Assisted ventilation at home

This is the first practical guide to the subject written specifically for those who wish to start a patient on assisted ventilation at home. Increasingly patients with a wide variety of respiratory diseases are using assisted ventilation at night in their homes and this book will serve as a functional guide to the practice. The concise, practical text reviews forms of assisted ventilation commonly used, covering all aspects from the selection of patients and choosing the appropriate technique to initiating assisted ventilation and organizing transfer into the community. Patients themselves will find the book enormously helpful as a 'patient's view' of the technique is presented.