Bronchial Asthma

Part I: Clinical Definitions.- The clinical definitions of asthma.- The genetic bases of asthma.- Part II: Diagnosis and Patient Management.- The use of the pulmonary function laboratory in diagnosing asthma.- Diagnosis and management of allergic disease.- The pediatric asthmatic.- The Adult Asthmatic.- The patient with asthma in the emergency department.- The critically ill asthmatic: From ICU to discharge.- Part III: Special Clinical Problems.- Asthma and Pregnancy.- Exercise-induced asthma.- Viral disease, air pollutants, nanoparticles, and asthma.- Occupational asthma.- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.- Rhinitis, sinusitis, and asthma.- Anesthesia for patients with asthma.- Asthmatics and adverse reactions to drugs, including recreational drug abuse.- Part IV: Living with Asthma.- The challenge of asthma in minority populations.- Asthma, health care and the law.

Reviews of previous editions

"...This book will clearly establish its value for those who treat reversible airway disease. Lucidly written, with a cogent chapter format flowing from pathogenic principles to more detailed clinical appreciation...an invaluable compendium for the clinician who is called on to care for the patient with asthma." -- New England Journal of Medicine

"This book would be of value to any clinician dealing with asthmatic patients. Pulmonary physicians and allergists will also find this text to be an excellent review and an aid for focusing on clinical problems." -- Journal of the American Medical Association

"Overall, this book provides a concise and thorough review of asthma management, directed at primary care providers....There are excellent discussion on risk factors for developing asthma and on managing asthma in children, adults, and pregnancy....There are also excellent sections of infections and environment, exercise-induced asthma, occupational asthma, alternative therapies, and self-management programs....The thorough text and many useful tables and illustrations make this book an excellent resources for primary caregivers and anyone with an interest in asthma." -- CANADIAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

"...offers chapters written by some of the most respected authors in the field...a valuable reference book for primary care physicians as well as specialists who care for patients with asthma." -- Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

"...this book provides a concise and thorough review of asthma management...The thorough text and many useful tables and illustrations make this book an excellent resource for primary caregivers and anyone with an interest in asthma." -- Canadian Family Physicianviders....There are excellent discussion on risk factors for developing asthma and on managing asthma in children, adults, and pregnancy....There are also excellent sections of infections and environment, exercise-induced a