Oakes Clinical Practitioners Pocket Guide To Respiratory Care

Now in its 10th edition, Oakes' Respiratory Care Pocket Guide has been vastly updated and reorganized to best serve the respiratory therapy community. Extensive updates to respiratory pharmacology, respiratory therapies and procedures, and advanced life support. We've simplified sections, including diseases and disorders, equations, and assessment. Dozens of diagrams updated or added. This title has been the standard for 40+ years and the new edition serves to take it long into the future.

Covers the most commonly performed pulmonary function tests, separated into individual chapters to allow a full overview of each test ...contains updated material including the latest guidelines and recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, the American Association for Respiratory Care, and the European Respiratory Society. Also included are new expanded chapters covering Maximal Inspiratory Testing, Expiratory Pressures Testing, Pediatrics, Blood Gases, and Reference Values. This text is a guide for both classroom learning and application in the clinical setting. -- Provided by publisher

A new, case-oriented and practical guide to one of the core techniques in respiratory medicine and critical care. Concise, practical reference designed for use in the critical care setting Case-oriented content is organised according to commonly encountered clinical scenarios Flow charts and algorithms delineate appropriate treatment protocols