Respiratory Care: Principles and Practice

Part1 Respiratory Assessment
Chapter1 History and Physical Examination
Chapter2 Respiratory Monitoring
Chapter3 Hemodynamic Monitoring
Chapter4 Arterial Blood Gas Sampling, Analysis, and Interpretation
Chapter5 Blood Chemistries and Hematology
Chapter6 Cardiac Assessment
Chapter7 Imaging the Thorax
Chapter8 Pulmonary Function Testing
Chapter9 Interventional Pulmonary Procedures
Chapter10 Polysomnography
Chapter11 Nutrition Assessment and Support
Chapter12 Cardiopulmonary Exercise Assessment
Part2 Respiratory Therapeutics
Chapter13 Therapeutic Gases: Manufacture, Storage, and Delivery
Chapter14 Therapeutic Gases: Management and Administration
Chapter15 Humidity and Aerosol Therapy
Chapter16 Airway Clearance and Lung Expansion Therapy
Chapter17 Airway Management
Chapter18 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Chapter19 Mechanical Ventilators: Classification and Principles of Operation
Chapter20 Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter21 Noninvasive Respiratory Support
Chapter22 Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care
Chapter23 Extracorporeal Life Support for Respiratory Failure
Chapter24 Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Chapter25 Home Respiratory Care
Chapter26 Disaster Management
Chapter27 Respiratory Care of the Elderly
Chapter28 Patient Safety
Part3 Respiratory Diseases
Chapter29 Principles of Disease Management
Chapter30 Patient Education
Chapter31 Infection Control Principles
Chapter32 Asthma
Chapter33 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chapter34 Interstitial Lung Disease
Chapter35 Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Chapter36 Pneumonia
Chapter37 Cystic Fibrosis
Chapter38 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Chapter39 Postoperative Respiratory Care
Chapter40 Heart Failure
Chapter41 Trauma
Chapter42 Burn and Inhalation Injury
Chapter43 Sepsis
Chapter44 Neuromuscular Dysfunction
Chapter45 Sleep-Disordered Breathing
Chapter46 Perioperative Management of Lung Transplant Recipients
Chapter47 Lung Cancer
Chapter48 Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Disorders
Part4 Applied Sciences for Respiratory Care
Chapter49 Respiratory Anatomy
Chapter50 Ventilation and Oxygenation
Chapter51 Respiratory Mechanics
Chapter52 Control of Breathing
Chapter53 Cardiovascular, Renal, and Neural Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter54 Physical Principles
Chapter55 Chemistry for Respiratory Care
Chapter56 Respiratory Microbiology
Chapter57 Respiratory Drugs
Part5 The Respiratory Care Profession
Chapter58 History of the Respiratory Care Profession
Chapter59 Professional Organizations
Chapter60 Ethics of Healthcare Delivery
Chapter61 Healthcare Economics
Chapter62 Respiratory Care Research and Evidence-Based Practice