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Clinical Challenges in COPD [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donner, CF.
- Series:
- Clinical Challenges
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lungs--Diseases, Obstructive.
- Lungs--Diseases.
- Lungs.
- Pulmonary.
- Medicine.
- Lung Diseases, Obstructive.
- Lung Diseases.
- Health Occupations.
- Occupations.
- Respiratory Tract Diseases.
- Disease.
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive.
- Clinical Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine.
- Lung Diseases, Obstructive.
- Lung Diseases.
- Health Occupations.
- Occupations.
- Respiratory Tract Diseases.
- Disease.
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive.
- Clinical Medicine.
- Local Subjects:
- Lungs--Diseases, Obstructive.
- Lungs--Diseases.
- Lungs.
- Pulmonary.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new volume has been conceived with the objective of demonstrating to the reader that any clinical problem is likely to have several alternative solutions and that rarely do they present as the textbook example. Here the editors have selected more than twenty cases that present complex and challenging choices for the pulmonary physician. Contributing experts have presented a number of problem scenarios, which might be difficult cases, complications or dilemmas that challenge the skills of most practitioners. After reviewing the background to the problem, the authors present possible soluti
- Contents:
- Contents; Editors and Contributors; Preface; 1. Improvement of symptoms in a 62-year-old COPD patient after lung volume reduction surgery; 2. Patients with very frequent exacerbations of COPD: clinical stabilization after the prescription of inhaled corticosteroids; 3. Reduction in the level of dyspnoea near the end of life; 4. A COPD patient with bronchospasm episodes after the inhalation of tobacco smoke; 5. Improvement in exercise capacity after correcting calorie uptake in a patient with severe emphysema; 6. A 36-year-old patient with stage I - GOLD misdiagnosed as asthmaI
- 7. A 68-year-old patient with COPD8. Clinical approach to a COPD patient with muscle hypotrophy; 9. Improvement of function and health status in a severely disabled patient with COPD; 10. COPD caused by occupational exposure; 11. Body mass index as a prognostic factor in COPD; 12. Multiple vertebral fractures in a COPD patient on long-term inhaled corticosteroids; 13. Managing acute respiratory failure during exacerbation of COPD; 14. Difficult weaning in a COPD patient with acute respiratory failure after use of benzodiazepines
- 15. Suspected exacerbation of COPD in a 56-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation16. Antibiotic allergy in a COPD patient with frequent bacterial exacerbations; 17. Tuberculosis re-exacerbation in an older smoker with COPD; 18. A 58-year-old woman with COPD and acute fever after visiting relatives in the countryside - farmer's lung; 19. Higher than expected rest hypoxaemia in a 74-year-old COPD patient with only mild airway obstruction; 20. A 52-year-old woman with mild COPD and significant oxygen desaturation during exertion
- 21. Hemidiaphragmatic paralysis after cardiac surgery in a 62-year-old COPD patientAbbreviations; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-79085-0
- 9786611790851
- 1-84692-572-X
- OCLC:
- 437229071
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