Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physiology of ventilation and gas exchange / Hugh Montgomery -- Assessing the need for ventilatory support / Mick Nielsen and Iain Mackenzie -- Oxygen therapy, continuous positive airway pressure, and non-invasive ventilation / Ian Clement, Leigh Mansfield, and Simon Baudouin -- Management of the artificial airway / Peter Young and Iain Mackenzie -- Modes of mechanical ventilation / Peter Macnaughton and Iain Mackenzie -- Oxygenation / Bill Tunnicliffe and Sanjoy Shah -- Carbon dioxide clearance / Brian Keogh and Simon Finney -- Sedation, paralysis, and analgesia / Russell R. Miller III and E. Wesley Ely -- Nutrition in the mechanically ventilated patient / Clare Reid -- Mechanical ventilation of the patient with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / David Tuxen and Matthew T. Naughton -- Mechanical ventilation in patients with blast, burn, and chest trauma injuries / William T. McBride and Barry McGrattan -- Ventilatory support : extreme solutions / Alain Vuylsteke -- Heliox in airway obstruction and mechanical ventilation / Hubert Trübel -- Adverse effects and complications of mechanical ventilation / Iain Mackenzie and Peter Young -- Mechanical ventilation for transport / Terry Martin -- Special considerations in infants and children / Rob Ross Russell and Natalie Yeaney -- Tracheostomy / Abhiram Mallick, Andrew Bodenham, and Iain Mackenzie -- Weaning, extubation, and de-cannulation / Iain Mackenzie -- Long-term ventilatory support / Craig Davidson -- The history of mechanical ventilation / Iain Mackenzie.