Essential Respiratory Medicine
eBook - ePub

Essential Respiratory Medicine

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Essential Respiratory Medicine

About this book

A succinct yet comprehensive overview of respiratory medicine, written for students and professionals

Essential Respiratory Medicine is an indispensable text offering an understanding of respiratory conditions and their clinical management within evidence-based guidelines. Containing information on taking a medical history, performing examinations and investigations, diagnosis and the management of respiratory conditions, this comprehensive text was put together by a noted expert in the field.

Written in an accessible manner, Essential Respiratory Medicine contains the foundational science associated with respiratory medicine, a wide-variety of practical procedures, helpful diagrams, and self-assessments designed to enhance understanding of the material presented. The text covers a variety of conditions as well as providing suggestions for engaging with patients at different stages of care. This important resource:

  • Demonstrates an effective approach to patients presenting with common respiratory symptoms
  • Includes a description of all key practical procedures with diagrams
  • Discusses acute management of important respiratory emergencies
  • Covers both acute and chronic disease
  • Contains a companion website containing a range of learning materials, including downloadable management summaries and algorithms, an image bank, videos of patient examination, example respiratory sounds and multiple-choice questions

Essential Respiratory Medicine is an essential resource for anyone on a clinical placement, rotation, or training programme in respiratory medicine.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. About the author
  4. CHAPTER 1: Introduction to respiratory medicine
  5. CHAPTER 2: Embryology, anatomy, and physiology of the lung
  6. CHAPTER 3: Pharmacology of the lung
  7. CHAPTER 4: Common respiratory investigations
  8. CHAPTER 5: Common presentations of respiratory disease
  9. CHAPTER 6: Obstructive airways disease
  10. CHAPTER 7: Diffuse parenchymal lung disease
  11. CHAPTER 8: Respiratory infections
  12. CHAPTER 9: Lung cancer
  13. CHAPTER 10: Pleural disease
  14. CHAPTER 11: Pulmonary embolus, pulmonary hypertension, and vasculitides
  15. CHAPTER 12: Suppurative lung disease
  16. CHAPTER 13: Respiratory failure
  17. CHAPTER 14: Sleep‐related disorders
  18. CHAPTER 15: Occupational, environmental, and recreational lung disease
  19. CHAPTER 16: Disorders of the mediastinum
  20. CHAPTER 17: Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome
  21. Index
  22. End User License Agreement