Respiratory medicine

Learn asthma care essentials-from top experts at the Partners Asthma CenterInternists, family physicians, physician's assistants, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists will find this unparalleled, authoritative guide has everything needed to understand and treat asthma in children and adults.

Pocket Prescriber Pulmonary Medicine is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the 'must-have' information that clinical professionals treating patients with respiratory conditions need to know.

This book aims to give a comprehensive overview of the current challenges and solution posed to the health care professionals who need to use mechanical ventilation to treat their patients.

Lung function assessment is the central pillar of modern respiratory diagnosis, providing invaluable information to assist in clinical decision making and management strategies.

Interstitial lung diseases are a diverse group of acute and chronic pulmonary disorders characterized by a variable amount of inflammation and/or fibrosis.

This book contains the refereed contributions from the 43rd annual meeting of ISOTT.

The goal of the first edition of Interventional Critical Care: A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners was to fill a knowledge gap of the advanced practice provider (APP) specifically regarding the skills and understanding of critical care procedures in response to the rapidly expanding participation of APPs in critical care.

This revised and updated book provides a simplified approach to interpreting most diagnostic tests in the field of respiratory medicine.

This revised and updated book provides a simplified approach to interpreting most diagnostic tests in the field of respiratory medicine.

This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the inflammatory cells, mediators, and molecular pathology of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphasizing the urgent need to clearly understand the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in COPD.

Respiratory allergy is constantly encountered and is sharply on the rise, particularly in the two most vulnerable age-groups: young children and seniors.

This portable and practical pocket guide explains how capnography works both physiologically and electronically and helps clinical staff to apply the tool promptly and correctly, and to interpret appropriately the numeric and graphic displays, providing vital information when viewed in the context of the patient's clinical presentation, history, and other diagnostic data that will improve and enhance care.

This book brings together the knowledge, skills and attitudes of specialists in both Respiratory Medicine and Palliative Medicine to focus on the palliative care of patients with respiratory diseases.

Interstitial Lung Disease, 5th edition, is a complete volume addressing interstitial lung diseases with a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis covering a wide array of disorders such as sarcoidosis, asbestosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, drug induced lung disease, connective tissue disease, and pulmonary vasculitis.

The lungs are the organ for gas exchange between the body and the external environment.

This 2001 book clearly illustrates and explains the acquisition, interpretation, and reporting of physiologic responses to exercise.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the "e;real-time accompany technique"e; for diagnostic interventional pulmonology, known as rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE).

Addressing the dramatic number of children diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in recent years, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia provides pulmonologists, critical care specialists, and pediatricians with up-to-date diagnostic and treatment techniques and therapies to effectively manage all BPD cases.

It is commonly accepted that "e;exercise is good for children"e; but, considering the number of children worldwide exercising, we know comparatively little, compared to adults, about how specific mechanisms influence health and sports performance.

The second edition of The Lung: Development, Aging and the Environment provides an understanding of the multi-faceted nature of lung development, aging, and how the environment influences these processes.

This book is a blend of medical research and clinical practice.

The only international clinical textbook for COPD one of the top 5 causes of death and disability worldwide The only COPD textbook to include the latest national and international guidelines and the newer therapeutic agents in COPD treatment International team of contributors covers all aspects of COPD from physiology and epidemiology to diagnosis and treatment Everything the busy physician needs to understand, diagnose and treat the COPD patient: Structure and physiology of the respiratory system Clinical considerations and allied conditions Therapy (including current and developing treatments) Diagnostic tests used in daily practice

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs.

Integrative Therapies in Lung Health and Sleep provides an overview of integrative therapies to assist clinicians caring for patients with acute or chronic lung diseases and sleep disorders--emphasizing the scientific bases for these therapies; and their implementation into clinical practice.

This Element describes the pathophysiology and current and future management of EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer.

This volume provides a practical yet comprehensive guide to manage the shift in the diagnosis of lung cancer from large resections to small samples, including cytology specimens and core biopsies.

This book should represent a guideline for launching an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program.

This review book comprehensively covers most aspects of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).

Providing an up-to-date overview of the field, this state-of-the-art reference details how sleep and circadian rhythms are interconnected, revealing the impact of various disease states on, and the molecular and genetic basis for, disrupted sleep and circadian rhythmicity and their effects on physical and mental health, safety, performance, and pro

Defining the Lung Cancer Problem 1 Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the world.

The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything the world has ever seen before.

From the 39th annual conference of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT), held in Washington, DC, USA in July 2011, this volume covers aspects of oxygen transport from air to the cells, organs and organisms; instrumentation and methods to sense oxygen and clinical evidence.

This book covers several aspects of inhalation toxicology ranging from inhalation drug abuse to battlefield chemical inhalation lung injury, and emphasizes pathophysiology and therapy.

Lung function assessment is the central pillar of modern respiratory diagnosis, providing invaluable information to assist in clinical decision making and management strategies.

Prompting the first WHO global health alert for over a decade, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first recognised in South-East Asia in February 2003.

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, edited by Drs.

Revised and updated for its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine is the must-have resource for respiratory trainees, internal medical trainees and other junior doctors in acute and internal medicine, medical students, and all clinicians caring for patients with respiratory problems.

Collaboratively authored by international experts and innovators, this book serves as a comprehensive introduction to flexible bronchoscopy in children, a guide to normal and abnormal bronchoscopy findings, and as the first pediatric bronchoscopy text to describe the array of innovative technologies now being utilized in advanced diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopy programs.

Lung cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer and remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.

This book presents general measures and offers a comprehensive overview of anesthetic considerations for specific serious medical problems in pregnant patients, with a focus on the anesthetic management of non-obstetric disorders during pregnancy and pregnancy-induced diseases.

With a large volume of ultrasound images and teaching videos, Pleural Ultrasound for Clinicians: A Text and E-book is a print and interactive digital resource that provides practical guidance for all those undertaking pleural ultrasound investigations and procedures.