Personalized Mechanical Ventilation: Improving Quality of Care

In  dealing with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, there are an  increased number of patients requiring personalized management as the  disease pathology varies. With variable lung compliance and airway  resistance as well as the severity of the disease, one size will not fit  all patients.  

This book is  problem-oriented with evidence-based discussions of the daily  encountered scenarios in the ICU for mechanically ventilated patients,  dealing with the pathology, monitoring and troubleshooting facing  intensivists daily. These scenarios are managed utilizing a  goal-directed approach and algorithms to achieve these goals. All  chapters contain an explanation of a different solution illustrating the  respiratory mechanics, physiology and pathology involved in such a  scenario. Each chapter also closes with a take-home message to summarize  the content. In addition to describing the ventilation of different  patient categories, this text also features ventilation cases specific  to COVID-19 including airway management in the enhanced air born  isolated patient, pulmonary embolism, different states of shock and  differential lung ventilation. There is also a specific chapter on  monitoring mechanical ventilation with point of care ultrasound, which  is an available modality in most ICUs. Another unique chapter describes  how to connect more than one patient to one ventilator in case of a  shortage of machines. 

Written by experts in the field, Personalized Mechanical Ventilation is  a timely and valuable resource for critical care physicians, nurses and  respiratory therapists on the front lines of both COVID-19 and  day-to-day care of mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU.