A detailed yet simple guide to mechanical ventilation - essential to students as well as clinicians working in the intensive care unit. Practical Applications of Mechanical Ventilation is a concise basic textbook on mechanical ventilators valuable to students as well as practitioners. It provides a thorough overview of the physiologic basis of ventilation and details various ventilatory strategies for different disease states requiring intensive care. The book is comprised of 43 chapters grouped into six parts to cover all aspects of ventilatory management. Sections include: * Respiratory Physiology * Effects of Controlled Ventilation * Know Your Ventilator * Ventilatory Parameter * Modes of Ventilation * Ventilation Strategy Table of contents Part I Respiratory physiology 1. Anatomy of Respiration 2. Respiratory Mechanics 3. Applied Respiratory Physiology 4. Distribution of Ventilation 5. Compliance 6. Resistance 7. Shunt 8. Distribution of Ventilation and Perfusion 9. Diffusion Defects 10. Lung Volumes and Capacities 11. Work of Breathing Part II Effects of controlled ventilation 12. Physiological Effects of Spontaneous v/s Controlled Respiration 13. Harmful Effects of Controlled Ventilation 14. Minimizing the Harmful CVS Effects of Controlled Respiration Part III Know your ventilator 15. Ventilator: At a Glance Part IV Ventilator parameter 16. Fractional Inspired Oxygen Concentration 17. Tidal Volume during Mechanical Ventilation 18. Inspiratory Flow Rate 19. Peak Inspiratory Pressure 20. Breathing Cycle and Inspiratory/Expiratory Time 21. Distribution of Inspired Gas and Ventilator Rate
