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Covers all aspects of both basic and advanced respiratory management of neonates: general principles and concepts; assessment, diagnosis and monitoring methods; therapeutic respiratory interventions; adjunctive interventions; and special situations and outcomes.
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Provides updated content on rapidly changing technology and guidelines for assisted ventilation, with up-to-date descriptions of bedside methodologies and the rationale for providing all types of ventilator care in infants.
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Contains new chapters on respiratory gas conditioning, diagnosis and management of PPHN, care of the infant with CDH, gaps in knowledge, and future directions.
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Includes significant updates on cardiovascular assessment and management, as well as complications of respiratory support.
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Provides extensive, full-color visual support with photographs, drawings, charts and diagrams, and radiographic images throughout.
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Features more than 30 appendices that help you quickly find normal values, assessment charts, ICU flow charts, procedure steps and other useful, printable forms.
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Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Table of Contents
Section I History, Pulmonary Physiology and General Considerations
1 Introduction and Historical Aspects
2 Physiologic Principles
3 Control of Ventilation
4 Ethical Issues in Assisted Ventilation
5 Evidence-Based Respiratory Care
6 Quality and Safety in Respiratory Care
7 Medical-legal aspects of respiratory care
Section II Patient Evaluation and Monitoring
8 Physical examination
9 Imaging: Radiography, lung ultrasound, and other imaging modalities
10 Blood Gases and Acid-base Balance: Technical Aspects and Interpretation
11 Non-invasive monitoring of gas exchange
12 Pulmonary Function and Graphics
13 Airway evaluation: Bronchoscopy, laryngoscopy, tracheal aspirates
Section III Delivery room stabilization, oxygen therapy and respiratory support
14 Delivery room stabilization and respiratory support
15 Surfactant replacement therapy
16 Oxygen therapy
17 Respiratory gas conditioning
18 Non-invasive respiratory support
19 Overview of assisted ventilation
20 Modes of Synchronized Ventilation
21 Principles of lung-protective ventilation
22 Tidal Volume-targeted Ventilation
23 Special ventilation techniques
24 High-Frequency Ventilation
25 Mechanical Ventilation: Disease-specific strategies
26 Weaning and Extubation from Mechanical Ventilation
27 Description of available devices
28 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Section IV Bedside care, Nutritional and Pharmacologic Support
29 Respiratory Care of the Newborn
30 Nursing Care
31 Nutritional Support
32 Pharmacologic Therapies
33 Cardiovascular Assessment and Management
Section V Treatment of Specific Conditions, Surgical Interventions and Other Considerations
34 Diagnosis and Management of PPHN
35 Care of the infant with CDH
36 Management of the infant with BPD
37 Medical and surgical interventions for respiratory distress and airway management
38 Intraoperative Management of the Neonate
Section VI Complications of Respiratory Support, Special Considerations and Outcomes
39 Complications of respiratory support
40 Neonatal respiratory care in Resource-Limited Countries
41 Transport of the Ventilated Infant
42 Transition to Home Care and Home Ventilation
43 Neurologic Effects of Respiratory Support and Neurodevelopmental Outcome
44 Long-term Pulmonary Outcomes of Respiratory Support
