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Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a unique point-of-care manual that provides essential information on managing inpatients and outpatients with common, serious respiratory and internal medicine presentation and problems. Easy-to-follow diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms are accompanied by case-based illustrations encountered on a daily basis by attendings, fellows, residents, and students. The bulleted format, concise approach, and familiar examples provide a framework for effective teaching, learning, and patient care.

Identifies common but important misconceptions that are regularly encountered in pulmonary and critical care training.
Uses a concise, bulleted format throughout, helping you find key information quickly.
Illustrates cases with primary data such as x-rays, monitor strips, ventilator wave forms, and other familiar documentation.
Helps you develop your ability to effectively explain your thought process in the clinical setting to other practitioners at the bedside.
Serves as a 'teachers guide' for clinician educators, organizing topics in an easy to teach fashion, amenable to 'chalk talks' and bedside didactics
Provides focused discussions of basic physiology and pathophysiology related to pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.


Contents:

Section 1 Pulmonary

1. Approach to Oxygenation, Hypoxemia and Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

2. Ventilation and Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure

4. The Chest Radiograph

5. Evaluating Chronic Dyspnea, Dyspnea on Exertion and Exercise Limitation

6. Heart Failure for the Pulmonary Critical Care Physician

7. Pulmonary Hypertension

8. Exacerbation of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome

9. Lung Cancer

10. Aspergillus Lung Disease

11. Oral Anaerobic Lung Infection, Aspiration Pneumonia, Lung Abscess and Empyema

12. Chronic Cough

13. Cough Syncope

14. Bronchiectasis

15. Sarcoidosis

16. Acute Venous Thromboembolic Disease -

17. Pneumothorax (PTX) and Bronchopleural Fistulas (BPF): Air in the Pleural Space

18. Smoking Cessation

19. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease and Its Mimics

Section 2 Critical Care

20. Shock

21. Invasive Mechanical ventilation

22. Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support with BIPAP

23. Tracheostomy

24. hemoptysis

25. Salt and Water: The Physiology of Volume and Tonicity Regulation

26. Diabetic Emergencies

27. The Obtunded Inpatient with Normal Vital Signs

28. Bedside Presentations in the ICU

29. Code Status

30. Advanced Care Planning and the Family Meeting-

31. Compassionate, Terminal Extubation

32. ICU Pearls


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780323399524
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier - Health Sciences Division)
Publication date: December, 2017
Pages: 416
Weight: 360g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Critical Care Medicine, General Issues, Respiratory Medicine

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