Little Black Book of Pulmonary Medicine

Little Black Book of Pulmonary Medicine

This succinct, bulleted handbook is the ultimate resource for pulmonary and respiratory specialists. Throughout the book, tables and figures summarize important clinical data and current professional society recommendations,... read more

Patients With PAH Face Unique Considerations for Lung Transplantation

Patients With PAH Face Unique Considerations for Lung Transplantation

Insights from a new paper outline the unique considerations and management approaches for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) undergoing lung transplantation. Currently approved treatment options for Group... read more

Handbook of Lung Targeted Drug Delivery Systems: Recent Trends and Clinical Evidences

Handbook of Lung Targeted Drug Delivery Systems: Recent Trends and Clinical Evidences

Handbook of Lung Targeted Drug Delivery Systems: Recent Trends and Clinical Evidences covers every aspect of the drug delivery to lungs, the physiology and pharmacology of the lung, modelling for lung delivery, drug devices... 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

Lung and Diaphragm Protective Ventilation Guided by the Esophageal Pressure

Lung and Diaphragm Protective Ventilation Guided by the Esophageal Pressure

Lung protective ventilatory strategies aim to limit tidal volume, driving pressure and plateau pressure to minimize lung stress and strain and consequently reduce the morbidity and mortality risks associated with mechanical... read more

Surfactant Therapies for Pediatric ARDS

Surfactant Therapies for Pediatric ARDS

We advocate for well-designed preclinical and explanatory clinical studies to investigate the use of surfactant for pediatric (PARDS) and neonatal (NARDS) acute respiratory distress syndrome. Given the accumulating knowledge... read more

Prone Position Minimizes the Exacerbation of Effort-dependent Lung Injury

Prone Position Minimizes the Exacerbation of Effort-dependent Lung Injury

Prone position, independent of positive end-expiratory pressure levels, diminishes a maldistribution of lung stress and inflation imposed by spontaneous effort and mitigates spontaneous effort, resulting in less effort-dependent... read more

Optimal Respiratory Support for COVID-19 Patients

Optimal Respiratory Support for COVID-19 Patients

Noninvasive respiratory support is an essential component of critical care. Both noninvasive ventilation, with its different interface types and modes (including helmet and face masks), and high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) are... read more

Energy Transmission in Mechanically Ventilated Children

Energy Transmission in Mechanically Ventilated Children

Mechanical energy (ME) better related to underlying lung pathology and patient outcome than MP. The delivery of generated energy to the lung was not dependent on endotracheal tube diameter (ETT) size during PC ventilation.... read more

Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cell-based Therapies for Severe Viral Pneumonia

Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cell-based Therapies for Severe Viral Pneumonia

Severe viral pneumonia is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality globally, whether due to outbreaks of endemic viruses, periodic viral epidemics, or the rarer but devastating global viral pandemics. While limited... read more

The Effect of Lowering Tidal Volume on Mortality

The Effect of Lowering Tidal Volume on Mortality

The use of low tidal volume (4-8 ml/kg of predicted body weight) has been considered the default way to ventilate patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) to minimize ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI).... read more

Non-invasive vs. Invasive Respiratory Management Strategies in AHRF Patients

Non-invasive vs. Invasive Respiratory Management Strategies in AHRF Patients

When performing non-invasive ventilation among patients with de novo acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure (AHRF), it is important to avoid excessive tidal volume and lung injury. Although pressure support is needed for... read more

Respiratory Monitoring in Mechanical Ventilation: Techniques and Applications

Respiratory Monitoring in Mechanical Ventilation: Techniques and Applications

This book covers the up-to-date advancement of respiratory monitoring in ventilation support as well as detecting the physiological responses to therapeutic interventions to avoid complications. Mechanical ventilation nowadays... read more

Inhaled Pulmonary Vasodilator Therapy in Adult Lung Transplant

Inhaled Pulmonary Vasodilator Therapy in Adult Lung Transplant

Among patients undergoing LT, use of iEPO was associated with similar risks for PGD-3 development and other postoperative outcomes compared with the use of iNO. A total of 201 randomized patients met eligibility criteria... read more