Master the equipment, devices, and techniques used in respiratory therapy! Mosbys Respiratory Care Equipment, Twelfth Edition provides a comprehensive guide to treating patients with cardiopulmonary dysfunction. Using a how-to approach, this text helps you learn to identify and select equipment, understand its operation, and apply your knowledge to clinical practice. It also discusses assessment, testing, protocols, and troubleshooting of the devices used in airway management. Written by noted educator J. M. Cairo and a team of expert contributors, this leading text provides the skills that will help you breathe easier as you prepare for NBRC examinations.
SECTION I: Introduction 1. Basic Physics for the Respiratory Therapist 2. Principles of Infection Control
SECTION II: Medical Gases 3. Manufacture, Storage, and Transport of Medical Gases 4. Administering Medical Gases: Regulators, Flowmeters, and Controlling Devices
SECTION III: Airway Management 5. Airway Management Devices and Advanced Cardiac Life Support 6. Humidity and Aerosol Therapy 7. Lung Expansion Therapy and Airway Clearance Devices
SECTION IV: Assessment 8. Assessment of Pulmonary Function 9. Assessment of Cardiovascular Function 10. Blood Gas Monitoring 11. Sleep Diagnostics SECTION V: Critical Care and Other Therapies 12. Introduction to Ventilators 13. Mechanical Ventilators: General Use Devices: Adult, Pediatric, and Neonatal Critical Care Devices 14. Transport, Home Care and Noninvasive Ventilatory Devices 15. Special Techniques in Respiratory Care Patient Management
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