case studies list important assessment data and pose a critical thinking question to readers.
  • Critical Care Concepts are presented in short questions to engage readers in applying knowledge to difficult concepts.
  • Clinical scenarios cover patient presentation, assessment data, and treatment options to acquaint readers with different clinical situations.
  • NBRC exam-style assessment questions at the end of each chapter offer practice for the certification exam.
  • Key Point boxes highlight need-to-know information.
  • Logical chapter sequence builds on previously learned concepts and information.
  • Bulleted end-of-chapter summaries help readers to review and assess their comprehension.
  • Excerpts of Clinical Practice Guidelines developed by the AARC (American Association for Respiratory Care) make it easy to access important information regarding indications/contraindications, hazards and complications, assessment of need, assessment of outcome, and monitoring.
  • Chapter outlines show the big picture of each chapter's content.
  • Glossary of mechanical ventilation terminology includes definitions to highlighted key terms in each chapter.

Table of contents

Part I: Basic Concepts and Core Knowledge in Mechanical Ventilation

1. Oxygenation and Acid-Base Evaluation

2. Basic Terms and Concepts of Mechanical Ventilation

3. How Ventilators Work

4. How a Breath Is Delivered

Part II: Initiating Ventilation

5. Establishing the Need for Mechanical Ventilation

6. Selecting the Ventilator and the Mode

7. Initial Ventilator Settings

8. Final Considerations in Ventilator Setup

Part III: Monitoring in Mechanical Ventilation

9. Initial Patient Assessment

10. Ventilator Graphics

11. Noninvasive Monitoring of Mechanically-Ventilated Patients

12. Hemodynamic Monitoring

Part IV: Therapeutic Interventions – Making Appropriate Changes

13. Methods to Improve Ventilation and Other Techniques in Patient-Ventilator Management

14. Improving Oxygenation, Review of ARDS, and Lung Recruitment Maneuvers

15. Frequently Used Pharmacologic Agents in Ventilated Patients: Sedatives, Analgesics and Paralytics

Part V: Effects and Complications of Mechanical Ventilation

16. Cardiovascular and Organ System Effects and Complications of Mechanical Ventilation

17. Effects of Positive Pressure Ventilation on the Pulmonary System

18. Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting

Part VI: Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

19. Basic Concepts of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

Part VII: Discontinuation from Ventilation and Long-Term Ventilation

20. Weaning and Discontinuation

21. Long-Term Ventilation!

Part VIII: Special Applications of Mechanical Ventilation

22. Neonatal and Pediatric Ventilation

23. Special Techniques in Ventilatory Support

Appendices
Review of Abnormal Physiological Processes
Graphics Exercises
Glossary
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 13, 2015
  • Language: English

About the author

JC

Jimmy M. Cairo

Affiliations and expertise
Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions, Professor of Cardiopulmonary Science, Physiology, and Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA