Management of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient

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1. Lung Expansion, Positioning, and Secretion Clearance

2. Mechanical Ventilation: Indications, B asic Principles of Ventilator Performance of the Respiratory Cycle, and Initiation

3. Modes of Mechanical Ventilation

4. Ventilato r Graphics and Waveform Analysis

5. Complications of Mechanical V entilation and Troubleshooting the Patient-Ventilator System

6. Noninvasive Respiratory Monitoring and Invasive monitoring of Direct and Derived Tissue Oxygenation Variables

7. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

8. Specialized Techniques in Mechanical Ventilation

Appendices

Appendix I Pulmonary Symbols and Abbreviations

Appendix II Drugs Used In Intensive Respiratory Care

Appe ndix III Chest Drainage Systems

Appendix IV Ventilator Withdrawal at End-of-Life