Respiratory medicine

This book is a clinically relevant and educational resource for sleep specialists, practitioners, and sleep or pulmonary trainees in the management of complicated sleep disordered breathing.

This book contains the refereed contributions from the 41st annual meeting of ISOTT.

This unique and comprehensive atlas by an expert practioner provides an innovative pictorial guide to flexible bronchoscopy, one of the most exciting and challenging procedures in respiratory medicine today.

Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an innovative therapy that is used to support the physiologic needs of a patient during illnesses associated with acute severe respiratory and/or cardiac failure.

This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine textbook series,  provides detailed up-to-date information on the physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments that are frequently present following a stay in an intensive care unit and examines in depth the available preventive and therapeutic strategies, including adapted rehabilitation programs.

Sleep Medicine is a field that attracts physicians from a variety of clinical backgrounds.

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing is an important diagnostic test in pulmonary medicine and cardiology.

This definitive volume presents the clinical and pathological features of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a disease that accounts for the majority of long-term hospitalizations, slow growth, and recurrent early childhood respiratory ailments that are common in low-birth-weight newborns.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.

This volume surveys and evaluates drug treatments available for the main categories of lung diseases.

An annual death toll of 2 million, coupled with rising drug resistance, highlights the need for the development of new drugs, better diagnostics, and a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine.

Removing the guesswork associated with Interstitial Lung Disorders (ILDs) and bronchiolar disorders, Interstitial Pulmonary and Bronchiolar Disorders addresses the issues faced by pulmonologists in treating these disorders.

Mesothelioma used to be a rare disease, but because of the widespread use of asbestos it has now been described as an epidemic around the world.

Lung diseases are leading causes of death and disability globally, with about 65 million people suffering from COPD, and 334 million from asthma.

Mycobacteria is divided into two volumes.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.

Mechanical ventilation is an essential life-sustaining therapy for many critically-ill patients.

This book brings a new approach to the subject of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, highlighting the current areas of controversy and debate.

An easy-to-use resource for teens wanting to learn more about why nicotine and tobacco are bad for your health and how to quit using them.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, Human Respiratory Viral Infections is set at the level between the definitive reference work and an essential clinical manual.

The lungs provide a significant opportunity for the introduction of both therapeutic and toxic chemicals into the human body.

Tuberous Sclerosis is a genetic disease characterized by lesions of the skin and central nervous system, seizures, and sometimes sever mental retardation.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Gesundheitsschäden durch Rauchen – Möglichkeiten einer Prophylaxe" verfügbar.

The gratifYing response to the first edition of Tuberculosis has prompted this revision.

Anesthesiology Critical Care Board Review fills a much-needed niche, not only in improving board examination test-taking skills but also as a tool for educating critical care physicians, anesthesiology practitioners, and advanced practice providers with the most relevant, up-to-date, state of the art considerations in critical care medicine.

The field of neural control of breathing has advanced rapidly in the past two decades, with the emergence of many new and promising research directions of increasing sophistication.

Explains how to support a patient''s breathing in emergencies and how to administer emergency anaesthesia.

Now in its tenth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine has been fully revised, with five new authors on the writing team bringing content fresh from the bedside.

The chest radiograph is a ubiquitous, first-line investigation and accurate interpretation is often difficult.

Exploring the role of Immunoglobulin-E (IgE) in human disease, this reference summarizes current research on the mechanisms and utilization of anti-IgE therapeutics in the treatment of IgE-mediated allergic disease, inflammation, and asthma-discussing the structural composition of high- and low-affinity IgE receptors, the airway cells that express

The 34th Annual Conference of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) was held during August 12-17, 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

This book discusses mechanical ventilation in emergency settings, covering the management of patients from the time of intubation until transfer to the ICU.

Providing a solid foundation for specialists in asthma treatment and control, this guide illustrates the importance of asthma monitoring practices for up-to-date assessments of disease levels in specific population groups; the identification of social, geographical, and environmental factors that may influence the development of asthma; and the des

Imaging of the airways is a fascinating undertaking and, if done expertly, a true art in medicine.

This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology.

Exposure to particles in industry and mining and from accidental anthropogenic sources constitutes an ongoing threat.

This text is in no danger of incomplete identification of where it should fit in the bibliographical spectrum of radiological monographs.

Pneumonia (along with influenza) is the sixth leading cause of death in adults.

Respiratory disease is one of the leading causes of both mortality and morbidity, causing a significant burden on healthcare resources, the economy, and on individual patients and their carers.

This book is a comprehensive reference on diffuse cystic lung diseases (DCLDs).

This book provides up-to-date knowledge on almost all aspects of the multidisciplinary approach to pulmonary rehabilitation.

Airway smooth muscle plays a dominant role in bronchial asthma, as well as a significant role in various pulmonary diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis and emphysema.

This is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook on pediatric pulmonology.

Why write another small book on respiratory physiology?

This book addresses an unmet need in the care of adolescents and young adults with lung disease.

This authoritative reference reviews current and emerging molecular imaging modalities that are expected to impact the detection and treatment of lung diseases in the near future-including applications in gene expression and inflammation imaging; the imaging of pulmonary cytokine regulation; the molecular imaging of angiogenesis, the airways, and l

With the high prevalence of chronic pulmonary diseases, including asthma, COPD, and interstitial lung disease, physicians need to recognize the cause of dyspnea and know how to treat it so that patients can cope effectively with this distressing symptom.