Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

This handbook has been written to provide the reader with a practical guide to paediatric respiratory medicine which will be a useful first point of reference for paediatricians faced with children with acute or chronic respiratory problems. This book will appeal to general paediatricians and specialists in paediatric respiratory medicine at both consultant and trainee level. It deals with common problems seen by all paediatricians and the rarer conditions more often seen at specialist centres, but managed in collaboration with general paediatricians. The information is in a readily accessible format, with extensive use of bullet points. The focus is on clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of respiratory problems. Information is provided on background history, such as epidemiology, where it provides an insight into clinical presentation and management, and also where this information would be helpful to the parents. This book is divided into 5 sections. Section 1 provides a practical approach to acute and non-acute clinical problems. Section 2 provides detailed information about common and more rare clinical conditions.Section 3 provides useful information on supportive care, including for example, use of non-invasive ventilation and the care of a child with a tracheostomy. Section 4 gives details on how to perform several practical procedures, such as ciliary brush biopsy, flexible bronchoscopy and inserting a chest drain. The appendices provide information on lung function testing and tables of age-corrected normal values for several respiratory parameters. This book has been written by 2 consultants who work in a tertiary respiratory unit and a respiratory trainee. This combination of authors has provided the experience necessary to deal with topics where there is an absence of published evidence and to present the information in a format that both consultants and trainees will find useful.

ISBN 0199204845   Pages 900 ISBN13 9780199204847 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 454 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Looseleaf In Binder   Series title Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Paediatrics Publication date 29 May 2008   Height (mm) 180 Library of Congress RJ365   Width (mm) 100 DEWEY 618.922   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Pt. I		Approach to clinical problems
1		Examining the respiratory system		3
2		Poorly controlled asthma		9
3		Recurrent or persistent 'chest infection'		13
4		Chronic cough		19
5		Stridor		25
6		Infant apnoea		31
7		Cystic fibrosis : poor weight gain		35
8		Cystic fibrosis : loss of lung function		39
9		Chest pain		43
10		Haemoptysis		49
11		The immunocompromised child		55
12		Muscle weakness		59
13		Pneumonia on the intensive care unit		63
Pt. II		Specific conditions
14		Asthma		71
15		Cystic fibrosis		101
16		Respiratory pathogens		145
17		Community-acquired pneumonia		151
18		Bacterial infections		161
19		Viral infections		197
20		Fungal infections		233
21		Parasitic and protozoal infections		245
22		Tuberculosis		255
23		HIV infection		285
24		Structural problems of upper and lower airways		293
25		Sleep-disordered breathing and other sleep problems		335
26		Respiratory control disorders		351
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This book should become a must-have for primary care providers for children and everyone interested in pediatric pulmonology. Doody's Notes ...who can benefit from this book, and how? The trainee will certainly not outgrow it - even the most experienced paediatrician, seeing a child with an uncommon condition, or preparing a teaching session on a common one, will benefit from taking a surreptitious peek at the relevant section here, to ensure nothing has been forgotten. For example, I would challenge the reader to list the totality of the associated conditions which need to be detected in a baby with a PHOX2b mutation before turning to Chapter 26. Review copies of books come into three categories: 'throw away', 'give away' and 'chain it to the wall' - this Handbook is definitely in the last category. Departmental thieves, hands off! from the foreword by Professor Andy Bush

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