Key features

• •Unique! List of Ventilators organized by application area and manufacturer make review and research quick and easy.
• •Unique! Clinical Approach provides you with a "how-to" approach to identifying equipment, understanding how it works, and applying the information in clinical practice.
• •Excerpts of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) give you important information regarding indications/contraindications, hazards and complications, assessment of need, assessment of outcome, and monitoring.
• •Unique! Sleep Diagnostics chapter discusses sleep and the impact of sleep disorders on cardiopulmonary function.
• •Unique! Infection Control chapter provides a review of this critical topic that RTs must understand to prevent health care-associated infections
• •Unique! Cardiovascular Diagnostics chapter provides a review in an area where RTs are treating an increasing number of cardiovascular cases.
• •NBRC-style Self-Assessment Questions at the end of every chapter prepares you for credentialing exams.
• •Unique! Clinical Scenario boxes (formerly Clinical Rounds) allow you to apply material learned to a clinical setting.
• •Unique! Historical Notes boxes present educational and/or clinically relevant and valuable historical information of respiratory care equipment.
• •NEW! Chapter on Simulation Learning Devices prepares you for the latest simulation devices.
• •NEW! Streamlined ventilator coverage presents information on the most often-used devices with more tables and bulleted lists for easy reference.
• •NEW! Content focused on the newest and the most popular types of ventilators, including, transport, home-care, alternative setting, and neonatal/pediatric.
• •NEW! Evolve site allows access to information that isn't easily found in other texts or manuals, including older or outdated ventilators that are still in use today.
• •NEW! Focus to align Learning Objectives, Key Points and Assessment Questions