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This book integrates chapters on a variety of topics ranging from airway physiology to scenarios of a difficult airway, and reviews and management options in patients who are known to have a difficult airway such as the difficult pediatric airway, the difficult airway in obstetrics, and those suffering from obstructive sleep apnea. All the chapters are written by renowned contributors from all over the world with tremendous experience and expertise in the various fields. The probable overspill of the secretions into the lungs is a tangible fear and this aspect has been fully addressed in the chapters. The reviews presented herein describe difficult airway scenarios in a plethora of clinical settings that would help the anesthesiologists, emergency medicine specialists and the intensivists in taking steps in the right direction when posed with a challenging airway, thus ensuring safe anesthesia practice and patient care, which is our most cherished goal.

Airway (Medicine) --- Artificial respiration. --- Anesthesiology. --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Artificial ventilation (Therapy) --- Mechanical ventilation (Therapy) --- Pulmonary resuscitation --- Rescue breathing --- Respiration, Artificial --- Ventilation, Mechanical (Therapy) --- First aid in illness and injury --- Respiratory therapy --- Resuscitation --- Respiration --- Critical care medicine. --- Human physiology. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Human Physiology. --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Physiology --- Human body --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units

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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 remains the cornerstone in life saving in critically ill patients with and without respiratory failure. However, conclusive evidences show that mechanical ventilation can also cause lung damage, specifically, in terms of ventilator-induced lung injury. Respiratory monitoring encloses a series of physiological and pathophysiological measurements, from basic gas exchange and ventilator wave forms to more sophisticated diaphragm function and lung volume assessments. The progress of respiratory monitoring has always been accompanied by advances in technology. However, how to properly conduct the procedures and correctly interpret the data requires clear definition. The book introduces respiratory monitoring techniques and data analysis, including gas exchange, respiratory mechanics, thoracic imaging, lung volume measurement, and extra-vascular lung water measurement in the initial part. How to interpret the acquired and derived parameters and to illustrate their clinical applications is presented thoroughly. In the following part, the applications of respiratory monitoring in specific diseases and conditions is introduced, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, obstructive pulmonary diseases, patient-ventilator asynchrony, non-invasive ventilation, brain injury with increased intracranial pressure, ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction, and weaning from mechanical ventilation. This book is intended primarily for ICU physicians and other practitioners including respiratory therapists, ICU nurses and trainees who come into contact with patients under mechanical ventilation. This book also provides guidance for clinical researchers who take part in respiratory and mechanical ventilation researches.

Critical care medicine. --- Respiratory organs—Diseases. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Pneumology/Respiratory System. --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Artificial respiration. --- Artificial ventilation (Therapy) --- Mechanical ventilation (Therapy) --- Pulmonary resuscitation --- Rescue breathing --- Respiration, Artificial --- Ventilation, Mechanical (Therapy) --- First aid in illness and injury --- Respiratory therapy --- Resuscitation