First time in the world a comprehensive book on CPAP bedside application

This book release CPAP Bedside Application in Newborn in the national pediatric conference in jaipur PEDICON Jan 20.1.2011 is a very important milestone in the vernacular of newborn intensive care. This technology delivered to babies with respiratory distress by a low cost highly effective basic machine with the pressure delivery to expand premature baby lungs, on elementary physical principles, negates the use of costly invasive ventilators, with its attendant infrastructural, technical, manpower relatedproblems epitomised by the risk of dreadful lung injury.

This is the first book in the world giving comprehensive management guidelines to a practioner of CPAP. A large volume of evidence based literature was reviewed ( 125 articles) and caveats in management bridged by the authors 22 years experience with neonatal ventilation, and consensus. This book is giving a three dimentional integration of bedside assessment, xrays and biochemistry. It also gives the postgraduate the current trends in innovative management. The reader is senstised to a "see one , do one " approach ,with grave warnings and anticipatory caution periodically in the form of boxes and typical and a typical.

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The book has the introduction by emminent professor of neonatology Dr.Dharmapuri Vidyasagar, head of newborn ICU, University of Illinois Chicago USA, who had published one of the primary aricles on CPAP in 1970. The most important review was by Dr. Richard Polin, head of newborn ICU Columbia University New York USA who were the pioneers in this technology since 1970s and maintained and perfected this technology when the whole world was wrecking the lung with mechanical ventilation. He wrote that this book was an excellent primer on CPAP

Dr. georg Simbrunner head of newborn ICU University of Vienna, who taught the author ventilation in 1988 remarked on the book 'I really liked your book"

This book is a well structured and programmed one with cartoons, alogarithms and flow charts, with the flow maitained till the end, covering all prospective situations a practioner could encounter. This book should be an instant bedside reconner in all nicus in the world,. The book is the foundation to the authors second 1000 page comprehensive bedside manual on ventilation ESSENTIALS OF NEONATAL VENTILATION 2011 to be released by the year end

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