Acute Respiratory Failure

Herbert B. Hechtman, M.D., is Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of Surgical Intensive Care at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

1. Historical Background 2. Nonrespiratory, Metabolic Functions of Pulmonary Endothelial Cells 3. Applied Pulmonary Physiology 4. Techniques of Measuring Pulmonary Function in the Critically Ill 6. Clinical Course 7. Evaluation and General Treatment Procedures in Critical Illness 8. Therapy of Acute Respiratory Failure