Advanced Mechanical Ventilation

Small Animal Critical Care Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 904-909

  Hopper, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84863863503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-2591-7.10214-0     Document Type: Chapter

References (8)

1. Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med 2000, 342:1301. ARDS Network.
2. Hess DR, Kacmarek RM Essentials of mechanical ventilation 2002, McGraw-Hill, New York. ed 2.
3. Pilbeam SP, Cairo JM Mechanical ventilation: Physiological and clinical applications 2006, Mosby, St Louis. ed 4.
4. Squadrone V, Gregoretti C, Ranieri VM Patient-ventilator interaction. Textbook of critical care 2005, Saunders, Philadelphia. M.P. Fink, E. Abraham, J.L. Vincent, P.M. Kochanek (Eds.).
5. The original study documenting the benefits of low tidal volumes in human patients with ARDS. Ventilation with a 6-ml/kg tidal volume compared with a 12-ml/kg tidal volume associated with a reduced mortality and fewer days on the ventilator.
6. An excellent general text on mechanical ventilation that contains all the important information in an easy-to-read fashion.
7. A great in-depth resource for mechanical ventilation that has a lot of diagrams and human clinical examples. Ideal for true mechanical ventilation enthusiasts.
8. One of several excellent chapters on mechanical ventilation in this textbook. Provides an overview of the major issues contributing to human patient-ventilator asynchrony.