Effectively managing a ventilator today is a highly-specialized procedure requiring art, science, and highly specialized tools. Oakes' Ventilator Management is THE critical care tool clinicians throughout the world keep in their lab coat pocket. Not only is this is a mandatory text for many students - an essential tool in the classroom and during clinicals but also an essential reference for the bedside professional to ensure delivery of the latest evidence-based guidelines for patient-ventilator management. Contents include ALL national standards and guidelines (ACCP weaning guidelines, AARC CPGs, COPD GOLD standards, NIH asthma guidelines, etc), ventilator needs and indications, 24 modes of ventilation, 50 pages of graphics (waveform analysis made easy), equations, assessment, troubleshooting, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Ventilator Reference Review:
The handbook arrived in a timely manner and it was in excellent condition.
Oakes ventilator Management:
I looked forward to receiving the reference guide because I knew from a previous purchase from the same author it was an excellent buy. It is well worth the money and the information helped me in a current class at college.
I recommend this reference guide to anyone that is a respiratory therapists,and nurses would enjoy this as well.
A real find!:
A completely idiot proof book on the basics and every day management of ventilators in the critical care setting. All of those annoying but vital formulas, clinically correlated and very neatly packed into a small handy manual. Who could ask for more? I would highly recommend it to all students, interns and residents that are going to be facing a ventilated patient at night on call. If you get this book, do yourself a favor and review well before starting your critical care rotation. It will pay BIG... more info
worth every penny:
It's a little black 6-ring binder, a little awkward in the pocket but still sits with you. Nothing specific to certain brand-names of ventilators but includes everything else including basic parameter interphasing, waveforms, management, and some fluffy-out-there stuff like liquid ventilation with perfluorocarbon, high-frequency ventilation, ILV and ECMO.
Bring it with you on your ICU rotation and never be caught with your pants down. For the price you'll pay, it's three giant textbooks condensed into one... more info
