Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU: A New Approach and Treatment (Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine) (Original PDF from Publisher)

By Carolina Romero Dapueto, Jeronimo Graf Santos

In the present book, a broad description of the processes carried out in patients with mechanical ventilation in the ICU is made. It covers from an overview of mechanical ventilation and some of its history to the processes of weaning and extubation. The novelty of this publication is that it focuses only on the conditions or complications in which patients are vented, as currently is done with these patients in the ICU: Early mobilization, both cooperative and non-cooperative patients with mechanical ventilation, the use of non-invasive ventilation, the adjunctive treatments of mechanical ventilation (such as inhalation therapy in different types of ventilation), and finally ethical issues in both adult and pediatric patients involved in the use of mechanical ventilation with respect to the end of treatment. Moreover, a categorization system for ICU patients and mechanically for narrowing the care burden and optimizing treatment based on an array of ventilation assessment scales is pr

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nova Science Pub Inc; 1st edition (August 28, 2018)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1536139122
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1536139129