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Manual of Asthma Management

  • 2 Edición - 28 de octubre de 2000
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Paul M. O'Byrne, Neil Thomson
  • Idioma: Inglés

This unique manual provides comprehensive, yet practical and easily accessed advice on the key issues of asthma management in both adult andpaediatric patients. The second edition… Leer más

Descripción

This unique manual provides comprehensive, yet practical and easily accessed advice on the key issues of asthma management in both adult andpaediatric patients. The second edition will continue to help all those involved with the care of asthmatic patients to apply the recently updated international guidelines. It combines vital information on how to tackle practical, clinical issues, whilstat the same time highlighting essential basic sciences to aid diagnosis, management and treatment.

Puntos claves

  • Provides solutions to day-to-day clinical problems in asthma management
  • Clear, concise and practical advice helps the reader to clarify asthma severity and select appropriate treatment plans
  • Diagrams illustrate the stepwise approaches to asthma management
  • Each chapter concludes with a list of summary points

    De interès para

    General trainees; general practitioners; specialists in respiratory medicine/pulmonology,allergy and paediatrics; physicians and other health care professionals involved in the day-to-day management of asthma patients

    Índice

    EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF ASTHMA

    1 Definition, classification, epidemiology and risk factors

    2 Natural history

    3 Pathogenesis

    DIAGNOSIS AND INVESTIGATIONS OF ASTHMA

    4 Triggers of asthma

    5 Diagnosis in children

    6 Diagnosis in adults

    7 Pulmonary function tests

    8 Provocation tests

    9 Investigations of allergy

    10 Examination of sputum, exhaled gases and nasal cytology

    11 Bronchoalveolar lavage and bronchial biopsies

    ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF ASTHMA

    12 Assessment of asthma control: symptoms, drug use, PEF, severity

    13 Assessment of asthma control: quality of life

    14 Assessment of asthma control: markers of inflammation

    15 Primary prevention of asthma

    16 Secondary allergen avoidance measures

    17 Corticosteroids

    18 Anti-allergic drugs

    19 Immunosuppressive agents

    20 Mediator antagonists and other new agents

    21 Bronchodilators

    22 Delivery systems

    23 Immunotherapy

    24 Other forms of treatment

    25 Patient education

    26 Self-management plans

    27 Assessment of compliance
    MANAGEMENT OF ASTHMA

    28 General principles

    29 Management of chronic asthma in children

    30 Management of acute asthma in children

    31 Management of chronic asthma in adults

    32 Management of acute asthma in adults

    33 Specific problems: occupational asthma

    34 Specific problems: asthma induced by aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs


    35 Specific problems: allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

    36 Specific problems: exercise-induced asthma

    37 Specific problems: nocturnal asthma

    38 Specific problems: asthma in pregnancy and pre-menses

    39 Specific problems: corticosteroids resistant asthma

    40 Specific problems: psychological factors

    41 Specific problems: gastro-oesophageal reflux and asthma

    42 Specific problems: cough

    43 Specific problems: chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma

    44 Specific problems: food allergy in asthma

    45 Specific problems: difficult asthma

    46 Specific problems: steroid-induced side effects

    47 Acute complications of asthma

    48 Chronic complications of asthma
    RUNNING AN ASTHMA SERVICE

    49 Primary care

    50 Hospital practice

    51 Audit in asthma

    52 Economics of asthma

    Detalles del producto

    • Edición: 2
    • Última edición
    • Publicado: 28 de octubre de 2000
    • Idioma: Inglés

    Sobre los autores

    PO

    Paul M. O'Byrne

    Afiliaciones y experiencia
    Professor, Department of Medicine, Head Division of Respiratory Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    NT

    Neil Thomson

    Afiliaciones y experiencia
    Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine, West Glasgow Hospitals University Trust, Glasgow, Scotland, UK