Assisted Ventilation at Home

This is the first practical guide to this subject written specifically for those who wish to start a patient on assisted ventilation at home. Increasingly, patients with a wide variety of respiratory diseases are using assisted ventilation, and this book will serve as a functional guide to the practice. The concise, practical text reviews forms of assisted ventilation commonly used, covering all aspects from the selection of patients and choosing the appropriate technique to initiating assisted ventilation and organizing transfer into the community. Patients themselves will find the book enormously helpful as a 'patient's view' of the technique is also offered.Kinnear, W. J. is the author of 'Assisted Ventilation at Home ' with ISBN 9780192624000 and ISBN 0192624008.