Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- 1st Edition - November 16, 2017
- Latest edition
- Author: Judd Landsberg
- Language: English
Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a unique point-of-care manual that provides essential information on managing inpa… Read more
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Description
Description
Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a unique point-of-care manual that provides essential information on managing inpatients and outpatients with common, serious respiratory and internal medicine presentation and problems. Easy-to-follow diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms are accompanied by case-based illustrations encountered on a daily basis by attendings, fellows, residents, and students. The bulleted format, concise approach, and familiar examples provide a framework for effective teaching, learning, and patient care.
Key features
Key features
- Identifies common but important misconceptions that are regularly encountered in pulmonary and critical care training
- Uses a concise, bulleted format throughout, helping you find key information quickly.
- Illustrates cases with primary data such as x-rays, monitor strips, ventilator wave forms, and other familiar documentation
- Helps you develop your ability to effectively explain your thought process in the clinical setting to other practitioners at the bedside
- Serves as a ‘teachers guide’ for clinician educators, organizing topics in an easy to teach fashion, amenable to ‘chalk talks’ and bedside didactics
- Provides focused discussions of basic physiology and pathophysiology related to pulmonary and critical care medicine
- Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Approach to Oxygenation, Hypoxemia and Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
2. Ventilation and Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure
3. The Chest Radiograph
4. Evaluating Chronic Dyspnea, Dyspnea on Exertion and Exercise Limitation
5. Heart Failure for the Pulmonary Critical Care Physician
6. Pulmonary Hypertension
7. Exacerbation of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
8. Lung Cancer
9. Aspergillus Lung Disease
10. Oral Anaerobic Lung Infection, Aspiration Pneumonia, Lung Abscess and Empyema
11. Chronic Cough
12. Cough Syncope
13. Bronchiectasis
14. Sarcoidosis
15. Acute Venous Thromboembolic Disease
16. Pneumothorax (PTX) and Bronchopleural Fistulas (BPF): Air in the Pleural Space
17. Smoking Cessation
18. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease and Its Mimics
Section 2: Critical Care
19. Shock
20. Invasive Mechanical ventilation
21. Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support with BIPAP
22. Tracheostomy
23. hemoptysis
24. Salt and Water: The Physiology of Volume and Tonicity Regulation
25. Diabetic Emergencies
26. The Obtunded Inpatient with Normal Vital Signs
27. Bedside Presentations in the ICU
28. Code Status
29. Advanced Care Planning and the Family Meeting
30. Compassionate, Terminal Extubation
31. ICU Pearls
Review quotes
Review quotes
"This is one of the most unique and high-yield writing on this topic that I have come across, by an author who is obviously a very astute clinician and an expert in his field. I highly recommend this book to every internal medicine resident and pulmonary/critical care fellow in training." Reviewed by Santosh Dhungana, MD (Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine)
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 16, 2017
- Language: English