"Respiratory Care: Principles and Practice, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly reviewed and updated with the latest content to reflect current trends and topics important to contemporary respiratory care practice. With foundations in evidence-based research, the fourth edition covers patient assessment, respiratory therapeutics, respiratory diseases, applied sciences, and the professional aspects of respiratory care. Brand new chapters have been added to cover topics such as lung transplantation and sepsis, and the inclusion of new contributors has infused new perspectives and more modern coverage of important topics"--Publisher's description.

Part I: Respiratory assessment. History and physical examination -- Respiratory monitoring -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Arterial blood gas sampling, analysis, and interpretation -- Blood chemistries and hematology -- Cardiac assessment -- Imaging the thorax -- Pulmonary function testing -- Interventional pulmonary procedures -- Polysomnography -- Nutrition assessment and support -- Cardiopulmonary exercise assessment -- Part II: Respiratory therapeutics. Therapeutic gases: manufacture, storage, and delivery -- Therapeutic gases: management and administration -- Humidity and aerosol therapy -- Airway clearance and lung expansion therapy -- Airway management -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Mechanical ventilators: classification and principles of operation -- Mechanical ventilation -- Noninvasive respiratory support -- Neonatal and pediatric respiratory care -- Extracorporeal life support for respiratory failure -- Pulmonary rehabilitation -- Home respiratory care -- Disaster management -- Respiratory care of the elderly -- Patient safety -- Part III: Respiratory diseases. Principles of disease management -- Patient education -- Infection control principles -- Asthma -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Interstitial lung disease -- Pulmonary vascular disease -- Pneumonia -- Cystic fibrosis -- Acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Postoperative respiratory care -- Heart failure -- Trauma -- Burn and inhalation injury -- Neuromuscular dysfunction -- Sleep-disordered breathing -- Perioperative management of lung transplant recipients -- Lung cancer -- Neonatal and pediatric respiratory disorders -- Part IV: Applied sciences for respiratory care. Respiratory anatomy -- Ventilation and oxygenation -- Respiratory mechanics -- Control of breathing -- Cardiovascular, renal, and neural anatomy and physiology -- Physical principles -- Chemistry for respiratory care -- Respiratory microbiology -- Respiratory drugs -- Section V: The respiratory care profession. History of the respiratory care profession -- Professional organizations -- Ethics of healthcare delivery -- Healthcare economics -- Respiratory care research and evidence-based practice.