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- Written by world-renowned experts in COPD
- A refresher for GPs and hospital doctors with practical diagnostic and treatment advice
- Reviews clinical developments and guidelines, and places them into everyday clinical practice
- Stresses the importance of early intervention, therapies and patient education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Imperial College, London, UK, London, United Kingdom
Richard Russell, Paul Ford
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, Thoracic Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK, London, United Kingdom
Peter Barnes
About the authors
Richard EK Russell, FRCP, PhD, is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London, UK. He trained at Guy’s Hospital and then further in Respiratory Medicine in South London and the Royal Brompton Hospitals.
Paul A Ford, MRCP, PhD, is MRC Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College and Honorary Clinical Fellow at the Royal Brompton, and Wexham and Heatherwood NHS trusts.
Peter J Barnes, FMedSci, FRS, is Professor of Thoracic Medicine at Imperial College London, UK. Prof. Barnes runs a large and active multidisciplinary group of over 80 researchers exploring the mechanisms and treatment of asthma and more recently COPD.
Sarah Russell qualified as a Nurse at Guys and Lewisham NHS Trust in 1989 and has worked in the primary, secondary and palliative care charity sector as a palliative care clinical nurse specialist, team leader and multi professional educator.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing COPD
Authors: Richard Russell, Paul Ford, Peter Barnes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-908517-61-6
Publisher: Springer Healthcare Tarporley
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Healthcare, a part of Springer Science+Business Media 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85873-449-1Published: 20 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-908517-61-6Published: 22 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 90
Number of Illustrations: 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Primary Care Medicine, Quality of Life Research, Imaging / Radiology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Pneumology/Respiratory System