Egan's Fundamentals of Respiratory Care E-Book. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert M. Kacmarek, James K. Stoller, Al Heuer.
• Authors: Kacmarek, Robert M; Stoller, James K; Heuer, Al
• Contents: I: Foundations of Respiratory Care; 1. History of Respiratory Care; 2. The Profession of Respiratory Care; 3. Quality, Patient Safety, and Communication, and Recordkeeping; 4. Principles of Infection Prevention and Control; 5. Ethical and Legal Implications of Practice; 6. Physical Principles of Respiratory Care ; 7. E-Medicine in Respiratory Care ; 8. Fundamentals of Respiratory Care Research; II: Applied Anatomy and Physiology ; 9. The Respiratory System; 10. The Cardiovascular System; 11. Ventilation; 12. Gas Exchange and Transport; 13. Solutions, Body Fluids, and Electrolytes; 14. Acid-Base Balance; 15. Regulation of Breathing; III: Assessment of Respiratory Disorders ; 16. Bedside Assessment of the Patient; 17. Interpreting Clinical and Laboratory Data; 18. Interpreting the Electrocardiogram; 19. Analysis and Monitoring of Gas Exchange; 20. Pulmonary Function Testing; 21. Review of Thoracic Imaging; 22. Flexible Bronchoscopy and the Respiratory Therapist; 23. Nutrition Assessment; IV: Review of Cardiopulmonary Disease ; 24. Pulmonary Infections; 25. Obstructive Lung Disease: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Asthma, and Related Diseases; 26. Interstitial Lung Disease; 27. Pleural Diseases; 28. Pulmonary Vascular Disease; 29. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) ; 30. Respiratory Management of Trauma, Obesity, Near Drowning, and Burns; 31. Heart Failure NEW! ; 32. Lung Cancer; 33. Neuromuscular and Other Diseases of the Chest Wall; 34. Disorders of Sleep; 35. Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Disorders; V: Basic Therapeutics ; 36. Airway Pharmacology; 37. Airway Management; 38. Emergency Cardiovascular Life Support; 39. Humidity and Bland Aerosol Therapy; 40. Aerosol Drug Therapy; 41. Storage and Delivery of Medical Gases; 42. Medical Gas Therapy; 43. Lung Expansion Therapy; 44. Airway Clearance Therapy (ACT); VI: Acute and Critical Care ; 45. Respiratory Failure and the Need for Ventilatory Support; 46. Mechanical Ventilators; 47. Physiology of Ventilatory Support; 48. Patient-Ventilator Interaction; 49. Initiating and Adjusting Invasive Ventilatory Support; 50. Noninvasive Ventilation; 51. Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS); 52. Monitoring the Patient in the Intensive Care Unit; 53. Discontinuing Ventilatory Support; 54. Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care; VII: Patient Education and Long-Term Care ; 55. Patient Education and Health Promotion; 56. Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation; 57. Respiratory Care in Alternative Settings; 58. Ethics and End-of-Life Care NEW! ; Glossary; Index
• Edition: 12th
• Publisher Details: Mosby
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (1400 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323597982
• Related ISBNs: 032359798X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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