Ventilatory Support and Oxygen Therapy in Elder, Palliative and End-of-Life Care Patients

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Spontaneous Breathing Pattern
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   Chapter 2 Gas Exchange and Control of Breathing in Elderly and End-of-Life Diseases
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   Chapter 3 Acute and Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure: Impact of Chronic Lung Comorbidities
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   Chapter 4 Chronic Cardiac Disorders
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   Chapter 5 The Infections Causing Acute Respiratory Failure in Elderly Patients
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   Chapter 6 Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders
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   Chapter 7 Definitions, Criteria and Management of NIV for Very Old Patients with Limitations to Respiratory Care
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   Chapter 8 Ventilatory Support and Oxygen Therapy in the Elderly Palliative and End-of-Life Care Patients
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    Chapter 9 NIV Applications
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    Chapter 10 Oxygen Therapy and Nasal High-Flow Therapy
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    Chapter 11 Medical Conditions
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    Chapter 12 Pneumonia
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    Chapter 13 Acute Chronic Insufficiency
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    Chapter 14 Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure in Immunocompromised Patients: The Role of Non-invasive Ventilation and High-Flow Oxygen Therapy
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    Chapter 15 Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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    Chapter 16 NIV After Cardiothoracic Surgery and Thoracic Surgery
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    Chapter 17 Nocturnal NIV in COPD Patients with Prolonged Hypercapnia After Ventilatory Support for Acute Respiratory Failure
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    Chapter 18 Use of NIV in Non-surgery Procedures in Elderly (Sedation, Bronchoscopy, Gastroscopy)
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    Chapter 19 Use of NIV in Surgery Procedures in Elderly (Noninvasive Surgery): Continuous Spinal Anesthesia
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    Chapter 20 Mechanical Ventilation-Specific Surgery Conditions
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    Chapter 21 Extubation and Reintubation Conditions
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    Chapter 22 Ventilatory Modes: Pressure Support Ventilation and Other Ventilatory Options
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    Chapter 23 Weaning Mechanical Ventilation
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    Chapter 24 Rehabilitation in Critical Illness and Palliative Care
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    Chapter 25 Sedation and Analgesia in Mechanical Ventilation
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    Chapter 26 Management of Elderly Patients with Delirium Syndrome
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    Chapter 27 Home Discharge: Planning, Policies, and Impact on Hospital Admission and Outcome
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    Chapter 28 Home Mechanical Ventilation
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    Chapter 29 The Role of Non-invasive Home Mechanical Ventilation in Elderly Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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    Chapter 30 Predictors of Outcome of NIV in Elder, Palliative, and End-of-Life Care Patients
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    Chapter 31 Prognosis Following Acute Exacerbation of COPD Treated with Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation
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    Chapter 32 Readmission Elderly Critically Patients
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    Chapter 33 End-of-Life Care of Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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    Chapter 34 The Hospital Organisation for the Management of Acute Respiratory Failure
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    Chapter 35 Hospital Organisations of ARF in Elderly
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    Chapter 36 NIV in Palliative Medicine and End-of-Life Care: The Perspectives of Patients, Families and Clinicians
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    Chapter 37 Legal Issues (Surrogacy Laws, Informed Consent)
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    Chapter 38 Neuromuscular Patients (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Conditions)
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    Chapter 39 Non-neuromuscular Patients (Kyphoscoliosis)
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    Chapter 40 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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    Chapter 41 Respiratory Failure and Critically Ill Cancer Patients
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    Chapter 42 Recommendations for Noninvasive Ventilation on Survival and Quality of Life
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    Chapter 43 Quality of Life and Complications After Percutaneous Tracheostomy
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    Chapter 44 The Concept of Quality of Life in Elderly Patients and Advanced Stages
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    Chapter 45 Recommendations: European and Non-European Perspectives About the use of NIV in the Palliative and Elderly Context