"Useful for all practitioners of acute care medicine, including the postgraduate trainees of critical care medicine, emergency medicine and others. Covers all important aspects of mechanical ventilation Physiology of respiration Heart-Lung interactions Artificial airway uses and complications How, what and why of mechanical ventilation? Starting from basic and ending with advanced modes of ventilation Use of extracorporeal therapies in acute respiratory failure How do you get your patient to speak, while being ventilated? Much more"