The Washington Manual® Pulmonary Medicine Subspecialty Consult

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• ISBN13: 9780781743761
• ISBN10: 0781743761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-05
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Written by residents, fellows, and attending physicians, this handbook is ideal for students working on an inpatient or outpatient medicine service, residents called on to do an inpatient consults, and for specialist fellows seeking information on pulmonology diagnosis and management. It will also make an ideal reference for physicians in general internal medicine practice. The book covers inpatient and outpatient approaches, symptoms and diseases, and acute and chronic problems with the same front-lines practicality as the world-famous Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors	vii
Chairman's Note	xiii
Series Preface	xiv
Preface	xv
Key to Abbreviations	xviii
The Chest X-Ray	1	(5)
Sarah Waheed
Adrian Shifren
Pulmonary Function Testing	6	(10)
Adrian Shifren
Exercise Testing	16	(12)
Sujith Kalathiveetil
Bronchoscopy	28	(7)
Stephen B. Osmon
Martin L. Mayse
Oxygen Delivery Devices	35	(6)
Ting-hsu Chen
Noninvasive Ventilation	41	(6)
Randy Sasich
Singultus	47	(3)
Christine Yeh
Cough	50	(7)
Faye Lialios
Asthma	57	(7)
Adrian Shifren
Lance Cohen
Mario Castro
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	64	(9)
Adrian Shifren
Jeanie Park
Roger D. Yusen
Smoking Cessation	73	(5)
Anne K. Nagler
Community-Acquired Pneumonia	78	(6)
K. Cajal Sumino
Adrian Shifren
Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia	84	(6)
Shiraz A. Daud
Marin H. Kollef
Tuberculosis	90	(8)
Ramsey R. Hachem
Fungal Pulmonary Infections	98	(8)
Nitin J. Anand
Viral Pulmonary Infections	106	(11)
Sabu Thomas
Cystic Fibrosis	117	(6)
Stephen Ryan
Hemoptysis	123	(4)
Tonya D. Russell
Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage	127	(6)
Steven L. Leh
Pulmonary Vasculitis	133	(6)
Alexander C. Chen
Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis	139	(9)
Randy Sasich
Pulmonary Hypertension	148	(10)
Murali Chakinala
Dan Schuller
Pleural Diseases	158	(14)
Latha Sivaprasad
Adrian Shifren
Radiographic Evaluation of Pleural Disease	172	(6)
Shan Cheng
Sleep-Disordered Breathing	178	(9)
Robin Kundra
Interstitial Lung Diseases	187	(11)
Adrian Shifren
Lee E. Morrow
Occupational Lung Disease	198	(14)
Barbara A. Lutey
Peter G. Tuteur
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule	212	(5)
Sanjay Sharma
Cavitary Lung Disease	217	(10)
Daniel H. Cooper
Diseases of the Mediastinum	227	(9)
Audreesh Banerjee
Raghu Tadikamalla
Pulmonary Consultative Problems in Specific Patient Populations	236	(10)
Daniel M. Goodenberger
Lung Transplantation	246	(15)
Santhosh J. Mathews
Elbert P. Trulock III
Index	261