Written by experts

Practical manual with tricks and pitfalls

As well as a "classical" text on noninvasive ventilation (NIV) where the major findings in the literature are discussed and highlighted

Includes supplementary material: [...]

1. Why to use NIV to wean a patient.- 2. Mechanical ventilation physiology.- 3. (Almost) all you want to know about a ventilator.- 4. Interfaces for NIV.- 5. When to start (or not) a ventilator treatment.- 6. Modalities to wean a patient undergoing NIV.- 7. How to set up the ventilator.- 8. Other ventilation modalities.- 9. Why NIV is beautiful?.- 10. Myths, prejudices and real problems.- 11. Non invasive ventilotherapy in acute respiratory failure treatment: the five marvelous.- 12. Non invasive ventilotherapy in acute respiratory failure treatment: emerging indications.- 13. Non invasive ventilotherapy in acute respiratory failure treatment: controversial indications.- 14. Eight rules to remember when using NIV to wean a patient.- 15. Tricks and trips of NIV.- 16. Negative predictors.- 17. Where to wean a patient during NIV.- 18. Non invasive ventilotherapy monitoring.- 19. How to interpret curves on a ventilator screen.- 20. Chronic mechanical ventilation: does a rationale exist?.- 21. Chronic ventilation in BPCO.- 22. Ventilation in patients with restrictive diseases.- 23. Rational bases of ventilation during sleep.- 24. Night ventilation: when CPAP, when NIV.