Intensive Care Medicine: Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation — Advanced Ventilatory Support Treaty

Intensive Medicine · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Una obra de referencia exhaustiva para intensivistas y especialistas en soporte vital: desde la ultraestructura de la barrera alveolocapilar y la mecánica de transporte molecular hasta los algoritmos avanzados de modos duales, estimación del estrés transpulmonar y rescate mediante ECMO venovenoso.

What it covers

1. Respiratory Failure and Ventilatory Support Treaty
2. Alveolocapillary Physiology and Ventilation Mechanics
3. · Biology and Molecular Dynamics of Pulmonary Surfactant
4. · Fick's Law of Diffusion and the West Zones
5. · Passive Mechanics of the Respiratory System: Resistance, Compliance and the Time Constant
6. Acute Respiratory Failure (ARI): Classification and Pathophysiology
7. · Phenotypic Classification of Acute Respiratory Failure
8. · Physiopathological Mechanisms of Hypoxemia
9. Oxygenation and Ventilation Monitoring
10. · Arterial Gasometry: Acid-Base Balance and Advanced Interpretation
11. · Clinical Oxygenation Indices
12. · Volumetric Capnography: Physiology of the Capnogram Phases and Dead Space Calculation
13. Physiological Principles and Systemic Effects of Positive Pressure
14. · Advanced Cardiopulmonary Interactions
15. · Extrapulmonary Systemic Effects of Positive Pressure
16. · The Pathophysiological Spectrum of VILI (Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury)
17. Conventional Ventilator Modes
18. · Volume Controlled Ventilation (VCV)
19. · Pressure Controlled Ventilation (PCV)
20. · Pressure Support Ventilation (PSV)
21. Advanced and Dual Ventilator Modes
22. · Pressure Regulated Volume Control Ventilation (PRVC) / VC+
23. · Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV)
24. · Proportional Assistance Ventilation (PAV+) and Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assistance (NAVA)
25. Initial Configuration and Programming Algorithms
26. · Standard Initial Parameter Programming Algorithm
27. Graphic Monitoring in Mechanical Ventilation
28. · Analysis of Time Curves
29. · Analysis of Dynamic Loops (Loops)
30. Advanced Ventilatory Mechanics
31. · Determination of Static Strength and Compliance
32. · The Stress Index
33. · Use of Esophageal Pressure ($P_{eso}$) to Estimate Transpulmonary Pressure
34. Ventilatory Support in ARDS and Protective Ventilation
35. · Principles of the Protective Ventilation Protocol (ARDSnet)
36. · PEEP Titration Strategies
37. · Physiology of the Prone Position in Severe ARDS
38. Ventilatory Support in Obstructive Pathology and Asynchronies
39. · Mechanical Ventilation in Status Asthmaticus and Exacerbation of COPD
40. · Patient-Ventilator Asynchronies: Identification and Resolution
41. Release of Mechanical Ventilation (Weaning) and Extubation
42. · Evaluation of Fitness for Weaning
43. · The Spontaneous Breathing Test (SBT)
44. · High Risk Post-Extubation Management
45. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Refractory ARDS
46. · Consensus Indications for VV-ECMO in Severe ARDS
47. · Biophysical Functioning of Gaseous Exchange in the Membrane
48. · Pulmonary Rest Ventilation Programming (Ultraprotective Ventilation)
49. Pneumonia Associated with Mechanical Ventilation (VAP) and Complications of IMV
50. · Advanced Clinical Diagnosis using the CPIS Scale
51. · Bundle (Package of Measures) for Effective Prevention of VAP