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Pulmonary Function Indices in Critical Care Patients

Respiration is a unique topic among various subdisciplines of physiology. Physiolo­ gists and clinicians are now able to communicate quantitative functional properties of lung mechanics and gas exchange in the language of the engineer, physicist and mathematician. This is largely due to intensive an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brunner, Josef X., Wolff, Gunther (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
Subjects:
Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesiology
Biomedical Engineering
Human Physiology
Biomedical Engineering And Bioengineering
Intensive Care Medicine
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 7.7. Determination and Dependencies of the Delay Time Between Flow Sensor and Mass Spectrometer
  • 7.8. List of Formulas
  • 7.9. Result-Tables
  • References
  • 1. Evaluation of Pulmonary Function in the Intensive Care Patient
  • 1.1. The Clinically Important Pulmonary Function Index
  • 1.2. What Clinicians Expect of Transducers and Data Processing
  • 1.3. A Measuring System for Clinical Research
  • 2. Derivation of the Pulmonary Function Indices
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Breathing Mechanics
  • 2.3. Lung Volume and Intrapulmonary Gas Mixing
  • 2.4. Transpulmonary Gas Transport: Exchange of O2 and CO2
  • 3. Assessment of Pulmonary Function Indices
  • 3.1. Sensors
  • 3.2. Data Processing
  • 3.3. Testing the Measuring System
  • 3.4. Use of the Measuring System in the Intensive Care Unit
  • 3.5. Sensitivity of the Indices in the Presence of Acute Pathological Changes in the Lungs: Case Studies
  • 4. Application I: Standard Values Dring Mechanical Ventilation After Cardiac Surgery
  • 4.1. Patients and Examination
  • 4.2. The Ventilation
  • 4.3. Breathing Mechanics
  • 4.4. Accessible Pulmonary Volume
  • 4.5. Washout Efficiency and Moment Analysis
  • 4.6. CO2 Production and O2 Consumption
  • 4.7. Conventional Indices for CO2 Exchange
  • 4.8. Specific Indices for CO2 Exchange
  • 4.9. Cardiac Output
  • 4.10. Correlations
  • 5. Application II: A Study on Optimizing Mechanical Ventilation
  • 5.1. Problem
  • 5.2. Studies by Other Authors
  • 5.3. Hypotheses
  • 5.4. Patients and Methods
  • 5.5. Results and Discussion
  • 5.6. Summarizing Discussion and Conclusions
  • 6. Application III: A Study on Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation (IMV)
  • 6.1. Patients and Methods
  • 6.2. Results
  • 6.3. Discussion
  • 7. Appendices
  • 7.1. On the Morphology of the Lungs
  • 7.2. Technical Principles of Mechanical Ventilation
  • 7.3. Measuring the Pleural Pressure with an Esophageal Balloon
  • 7.4. Transport Equation for Convection and Diffusion
  • 7.5. Relationship Between Dead Space andV?A/Q? Scatter
  • 7.6. Viscosity of Gas Mixture

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