A Practical Guide to Mechanical Ventilation

Jonathon D. Truwit, MD, E. Cato Drash Professor of Internal Medicine, Division Head, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Scott K. Epstein, MD, Department of Medicine, Caritas - St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA.

Part I - Non-invasive Ventilation. 1. NIV introduction.

2. NIV Physiology.

3. NIV Acute Respiratory Dailure COPD.

4. NIV Acute Respiratory Failure CHF.

5. NIV Acute Respiratory Failure other than COPD or CHF.

6. NIV for Chronic Respiratory Failure - COPD.

7. NIV Chronic Repiratory Failure other than COPD.

8. NIVWeaning.

Part II - Invasive Mechanical Ventilation.

1. Respiratory Failure.

2. Airway Management Chapters.

a. Bag-valve-mask ventilation.

b. Endotracheal intubation.

c. Cuff leaks.

d. The Difficult Airway.

e. Emergent Cricothyroidotomy.

3. Ventilator Mechanics.

4.Ventilator Modes.

5. Assessing Lung Physiology.

6.Mechanical Ventilation in Restrictive Lung Disease.

7. Mechanical Ventilation in Obstructive Lung Disease.

8.Ancillary Methods to Mechanical Ventilation.

9.Patient Outcomes post Mechanical Ventilation.

Part III - Discontinuation from Mechanical Ventilation.

1. Definitions.

2. Readiness testing and predictors.

3. Physiologic barriers.

4. Ventilatory modes used during weaning.

5. Extubation.

6. Adjuncts to facilitate weaning.

7. Tracheostomy.

8. Putting it all together: protocols and algorithms.