Pulmonary Function in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Introduction with Special Reference to Ventilator-associated Barotrauma

   • J. Milic-Emili, C. Tantucci, M. Chassé, C. Corbeil

   Pages 1-8

3. Pneumotachographic Recording of Ventilatory Pattern

   • J. Sanchis, J. L. Díez-Betoret, J. Canet, P. Casan

   Pages 9-22

4. Spirometry

   • P. Casan, J. Sanchis

   Pages 23-38

5. Inspiratory Occluded Airway Pressure

   • R. Fernandez

   Pages 39-51

6. Transdiaphragmatic Pressure

   • L. Brochard

   Pages 52-61

7. Assessment of the Breathing Workload During Mechanical Ventilation

   • J. J. Marini

   Pages 62-80

8. Assessment of Diaphragmatic Function

   • M. Aubier

   Pages 81-85

9. Pulmonary Compliance

   • S. Benito

   Pages 86-98

10. Respiratory Impedance

    • D. Navajas, R. Farre, M. Rotger

    Pages 99-113

11. Elastance and Resistance of Respiratory System

    • J. Milic-Emili

    Pages 114-120

12. Respiratory Inductive Plethysmography

    • J. DalľAva-Santucci, A. Armanganidis

    Pages 121-142

13. Closing Volume

    • J. Ibáñez, J. M. Raurich

    Pages 143-154

14. Functional Residual Capacity in Acute Respiratory Failure. Methods of Measurement in the Ventilated Patients and Their Clinical Utility

    • J. Mancebo

    Pages 155-168

15. FRC and Efficiency of Gas Mixing in the Lung. SF6

    • B. Jonson

    Pages 169-173

16. Determination of Lung-Ventilation and Perfusion by Isotope Technique

    • G. Hedenstierna, L. Tokics

    Pages 174-182

17. Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique

    • R. Rodríguez-Roisin

    Pages 183-190

18. Pulmonary Diffusion Capacity

    • H. Burchardi, T. Stokke

    Pages 191-207

19. Blood Gases

    • J. M. Raurich, J. Ibáñez

    Pages 208-220

20. Pulse Oximetry in the Intensive Therapy Unit

    • C. D. Hanning, D. M. Lassey

    Pages 221-233

This welcome addition to the series Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine emerges from the most recent of a series of meetings organized by Alvar Net and Salvador Benito of Barcelona. This gathering provided a forum for European intensive care specialists to exchange ideas, knowledge and experience on, the measurements feasible in mechanically ventilated patients. The scope was ambitious, ranging from basics like the measurement of airway pressure and blood gases to topics such as CT, MRI and the multiple inert gas elimination technique. The success of the meeting made publication a logical consequence. The book is unique in its breadth. The contributors, from numerous centers in Europe and North America, cover all tech­ niques employed in intensive care units, describing indications, contraindications, procedures, biases and complications. This volume will be an invaluable source for intensive care specialists and other clinicians. Alongside practical descriptions of procedures they employ routinely (spirometry, measurement of sys­ temic vascular oxygen pressure, Swan-Ganz catheterization, BOPA etc.), they will find accounts of such sophisticated techniques as on­ line measurement offunctional residual capacity, isotope determina­ tion of ventilation/perfusion ratios, diaphragmatic metabolism and peripheral oxygen exchange. I am especially happy to see the book published by Springer-Verlag, which has distinguished itself in the field of intensive care medicine.

• Acute respiratory failure
• Akuter Atemstillstand
• Beatmung
• Künstliche Beatmung
• Lungenfunktion
• Pneumotachograph
• Trauma
• angiography
• lung function
• magnetic resonance spectroscopy
• mechanical ventilation
• spectroscopy
• tomography

• Servei de Medicina Intensiva Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Salvador Benito, Alvar Net

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