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Long-Term Ventilators for Intensive Therapy

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Springer Handbook of Medical Technology

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Abstract

Long-term ventilators are life-sustaining devices. Depending on patient conditions, intensive care ventilators must support or replace spontaneous breathing. In this context, optimizing mechanical ventilation and weaning the patient off the ventilator are typical challenges that caregivers face on the intensive care unit every day. To meet all clinical requirements, current ventilators provide many different ventilation and weaning modes, some of which are explained in this chapter.

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  1. D.W. Chang: Clinical Application of Mechanical Ventilation (Delmar, Albany 2001)

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  1. Thomas Peyn
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  1. Titisee, Germany

    Rüdiger Kramme

  2. Medical Engineering and Neuroprosthetics, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, St. Ingbert, Germany

    Klaus-Peter Hoffmann

  3. Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Robert S. Pozos

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Peyn, T. (2011). Long-Term Ventilators for Intensive Therapy. In: Kramme, R., Hoffmann, KP., Pozos, R.S. (eds) Springer Handbook of Medical Technology. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74658-4_27

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