Monitoring Mechanical Ventilation Using Ventilator Waveforms

• Main Author: Arnal, Jean-Michel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Critical care medicine.; Respiratory organs-Diseases.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Emergency Medicine.

This book discusses the interpretation mechanical ventilator waveforms. Each page shows a screenshot from a real patient and explains one or two messages. It starts with basic information about the waveforms and goes on to address passive and spontaneous ventilation, non-invasive ventilation and spe...

Table of Contents:

• Basics
• Controlled ventilation modes
• Passive expiration
• Spontaneous ventilation modes
• Non invasive ventilation
• PV curves
• Esophageal pressure curve
• Responses to test.