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Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment

Master the equipment, devices, and techniques used in respiratory therapy! Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment, 11th Edition provides a comprehensive guide to treating patients… Leer más

Descripción

Master the equipment, devices, and techniques used in respiratory therapy! Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment, 11th Edition provides a comprehensive guide to treating patients with cardiopulmonary dysfunction. Using a how-to approach, this text helps you learn to identify and select equipment, understand its operation, and apply your knowledge to clinical practice. It also discusses assessment, testing, protocols, and troubleshooting of the devices used in airway management. Written by noted educator J. M. Cairo and a team of expert contributors, this leading text provides the skills that will help you breathe easier as you prepare for NBRC examinations.

Puntos claves

  • Unique! Clinical approach provides a "how to" approach to identifying equipment, understanding how it works, and applying the information in clinical practice
  • Unique! Organization of ventilators by application area and manufacturer makes it easier to learn, review, and locate ventilator information
  • Unique! Infection Control chapter reviews microbiology and infection control, a topic that RTs must understand to prevent healthcare-associated infections, and discusses infection control in mass casualty situations
  • Unique! Clinical Scenario boxes address problems that may be encountered during actual use of equipment and raise clinically relevant questions, with suggested answers on the Evolve companion website
  • Learning features include chapter outlines, learning objectives, key terms, chapter introductions, and bulleted key point summaries to identify and reinforce the most important material in each chapter
  • Chapter review questions at the end of every chapter reinforce your comprehension, using NBRC-style multiple-choice or critical-thinking questions to match the types of questions covered on the NBRC exams
  • Unique! Historical Notes boxes highlight clinically relevant and valuable historical information on respiratory care equipment
  • Excerpts of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), statements of care developed by the AARC, provide important information regarding indications/contraindications, hazards and complications, assessment of need, assessment of outcome, and monitoring
  • Glossary of key terms is listed in the back of the book for quick reference

De interès para

Respiratory care students; Practicing respiratory therapists

Índice

SECTION I: Introduction

1. Basic Physics for the Respiratory Therapist

2. Principles of Infection Control

SECTION II: Medical Gases

3. Manufacture, Storage, and Transport of Medical Gases

4. Administering Medical Gases: Regulators, Flowmeters, and Controlling Devices

SECTION III: Airway Management

5. Airway Management Devices and Advanced Cardiac Life Support

6. Humidity and Aerosol Therapy

7. Lung Expansion Therapy and Airway Clearance Devices

SECTION IV: Assessment

8. Assessment of Pulmonary Function

9. Assessment of Cardiovascular Function

10. Blood Gas Monitoring

10. Lung Expansion Devices

11. Sleep Diagnostics

SECTION V: Critical Care and Other Therapies

12. Introduction to Ventilators

13. Mechanical Ventilators: General Use Devices

14. Infant and Pediatric Devices

15. Transport, Home Care, and Noninvasive Devices

Appendix
A: Suggested Answer Key for Clinical Scenarios
B: Answer Key for Chapter Assessment Questions
C: Normal Reference Ranges
D: Frequently Used Formulae and Values

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Sobre el autor

JC

J. M. Cairo

Jim Cairo is the Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions, and Professor of Cardiopulmonary Science, Physiology and Anesthesiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been teaching for over 30 years and is also the author of Elsevier’s Pilbeam’s Mechanical Ventilation.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions, Professor of Cardiopulmonary Science, Physiology, and Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA