This manual gathers into one reference information necessary for providing intensive respiratory care to the newborn. The 83 chapters cover lung development and normal pulmonary physiology, assessment of cardiopulmonary function, neonatal respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, conventional ventilation, neonatal ventilators, neonatal apnea, high-frequency ventilation, management of specific respiratory disorders, complications of mechanical ventilation, sedation and control of pain, weaning from mechanical ventilation, special procedures, pharmacologic agents used in respiratory care, transport of ventilated babies, alternative therapies for intractable respiratory failure, and ethical considerations. Plastic comb binding. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.