Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment

A comprehensive overview of the equipment and techniques used by respiratory therapists to treat cardiopulmonary dysfunction, Mosby’s Respiratory Care Equipment, 9th edition provides a "how-to" approach that moves beyond technical descriptions of machinery. Learn to identify equipment, understand how it works, and apply your knowledge to clinical practice. The 9th edition includes streamlined information on the latest ventilators, a new chapter on simulation learning devices, and additional, easy-to-access content on the Evolve site.

• Unique! List of Ventilators organized by application area and manufacturer make review and research quick and easy.
• Unique! Clinical Approach provides you with a "how-to" approach to identifying equipment, understanding how it works, and applying the information in clinical practice.
• Excerpts of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) give you important information regarding indications/contraindications, hazards and complications, assessment of need, assessment of outcome, and monitoring.
• Unique! Sleep Diagnostics chapter discusses sleep and the impact of sleep disorders on cardiopulmonary function.
• Unique! Infection Control chapter provides a review of this critical topic that RTs must understand to prevent health care-associated infections
• Unique! Cardiovascular Diagnostics chapter provides a review in an area where RTs are treating an increasing number of cardiovascular cases.
• NBRC-style Self-Assessment Questions at the end of every chapter prepares you for credentialing exams.
• Unique! Clinical Scenario boxes (formerly Clinical Rounds) allow you to apply material learned to a clinical setting.
• Unique! Historical Notes boxes present educational and/or clinically relevant and valuable historical information of respiratory care equipment.

Module 1: INTRODUCTION to BASIC RESPIRATORY SCIENCE

1. Basic Physics for the Respiratory Therapist
2. Principles of Infection Control

Module 2: MEDICAL GASES

3. Manufacture, Storage, and Transport of Medical Gases
4. Administering Medical Gases: Regulators, Flowmeters, and Controlling Devices

Module 3: AIRWAY MANAGEMENT

5. Airway Management Devices and ACLS
6. Humidity and Aerosol Therapy
7. Lung Expansion Therapy Devices

Module 4: ASSESSMENT

8. Assessment of Pulmonary Function
9. Assessment of Cardiovascular Function
10. Blood Gas Monitoring
11. Sleep Diagnostics

Module 5: CRITICAL CARE AND EXTENDED CARE DEVICES

12. Introduction to Ventilators
13. Mechanical Ventilators: General-Use Devices
14. Infant/Pediatric Ventilators
15. Home-Care, Transport Devices, Alternative Devices

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