Pharmacology in Noninvasive Ventilation by Esquinas, Antonio M.; Mina, Bushra; Spadaro, Savino;

Long description:

This book presents the best practice, indications and drugs most used in the practice of noninvasive ventilation (NIV). In the last two decades NIV has made a lot of progress in different scenarios and etiologies of respiratory failure. The treatment of these patients frequently involves the use of drugs to control patient's symptoms such as dyspnea, discomfort and some of them can have direct or indirect effects on lung function. The volume is organized into various sections - dedicated both to adults as well as pediatrics - where the most frequent clinical conditions requiring for the use of a pharmacological support are described. Furthermore, this book is conceived as a quick reference guide including an analysis of the indications of drugs dosage and the pharmacological interactions that can be observed in lung function in patients undergoing NIV.

Thanks to its contents, readers can quickly consult indications, contraindications, doses, the most suitable treatments to achieve the maximum NIV as well as the most important side effects reported by clinicians.

Table of Contents:

Noninvasive mechanical ventilation - Pharmacology-basic relationship.- Part I. Pharmacological Clinical Indications in Adults.- Airway diseases.- Sedation.- Analgesics.- Antinflammatory drugs.- Cardiovascular drugs.- Antibiotics drugs.- Sleep Medicine drugs.- Psychiatric drugs.- Procedures.- Part II. Monitoring and Complications Pharmacology in Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation.- Monitoring practical options.- Complications.- Part III. Pharmacological Clinical Indications in Pediatric Patients.- Aerosol Therapy (bronchodilators, corticoids), Surfactant Therapy, Humidification. Heliox/Nitric Oxygen.- Sedo analgesia.- Aerosol Therapy. Benzodiazepines, Dexmedetomidine, Ketamine, Opiates.- Aerosol Therapy. Anti-inflammatory drugs.- Antihypertensive drugs for pulmonary hypertension, Cardiovascular drugs for right and left Ventricular failure.- Neurologic drugs (anti-epileptic, anti-dystonic).- Dyspnoea, Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony, Sleep Disorder, Specific Infection-Highrisk viral, Cardiac pulmonary Edema, Chronic Heart failure.- Adaptation-Intolerance, Delirium in Agitated patients, Neuromuscular disorders Breathing and swallowing, Convulsive therapy.- Procedures.- Part IV. Special Section-ePocket Guide For Drugs Dose Clinical Practical Approach in Special NIV Indications.- Persistent-Dyspnoea.- Discomfort-Adaptation-Intolerance Patient-ventilator asynchrony.- Cardiac pulmonary edema.- Politraumatized patients.- Preoxygenation Adjunct to extubation-noninvasive mechanical ventilation.- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.- Neuromuscular disorders.