Main description:

A case-based guide with expert commentary Challenging Concepts in Respiratory Medicine, deals with contemporary clinical scenarios in respiratory medicine. Each chapter is based around a real-life case, and interspersed with the most up-to-date evidence, management strategies, guidelines and controversies in management. As the reader works through each case there are a number of 'Clinical Tips', 'Learning Points' and 'Landmark Trial Summaries' to enhance the
learning process along with an 'Expert Commentary' written by a nationally or internationally-renowned expert in that particular field. This will provide a unique inside track on how the experts approach these types of challenging cases.

The approach taken in this series is highly attractive to those in training preparing for their specialist exams.

Contents:

1: Saima Alam and C Corrigan: Allergy
2: Anand Shah and A Menzies-Gow: Severe asthma
3: Simon Brill and J Brown: Bacterial lung infection
4: James Brown and N Navani: Non-surgical management of early stage lung cancer
5: Marcus Pittman and A Williams: Central sleep apnoea
6: Anant Patel, Amina Jaffer and John Hurst: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
7: Georgia Tunnicliffe and M Wise: Pulmonary fungal infections
8: Dami Collier and R Miller: HIV-related lung disease
9: Justin Garner and D Treacher: Intensive care unit and ventilation
10: Clare Ross and Athol Wells: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
11: David Walder and P Reading: Narcolepsy
12: Michelle Ramsay and M Polkey: Non-invasive ventilation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
13: Jo Feary, P Cullinan and J Szram: Occupational lung disease
14: Janet Stowell and R Breen: Pulmonary disease caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria
15: Rory McDermott and Craig Davidson: Oxygen
16: Lucy Schomberg and N Maskell: Pleural effusion
17: Sophie Vergnaud and J Wort: Pulmonary vasculature
18: Swapna Mandal and J Steier: Sleep-disordered breathing in the obese
19: Chloe Bloom and S Donnelly: Pulmonary sarcoidosis
20: Mark Haylock Almond and M Griffiths: Swine 'flu in pregnancy
21: Jessica Barrett and M Carby: Transplant
22: Georgina Russell and O Min Kon: Tuberculosis