ABC of COPD (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Currie, Graeme P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The third edition of the ABC of COPD provides the entire multidisciplinary team across both primary and secondary care with an up-to-date, easy to read and accessible account of this common lung disorder. Thoroughly updated by experienced clinicians dealing with patients with COPD on a regular basis, it discusses the entire breadth of the condition from epidemiology, causes, diagnosis, treatment and end of life care.

This practical and highly visual guide contains new and extensively updated chapters on diagnosis, smoking cessation and interventional approaches as well as expanded content on non-pharmacological and pharmacological management taking into account the most recent national and international guidelines. It also explores practical issues relating to COPD in terms of pulmonary rehabilitation, oxygen use, air travel, and end of life care.

The ABC of COPD is an authoritative and essential guide for specialist nurses, general practitioners, physiotherapists, junior doctors, front line staff working in emergency departments, paramedics, physician associates and students of medicine and its allied disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119212805
• Artikelnr.: 52555589

Autorenporträt

Graeme P. Currie, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors vii Foreword ix Peter J. Barnes 1 Definition Epidemiology and Risk Factors 1 Graham S. Devereux 2 Pathology and Pathogenesis 6 William MacNee and Roberto A. Rabinovich 3 Diagnosis 13 Graeme P. Currie, David R. Miller and Mahendran Chetty 4 Spirometry 20 Claire Fotheringham 5 Smoking Cessation 27 Sanjay Agrawal and John R. Britton 6 Non
pharmacological Management 34 Waleed Salih and Stuart Schembri 7 Pharmacological Management I - Inhaled Treatment 41 Graeme P. Currie and Brian J. Lipworth 8 Pharmacological Management II - Oral Treatment 50 Graeme P. Currie and Brian J. Lipworth 9 Drug Delivery Devices 56 Morag Reilly, Graham Douglas and Graeme P. Currie 10 Surgical and Interventional Strategies 69 James L. Lordan 11 Oxygen 75 Graham Douglas, Margaret Macleod and Graeme P. Currie 12 Exacerbations 81 Graeme P. Currie 13 Ventilatory Support 88 Paul K. Plant Stephen Stott and Graeme P. Currie 14 Primary Care 95 Cathy Jackson 15 Death Dying and End
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Life Issues 101 Gordon Linklater 16 Future Treatments 108 Peter J. Barnes Index 113