Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation

Properties of the Respiratory System.- Control of Breathing.- Elastic and Resistive Properties of the Respiratory System.- Flow Limitation and its Determination.- Intrinsic PEEP and its Determination.- Interactions Between Pulmonary Circulation and Ventilation.- Interactions Between the Pulmonary Circulation and Ventilation: An Overview for Intensivists.- Monitoring of the Respiratory Mechanics.- Monitoring of Respiratory Mechanics in the Intensive Care Unit: Models, Techniques and Measurement Methods.- Acute Lung Injury-ARDS, Controlled Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS and the Open Lung Concept.- Pathophysiology of ARDS.- Ventilator-Associated Lung Injury.- Controlled Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS.- The Open Lung Concept in Cardiac Surgery Patients.- Nosocomial Pneumonia.- Diagnosis and Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia.- Prone Ventilation.- Prone Ventilation To Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.- Prone Positioning of Patients with ARDS.- Prone Ventilation in Trauma Patients.- Old and New Artificial Ventilation Techniques.- Advanced Modalities in Negative-Pressure Ventilation.- High-Frequency Percussive Ventilation.- Non-invasive Ventilation.- Non-invasive Ventilation in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure and COPD or ARDS.- Non-invasive Respiratory Assistance in Paediatric Patients.

From the reviews:"This book reviews respiratory performance, selected mechanical ventilation modes, and treatment strategies. … Fellows, other senior trainees, and practitioners managing critically ill patients with respiratory concerns are an appropriate audience for this work which comes from a multidisciplinary group of authors in Western Europe and a small number of presenters from the United States. … Contemporary thinking is well represented in this collection of reviews on pulmonary physiology and selected clinical topics." (David J. Dries, MD, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2008)