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)