The Respiratory Tract in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-11

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2. Respiratory Physiology

   • Howard E. Jeffries, Lynn D. Martin

   Pages 1-12

3. Disorders of the Pediatric Chest

   • Margaret A. Chase, Derek S. Wheeler

   Pages 1-15

4. Respiratory Monitoring

   • John Marcum, Christopher J.L. Newth

   Pages 1-14

5. Bronchoscopy in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

   • Robert E. Wood

   Pages 1-5

6. Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

   • Michael Vish, Thomas P. Shanley

   Pages 1-17

7. Mechanical Ventilation

   • Alik Kornecki, Brian P. Kavanagh

   Pages 1-14

8. Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury

   • Shinya Tsuchida, Brian P. Kavanagh

   Pages 1-6

9. Prone Positioning

   • Nilesh M. Mehta, Martha A.Q. Curley

   Pages 1-10

10. High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation

    • Kathleen M. Ventre, John H. Arnold

    Pages 1-11

11. Pulmonary Surfactant: Biology and Therapy

    • Douglas F. Willson, Patricia R. Chess, Zhengdong Wang, Robert H. Notter

    Pages 1-14

12. Nitric Oxide

    • Emily L. Dobyns, Eva N. Grayck

    Pages 1-6

13. Extracorporeal Life Support for Children with Acute Respiratory Failure

    • Heidi J. Dalton, Angela T. Wratney

    Pages 1-12

14. Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract

    • Renuka Mehta, Suriyanarayana P. Hariprakash, Peter N. Cox, Derek S. Wheeler

    Pages 1-21

15. Congenital Airway and Respiratory Tract Anomalies

    • Michael J. Rutter

    Pages 1-6

16. Status Asthmaticus

    • Derek S. Wheeler, Kristen Page, Thomas P. Shanley

    Pages 1-25

17. Bronchiolitis

    • Ann Marie LeVine

    Pages 1-7

18. Pneumonia and Empyema

    • Imad Y. Haddad, David N. Cornfield

    Pages 1-10

19. Pediatric Lung Transplantation

    • David N. Cornfield, Imad Y. Haddad

    Pages 1-6

20. Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure

    • Margaret F. Guill, Thomas P. Shanley

    Pages 1-10

The principal role of the respiratory system is to permit ef? cient exchange of respiratory gases (O and CO ) with the environment. The respiratory system is unique in that it is constantly 2 2 exposed to a barrage of foreign substances from both the internal environment (at any one point in time, approximately one-half of the cardiac output is received by the lungs) and the external environment (with each breath, the respiratory tract is exposed to pollens, viruses, bacteria, smoke, etc). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, diseases of the res- ratory system were the seventh and eighth leading causes of deaths in children aged 1 to 19 years in 2003 [1]. Dr. George A. Gregory, one of the founding fathers of pediatric critical care me- cine, once estimated that acute respiratory failure accounts for nearly 50% of all admissions to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) [2]. Just as important are the many diseases that affect the respiratory system that are not associated with acute respiratory failure, but nevertheless constitute a major portion of the practice of pediatric critical care medicine, some of which account for signi? cant morbidity and mortality [3]. Once again, we would like to dedicate this textbook to our families and to the physicians and nurses who provide steadfast care every day in pediatric intensive care units across the globe. Derek S. Wheeler Hector R. Wong Thomas P.

• asthma
• care
• critical care
• intensive care
• intensive care medicine
• mechanical ventilation
• transplantation
• infectious diseases

From the reviews:

"Pulmonary issues including mechanical ventilation and pediatric respiratory disease are the focus of this softcover book … . Senior trainees and practitioners managing critical ill children are an appropriate audience for this work … . This book provides an excellent review of critical care physiology in a discussion of mechanical ventilation and other therapies." (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2009)

• Medical Center, Div. of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, U.S.A.

  Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong

• C.S. Mott Children's Hospital , Pediatric Critical Care Medicine , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.

  Thomas P. Shanley

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