Oxford Textbook of Respiratory Critical Care

Respiratory critical care is central to modern intensive care medicine. A working knowledge of specific lung conditions and syndromes, their pathophysiological basis, and up-to-date management strategies define effective multi-disciplinary support. The Oxford Textbook of Respiratory Critical Care provides the reader with evidence-based, contemporary clinical practice for the respiratory disease within critical care. Each chapter offers key messages, controversies, and further research points as adjuncts to the authoritative text and important references. Clinicians will find unique sections containing a comprehensive background to and management of common and unusual lung conditions within the setting of acute severe illness. Such a reference source should act as an important practical guide to acute care clinicians and researchers across many specialties, from Critical Care and Anaesthesia, through Respiratory, Acute, and Emergency Medicine. The 10 sections cover (1) fundamental and historical concepts of the lung in critical illness, (2) organizational aspects of critical care and emergency planning, (3) practice of non-invasive ventilation, (4) initiation and management of invasive mechanical ventilation, (5) monitoring and investigation of the critically ill respiratory patient, (6) airway management and advanced respiratory support, (7) bedside management of the ventilated patient, (8) respiratory infections in critical illness, (9) common and rare lung diseases associated with critical illness, and (10) weaning and long-term ventilation. The OTRCC will appeal to a global readership, while providing clinical practice points for respiratory disease presenting outside their usual sphere of practice, and for less common respiratory disease manifestations. A chapter dedicated to COVID-19, and individual chapters, refers to its impact in specific areas of respiratory critical care.