Respiratory Care Equipment

Name: Respiratory Care Equipment
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ISBN: 9780397549955

ISBN-10: 0397549954

ISBN-13: 9780397549955

Edition: 1st (Revised)

Authors: Richard D. Branson, Dean Hess, Robert L. Chatburn

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A book/disk package approaching material in a fashion similar to a peer-reviewed research paper, illustrated with bandw photos and diagrams. Emphasis is on principles of operation, application, clinical utility, and device limitations. This edition includes new material on bedside monitoring, gas movement, and ventilators, and adds troubleshooting boxes which list symptoms, causes, and remedies of commonly encountered problems in the use of respiratory care equipment. The accompanying disk contains some 400 review questions with explained answers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $55.95
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Binding: Book, Other
Pages: 592
Language: English

Physical Properties of Gases and Principles of Gas Movement	p. 1
Compressed Gases: Manufacture, Storage, and Piping Systems	p. 21
Gas Delivery Systems: Regulators, Flowmeters, and Therapy Devices	p. 55
Clinical Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers and Related Respiratory Care Equipment	p. 87
Humidification	p. 101
Aerosolized Medication Delivery	p. 133
Airway and Suction Equipment	p. 157
Manual and Gas-Powered Resuscitators	p. 187
Blood Gases: Measurement of pH, Pco[subscript 2], Po[subscript 2], and Related Critical Care Analytes	p. 205
Noninvasive Respiratory Monitoring Equipment	p. 247
Flow and Volume Measuring Devices	p. 283
Bedside Monitoring of Respiratory Mechanics	p. 303
Cardiovascular Monitoring	p. 325
Chest Physiotherapy, Incentive Spirometry, Intermittent Positive-Pressure Breathing, Secretion Clearance, and Inspiratory Muscle Training	p. 339
Classification of Mechanical Ventilators	p. 359
Mechanical Ventilators	p. 395
Transport Ventilators	p. 527
Home Mechanical Ventilation Equipment	p. 567
Noninvasive Ventilation	p. 593
High-Frequency Ventilators	p. 613
Spontaneous Breathing Systems: IMV and CPAP	p. 631
Expiratory Pressure Valves	p. 647
Extracorporeal Life Support	p. 657
Decontamination of Respiratory Care Equipment: What Can and Should Be Done	p. 667
Information Management Systems	p. 677
Approval and Surveillance of Medical Devices	p. 699
Evaluating Medical Devices	p. 709
Inhaled Nitric Oxide	p. 733
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