文档介绍：Understanding Mechanical
Ventilation
Ashfaq Hasan
Understanding
Mechanical Ventilation
A Practical Handbook
Second Edition
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‘To my parents’
Preface to the Second Edition
Simplify, simplify!
Henry David Thoreau
For writers of technical books, there can be no better piece of
advice.
Around the time of writing the first edition – about a
decade ago – there were very few monographs on this sub-
ject: t