BookJudd W. Landsberg.
Summary: "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"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Section 1: Pulmonary. Approach to oxygenation, hypoxemia and hypoxemic respiratory failure
Ventilation and hypercapnic respiratory failure
The chest radiograph
Evaluating chronic dyspnea, dyspnea on exertion and exercise limitation
Heart failure for the pulmonary critical care physician
Pulmonary hypertension
Exacerbation of obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Lung cancer
Aspergillus lung disease
Oral anaerobic lung infection, aspiration pneumonia, lung abscess and empyema
Chronic cough
Cough syncope
Bronchiectasis
Sarcoidosis
Acute venous thromboembolic disease
Pneumothorax (PTX) and bronchopleural fistulas (BPF): air in the pleural space
Smoking cessation
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease and its mimics
Section 2: Critical care. Shock
Invasive mechanical ventilation
Non-invasive ventilatory support with BIPAP
Tracheostomy
Hemoptysis
Salt and water: the physiology of volume and tonicity regulation
Diabetic emergencies
The obtunded inpatient with normal vital signs
Bedside presentations in the ICU
Code status
Advanced care planning and the family meeting-
Compassionate, terminal extubation
ICU pearls.