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Workbook for Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation

Physiological and Clinical Applications

  • 8th Edition - March 30, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: J. M. Cairo, Sandra T. Hinski
  • Language: English

Reinforce your understanding of Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation, 8th Edition with this practical workbook! With chapters corresponding to the textbook by J. M. Cairo, this stud… Read more

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Description

Reinforce your understanding of Pilbeam's Mechanical Ventilation, 8th Edition with this practical workbook! With chapters corresponding to the textbook by J. M. Cairo, this study tool provides activities and exercises to help you prepare for success on the NBRC examination. It offers a complete review of mechanical ventilation principles, and real-world scenarios help you develop critical thinking skills and apply concepts to the clinical setting. Easy to use, this review helps you focus on the textbook’s most important information.

Key features

  • Variety of learning activities helps you review content at the recall, application, and analysis levels, and includes crossword puzzles with key terms, critical thinking activities, NBRC-style multiple-choice questions, case study exercises, waveform analyses, and ventilation data analyses, as well as fill-in-the-blank, labeling, and short-answer questions
  • Correlation with Pilbeam’s Mechanical Ventilation, 8th Edition features exercises directly tied to the learning objectives in each chapter of the textbook
  • Critical Thinking questions ask you to apply the content learned, featuring real-life scenarios and reinforcing the very difficult concept of mechanical ventilation with safe, simulated clinical practice
  • Workbook answers are provided on the textbook’s Evolve website

Readership

Respiratory therapy students in two and four year programs

Table of contents

1. Basic Terms and Concepts of Mechanical Ventilation

2. How Ventilators Work

3. How a Breath Is Delivered

4. Establishing the Need for Mechanical Ventilation

5. Selecting the Ventilator and the Mode

6. Initial Ventilator Settings

7. Final Considerations in Ventilator Setup

8. Initial Patient Assessment

9. Ventilator Graphics

10. Assessment of Respiratory Function

11. Hemodynamic Monitoring

12. Methods to Improve Ventilation in Patient-Ventilator Management

13. Improving Oxygenation and Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

14. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

15. Sedatives, Analgesics and Paralytics

16. Extrapulmonary Effects of Mechanical Ventilation

17. Effects of Positive Pressure Ventilation on the Pulmonary System

18. Troubleshooting and Problem Solving

19. Basic Concepts of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

20. Weaning and Discontinuation From Mechanical Ventilation

21. Long-Term Ventilation

22. Neonatal and Pediatric Mechanical Ventilation

23. Special Techniques in Ventilatory Support

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 30, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

JC

J. M. Cairo

Jim Cairo is the Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions, and Professor of Cardiopulmonary Science, Physiology and Anesthesiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been teaching for over 30 years and is also the author of Elsevier’s Pilbeam’s Mechanical Ventilation.
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

SH

Sandra T. Hinski

Affiliations and expertise
Faculty Respiratory Care Division, Gateway Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA