Overview
- Provides up-to-date knowledge on all aspects of breath sound recording and analysis
- Equips the reader to distinguish different breath sounds
- Includes access to helpful online audio files
- Refers to experience gathered by the recent ERS Task Force on the subject
- Offers high educational value
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Consideration
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Sound Recording, Analysis and Perception
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Where Are We Going?
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Keywords
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kostas N. Priftis, MD is Associate Professor in Paediatric Pulmonology, at the Children’s Respiratory and Allergy Unit, 3rd Department of Paediatrics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Greece. He graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1976) and defended his PhD thesis at the University of Athens (1982). Completed his residency training in Paediatrics at the University of Patras (1985) and a research fellowship in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the University of Nottingham Medical School, UK (1989). His research focuses on childhood asthma, allergy and chronic endobronchial infections. He has authored more than 160 scientific publications in peer reviewed international journals (h-index = 38, Google Scholar), edited 5 books or special issues.
Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis received the Diploma (1989) and PhD (1997) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1989) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloni150 papers in peer reviewed international conference proceedings, 6 books, 2 books edited, 24 book chapters and 3 patents [h-index=34 (Google scholar), 28 (Scopus)]. He has a vast experience in project management and has been awarded, amongst other awards, as innovative researcher and champion faculty from Microsoft, USA. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Mark Everard is the McCusker Foundation Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the University of Western Australia and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth. His research includes the spectrum from bench top to bedside with particular interests in 'difficult asthma'; the interaction of the host and micro-organisms including respiratory microbiome, persistent bacterial bronchitis, viral-bacterial interaction, the respiratory syncytial virus and viral lower respiratory tract infections; aerosol therapy and the impact of patient behaviour on clinical outcomes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Breath Sounds
Book Subtitle: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice
Editors: Kostas N. Priftis, Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis, Mark L. Everard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71824-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71823-1Published: 26 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10119-0Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71824-8Published: 12 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Pediatrics, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Nursing, Infectious Diseases, Signal, Image and Speech Processing