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Management of the mechanically ventilated patient / Lynelle N. B. Pierce.
Holman Biotech Commons RC735.R48 .P54 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierce, Lynelle N. B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Respiratory intensive care.
- Respiratory therapy.
- Artificial respiration.
- Respirators (Medical equipment).
- Intensive care nursing.
- Respiratory Therapy.
- Respiration, Artificial--nursing.
- Ventilators, Mechanical--statistics & numerical data.
- Medical Subjects:
- Respiratory Therapy.
- Respiration, Artificial--nursing.
- Ventilators, Mechanical--statistics & numerical data.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 514 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders Elsevier, [2007]
- Summary:
- The second edition of Management of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient functions as both an educational manual and a clinical reference for those involved in monitoring, managing, and delivering care to patients requiring respiratory intervention or mechanical ventilatory support. The range of coverage and practical approach in this easy to understand guide provides the nurse and other health care professional the clinical practice information needed to deliver safe and effective respiratory care.
- Contents:
- Pulmonary anatomy
- Practical physiology of the pulmonary system
- Airway maintenance
- Administration of oxygen, humidification, and aerosol therapy
- Lung expansion, positioning, and secretion clearance
- Mechanical ventilation: indications, ventilator performance of the respiratory cycle, and initiation
- Modes of mechanical ventilation
- Ventilator graphics and waveform analysis / Sean P. Shortall and Linda A. Perkins
- Complications of mechanical ventilation and troubleshooting the patient-ventilator system
- Noninvasive respiratory monitoring and invasive monitoring of direct and derived tissue oxygenation variables
- Weaning from mechanical ventilation / Suzanne M. Burns
- Specialized techniques in mechanical ventilation / Sherry M. Nelles and Michael A. Gentile.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Guide to mechanical ventilation and intensive respiratory care / Lynelle N. B. Pierce. c1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0721603971
- OCLC:
- 70885530
- Publisher Number:
- 9780721603971
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