Readership: Specialist trainees and new/young Consultants in Respiratory Medicine. The book will also appeal to specialist trainees in differing specialties as well as general practitioners and nursing staff.
Edited by Nick Maskell, Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK, and Ann Millar, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK
"The book delivers a good balance of science and clinical guidance, which often favours a back to basics approach interspersed with golden nuggets of information of value to even the most senior clinicians." - Rana Rabbani, Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, British Journal of Hospital Medicine
1: The healthy lung 2: Respiratory physiology 3: Clinical presentations 4: Asthma 5: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 6: Oxygen 7: Diffuse parenchymal lung disease 8: Infection 9: The immunocompromised host 10: Bronchiectasis 11: Cystic fibrosis 12: Pulmonary vascular problems/issues 13: Lung Cancer 14: Pleural Disease 15: Sleep 16: Occupation and environment 17: Lung transplantation/ITU 18: Orphan lung diseases
