The Respiratory Tract in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wheeler, Derek S. (Editor), Wong, Hector R. (Editor), Shanley, Thomas P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Infectious Diseases.

The field of critical care medicine is in the midst of a dramatic change. Technological and scientific advances during the last decade have resulted in a fundamental change in the way we view disease processes, such as sepsis, shock, acute lung injury, and traumatic brain injury. Pediatric intensivi...

Table of Contents:

• Respiratory Physiology
• Disorders of the Pediatric Chest
• Respiratory Monitoring
• Bronchoscopy in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
• Prone Positioning
• High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation
• Pulmonary Surfactant: Biology and Therapy
• Nitric Oxide
• Extracorporeal Life Support for Children with Acute Respiratory Failure
• Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract
• Congenital Airway and Respiratory Tract Anomalies
• Status Asthmaticus
• Bronchiolitis
• Pneumonia and Empyema
• Pediatric Lung Transplantation
• Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure
• Diseases of the Pulmonary Vascular System.