Oxford American handbook of pulmonary medicine

Oxford American handbook of pulmonary medicine / [edited by] Kevin K. Brown, Teofilo Lee-Chiong ; with Stephen Chapman [and others].

The Oxford American Handbook of Pulmonary Medicine is an essential quick reference guide to all the major respiratory symptoms and diseases. Each topic is covered in a consistent format including practical tips for both inpatient and outpatient care settings. The handbook features a section on pract...

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Other Authors: Brown, Kevin K., 1958-, Lee-Chiong, Teofilo L., 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Series:Oxford American handbooks.
Subjects:
Respiratory organs > Diseases > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Respiratory organs > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Respiratory.
Respiratory organs > Diseases
handbooks.
manuals (instructional materials)
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Part I: Clinical presentations: approaches to problems
  • 1 Dyspnea
  • Clinical assessment and causes
  • Specific situations
  • 2 Chronic cough and normal chest X-ray
  • Etiology, clinical assessment, and treatment
  • Causes of chronic cough: UACS
  • Causes of chronic cough: asthma, NAEB
  • Causes of chronic cough: GERD
  • Causes of chronic cough: chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, ACE inhibitors
  • Causes of chronic cough: miscellaneous
  • Further information
  • 3 Chest pain
  • Chest pain: overview
  • Acute chest pain
  • Chronic chest pain
  • 4 HemoptysisClinical assessment and causes
  • Investigations
  • Management of massive hemoptysis
  • 5 Unexplained respiratory failure
  • Causes
  • Clinical assessment and management
  • 6 Pleural effusion
  • Clinical assessment
  • Diagnostic algorithm for the patient with a pleural effusion
  • Transudative pleural effusions
  • Exudative pleural effusions
  • Pleural fluid analysis 1
  • Pleural fluid analysis 2
  • 7 Diffuse parenchymal lung disease
  • Causes
  • Clinical assessment and imaging
  • HRCT diagnosis
  • Further investigations
  • 8 Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage9 Pulmonary infiltrates in the immunocompromised host (non- HIV)
  • Clinical assessment
  • Further investigations
  • Causes
  • Treatment
  • 10 Pulmonary infiltrates in the immunocompromised host (HIV)
  • Introduction
  • Causes of respiratory disease in HIV infection
  • 11 The respiratory sleep patient
  • History
  • Examination and investigations
  • 12 The breathless, pregnant patient
  • Causes
  • Investigations
  • 13 Preoperative assessment of the pulmonary patient
  • 14 Postoperative breathlessness
  • Part II: Clinical conditions15 Asthma
  • Definition, epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology
  • Diagnosis
  • Investigations
  • Asthma exacerbations
  • Acute severe or life-threatening asthma
  • Treatment of acute asthma
  • Chronic asthma: management
  • Nonpharmacological therapies
  • Difficult/refractory asthma
  • Asthma in pregnancy
  • Occupational asthma
  • Management of occupational asthma
  • Vocal cord dysfunction
  • Allergic rhinitis (hay fever)
  • 16 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Definition, etiology, pathology, and clinical featuresInvestigations
  • Nonpharmacological management of stable COPD
  • Pharmacological management of stable COPD
  • Management of exacerbations
  • Summary of approaches to medical treatment
  • Surgical treatment
  • 17 Lung cancer
  • Epidemiology and types
  • Clinical features
  • Investigations
  • Diagnostic procedures
  • Staging
  • Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): surgery
  • NSCLC: chemotherapy
  • NSCLC: radiotherapy
  • Small cell lung cancer: treatment

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