Pediatric and Neonatal Mechanical Ventilation From Basics to Clinical Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rimensberger, Peter C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

Written by outstanding authorities from all over the world, this comprehensive new textbook devoted to pediatric and neonatal ventilation puts the focus on the effective delivery of respiratory support to children, infants, and newborns. In the early chapters, developmental issues concerning the res...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of respiratory physiology and mechanics in the neonate and the growing child
• Basics of respiratory support and mechanical ventilation (MV)
• Respiratory mechanics in the mechanically ventilated patient
• Respiratory monitoring in the mechanically ventilated patient
• Indications for respiratory support
• Clinical use of conventional modes of ventilator support
• Clinical use of non-conventional modes of ventilator support
• General management of the ventilator-supported patient
• Permissive hypercapnia
• Adjunctive therapies in mechanically ventilated children and neonates
• Complications of MV. Bronchoscopy in ventilated patients
• Sedation, antalgesia and neuromuscular blockade during MV
• A practical approach to non-invasive MV
• Practical evidence-based and goal-directed approach to conventional MV
• Practical goal-directed approach to non-conventional MV
• MV in various pulmonary pathologies
• Cardio-pulmonary interactions in the mechanically ventilated patient.