Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment

Master the equipment, devices, and techniques used in respiratory therapy! Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment, Twelfth Edition provides a comprehensive guide to treating patients with cardiopulmonary dysfunction. Using a how-to approach, this text helps you learn to identify and select equipment, understand its operation, and apply your knowledge to clinical practice. It also discusses assessment, testing, protocols, and troubleshooting of the devices used in airway management. Written by noted educator J. M. Cairo and a team of expert contributors, this leading text provides the skills that will help you breathe easier as you prepare for NBRC examinations. Unique! Clinical Approach provides students with a "how to" approach in identifying equipment, understanding how it works, and applying the information in clinical practice Unique! Organization of ventilators by application area and manufacturer provides a more concise method to learn, review, and/or locate this information in the text Chapter Review Questions at the end of every chapter reinforce comprehension. Questions reflect the types of questions covered on the NBRC exams. All questions are either NBRC-style multiple-choice or critical-thinking questions Unique! Infection Control chapter reviews the aspects of microbiology and infection control and includes a discussion on the role of infection control issues in mass casualty situations. This content provides a review of this critical topic that RTs must understand to prevent health care-associated infections Pedagogy includes chapter outlines, learning objectives, key terms, chapter introductions, and bulleted key point summaries in each chapter to reinforce material and help students identify relevant content Excerpts of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), statements of care developed by the AARC, give students important information regarding indications/contraindications, hazards and complications, assessment of need, assessment of outcome, and monitoring Unique! Clinical Scenario boxes contain problems that may be encountered during actual use of equipment and raise clinically relevant questions for the student to answer. The current scenarios will be updated with suggested answers on Evolve Unique! Historical Notes boxes provide educational and/or clinically relevant and valuable historical information of respiratory care equipment without the student having to read through large sections of material Glossary of key terms is listed in the back of the book and provides a quick reference of new terms presented in the text Updated content on Covid-19 and enhanced infection control Updated equipment images and advanced respiratory technology