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Respiratory Disease and its Management

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. A. McLuckie

    1. Department of Intensive Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Competency-Based Critical Care (CBCC)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ALI/ARDS)

    • David C. J. Howell, Geoffrey J. Bellingan
    Pages 1-17

  3. Life-Threatening Asthma

    • John E. S. Park, Mark J. D. Griffiths
    Pages 19-28

  4. Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease

    • Richard Leach
    Pages 29-40

  5. Diffuse Interstitial Lung Disease

    • Aimee Brame, Andrew Jones
    Pages 41-49

  6. Pneumonia

    • Richard Leach
    Pages 51-59

  7. Pleural Effusions in the Critically Ill

    • Philip S. Marino
    Pages 61-71

  8. Pneumothorax in the Critically Ill

    • Mansoor Sange, Chris J. Langrish
    Pages 73-78

  9. Diagnosis and Management of the Obstructed Airway

    • Adrian Pearce, Gerard Gould
    Pages 79-87

  10. Postoperative Management of Patients Undergoing Lung Resection, Oesophagectomy or Thymectomy

    • Michael Gillies, Paul Hayden
    Pages 89-94

  11. Indications for Ventilatory Support in Adults

    • David Goldhill
    Pages 95-98

  12. Modes of Invasive and Non-invasive Ventilatory Support

    • Tony Pickworth
    Pages 99-111

  13. Blood Gas Measurement and Interpretation

    • Adrian J. Williams
    Pages 113-120

  14. Inspired and Expired Gas Monitoring

    • Terry Fox
    Pages 121-126

  15. Managing Secretions in the Ventilated Patient: The Role of Humidification, Suction, Physiotherapy, Mucolytics and Airway Adjuncts

    • George Ntoumenopoulos
    Pages 127-133

  16. Drugs Acting on the Respiratory System

    • Gavin Whelan, Catherine McKenzie
    Pages 135-142

  17. Bronchoscopy in the Intensive Care Unit

    • David F. Treacher
    Pages 143-148

  18. Tracheostomy and Mini-Tracheostomy

    • Ulrike Buehner, Andy Bodenham
    Pages 149-155

  19. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

    • Nicholas Hart
    Pages 157-164

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 165-168
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About this book

Medical training for Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) has made great developments over the years. Recent advances have led to the introduction of competency based training, with a strong focus on the development of specific competencies at basic, intermediate and advanced stages of learning. This ensures trainees hold the appropriate skills and knowledge to undertake safe clinical practice, and thus provide good patient care.

One of the key topics covered in ICM training is respiratory disease and its management. Based on this, it would therefore seem appropriate to introduce a text that addresses each of the key areas.

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From the reviews: “This multiauthored review of respiratory critical care is part of the Competency-Based Critical Care series. A concise discussion of key topics in respiratory management is provided. Students, trainees, and allied health personnel will be attracted to this brief work originating from authors in the United Kingdom. … Chapters are concise, with good quality illustrations and excellent line drawings. … This is an excellent summary of pulmonary facets of critical care. … This is a good introduction for junior members of the ICU team.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2010)

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  • Department of Intensive Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    A. McLuckie

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