Mechanical Ventilation in Patient with Respiratory Failure

Mechanical Ventilation in Patient with Respiratory Failure

This handbook covers the principles of mechanical ventilation, making them easy to understand and apply in clinical settings. Presented in an accessible style and supplemented by a wealth of illustrations and graphs, it includes... read more

Noninvasive Ventilation in Sleep Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care

Noninvasive Ventilation in Sleep Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care

This book is an introduction to a comprehensive analysis of recent advances and clinical research in noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. The objective of the book is to... read more

Making Sense of Lung Function Tests

Making Sense of Lung Function Tests

Respiratory problems are the most common cause of acute admission to hospital. A variety of diagnostic investigations are required, both for acute and clinic assessment. Making Sense of Lung Function Tests, Second Edition... read more

Pulmonary Aeration and Posterior Collapse Assessed by Electrical Impedance Tomography in Healthy Children

Pulmonary Aeration and Posterior Collapse Assessed by Electrical Impedance Tomography in Healthy Children

The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in the lung aeration estimated by electrical impedance tomography as the end-expiratory lung impedance after anesthesia induction in pediatric patients. This was a prospective,... read more

Post COVID-19 Pulmonary Fibrosis

Post COVID-19 Pulmonary Fibrosis

Pulmonary fibrosis is a frequently reported COVID-19 sequela in which the exact prevalence and risk factors are yet to be established. This meta-analysis aims to investigate the prevalence of post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis... read more

Science and Practice of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Science and Practice of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

The field of critical care medicine is in the midst of a dramatic change. Technological and scientific advances during the last decade have resulted in a fundamental change in the way we view disease processes, such as sepsis,... read more

Deconstructing the Way We Use Pulmonary Function Test Race-Based Adjustments

Deconstructing the Way We Use Pulmonary Function Test Race-Based Adjustments

Race is a social construct. It is used in medical diagnostic algorithms to adjust the readout for spirometry and other diagnostic tests. The authors review historic evidence about the origins of race adjustment in spirometry,... read more

Defining COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Defining COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis

The reported prevalence of CAPA in ICU patients with COVID-19 varies greatly by study and may be related to surveillance protocols and inconsistent definitions which may inflate the prevalence of this complication. Further... read more

Non-Invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice, Second Edition

Non-Invasive Ventilation and Weaning: Principles and Practice, Second Edition

Now in full-colour, this eagerly-anticipated second edition continues to be the most comprehensive resource available on non-invasive ventilation (NIV), both in the hospital and at home. Reflecting a global perspective with... read more

Image-Guided Management of COVID-19 Lung Disease

Image-Guided Management of COVID-19 Lung Disease

This book offers a detailed and up-to-date overview of image-guided diagnostics in COVID-19 lung disease. A range of image-guided CT and ultrasound procedures in different chest regions are described. For each procedure,... read more

Principles of Pulmonary Medicine

Principles of Pulmonary Medicine

With an emphasis on the pathophysiologic basis of pulmonary disease, Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, 7th Edition, by Drs. Steven E Weinberger, Barbara A Cockrill, and Jess Mandel, provides a superbly illustrated introduction... read more

Inhaled Amphotericin B Lipid Complex for Prophylaxis Against COVID-19-associated Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Inhaled Amphotericin B Lipid Complex for Prophylaxis Against COVID-19-associated Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Recently, Prattes and colleagues published in Intensive Care Medicine a high incidence of coronavirus disease 2019-associated invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA), according to 2020 ECMM/ISHAM consensus criteria, with... read more

The Pulmonary Artery Catheter: A Solution Still Looking For a Problem

The Pulmonary Artery Catheter: A Solution Still Looking For a Problem

In 1970, Jeremy Swan, William Ganz, and colleagues published their seminal paper “Catheterization of the heart in man with use of flow-directed balloon-tipped catheter”. Few devices in our specialty have generated more... read more

Post COVID-19 and Patients with and without Pre-existing ILD

Post COVID-19 and Patients with and without Pre-existing ILD

A lot remains to be learned about the long-term effects of patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) who survive COVID-19 infections. Clinicians need to better understand and recognize the effects of post-COVID 19 lung... read more