Bronchial Asthma

A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 6th Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4939-5072-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albertson, Timothy E.

Gershwin, M. Eric

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Allgemeinmedizin, Familienmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pneumologie, Atmung, Asthma

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.