Assisted Ventilation at Home

Provides a short practical guide to assisted ventilation at home, aimed at physicians and anaesthetists who want to commence a patient on assisted ventilation at home, or who need advice when they admit patients at emergency centres who were started on this mode of therapy elsewhere.

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Increasingly patients with a wide variety of respiratory diseases are using assisted ventilation at night in their homes. This is the first practical guide to the subject written specifically for physicians who wish to start a patient on assisted ventilation at home. The concise, practical text reviews forms of assisted ventilation commonly used, covering all aspects from the selection of suitable patients and choosing the appropriate technique to initiating assisted ventilation and organizing transfer into the community. Patients themselves will find this book enormously helpful, and a `patient's view' of the technique is presented. There is no other practical, accessible, and affordable account of assisted ventilation at home currently available. It will be an indispensable guide for everyone involved in the implementation of this increasingly important technique. This book is intended for respiratory physicians, chest physicians, anaesthetists. patients, manufacturers of ventilators, physiotherapists, nurses, and other involved in non-invasive ventilation.