Re: recommendations on "easy" reading Originally Posted by file03 
I'm a new grad RN at a Long Term Acute Care Facility, we have RTs on the floor, but I would like to learn more about respiratory failure and the types of management for them: ESPECIALLY different vent modes.
anyone recommend any books that explain it in simple terms, but thoroughly at the same time?
thank you.
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I don't think you'll find
ANYTHING thats worth a crap about mechanical ventilation that's simple. I don't think you'll find anything other that text style books;
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http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Mec.../dp/0071352295
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Google Dean Hess RRT, PhD and Robert Kacmarek RRT, PhD. They are
THE respiratory guru's. They are both proffessors of anesthesia, and have quite a bit published. I would be a little suspect of anything with the title "respiratory care made incredibly easy" or "critical care nursing made incredibly easy".
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