Assisted Ventilation of the Neonate

Readers can access expert coverage of all aspects of the basic science and management of neonatal pulmonary care-including complications, nutrition, transport, outcomes, follow-up, and parental education. Ventilatory management case studies let them test and hone diagnostic and clinical abilities with problems drawn from actual patients.
The Fourth Edition presents new chapters on:

• control of ventilation
• specialized ventilator techniques and modalities
• exogenous surfactant therapy
• ventilatory strategies
• nitric oxide
• the ethical considerations of assisted ventilation