Summary:

The field of non-invasive ventilation continues to expand rapidly since publication of the second edition of Non-Invasive Respiratory Support, new controversies have arisen and numerous practical guidelines have been issued. This expanded third edition with new international contributors has been fully revised and updated. It builds on the success of the highly-regarded previous editions, detailing the role of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in acute and chronic ventilatory failure, and the outcome of the intervention across a wide range of respiratory disorders in adults and children.

The book provides clear, step-by-step, evidence-based guidance on the practicalities of all the principal techniques, and advice is offered on indications for NIV, how to choose equipment, when to initiate therapy, and when to discontinue therapy.

From a highly respected international author team, this book provides invaluable guidance to respiratory physicians, intensivists, anaesthetists, nurses, physiotherapists and medical technicians working in this area.

• Accessible and user-friendly

• Provides guidance on the selection of patients for NIV in acute and chronic respiratory failure in both the hospital and domiciliary setting

• Discusses the practical issues associated with different patient groups, e.g. those with COPD, acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, neuromuscular disease, chest wall disorders, obesity hypoventilation and cystic fibrosis
• Offers a step-by-step problem-solving guide for starting and continuing NIV in acute and chronic respiratory failure
• Covers new indications, paediatric NIV, weaning and palliative care
• Provides an in-depth discussion of the use of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy in sleep disordered breathing in adults and children

• Compares NIV practice in Europe and USA

• Includes recent evidence based guidelines, protocols and consensus conference recommendations

• Considers the ethical and medico-legal aspects of assisted ventilation

Table of Contents:
1 Overview of indications for non-invasive respiratory support
2 Equipment for non-invasive ventilation: Ventilators, interfaces and accessories
3 Setting up a non-invasive ventilation service
4 Non-invasive ventilation in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
5 Continuous positive airway pressure and non-invasive ventilation in acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure
6 Acute non-invasive ventilation in neuromuscular disease, chest wall disorders and cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis
7 Starting non-invasive ventilation: Practical aspects
8 Cough assistance and physiotherapy aspects of the patient requiring non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
9 Problem-solving in acute non-invasive ventilation
10 Non-invasive ventilation and post-extubation respiratory failure
11 Weaning using non-invasive ventilation
12 Non-invasive ventilation in the emergency department, for transferring patients and during intercurrent procedures
13 Assessment and selection of patients for home ventilation
14 Domiciliary non-invasive ventilation in restrictive disorders and stable neuromuscular disease
15 Home ventilation in progressive disorders, quadriplegia and palliative non-invasive ventilation
16 Noninvasive ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
17 Home ventilation in cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis and diffuse interstitial lung disease
18 Discharging the ventilator-dependent patient and the home ventilatory care network
19 Problem-solving and transitions in long-term non-invasive ventilation
20 Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure in children
21 Home ventilation in children
22 Continuous positive airway pressure therapy for sleep disordered breathing in adults
23 Continuous positive airway pressure for sleep disordered breathing in children
24 Organization of long-term ventilation in Europe
25 Ethical and medico-legal aspects of assisted ventilation
Appendix One: Suppliers of ventilatory equipment
Appendix Two: Useful contact addresses

About the Author(s):

Anita K Simonds MD FRCP is Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London

Contributors:
50% UK / 50% Europe

Readership:
Core: Respiratory physicians, anaesthestists and intensivists in training and in practice; specialist nurses allied to these areas. Supplementary: Emergency medicine personnel, other nursing staff; p

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