Principles of Pulmonary Medicine (7th Edition)

Description

With an emphasis on the pathophysiologic basis of pulmonary disease, Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, 7th Edition, by Drs. Steven E Weinberger, Barbara A Cockrill, and Jess Mandel, provides a superbly illustrated introduction to this fast-changing field. This essential text employs a concise and understandable approach, integrating clinical topics with underlying physiologic, pathophysiologic, and basic science concepts critical for medical students, trainees, and those looking for a practical update on both acute and chronic pulmonary diseases

Key Features

•  Offers access to extensive online resources, including author commentaries, video clips, audio recordings of lung sounds, and 200 case-based self-assessment questions – covering topics including pulmonary function tests, physiologic data, and arterial blood gas testing and modeled after the USMLE exam.
• Discusses therapeutic strategies, including the available evidence for assessing relative benefits, harms, and costs, where appropriate.
• Provides an excellent visual basis for understanding and interpreting pulmonary disease with easy-to-understand anatomic illustrations and accompanying radiologic and pathophysiologic images

Table of Contents

1.  Contents
2. Pulmonary Anatomy and Physiology: The Basics
3. Presentation of the Patient with Pulmonary Disease
4. Evaluation of the Patient with Pulmonary Disease
5. Anatomic and Physiologic Aspects of Airways
6. Asthma
7. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
8. Miscellaneous Airway Diseases
9. Anatomic and Physiologic Aspects of the Pulmonary Parenchyma
10. Overview of Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases
11. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases Associated with Known Etiologic Agents
12. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases of Unknown Etiology
13. Anatomic and Physiologic Aspects of the Pulmonary Vasculature
14. Pulmonary Embolism
15. Pulmonary Hypertension
16. Pleural Disease
17. Mediastinal Disease
18. Anatomic and Physiologic Aspects of Neural, Muscular, and Chest Wall Interactions with the Lungs
19. Disorders of Ventilatory Control
20. Disorders of the Respiratory Pump
21. Lung Cancer: Etiologic and Pathologic Aspects
22. Lung Cancer: Clinical Aspects
23. Lung Defense Mechanisms
24. Pneumonia
25. Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
26. Miscellaneous Infections Caused by Fungi and Pneumocystis
27. Pulmonary Complications in the Immunocompromised Host
28. Classification and Pathophysiologic Aspects of Respiratory Failure
29. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
30. Management of Respiratory Failure
31. Appendix A Sample Problems Using Respiratory Equations
32. Appendix B Pulmonary Function Tests: Guidelines for Interpretation and Sample Problems
33. Appendix C Arterial Blood Gases: Guidelines for Interpretation and Sample Problems

Authors Biography

Steven Weinberger

Dr. Steven Weinberger is a very esteemed pulmonologist and is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus of the American College of Physicians as well as Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and formerly Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He’s recently retired from full-time teaching but remains very actively involved in the field. As on prior editions Dr. Weinberger will have primary responsibility for reviewing and editing all chapters and will share chapter updating with Drs. Cockrill and Mandel, both of whom are also well respected and active speakers in the subspeciality of pulmonology.

Affiliations and Expertise
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physicians; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Barbara Cockrill

Affiliations and Expertise
Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harold Amos Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Jess Mandel

Affiliations and Expertise
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California