Respiratory medicine

It is now 20 years since thoracoscopic surgery first entered everyday hospital practice, revolutionizing surgery and offering major benefits to patients.

Noninvasive mechanical ventilation is an effective technique for the management of patients with acute or chronic respiratory failure.

Inadequate humidification of inspired gases can cause a variety of serious problems, and humidification has accordingly become an important aspect of modern intensive care medicine.

This book is unique in approaching multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) from the perspective of its pathophysiological mechanism, and addressing aspects that are overlooked in most of the available literature.

Sepsis is a very important public health problem.

This book comprehensively summarizes the adverse effects of tobacco smoking on human health.

Nasal continuous positive airway pressure ventilation is the gold standard in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.

Chest sonography is an established procedure in the stepwise imaging diagnosis of pulmonary and pleural disease.

Among malignant tumors, adenocarcinomas of the esophagogastric junction show the highest increase in incidence over the past three decades in Western industrialized countries.

As a result of the introduction of multidetector CT, very detailed images of the lungs can be obtained in every patient undergoing chest CT.

During the past decade significant developments have been achieved in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), enabling MRI to enter the clinical arena of chest imaging.

Over recent decades, combined modality treatment has drastically improved the cure rates for various malignant tumors.

Infections and their complications are a very important clinical area in the intensive care unit setting.

From a public health point of view, there is little doubt that one of the most important preventable causes of disease worldwide is tobacco smoking.

The spectrum of occupational and environmental diseases has changed markedly in recent years.

With the advent of multidetector-row technology, excitement has returned to computed tomography.

In recent years, the spectrum of therapy for sleep-related breathing disorders has been immensely enriched by numerous innovative surgical procedures and techniques.

Pharmaceutical companies are spending increasing amounts of money on drug discovery and development.

Although decades of laboratory and clinical research have led to incremental improvement in treatment outcome, lung cancer remains one of the most deadly diseases.

Complete review of pulmonary function tests in clinical practice, including performance and interpretation of lung function tests with an emphasis on practical aspects.

Medical training for Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) has made great developments over the years.

The care of the critically ill or injured child begins with timely, prompt, and aggressive res- citation and stabilization.

The principal role of the respiratory system is to permit ef?

Sepsis is a serious medical condition, resulting from the immune response to a severe infection.

Sarcoidosis is a complex multisystem disease.

Mesothelioma is a global problem, largely related to the previous use of asbestos products.

An understanding of virus infection and the underlying role of the immune system in protection against these diseases is vital in today's medical climate.

This book focuses on Flow-controlled Ventilation (FCV), the most recent innovation in the field of airway management and ventilation.

This book focuses on Flow-controlled Ventilation (FCV), the most recent innovation in the field of airway management and ventilation.

Exposure to ambient air pollutants, both indoors and outdoors has been associated with the exacerbation and also in the etiology of diverse human diseases.

The Human Respiratory System combines emerging ideas from biology and mathematics to show the reader how to produce models for the development of biomedical engineering applications associated with the lungs and airways.

Handbook of Blood Gas/Acid-Base Interpretation, 2nd edition, simplifies concepts in blood gas/acid base interpretation and explains in an algorithmic fashion the physiological processes for managing respiratory and metabolic disorders.

This monograph comprises 17 papers written by prominent authors in the field, each of whom presents his most recent experiences.

While emphysema and chronic bronchitis are primarily lung di- seases, one of their major consequences is to deeply affect the function of the respiratory muscles.

The workshops that have been held over the past few years and the volumes published in their wake have proved highly successful and have prompted us to press on with our initial plans.

Respiratory rehabilitation can be defined as long term evaluation and therapy.

Pulmonary emphysema is a disease which develops because of a localized imbalance between endogenous proteinase inhibitors and proteinases leaking from neurophils during phagocytosis at inflammatory foci within the lung.

Diffuse Lung Disorders aims to bring together pathologists, clinicians and diagnostic radiologists to produce a simplified analysis and a unification of the existing concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of diffuse lung diseases.

This book sets out to illustrate the key steps in some of the commoner procedures in pulmonary and oesophageal surgery.

This book is a comprehensive guide to occupational factors of malignant diseases.

Orphan Lung Diseases: A Clinical Guide to Rare Lung Disease provides a comprehensive, clinically focused textbook on rare and so-called 'orphan' pulmonary diseases.

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.

Knee replacement can be regarded as the inevitable sequel to hip replacements, the child so to speak, of a brilliant father.

Prior to the virtual atomic explosion of medical knowledge, at a time when communica- tion was very much slower, a medical book, to be authoritative and believable, had to be written by a very knowledgable, and, per force, usually quite senior person.

Ever since its discovery in 1742 the carotid body has remained an organ of mystery.

The publication of Bronchoalveolar Mast Cells and Asthma marks the emergence of The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science, an important and novel series that will highlight, review and record major areas of research, development and practice in the field of clinical science.

The interrelated syndromes of shock and the adult respiratory distress to attract the attention of both clinical and syndrome (ARDS) continue laboratory scientists.