Handbook of Respiratory Care

Handbook of Respiratory Care is a comprehensive resource compiling a wide variety of data relevant to the care of patients with respiratory disorders and current research in pulmonary physiology. Data from many sources in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, physics, mathematics, and engineering are brought together in this handy reference. This valuable, time-saving resource provides students and clinicians with concise, accurate data not found in other textbooks.

Handbook of Respiratory Care serves as reference for multiple topics such as commonly and not commonly used equations in pulmonary, cardiovascular and respiratory care. It also provides information on commonly used scores in research as well as the methods and equations used to compute them.

Features

• Ventilator Classification
• Scores and Definitions
• Arterial Blood Gas Analysis
• Mechanical Ventilation Classification System
• Overview of Respiratory Care Equipment
• Pin Position Used for Different Medical Gases
• Excellent Reference Source for Equations

Table of Contents

Chapter  1  Scores and Definitions used in Respiratory and Critical Care Research
Chapter  2  Pulmonary Function by Kevin McCarthy, R-CPT
Chapter  3  Physiologic Monitoring and Hidden Pearls
Chapter  4  Gas Therapy
Chapter  5  Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter  6  Mathematical Procedures
Appendix  Abbreviations, Symbols, Formulas, Definitions, and Calculations