عنوان

Non-invasive ventilation and weaning :

1. Non-invasive ventilation: From the past to the present

PART 1: THE EQUIPMENT

2. Positive pressure ventilators

3. Continuous positive airway pressure

4. Emerging modes for non-invasive ventilation

5. Extracorporeal CO2 removal

6. Interfaces

7. Quality control of non-invasive ventilation: Performance, service, maintenance and infection control of ventilators

8. Humidifiers and drug delivery during non-invasive ventilation

9. How to start a patient on non-invasive ventilation

PART 2: THE PRACTICE -- ACUTE NIV

10. How to set up an acute non-invasive ventilation service

11. Education programmes/assessment of staff competencies

12. Monitoring during acute non-invasive ventilation

13. Troubleshooting non-invasive ventilation

14. Sedation and delirium

15. Timing of non-invasive ventilation

16. Why non-invasive ventilation works in acute respiratory failure?

17. Predicting outcome in patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure

18. Use of NIV in the real world

PART 3: THE PRACTICE -- CHRONIC NIV

19. Chronic ventilator service

20. Diagnostic tests in the assessment of patients for home mechanical ventilation

21. Ultrasound

22. Patient and caregiver education

23. Discharging the patient on home ventilation

24. Monitoring during sleep during chronic non-invasive ventilation

25. Continuity of care and telemonitoring

PART 4: THE DISEASES

26. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure

PART 5. :COPD

27. Non-invasive ventilation for exacerbation of COPD

28. NIV in chronic COPD

29. Non-invasive ventilation in COPD: The importance of comorbidities and phenotypes

30. High-intensity non-invasive positive pressure ventilation

PART 6: HYPOXAEMIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE

31. Home oxygen therapy in chronic respiratory failure

32. Acute oxygen therapy

33. High-flow oxygen therapy: Physiological effects and clinical evidence

34. Equipment for oxygen therapy

35. Non-invasive ventilation for hypoxaemic respiratory failure

PART 7: CARDIAC FAILURE

36. Acute heart failure syndrome

37. Ventilation in chronic congestive cardiac failure

PART 8: NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE

38. Muscle disorders and ventilatory failure

39. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure in neuromuscular diseases

40. Slowly progressive neuromuscular diseases

41. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

42. Duchenne muscular dystrophy

43. Central sleep apnoea

44. Mouthpiece ventilation for daytime ventilatory support

PART 9: CHEST WALL DEFORMITY

45. Scoliosis

PART 10: OBESITY

46. Pathophysiology of respiratory failure in obesity

47. Acute non-invasive ventilation in obesity-related respiratory failure

48. Non-invasive ventilation in acute and chronic respiratory failure due to obesity

PART 11: OTHER CONDITIONS

49. Bronchiectasis and adult cystic fibrosis

50. Non-invasive ventilation in highly infectious conditions: Lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome

51. NIV in cancer patients

52. Non-invasive ventilation in the elderly

53. Post-surgery non-invasive ventilation

54. Trauma

55. Spinal cord injuries

PART 12: PAEDIATRIC VENTILATORY FAILURE

56. Equipment and interfaces in children

57. Chronic non-invasive ventilation for children

58. Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in children with acute respiratory failure

PART 13: SPECIAL SITUATIONS

59. Bronchoscopy during non-invasive ventilation

60. Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in the obstetric population

61. Diaphragm pacing (by phrenic nerve stimulation)

62. Tracheostomy

63. Swallowing and phonation during ventilation

PART 14: PROLONGED WEANING