This reference and textbook covers the scope of practice, applied science, diagnostics, therapeutics, levels of delivery, and assorted applications. Topics include the history of the field; ethical and legal issues; cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology; cardiopulmonary pharmacology; radiology; noninvasive monitoring of oxygen and carbon dioxide; pulmonary function testing; sleep disorders; hyperinflation therapy; airway management; invasive and noninvasive mechanical ventilation; neonatal and pediatric applications; geriatric applications; emergency medicine; home care; health promotion; and patient education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kenneth A. Wyka, MS, RRT has been in the field of respiratory care since 1970. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey and formal training in respiratory care from the Lenox Hill Hospital School for Respiratory Therapy in New York City. In 1972, he founded the respiratory therapy program at Pasaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey. Since then, he managed the respiratory care department at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, was the director of resiratory clinical education at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, started several pulmonary rehabilitation programs, worked in home care, and began a respiratory care consulting practice. He is the author of Respiratory Care in Alternative Sites and has been actively involved in several voluntary health and professional organizations. Currently, he is the Director of Marketing for Allied Health Care Services in Orange, New Jersey, and is an adjunct professor at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.Paul J. Mathews PhD, RRT, FCCM, FCCP, FAARC is Associate Professor of Respiratory Care, School of Allied Health; Associate Professor in Physical Therapy; and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Center on Aging, University of Kansas. He received his respiratory therapy training at Yale-New Haven Medical Center in New Haven, Connecticut. He holds his undergraduate degree from Quinnipiac College, Hamden, Connecticut; a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Hartford in Connecticut; and EdS and PhD degrees from the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri. He has published more than 160articles in various national journals, has authored several books, serves on six editorial boards, and has lectured at many national and international meetings. In 1989, Dr. Mathews was president of the AARC, and, in 1990, he was selected for AARC Life Membership. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and of the American College of Chest Physicians. Currently, he is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.William W. Clark, PhD, RRT is Associate Professor and Director of the Respiratory Care Program in the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey. Formerly, he was the Director of Respiratory Therapy at Bayonne Hospital in Bayonne, New Jersey. In 1999, he obtained his doctoral degree from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Clark is past president of the New Jersey Society for Respiratory Care and served four years in the AARC's House of Delegates. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors to the AARC. Dr. Clark authored two chapters in Wyka's Respiratory Care in Alternative Sites and has published several journal articles.

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