Mosby's Respiratory Care Equipment - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 12th Edition

• Unique! Clinical Approach provides students with a “how to” approach in identifying equipment, understanding how it works, and applying the information in clinical practice. • Unique! Organization of ventilators by application area and manufacturer provides a more concise method to learn, review, and/or locate this information in the text. • Chapter Review Questions at the end of every chapter reinforce comprehension. Questions reflect the types of questions covered on the NBRC exams. All questions are either NBRC-style multiple-choice or critical-thinking questions. • Unique! Infection Control chapter reviews the aspects of microbiology and infection control and includes a discussion on the role of infection control issues in mass casualty situations. This content provides a review of this critical topic that RTs must understand to prevent health care-associated infections. • Pedagogy includes chapter outlines, learning objectives, key terms, chapter introductions, and bulleted key point summaries in each chapter to reinforce material and help students identify relevant content. • Excerpts of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), statements of care developed by the AARC, give students important information regarding indications/contraindications, hazards and complications, assessment of need, assessment of outcome, and monitoring. • Unique! Clinical Scenario boxes contain problems that may be encountered during actual use of equipment and raise clinically relevant questions for the student to answer. The current scenarios will be updated with suggested answers on Evolve. • Unique! Historical Notes boxes provide educational and/or clinically relevant and valuable historical information of respiratory care equipment without the student having to read through large sections of material. • Glossary of key terms is listed in the back of the book and provides a quick reference of new terms presented in the text.