Handbook of Respiratory Care

Robert Chatburn · Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila

Oct 2010 · Jones & Bartlett Learning

About this ebook

Handbook of Respiratory Care, Third Edition of this comprehensive resource compiles a wide variety of data relevant to the care of patients with respiratory disorders as well as current research in pulmonary physiology. Data from many sources in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, physics, mathematics, and engineering are brought together in this handy reference. This valuable, time-saving resource provides concise, accurate data not found in other textbooks. Handbook of Respiratory Care serves as reference for multiple topics such as commonly and not commonly used equations in pulmonary, cardiovascular and respiratory care. It also provides information on commonly used scores in research as well as the methods and equations used to compute them.

About the author

Robert L. Chatburn, MHHS, RRT-NPS, FAARC is Associate Professor, department of medicine, Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care. Rob is currently the clinical research manager, section of respiratory therapy, at the Cleveland Clinic. Previously he was the technical director of respiratory care at University Hospitals for 20 years. He is the author of 11 textbooks and over 250 publications in medical journals. He is an Associate Editor of Respiratory Care Journal and is recognized internationally as a research scientist and authority on mechanical ventilation and pediatric respiratory care. Mr. Chatburn was born and raised in Niles Ohio. He received an AS degree from Cuyahoga Community and BS and MHHS degrees from Youngstown State University. He started his career at Rainbow Babies & Childrens Hospital in 1977. In 1979 he was promoted to research coordinator. In 1986 he took the position of technical director of pediatric respiratory care and in 1995 annexed the adult division as well. In 1997 he became assistant professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University and was promoted to associate professor in 1998. In 2006 Mr. Chatburn became clinical research manager, section of respiratory therapy, at the Cleveland Clinic. His academic appointment is currently associate professor, department of medicine, Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Rob was among the first 13 people awarded fellowship in the American Association for Respiratory Care in 1998 and was the recipient of the 2007 Forrest M. Bird Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award. Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD is an Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical care at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.Eduardo is currently faculty at the UAMS Medical Center where he practices Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine. He is the medical director of the code blue team and leads the Chronic Respiratory Support Clinic for patients with neuromuscular disorders that require respiratory support. Dr. Mireles-Cabodevila was born and raised in Mexico City. He received his Medical degree from the Anahuac University in Mexico. He did his Internal medicine residency in Mexico City at the Hospital Espanol and later at Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore MD. He completed his training in Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio. During the last years, Dr. Mireles-Cabodevila has been involved in Respiratory Care Research both at the Cleveland Clinic respiratory therapy department as well as the Univeristy of Arkansas Medical Center and in Arkansas Children Hospital.