Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

by Hull, Jeremy; Forton, Julian; Thomson, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780191766985
• ISBN10: 0191766984
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2015-05-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jeremy Hull, Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK,Julian Forton, Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Walles, Cardiff, UK,Anne Thomson, Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Dr Hull is a Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital in Oxford. He trained in several different centres in the UK and in Melbourne. He has interests in genetics and respiratory syncytial virus infection.


Dr Forton is a Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. His research interest is in the genetics of susceptibility to infection.



Dr Thomson is a Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital in Oxford. She is the director of the Cystic Fibrosis Centre and has interests in the management of respiratory infections including pneumonia and empyema

Table of Contents

Part I. Approach to clinical problems
1. Examining the respiratory system
2. Poorly controlled asthma
3. Recurrent or persistent 'chest infection'
4. Chronic cough
5. Stridor
6. Infant apnoea
7. Cystic fibrosis: poor weight gain
8. Cystic fibrosis: loss of lung function
9. Chest pain
10. Haemoptysis
11. The immuno-compromised child
12. Muscle weakness
13. Pneumonia on the intensive care unit
Part II. Specific conditions
14. Asthma
15. Cystic fibrosis
16. Respiratory pathogens
17. Community-acquired pneumonia
18. Bacterial infection
19. Viral infection
20. Fungal infection
21. Parasitic and protozoal infection
22. Tuberculosis
23. Human immunodeficiency virus infection
24. Structural problems of upper and lower airway
25. Sleep disordered breathing and other sleep problems
26. Respiratory control disorders
27. Sudden infant death syndrome
28. Apparent life-threatening events
29. Cerebral palsy
30. Gastro-oesophageal reflux and aspiration lung disease
31. Foreign body aspiration
32. Inhalational lung disease
33. Non-cystic bronchiectasis
34. Primary ciliary dyskinesia
35. Primary immune deficiency
36. Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans
37. Pleural effusion
38. Pneumothorax
39. Chronic lung disease of prematurity
40. Chest wall deformity and scoliosis
41. Congenital lung anomalies
42. Craniofacial abnormalities
43. Atopic eczema and allergic rhinitis
44. Food allergy
45. Heart disease
46. Interstitial lung disease
47. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
48. Neuromuscular weakness
49. Thoracic tumours
50. Pulmonary complications of cancer treatment
51. Pulmonary hypertension
52. Pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia
53. Sickle-cell disease
54. Rare diseases affecting lungs or airway
55. Lung transplantation
Part III. Supportive care
56. Use of oxygen
57. Inhalers and nebulizers
58. Airway clearance techniques
59. Immunization
60. Dealing with non-adherence to therapy
61. Non-invasive ventilation
62. Tracheostomy
Part IV. Practical procedures
63. Airway management
64. Bronchoscopy
65. Chest drain
66. Changing a tracheostomy tube
67. Ciliary brush biopsy
68. Lower airway samples
69. Exercise testing
70. Exhaled and nasal nitric oxide measurement
71. Skin prick testing
Appendices
1. Blood gas and acid-base balance
2. Fitness to fly
3. Polysomnography
4. Measuring lung function
5. Lung function - reference values