Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Description

Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a unique point-of-care manual that provides essential information on managing inpatients and outpatients with common, serious respiratory and internal medicine presentation and problems. Easy-to-follow diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms are accompanied by case-based illustrations encountered on a daily basis by attendings, fellows, residents, and students. The bulleted format, concise approach, and familiar examples provide a framework for effective teaching, learning, and patient care.

Key Features

• Identifies common but important misconceptions that are regularly encountered in pulmonary and critical care training.
• Uses a concise, bulleted format throughout, helping you find key information quickly.
• Illustrates cases with primary data such as x-rays, monitor strips, ventilator wave forms, and other familiar documentation.
• Helps you develop your ability to effectively explain your thought process in the clinical setting to other practitioners at the bedside.
• Serves as a ‘teachers guide’ for clinician educators, organizing topics in an easy to teach fashion, amenable to ‘chalk talks’ and bedside didactics
• Provides focused discussions of basic physiology and pathophysiology related to pulmonary and critical care medicine.
• Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from
• the book on a variety of devices.

Table of Contents

1. Section Pulmonary
   1. Approach to Oxygenation, Hypoxemia and Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
   2. Ventilation and Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure
   3. The Chest Radiograph
   4. Evaluating Chronic Dyspnea, Dyspnea on Exertion and Exercise Limitation
   5. Heart Failure for the Pulmonary Critical Care Physician
   6. Pulmonary Hypertension
   7. Exacerbation of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
   8. Lung Cancer
   9. Aspergillus Lung Disease
   10. Oral Anaerobic Lung Infection, Aspiration Pneumonia, Lung Abscess and Empyema
   11. Chronic Cough
   12. Cough Syncope
   13. Bronchiectasis
   14. Sarcoidosis
   15. 16Acute Venous Thromboembolic Disease –
   16. Pneumothorax (PTX) and Bronchopleural Fistulas (BPF): Air in the Pleural Space
   17. Smoking Cessation
   18. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease and Its Mimics
2. Section Critical Care
   1. Shock
   2. Invasive Mechanical ventilation
   3. Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support with BIPAP
   4. Tracheostomy
   5. hemoptysis
   6. Salt and Water: The Physiology of Volume and Tonicity Regulation
   7. Diabetic Emergencies
   8. The Obtunded Inpatient with Normal Vital Signs
   9. Bedside Presentations in the ICU
   10. Code Status
   11. Advanced Care Planning and the Family Meeting-
   12. Compassionate, Terminal Extubation
   13. ICU Pearls

Author Biography

 Judd Landsberg

Affiliations and Expertise
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, Section Chief for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical Director for Respitory Therapy, Veterans Administration Medical Center, La Jolla, California