A Guide to Mechanical Ventilation in Emergency Room

SECTION 1: BASICS OF RESPIRATION

1 The Act of Breathing

2 Pulmonary Gas Exchange

3 Respiratory Physiology

SECTION 2: MECHANICAL VENTILATION

4 Mechanical Ventilators

5 Initiation of Mechanical Ventilation

6 Drugs used in Mechanical Ventilation

7 Ventilatory Modes

8 Noninvasive Ventilation

9 Inspiratory Pressures

10 Pressure-controlled Ventilation

11 Positive End Expiratory Pressure

12 General Settings in a Ventilator

13 Monitoring of Ventilated Patients

14 Ventilatory Complications in Emergency Room

15 Ventilator-induced Lung Injury and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

16 Weaning Parameters

17 Ventilatory Strategies

18 Ventilatory Graphics