Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Basic principles
- 1 Cardiac function, monitoring, oxygen transport
- 2 Shock
- 3 Oxygen therapy
- 4 Central venous access
- 5 Fluid therapy in ICU
- 6 Anaemia and blood transfusion
- 7 Nutrition
- 8 Non-invasive mechanical ventilation
- 9 Principles of IPPV
- 10 Modes of ventilation and ventilatory strategies
- 11 Weaning and tracheostomy
- 12 Vasoactive drugs
- 13 Infection and infection control
- 14 Sedation, analgesia and neuromuscular blockade
- 15 Continuous renal replacement therapy
- 16 Withholding and withdrawing therapy in the ICU
- Part II Specific problems
- Index
3 - Oxygen therapy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Basic principles
- 1 Cardiac function, monitoring, oxygen transport
- 2 Shock
- 3 Oxygen therapy
- 4 Central venous access
- 5 Fluid therapy in ICU
- 6 Anaemia and blood transfusion
- 7 Nutrition
- 8 Non-invasive mechanical ventilation
- 9 Principles of IPPV
- 10 Modes of ventilation and ventilatory strategies
- 11 Weaning and tracheostomy
- 12 Vasoactive drugs
- 13 Infection and infection control
- 14 Sedation, analgesia and neuromuscular blockade
- 15 Continuous renal replacement therapy
- 16 Withholding and withdrawing therapy in the ICU
- Part II Specific problems
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Handbook of ICU Therapy , pp. 32 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006