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    Manual of Asthma Management

    Paul M. O'Byrne (Author), Neil Thomson (Author)

    9780702025297, Elsevier Health Sciences

    Hardback, published 28 October 2000

    704 pages, 79 ills.
    24.8 x 19 x 3.7 cm, 1.53 kg

    This unique manual provides comprehensive, yet practical and easily accessed advice on the key issues of asthma management in both adult andpaediatric patients. The second edition will continue to help all those involved with the care of asthmatic patients to apply the recently updated international guidelines. It combines vital information on how to tackle practical, clinical issues, whilstat the same time highlighting essential basic sciences to aid diagnosis, management and treatment.

  • Provides solutions to day-to-day clinical problems in asthma management
    • Clear, concise and practical advice helps the reader to clarify asthma severity and select appropriate treatment plans
  • Diagrams illustrate the stepwise approaches to asthma management
    • Each chapter concludes with a list of summary points
  • Expanded sections on acute and chronic asthma in children written by international paediatric respiratory experts
    • Use of icons in margins to highlight the most recent drugs and therapies
  • New larger format, with an eye-catching design aids easy access to key information

    • EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF ASTHMA
    1 Definition, classification, epidemiology and risk factors
    2 Natural history
    3 Pathogenesis

    DIAGNOSIS AND INVESTIGATIONS OF ASTHMA
    4 Triggers of asthma
    5 Diagnosis in children
    6 Diagnosis in adults
    7 Pulmonary function tests
    8 Provocation tests
    9 Investigations of allergy
    10 Examination of sputum, exhaled gases and nasal cytology
    11 Bronchoalveolar lavage and bronchial biopsies

    ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF ASTHMA
    12 Assessment of asthma control: symptoms, drug use, PEF, severity
    13 Assessment of asthma control: quality of life
    14 Assessment of asthma control: markers of inflammation
    15 Primary prevention of asthma
    16 Secondary allergen avoidance measures
    17 Corticosteroids
    18 Anti-allergic drugs
    19 Immunosuppressive agents
    20 Mediator antagonists and other new agents
    21 Bronchodilators
    22 Delivery systems
    23 Immunotherapy
    24 Other forms of treatment
    25 Patient education
    26 Self-management plans
    27 Assessment of compliance
    MANAGEMENT OF ASTHMA
    28 General principles
    29 Management of chronic asthma in children
    30 Management of acute asthma in children
    31 Management of chronic asthma in adults
    32 Management of acute asthma in adults
    33 Specific problems: occupational asthma
    34 Specific problems: asthma induced by aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

    35 Specific problems: allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
    36 Specific problems: exercise-induced asthma
    37 Specific problems: nocturnal asthma
    38 Specific problems: asthma in pregnancy and pre-menses
    39 Specific problems: corticosteroids resistant asthma
    40 Specific problems: psychological factors
    41 Specific problems: gastro-oesophageal reflux and asthma
    42 Specific problems: cough
    43 Specific problems: chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma
    44 Specific problems: food allergy in asthma
    45 Specific problems: difficult asthma
    46 Specific problems: steroid-induced side effects
    47 Acute complications of asthma
    48 Chronic complications of asthma
    RUNNING AN ASTHMA SERVICE
    49 Primary care
    50 Hospital practice
    51 Audit in asthma
    52 Economics of asthma

    Subject Areas: Respiratory medicine [MJL], Immunology [MJCM]
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