Evidence-based respiratory medicine
By: edited by Peter G. Gibson ; founding editor, Louis Irving ; associate editor, Richard Wood-Baker.
Contributors: Gibson, Peter, Dr.; Irving, Louis.; Wood-Baker, Richard, 1957-
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; BMJ Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 593
ISBN-13: 9780727916051
Subjects: Lungs -- Diseases; Evidence-based medicine; Respiratory Tract Diseases -- therapy; Evidence-Based Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Presenting symptoms / Michael Abramson; title: Lung function testing / David Peter Johns and Alan John Crockett; title: Chest radiographic and CT patterns / J.A. Verschakelen; title: Diagnostic strategies in pulmonary embolism: an evidence-based approach / Martin Riedel; title: Screening for lung cancer / Gohagan; title: Adherence and self-management / Liesel M. Osman and Michael E. Hyland; title: Corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis / Michael L. Burr and Michael Stone; title: Helping people to stop smoking / Tim Lancaster; title: Acute exacerbations / Brian H. Rowe; title: Chronic therapy: beat agonists - short-acting, long-acting beat-2 agonists / Haydn Walters and Julia Walters; title: In[h]aled corticosteroids in the treatment of asthma / Nick Adams; title: Anti-leukotrienes / Francine M. Ducharme; title: Asthma eductation / Peter G. Gibson and Heather Powell; title: Non-pharmacological and complementary interventions to manage asthma / Guy B. Marks, Brett G. Toelle, and Cassandra A. Slader; title: Difficult asthma / Peter A.B. Wark; title: Novel therapies in asthma: LABAICS, anti-IgE and anti IL-5 / Gohagan; title: COPD-acute exacerbations / Brian H. Rowe and Irvin Mayers; title: Anticholinergic bronchodilators in COPD therapy / Alicia R. ZuWallack and Richard L. ZuWallack; title: Inhaled corticosteroids in COPD / Christine Jenkins; title: Combination of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta2-agonists in COPD / Paul W. Jones; title: Systemic corticosteroids in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Richard Wood-Baker; title: Lung volume reduction / Tudor P. Toma; title: Bronchitis and sinusitis / Tom Fahey; title: Pneumonia / Jihendra Pande; title: Pulmonary tuberculosis / Jimmy Volmink and Colleen Murphy; title: Influenza: vaccination and treatment / Fotini B. Karassa and John P.A. Ioannidis; title: Bronchiectasis / John Kolbe; title: Adult cystic fibrosis / John Kolbe; title: Antibiotics in COPD, bronchiectasis, and cystic fibrosis / I.A. Yang, S.T. Kim, and S.C. Bell; title: Respiratory rehabilitation / Yves Lacasse, François Maltais, and Roger S. Goldstein; title: Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure / Peter Wark; title: Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-what is the evidence? / P.J. Wijkstra; title: The treatment of the obstructive sleep apnoea hypopnoea syndrome / Michael J. Hensley and Cheryl D. Ray; title: Long-term oxygen therapy for chronic respiratory failure in COPD / Peter G. Gibson; title: The treatment of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis / Barry Plant and Jim Egan; title: Evidence-based approach to treatment of sarcoidosis / Robert P. Baughman and Olof Selroos; title: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis / Yves Lacasse and Yvon Cormier; title: Pleural disease / Richard Light; title: Therapy of pulmonary thromboembolism: an evidence-based approach / Martin Riedel; title: Pulmonary hypertension / Horst Olschewski.