Bronchial Asthma - A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment

Hailed by professional journals and esteemed by primary care physicians, Bronchial Asthma: A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment, Sixth Edition, has been fully updated to help physicians face the challenge of diagnosis and management in every variety of patient subpopulation.

List of contents

Part I: Clinical Definitions.- The clinical definitions of asthma.- The genetic bases of asthma.- Part II: Diagnosis and Patient Management.- The use of the pulmonary function laboratory in diagnosing asthma.- Diagnosis and management of allergic disease.- The pediatric asthmatic.- The Adult Asthmatic.- The patient with asthma in the emergency department.- The critically ill asthmatic: From ICU to discharge.- Part III: Special Clinical Problems.- Asthma and Pregnancy.- Exercise-induced asthma.- Viral disease, air pollutants, nanoparticles, and asthma.- Occupational asthma.- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.- Rhinitis, sinusitis, and asthma.- Anesthesia for patients with asthma.- Asthmatics and adverse reactions to drugs, including recreational drug abuse.- Part IV: Living with Asthma.- The challenge of asthma in minority populations.- Asthma, health care and the law.

Summary

Hailed by professional journals and esteemed by primary care physicians, Bronchial Asthma: A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment, Sixth Edition, has been fully updated to help physicians face the challenge of diagnosis and management in every variety of patient subpopulation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Timothy E. Albertson (Editor), E Albertson (Editor), E Albertson (Editor), Eric Gershwin (Editor), M Eric Gershwin (Editor), M. E. Gershwin (Editor), M. Eric Gershwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9781441968357
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-6835-7
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 29 mm x 261 mm
• Weight: 980 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 350 p.
• Series: Current Clinical Practice
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Medicine, General practice, INTERNAL MEDICINE, General Practice and Family Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Respiratory medicine, Respiratory organs—Diseases, Pneumology/Respiratory System, General practice (Medicine), Clinical & internal medicine, Primary care (Medicine), Primary Care Medicine, Pneumology