Invasive ventilation is a frequently used lifesaving intervention in critical care. The ERS Practical Handbook of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation provides a concise “why and how to” guide to invasive ventilation, ensuring that caregivers can apply invasive ventilation safely and develop a thorough understanding of its underlying principles, ensuring that they and their patients gain the most value from this intervention.

For the second edition of this practical handbook, the chief editors Leo Heunks and Marcus J. Schultz have brought together leading clinicians and researchers in the field to provide an easy-to-read guide to all aspects of invasive ventilation. Topics covered include: underlying physiology, equipment, invasive ventilation in specific diseases, patient monitoring, supportive therapy and rescue strategies, inhalation therapy during invasive ventilation, weaning from invasive ventilation and technical aspects of the ventilator.

This practical handbook is a valuable reference and training resource for all invasive ventilation practitioners.

•             User-friendly format, with key point summaries

•             A focus on practical aspects and problem solving

•             Online multiple-choice questions to enable self-assessment

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ European Respiratory Society
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ 13 April 2026
• Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849842116
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849842112

Develop essential skills for enhancing respiratory health, ensuring accurate assessment and patient-focused treatment

Clinical Skills and the Respiratory System delivers a structured approach to understanding and mastering the clinical assessment and procedural skills that are essential for delivering safe, effective and compassionate care for patients with conditions affecting the respiratory system.

Part of Peate’s Clinical Skills, a 12-book series that combines knowledge of human anatomy and physiology with practical, confident clinical skills, this volume is organised into chapters covering how to engage with patients, assessing the respiratory system, health promotion, planning care for asthma, vital signs, peak expiratory flow rate, oxygen therapy, and pulse oximetry.

Clinical Skills and the Respiratory System equips readers with:

• Clear explanations of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology relevant to the respiratory system
• Step-by-step guidance on assessment, examination, and procedural techniques, emphasising best practice and patient safety
• Insights on interpreting findings, recognising abnormalities, and applying knowledge to guide care decisions
• Guidance on teamwork, infection prevention and control, documentation, and patient-centred care throughout clinical practice
• Strategies to explain diagnoses, treatment plans, and care procedures to patients and families, while offering emotional support

Clinical Skills and the Respiratory System is an essential resource for all healthcare and social care students―including those returning to practice and newly qualified practitioners―who manage patients with respiratory conditions and seek practical ways to deliver a higher standard of care.

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 27, 2026
• Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1394338848
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1394338849

By Steven E. Weinberger MD MACP FRCP, Barbara A. Cockrill MD, Jess Mandel MD FACP

Using a concise, understandable approach, Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, 8th Edition, provides a broad overview of this fast-changing field, integrating clinical topics with underlying physiologic, pathophysiologic, and basic science concepts. From cover to cover, it clearly explains and illustrates even the most challenging concepts in a uniquely readable and digestible fashion. With its emphasis on pathophysiology and diagnosis as the basis for optimal management of respiratory disorders, this popular text is an essential reference for medical students, trainees, and those looking for a practical update on both acute and chronic pulmonary diseases.

• Presents physiologic concepts, pathogenetic and pathophysiologic mechanisms, and radiologic and pathologic correlates of disease in a clear, understandable manner.
• Features extensive content updates on interstitial lung disease, emerging and/or viral infections (including COVID-19), lung cancer, asthma, and new biologic and immunologic treatments available for a variety of diseases.
• Contains excellent visuals for understanding and interpreting pulmonary disease with easy-to-understand anatomic illustrations and accompanying radiologic and pathophysiologic images―now all in full color for the first time. This edition provides even more images, especially chest radiographs and CT scans, that offer more examples of clinical disorders.
• Provides therapeutic strategies, including evidence for assessing relative benefits, harms, and costs.
• Includes useful appendices that provide simplified methods for interpreting pulmonary function tests and arterial blood gases, while also presenting sample problems that test the reader’s ability to use respiratory equations, assess pulmonary function abnormalities, and interpret arterial blood gases.
• Provides access to extensive online content such as author commentaries, video clips, audio recordings of lung sounds, and over 200 case-based self-assessment questions modeled after the USMLE exam.
• Includes margin notes throughout the text that summarize the major points and concepts and allow the reader to quickly review the material.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Elsevier; 8th edition (August 15, 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0323880568
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0323880565