Respiratory Medicine and Ventilation
Canonical Reading Material for the Exam Candidate

Oh's Intensive Care manual:

  • Chapter 18  (pp. 146) Monitoring  oxygenation by Thomas  J  Morgan  and  Balasubramanian  Venkatesh
  • Chapter 28  (pp. 327) Oxygen  therapy by Adrian  J  Wagstaff
  • Chapter 30 (pp. 354)   Acute  respiratory  failure  in  chronic  obstructive  pulmonary  disease  Matthew  T  Naughton  and  David  V  Tuxen
  • Chapter 31  (pp. 364) Mechanical  ventilation  by Andrew  D  Bersten
  • Chapter 32   (pp. 375) Humidification  and  inhalation  therapy by Steven  T  Galluccio  and  Andrew  D  Bersten
  • Chapter 33   (pp. 382) Acute  respiratory  distress  syndrome by Andrew  D  Bersten
  • Chapter 34   (pp. 392) Pulmonary  embolism by Andrew  R  Davies  and  David  V  Pilcher
  • Chapter 35   (pp. 401) Acute  severe  asthma by David  V  Tuxen  and  Matthew  T  Naughton
  • Chapter 36  (pp. 414)  Pneumonia by Kai  Man  Chan  and  Charles  D  Gomersall
  • Chapter 37  (pp. 429)  Non-invasive  ventilation  by Graeme  J  Duke  and  Andrew  D  Bersten
  • Chapter 38  (pp. 436)  Respiratory  monitoring by Andrew  D  Bersten
  • Chapter 39 (pp. 445)  Imaging  the  chest   by Simon  PG  Padley
  • Chapter 40   (pp. 461)  Ultrasound  in  the  ICU by Ubbo  F  Wiersema
  • Chapter 41  (pp. 472) Extracorporeal  membrane  oxygenation  (ECMO)  by Vincent  Pellegrino
  • Chapter 102 (pp. 1053)  Heart  and  lung  transplantation  by Peter  S  Macdonald  and  Paul  C  Jansz
  •  Chapter 105   (pp. 1085) Acute  respiratory  failure  in  children by Tavey  Dorofaeff  and  Kevin  Plumpton

Summaries and discussions of respiratory topics from Life in the Fast Lane are made available as a list of links in the Resources section.
Assessment of Respiratory Function
Assessment of oxygenation on the basis of arterial blood gases
Tension-based and content-based indices of oxygenation
End-tidal capnometry waveform interpretation
Formal pulmonary function tests
Peak pressure, plateau pressure and compliance
Analysis of ventilator waveforms
Pressure-volume and flow-volume loops
Mechanisms of ventilator breath triggering
Practical Questions in Mechanical Ventilation
Chest physiotherapy in the ICU
Non-invasive mechanical ventilation
High flow nasal prongs
Weaning from mechanical ventilation
Assessment of extubation readiness
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Definition, causes and differential diagnosis of ARDS
Ventilation strategies for ARDS
Optimal PEEP for open lung ventilation in ARDS
Transpulmonary pressure as a guide for therapy
Supportive non-ventilation strategies for ARDS
Failed experimental therapies for ARDS
Inhaled and systemic pulmonary vasodilators for ARDS
Outcomes in adult ARDS
Prone ventilation for ARDS
Advanced Strategies in Mechanical Ventilation
Physiology of gas exchange in HFOV
Principles of high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV)
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Recruitment manoeuvres
Management of Severe Asthma and COPD
Intrinsic PEEP and dynamic hyperinflation
Ventilation strategies for Status Asthmaticus
Ventilation strategies for COPD
Adverse Consequences of Mechanical Ventilation
Complications of invasive mechanical ventilation
Complications of prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation
Ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI or VILI)
Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony
Scenarios in Respiratory Medicine and Mechanical Ventilation
Causes of respiratory failure
Approach to hypercapneic respiratory failure
Differential diagnosis of wheeze
Lung biopsy
Causes and management of massive haemoptysis
Approach to the patient suddenly impossible to ventilate
Pulmonary embolism
Atelectasis
Bronchopleural fistula
Pleural effusion
Obstructive sleep apnoea
Methaemoglobinaemia
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the ICU
Mechanical ventilation for severe pneumonia
Mechanical ventilation for pulmonary oedema
Mechanical ventilation for the morbidly obese patient
Mechanical ventilation in neurosurgical ICU patients

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