ABSTRACT
Non-Invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice provides up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive information from a prestigious range of worldwide key opinion leaders on different applications for non-invasive ventilation, and closely related techniques, both in hospital and at home. Chapters cover the use of non-invasive ventilat
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I EQUIPMENT AND PRACTICE
chapter 1|8 pages
Non-invasive ventilation: from the past to the present
Dominique Robert, Barry Make
part |2 pages
Section A
chapter 7|8 pages
Quality control of non-invasive ventilation: performance, service, maintenance and infection control of ventilators
Jordi Rigau, Ramon Farré
chapter 8|9 pages
Humidifiers and drug delivery during non-invasive ventilation
Antonio M Esquinas Rodriguez
part |2 pages
Section B
chapter 14|13 pages
Why non-invasive ventilation works in acute respiratory failure
Miguel Ferrer, Antoni Torres
part |2 pages
Section C The practice: chronic non-invasive ventilation
part |2 pages
Section D COPD
part |2 pages
Section E
chapter 28|7 pages
Non-invasive ventilation for hypoxaemic respiratory failure
Massimo Antonelli, Giuseppe Bello
part |2 pages
Section F
chapter 29|12 pages
Pathophysiology and modern management of cardiac failure
Martin R Cowie, Paul M Haydock
part |2 pages
Section G
part |2 pages
Section H
part |2 pages
Section I Obesity
part |2 pages
Section J
chapter 43|6 pages
Non-invasive ventilation in highly infectious conditions: lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome
David S C Hui
part |2 pages
Section K
part |2 pages
Section L Special situations
part |2 pages
Section M
part |2 pages
Section N
part |2 pages
Section O
part |2 pages
Section P
