Main description:

This issue of World Clinics: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine focuses on respiratory critical care, presenting an up-to-date collection of articles on the latest developments in the field, authored by internationally renowned experts.

The book begins with an introduction to respiratory critical care and assisted ventilation. The following chapters discuss different disorders including acute COPD and asthma, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary thromboembolism, and chronic respiratory failure.

The final sections cover critical care in poisoning cases, nutritional management in the ICU, interpretation of arterial blood gases and acid-base abnormalities, and ICU infections and antibiotics.

Each article concludes with comments by the editor highlighting their own experience and summarising the chapter. The book is enhanced by images, table and figures.

Key Points

Evidence-based review of respiratory critical care topics providing an overview of the latest advances in the field
Part of the World Clinics: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine series
Each article concludes with comments by the editor
Comprehensive text enhanced by images, tables and figures

Contents:

Editorial
Abbreviations
Evolution and the Core of Critical Care
Assisted Ventilation
Weaning from Assisted Ventilation
Management of Acute Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Critical Care in Case of Poisoning
Chronic Respiratory Failure
Nutritional Management in the Intensive Care Unit
Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases and Acid-base Abnormalities
Intensive Care Unit Infections and Antibiotics