Title | Handbook of Pulmonary Emergencies [electronic resource] / edited by Samuel V. Spagnolo, Ann Medinger |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1986 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5125-2 |
Descript | XXII, 302 p. 4 illus. online resource |
I. The Approach to Patient Evaluation -- 1 Clinical Assessment of the Patient with Pulmonary Disease -- 2 Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases in the Emergency Patient -- II. Normal Lungs with Acute Respiratory Decompensation -- 3 Extrapulmonic Ventilatory Failure -- 4 Life-Threatening Pneumonia -- 5 Acute Inhalation Lung Disease -- 6 Pulmonary Edema -- 7 Near-Drowning -- 8 Chest Trauma -- 9 Upper-Airway Emergencies -- III. Chronic Lung Disease with Acute Respiratory Decompensation -- 10 Acute Respiratory Failure in the Patient with Chronic Airflow Obstruction -- 11 Asthma -- IV. Pulmonary Vascular Emergencies -- 12 Hemoptysis -- 13 Embolic Pulmonary Disease -- 14 Superior Vena Cava Syndrome -- V. Pleural Emergencies -- 15 Catastrophic Pleural Disease -- VI. Ventilator Emergencies -- 16 Ventilatory Assistance and Its Complications -- Appendix A Terms and Symbols Terms and Symbols -- Appendix B Normal Values Ventilation (BTPS) -- Lung Volumes (BTPS) -- Mechanics of Breathing -- Oxygenation -- Hemodynamic Parameters -- Miscellaneous