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9781405172370

Evidence-Based Respiratory Medicine

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    9781405172370

  • ISBN10:

    1405172371

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-06-01
  • Publisher: BMJ Books
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Summary

First major evidence-based text in adult respiratory medicineComprehensive, authoritative summary of the best treatments for the major respiratory diseasesCompiled by specialists from the Cochrane Airways Management GroupEasy-to-use format, with key clinical implications summarised in each chapter Kept up-to-date onlineCompiled by specialists from the Cochrane Collaboration Airways Management Group, Evidence-based Respiratory Medicine is the first major evidence-based text in adult respiratory medicine.Providing a comprehensive summary of the best treatments for the most important respiratory diseases, some of the world's leading physicians review the evidence for a broad range of treatments using evidence-based principles. Essential information is presented in an easy-to-understand format, with the most important clinical implications summarised in each chapter.Evidence-based Respiratory Medicine tackles the big clinical questions in diagnosis and treatment, presenting treatment options which take into account the individual patient's needs.Evidence-Based Series: Evidence-based Respiratory Medicine, part of the acclaimed series BMJ Evidence-based medicine textbooks that have revolutionised clinical medicine literature, comes with a fully searchable CD-ROM of the whole text.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgement to Cochrane Library
Practising evidence-based respiratory medicine
Introduction
Diagnostic strategies
Presenting symptoms
Lung function testing
Chest radiographic and CT patterns
Diagnostic strategies in pulmonary embolism: an evidence-based approach
Screening for lung cancer
Therapeutics: general issues
Adherence and self-management
Corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis
Helping people to stop smoking
Asthma
Acute exacerbations
Chronic therapy: beta-agonists û short-acting, long-acting beta2-agonists
Inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of asthma
Anti-leukotrienes
Asthma education
.2.6 Non-pharmacological and complementary interventions to manage asthma
Difficult asthma
Novel therapies in asthma: long-acting beta2-agonists/inhaled corticosteroids
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease û acute exacerbations
Anticholinergic bronchodilators in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease therapy
Inhaled corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Combination of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta2-agonists in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Systemic corticosteroids in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Lung volume reduction
Infection
Bronchitis and sinusitis
Community-acquired pneumonia
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Influenza: vaccination and treatment
Bronchiectasis
Adult cystic fibrosis
Antibiotics in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis
Respiratory failure/sleep disordered breathing
Respiratory rehabilitation
Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure
Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. What is the evidence?
The treatment of the obstructive sleep apnoeaûhypopnoea syndrome
Long-term oxygen therapy for chronic respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Diffuse lung disease/pleural disease/thromboembolism
Diffuse lung disease
The treatment of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
Evidence-based approach to treatment of sarcoidosis
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Pleural disease
Therapy of pulmonary thromboembolism: an evidence-based approach
Pulmonary hypertension
Index
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