Main description:

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.

Contents:

Foreword Chapter 1 Definition, epidemiology and risk factors Chapter 2 Pathology and pathogenesis Chapter 3 - Diagnosis Chapter 4 Lung function tests Chapter 5 Smoking cessation Chapter 6 - Non-pharmacological management Chapter 7 - Pharmacological management (I) Inhaled Treatment Chapter 8 - Pharmacological management (II) Oral Treatment Chapter 9 Drug delivery devices Chapter 10 - Oxygen Chapter 11 Surgical and interventional strategies Chapter 12 - Exacerbations Chapter 13 Ventilatory support Chapter 14 - Primary care Chapter 15 Death, dying and end of life issues Chapter 16 Future treatments