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Oakes' Ventilator Management Pocket Guide, the best-selling critical care reference, is now in its 5th edition with extensive updates. Carefully summarized information covers every aspect of noninvasive and invasive ventilator management, from ventilator initiation (including all major modes) to management (including optimizing settings, troubleshooting, and graphic interpretation) to weaning and discontinuation (parameters, guidelines, difficult to wean). Unparalleled coverage of strategies for specific diseases and disorders. A whole chapter of critical care equations. Every Respiratory Therapist should have a copy of this new edition within arm's reach, whether working in an emergency department, adult critical care, rehab units, or home-based care.