Respiratory Facts

Respiratory Facts is intended for respiratory care practitioners and respiratory therapy technology students who require a clear, concise, yet comprehensive guide to respiratory care facts and procedures. This guide is designed to be equally usable in hospital as well as home health care settings. For optimal utilization of this guide, a basic understanding of anatomy, physiology, and basic health care procedures is presupposed. Respiratory Facts is written in a succinct style that offers the reader the maximum of information with the minimum of words. All explanations are clearly written and are reinforced with carefully formatted tables, charts, and graphs. Recognizing that the respiratory care professional faces the task of working with a seemingly endless number of formulas and reference values, this guide includes as many of these as possible in the most useful form. To that end, all formulas are expressed in their classical forms as well as, whenever possible, their newer variations.