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Anesthesia and the Lung 1992 presents recent advances in the diagnosis, pre-, intra-, and postoperative anesthetic management of patients with lung disease, presenting for pulmonary and non-pulmonary surgery. It also deals with ventilation-perfusion issues, the lung as a metabolic organ, the effects of anesthesia on pulmonary mechanics and pulmonary blood flow. In addition, there are chapters that focus on hypoxia; regional differences in the lung; pulmonary surfactant; recent advances in the understanding of pulmonary edema; high altitude disease; anesthesia and the control of breathing; recent development in oximetry; instrumentation designed to measure pulmonary oxygen tension, pO 2 and pCO 2 transcutaneously; differential lung ventilation; reactive airways; septic shock; the adult respiratory distress syndrome and numerous aspects of ventilatory support.
List of contents
Gravity and the Lung: Lessons from Space.- Control of the Pulmonary Cireulation.- A Primer on Pulmonary Cell Biology: Lung Cells and Their Function.- Pulmonary Cireula tion Ouring Anesthesia.- Pulmonary Edema Caused by Stress Failure of Capillaries.- Meehanisms of Lung Injury: An Overview.- Hemodynamic Determinants of Pulmonary Edema and Pleural Effusions.- Oxygen Consumption Measurements Ouring Artificial Ventilation.- The Hypoxie Brain.- Severe Hypoxia: Insights from Extreme Altitude.- Respiratory Control Related to Altitude and Anesthesia.- Laetic Acidosis, Type A.- Rib Cage Contribution to Ventilation During Anesthesia.- Oxygen - The Breath of Life.- Management of the Patient with Reactive Airway Disease.- Management of the Difficult Airway Part I: Epidemiology, the ASA Algorithm and Recognition.- Management of the Difficult Airway Part II: Proper Preparation for the Awake Intubation, Fiberoptie and Retrograde Techniques.- Management of the Diffieult Airway Part III: The Anesthetized Patient Whose Trachea is Difficult to Intubate, Transtracheal Jet Ventilation, The Difficult Extubation and Jet Stylets.- Influence of Anestheties on Pulmonary Gas Exchange.- Assessment of Respiratory Mechanics During Mechanical Ventilation.- Physiologic Effects of Raised Airway Pressure.- Pulmonary Embolic Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment.- Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Hemodynamics and Therapy in ARDS.- Respiratory Mechanics in ARDS Patients.- New Modes of Ventilatory Support.- Septic Shock.- To PEEP or Not to PEEP ARDS Patients?.- Monitoring Cardiopulmonary Function with Dual Oximetry.
