
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
From Physiologic Principles to Clinical Practice
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Description
Key Features
- Provides one page chapter summaries that cover epidemiology, physiology and treatment options
- Presents an easy to use reference on obesity hypoventilation syndrome, including symptoms
- Contains chapters with detailed discussions of topics, including color images, graphs and tables that summarize current research
Readership
Research scientists as well as respiratory and sleep medicine specialists
Table of Contents
I. Historical and social introduction
1. Obesity: A social and public policy perspective
2. History of obesity hypoventilationII. The burden of obesity on respiratory health
3. Effect of obesity on the respiratory system
4. The burden of obesity hypoventilation syndromeIII. Pathophysiology of obesity hypoventilation syndrome
5. Neural control of breathing in sleep
6. Pathogenesis of sleep apnea
7. The pathophysiology of obesity hypoventilation syndrome
8. Evolution of obesity hypoventilation syndrome
9. Cardiovascular, neurological, and inflammatory complications of obesity hypoventilation syndromeIV. Clinical assessment of a patient with obesity hypoventilation
10. Assessment of patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome
11. Detection of hypoventilation
12. Diagnosis of sleep-disordered breathingV. Management of obesity hypoventilation
13. Positive airway pressure I: Equipment
14. Positive airway pressure II: Settings and outcomes
15. The effects of weight loss, tracheostomy, and medication on obesity hypoventilation syndrome
16. Weight loss: Lifestyle interventions and pharmacotherapy
17. Surgical weight loss
18. Tracheostomy in morbidly obese patients
19. Obesity hypoventilation in the intensive care unit
20. Perioperative considerations and management in patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Product details
- No. of pages: 298
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: July 22, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128152911
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128152904
About the Editor
Aiman Tulaimat
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