Contributors
1. Non-invasive ventilation: From the past to the present
Dominique Robert and Barry Make
PART 1: THE EQUIPMENT
2. Positive pressure ventilators
Dean R. Hess
3. Continuous positive airway pressure
Annie Lecavalier and Peter Goldberg
4. Emerging modes for non-invasive ventilation
Paolo Navalesi, Federico Longhini, Rosanna Vaschetto and Antonio Messina
5. Extracorporeal CO2 removal
Lara Pisani and V. Marco Ranieri
6. Interfaces
Cesare Gregoretti, Vincenzo Russotto and Davide Chiumello
7. Quality control of non-invasive ventilation: Performance, service, maintenance and infection control of ventilators
Jordi Rigau and Ramon Farre
8. Humidifiers and drug delivery during non-invasive ventilation
Antonio M. Esquinas Rodriguez and Maria Vargas
9. How to start a patient on non-invasive ventilation
Raffaele Scala and Martin Latham
PART 2: THE PRACTICE - ACUTE NIV
10. How to set up an acute non-invasive ventilation service
Paul K. Plant and Gregory A. Schmidt
11. Education programmes/assessment of staff competencies
Alanna Hare
12. Monitoring during acute non-invasive ventilation
Eumorfia Kondili, Nektaria Xirouchaki and Dimitris Georgopoulos
13. Troubleshooting non-invasive ventilation
Nicholas S. Hill, Mayanka Tickoo and Najia Indress
14. Sedation and delirium
Lara Pisani, Maria Laura Vega and Cesare Gregoretti
15. Timing of non-invasive ventilation
Stefano Nava and Paolo Navalesi
16. Why non-invasive ventilation works in acute respiratory failure?
Miguel Ferrer and Antoni Torres
17. Predicting outcome in patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure
Tom Hartley and Stephen C. Bourke
18. Use of NIV in the real world
Mihaela Stefan, Peter Lindenauer, Najia Indress, Faisal Tamimi and Nicholas S. Hill
PART 3: THE PRACTICE - CHRONIC NIV
19. Chronic ventilator service
Maxime Patout, Antoine Cuvelier, Jean-Francois Muir and Peter Wijkstra
20. Diagnostic tests in the assessment of patients for home mechanical ventilation
Michael Polkey, Patrick B. Murphy and Nicholas Hart
21. Ultrasound
Daniel A. Lichtenstein
22. Patient and caregiver education
Ole Norregaard
23. Discharging the patient on home ventilation
Joan Escarrabill and Ole Norregaard
24. Monitoring during sleep during chronic non-invasive ventilation
Jean-Paul Janssens, Jean-Christian Borel, Dan Adler and Jean-Louis Pepin
25. Continuity of care and telemonitoring
Michele Vitacca
PART 4: THE DISEASES
26. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure
Paul P. Walker and Peter M. Calverley
PART 5. :COPD
27. Non-invasive ventilation for exacerbation of COPD
Martin Dres, Alexandre Demoule and Laurent Brochard
28. NIV in chronic COPD
Enrico M. Clini, Nicolino Ambrosino, Ernesto Crisafulli and Guido Vagheggini
29. Non-invasive ventilation in COPD: The importance of comorbidities and phenotypes
Jean-Louis Pepin, Jean-Paul Janssens, Renaud Tamisier, Damien Viglino, Dan Adler and Jean-Christian Borel
30. High-intensity non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
Sarah Bettina Schwarz, Friederike Sophie Magnet and Wolfram Windisch
PART 6: HYPOXAEMIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE
31. Home oxygen therapy in chronic respiratory failure
Jadwiga A. Wedzicha and Mark W. Elliott
32. Acute oxygen therapy
Mark W. Elliott
33. High-flow oxygen therapy: Physiological effects and clinical evidence
Nuttapol Rittayamai, Arnaud W. Thille and Laurent Brochard
34. Equipment for oxygen therapy
Jane Slough
35. Non-invasive ventilation for hypoxaemic respiratory failure
Massimo Antonelli and Giuseppe Bello
PART 7: CARDIAC FAILURE
36. Acute heart failure syndrome
Ross S. Archibald and Alasdair J. Gray
37. Ventilation in chronic congestive cardiac failure
Matthew T. Naughton
PART 8: NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
38. Muscle disorders and ventilatory failure
David Hilton-Jones
39. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure in neuromuscular diseases
Franco Laghi, Hameeda Shaikh and Dejan Radovanovic
40. Slowly progressive neuromuscular diseases
Vikram A. Padmanabhan and Joshua O. Benditt
41. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Stephen C. Bourke and John Steer
42. Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Anita K. Simonds
43. Central sleep apnoea
Shahrokh Javaheri and Mark W. Elliott
44. Mouthpiece ventilation for daytime ventilatory support
Miguel R. Goncalves and Tiago Pinto
PART 9: CHEST WALL DEFORMITY
45. Scoliosis
William J. M. Kinnear
PART 10: OBESITY
46. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure in obesity
Francesco Fanfulla
47. Acute non-invasive ventilation in obesity-related respiratory failure
Patrick B. Murphy and Nicholas Hart
48. Non-invasive ventilation in acute and chronic respiratory failure due to obesity
Juan Fernando Masa, Isabel Utrabo and Francisco Javier Gomez de Terreros
PART 11: OTHER CONDITIONS
49. Bronchiectasis and adult cystic fibrosis
Sean Duffy, Frederic Jaffe and Gerard J. Criner
50. Non-invasive ventilation in highly infectious conditions: Lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome
David S. C. Hui
51. NIV in cancer patients
Raffaele Scala, Uberto Maccari, Giuseppina Ciarleglio, Valentina Granese and Chiara Madioni
52. Non-invasive ventilation in the elderly
Erwan L'Her and Corinne Troadec-L'Her
53. Post-surgery non-invasive ventilation
Maria Laura Vega and Stefano Nava
54. Trauma
Umberto Lucangelo, Massimo Ferluga and Matteo Segat
55. Spinal cord injuries
Sven Hirschfeld
PART 12: PAEDIATRIC VENTILATORY FAILURE
56. Equipment and interfaces in children
Alessandro Amaddeo, Annick Frapin and Brigitte Fauroux
57. Chronic non-invasive ventilation for children
Alessandro Amaddeo, Annick Frapin and Brigitte Fauroux
58. Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in children with acute respiratory failure
Giorgio Conti, Marco Piastra and Silvia Pulitano
PART 13: SPECIAL SITUATIONS
59. Bronchoscopy during non-invasive ventilation
Massimo Antonelli and Giuseppe Bello
60. Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in the obstetric population
Bushra Mina, Daniel Zapata and David Wisa
61. Diaphragm pacing (by phrenic nerve stimulation)
Jesus Gonzalez-Bermejo
62. Tracheostomy
Piero Ceriana, Paolo Pelosi and Maria Vargas
63. Swallowing and phonation during ventilation
Helene Prigent and Nicolas Terzi
PART 14: PROLONGED WEANING
64. End-of-life care and non-invasive ventilation
Christina Faull
65. Pathophysiology of weaning failure
Theodoros I. Vassilakopoulos
66. Non-invasive ventilation for weaning and extubation failure
Scott K. Epstein
67. Weaning strategies and protocols
Michele Vitacca and Luca Barbano
68. Specialised weaning units
Aditi Satti, James Brown, Gerard J. Criner and Bernd Schoenhofer
69. Psychological problems during weaning
Amal Jubran
PART 15: THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST AND ASSISTED VENTILATION
70. Respiratory physiotherapy (including cough assistance techniques and glossopharyngeal breathing)
Miguel R. Goncalves and Joao Carlos Winck
71. Rehabilitation
Rik Gosselink, Bruno Clerckx, T. Troosters, J. Segers and D. Langer
PART 16: OUTCOME MEASURES
72. Health status and quality of life
Wolfram Windisch
PART 17: THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE OF NIV
73. Psychological issues for the mechanically ventilated patient
Linda L. Bieniek, Daniel F. Dilling and Bernd Schoenhofer
74. The patient's journey
Stefano Nava
75. A patient's journey: NIV
Jeanette Erdmann and Andrea L. Klein
76. A carer's journey
Gail Beacock and Patrick Beacock
Index