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Hardcover: 408 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (September 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824780876
ISBN-13: 978-0824780876.

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Hardcover: 1503 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 6th edition (January 15, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316084344
ISBN-13: 978-0316084345.

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Tel-Aviv Univ.,Israel. Comprehensive, two-volume major reference for pulmonary physicians. Extensive references and halftone illustrations. 92 contributors, 84 U.S. DNLM: Lung–Diseases.

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Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: American College of Physicians; 1 edition (February 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1930513844
ISBN-13: 978-1930513846.

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This new book is a complete, convenient, practical guide to the diagnosis and management of pulmonary disorders in elderly patients. Covers the principles of respiratory medicine; its foundations in basic anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pathology, and immunology; and its clinical applications. Examines the hottest topics in the field, including COPD guidelines and , better pharmacological control of asthma, ARDS ventilation guidelines, and more. Explains each disease entity in detail to help readers work through differential diagnosis. It focuses on several issues pertinent to pulmonary disorders of the elderly, including: the aging lung, symptoms troublesome cough and dyspnea, influenza and other viral infections, community acquired pneumonia, hospital acquired pneumonia, pneumonia in the nursing home, tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases.

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Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (January 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199549141
ISBN-13: 978-0199549146.

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is growing in reocnition as a major chronic disease, and a key cause of acute medical admissions. It kills approximately 30,000 patients each year in England and Wales alone, and is set to be the third commonest cause of death by 2020 globally.

This pocketbook is a concise companion for all health care professionals who come into contact with patients wtih COPD. It covers the full spectrum of COPD management, ranging from smoking cessation to advanced COPD, bridging both the primary and secondary care aspects of treatment and discussing the latest advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and new drug treatments of this disease. This compact volume of the Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library summarizes up-to-date literature in a style that will have direct clinical application to busy health care professionals.

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Hardcover: 824 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 2 edition (June 20, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420065955
ISBN-13: 978-1420065954.

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Maintaining the first edition’s unique parallel to the strategy used by pathologists and pulmonologists to arrive at a patient’s diagnosis in daily practice, Diagnostic Pulmonary Pathology starts with the patient and their biopsy findings, directing the pathologist or clinician to the proper diagnosis. With many advances in pulmonary pathology, radiology, and pulmonary medicine, this new edition provides thorough updates in:

• progress in classification and diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases
• evolution of our understanding of pre-neoplastic lesions
• technology in histopathology
• molecular pathology
• thoracic radiology

Written by contributing doctors who are at the forefront of recent advancements, Diagnostic Pulmonary Pathology:

• is organized based on how the patient should be approached, and the patient’s own projections, signs, symptoms, and disease
• provides new imaging techniques and molecular diagnostic tests
• investigates the new classification schemes, i.e. classification and terminology for lung neoplasms, pulmonary hypertension, and lung transplant rejection
• gives coverage of the merging of radiology and pathology, including molecular imaging.

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Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication; 1 edition (August 18, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0340810173
ISBN-13: 978-0340810170.

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Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes are now a fundamental part of the clinical management of patients with chronic respiratory diseases. This comprehensive reference book places pulmonary rehabilitation within the wider framework of respiratory disease, and the health burden that this now poses worldwide. Part one of the book examines the evidence supporting the use of pulmonary rehabilitation programmes, new trends and socio-economic implications, and the scientific bases of techniques used. In part two, the reader is given important guidance on assessing patients for rehabilitation and what the cost implications are for patients and the health care system. The last part of the book provides a general overview and discusses specific problems of delivering pulmonary rehabilitation. Throughout the book, contributions drawn from a broad range of countries compare and contrast practice around the world where differences have developed, and discuss the clinical evidence that supports current thinking.

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Hardcover: 411 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (July 12, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859962378
ISBN-13: 978-1859962374.

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A thorough understanding of the cardiopulmonary system is one of the foundations of critical care. In this important new text, specialists in respiratory medicine, cardiology and critical care have created an authoritative, integrated presentation of the core information essential for effective patient management. This book is a clinically relevant reference, not only as a study resource, but also for everyday use in the unit. The style and layout of the book reflect this, with numerous diagrams, flowcharts and checklists complementing the text and providing easy access to the key information.

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Hardcover: 864 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (March 27, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 082479673X
ISBN-13: 978-0824796730.

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This state-of-the-art reference explores the multi-disciplinary nature of modern pulmonary rehabilitation–detailing the specific roles of the various health professionals who comprise a pulmonary rehabilitation team, including the chest physician, physical therapist, and psychologist.

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 3 edition (October 20, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071611541
ISBN-13: 978-0071611541.

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No other review puts disorders of lung structure and function in such clear clinical perspective as Pulmonary Pathophysiology. Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical medicine, Pulmonary Pathophysiology guides you from symptom identification to underlying disease mechanisms and through principles of management.

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Hardcover: 822 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1st edition (July 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824703359
ISBN-13: 978-0824703356.

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Univ., of Barcelona, Spain. Comprehensive analysis of gas exchange in healthy and diseased states. Addresses functions of peripheral gas delivery and presents an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and studying oxygen transport through the body. For researchers and clinicians.

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