Table of contents Contributors vii Preface xi Get more from this Practical Handbook xii List of abbreviations xiii Chapter 1 – Introduction NIV: past, present and future 1 Anita K. Simonds Chapter 2 – Getting the basics right: equipment Basic principles of ventilators 10 Alanna Hare and Michelle Chatwin Matching mode and settings to the patient: an introduction 18 Jan H. Storre and Jens C. Callegari Choosing the interface 26 Anne-Kathrin Brill Supplemental oxygen and humidication 35 Sundeep Kaul and Anita K. Simonds Chapter 3 – Getting the basics right: patient selection The patient with an acute hypercapnic exacerbation of COPD 41 Mark W. Elliott Patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure and 49 neuromuscular or chest wall disease Anita K. Simonds