1 Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure: What We Have Learnt and What We Still Need to Learn.- 2 Controlled Mechanical Ventilation.- 3 Proportional Assist Ventilation.- 4 Influence of Ventilator Performance on Assisted Modes of Ventilation.- 5 Application of Tracheal Gas Insufflation for Critical Care Patients.- 6 What a Clinician Should Do When a Patient "Fights the Ventilator".- 7 Critical Illness Polyneuropathy and Critical Illness Myopathy.- 8 Factors Associated with Mortality in Mechanically Ventilated Patients.- 9 Pathophysiology of Weaning-Associated Respiratory Failure.- 10 Rapid Shallow Breathing: Causes and Consequences.- 11 Cardiopulmonary Interactions and Gas Exchange During Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation.- 12 Weaning-Induced Cardiac Failure.- 13 Physiopathological Determinants of Patient-Ventilator Interaction and Dyssynchrony During Weaning.- 14 Weaning Criteria: Physiologic Indices in Different Groups of Patients.- 15 How Should We Interpret Weaning-Predictive Indices?.- 16 Timing and Criteria for Beginning Weaning.- 17 The Importance of Clinical Algorithms to Facilitate Weaning and Extubation.- 18 Strategies for Implementation of Weaning Algorithms in the Clinical Arena.- 19 The Role of Muscle Training and Rehabilitation During Weaning.- 20 The Role of Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Facilitating Weaning and Extubation.- 21 Expanding Horizons of Noninvasive Ventilation.- 22 Unplanned Extubation.- 23 Extubation Failure: Can It Be Prevented or Predicted?.- 24 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in the Hypoxemic Patient.- 25 Closed-Loop Systems for Mechanical Ventilation.- 26 Tracheostomy in the ICU: Why, When and How?.
