Non-Invasive Ventilation and Weaning Principles and Practive - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340941529 ISBN 13: 9780340941522

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Non-Invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice provides up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive information from a prestigious range of worldwide key opinion leaders on different applications for non-invasive ventilation, and closely related techniques, both in hospital and at home.

Chapters cover the use of non-invasive ventilation in acute and chronic respiratory failure, plus paediatric and other specialty applications. Sections are devoted to conditions including COPD, cardiac failure and neuromuscular disease; in each case, there are detailed evaluations of current best practice regarding the science, diagnostics and management of the condition. Concise summaries of each chapter, plus generous use of tables and illustrations, ensure the reader gains rapid access to the wealth of information presented.

Non Invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice is the definitive reference work for all pulmonologists and critical care specialists working in the hospital or home setting.

Print Versions of this book also include access to the ebook version.

About this title

About the Author

Mark W. Elliot, Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.

Stefano Nava, Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.

Bernd Schönhofer, Pneumologie und Intensivmedizin, Klinikum Hannover-Oststadt, Hannover, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340941529
• ISBN 13: 9780340941522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 648
• Editor: Elliott Mark, Nava Stefano, Schonhofer Bernd