Mechanical Ventilation of Infants and Children

This book is designed for both trainees in pediatric critical care and practitioners of critical care to provide a thorough review of mechanical ventilation in infants and children with acute diseases. It contains a grounded approach to building clinical knowledge of the care of infants and children with respiratory distress and failure by incorporating explanation of the relevant applied physiology. With the use of illustrative cases, this integrated approach to understanding mechanical ventilation provides a meaningful key to applying the fundamentals of physics and physiology to the management of pediatric patients on the pediatric critical care unit. Mechanical Ventilation of Infants and Children: Theory and Practice provides the reader with a comprehensive reference describing the physiology of ventilation and applying it rigorously to clinical management of children. As such, this book represents a key resource for all clinicians involved in the management of these patients, from intensivists and anesthesiologists to pediatricians and researchers in cardiothoracic physiology.