Mechanical Ventilation from Pathophysiology to Clinical Evidence

Part 1. Techniques.- Chapter 1. Basic physiology of respiratory system: gas exchange and respiratory mechanics.- Chapter 2. A short history of Mechanical Ventilation.- Chapter 3. Airway management in critically ill.- Chapter 4. Controlled mechanical ventilation: modes and monitoring.- Chapter 5. Assisted ventilation: pressure support and bilevel ventilation modes.- Chapter 6. Monitoring the patient during assisted ventilation.- Chapter 7. Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist.- Chapter 8. roportional Assist Ventilation.- Chapter 9. Non-invasive ventilation: indications and caveats.- Chapter 10. High-flow Nasal Cannula.- Chapter 11. Nursing of mechanically ventilated and ECMO patient.- Chapter 12. Closed Loop ventilation modes.- Chapter 13. Aiway pressure release ventilation.- Part 2. Clinical Scearios.- Chapter 14. Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Chapter 15. Ventilator Induced Lung Injury and Lung Protective Ventilation.- Chapter 16. Mechanical ventilation in the heathy lung: OR and ICU.- Chapter 17. PEEP setting in ARDS.- Chapter 18. Ventilation in brain injured patient.- Chapter 19. Invaisve and noninvasive ventilation in patient with cardiac failure.- Chapter 20. COPD and severe asthma.- Chapter 21. Ventilation in the obese patient.- Chapter 22. Weaning the simple and complex patients.- Chapter 23. Noninvasive ventilation in COVID-19.- Chapter 24. Invasive Ventilation in COVID-19.- Chapter 25. Mechanical ventilation in different surgical settings.- Chapter 26. Following up the patients at long term.- Chapter 27. Mechanical Ventilation in limited resource settings.- Chapter 28. Mechanical Ventilation during patient's trasferral.- Part 3. Adjuncts to MV.- Chapter 29. Prone Position.- Chapter 30. Veno-Venous ECMO and ECCO2R.- Chapter 31. Mechanical Ventilation setting during ECMO.- Part 4. Monitoring.- Chapter 32. Ultrasound assesment of the respiratory system.- Chapter 33. Electrical Impedance Tomography.- Chapter 34. Esophageal

Dr. Giacomo Bellani is Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Milan-Bicocca, in Monza, Italy and staff physician in the general Intensive Care Unit of San Gerardo Hospital, where he completed the postgraduate training program in Anesthesia and Critical Care. In 2003-2004 he was research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, MA. In 2006 he received the ESICM" Young investigator award". In 2010 he acquired a PhD in Biomedical technology at UNIMIB. Research has always been complementary to his clinical activities. His research is largely focused on ARDS and mechanical ventilation monitoring. From October 2015 to October 2018 he was chairman of the Acute Respiratory Failure Section of ESICM. He is co-PI of the LUNG SAFE study (main manuscript published in 2016 on JAMA). He has participated to organization of several meetings and courses on mechanical ventilation.  He authored about 170 peer-reviewed papers, mainly focused on invasive and non-invasive ventilation, 10 book chapters, two patents delivering about 120 invited talks. He is co-founder and president of Reviewer Credits, co-founder of DICO Technologies.