Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

APPROACH TO CLINICAL PROBLEMS; 1. Examining the respiratory system; 2. Poorly controlled asthma; 3. Recurrent or persistent 'chest infection'; 4. Chronic cough; 5. Stridor; 6. Infant apnoea; 7. Cystic fibrosis: Poor weight gain; 8. Cystic fibrosis: Loss of lung infection; 9. Chest pain; 10. Haemoptysis; 11. T immuno-comprimised child; 12. Muscle weakness; 13. Pneumonia on the ICU; SPECIFIC CONDITIONS; 14. Asthma; 15. Cystic fibrosis; 16. Respiratory pathogens; 17. Community-acquired pneumonia; 18. Bacterial infection; 19. Viral infection; 20. Fungal infection; 21. Parastic and protozoal infection; 22. Tuberculosis; 23. HIV infection; 24. Structural problems of the upper and lower airway; 25. Sleep disordered breathing and other sleep problems; 26. Respiratory control disorders; 27. Sudden infant death syndrome; 28. Apparent life-threatening events; 29. Cerebral palsy; 30. Gastro-oesophageal reflux and aspiration disease; 31. Foreign body aspiration; 32. Inhalational lung disease; 33. Non-CF bronchiectasis; 34. Primary ciliary dyskinesia; 35. Primary immunodeficiency; 36. Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans; 37. Pleural effusion; 38. Pneumothorax; 39. Chronic lung disease of prematurity; 40. Chest wall deformity and scoliosis; 41. Congenital lung abnormalities; 42. Craniofacial abnormalities; 43. Atopic eczema and allergic rhinitis; 44. Food allergy; 45. Heart disease; 46. Interstatial lung disease; 47. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; 48. Neuromuscular weakness; 49. Thoracic tumours; 50. Pulmonary complications of cancer treatment; 51. Pulmonary hypertension; 52. Pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia; 53. Sickle cell disease; 54. Rare diseases affecting lungs or airway; 55. Lung transplantation; SUPPORTIVE CARE; 56. Use of oxygen; 57. Inhalers and nebulisers; 58. Airway clearance techniques; 59. Immunisation; 60. Dealing with non-adherence to therapy; 61. non-invasive ventilation; 62. Tracheostomy; PRACTICAL PROCEDURES; 63. Airway management; 64. Bronchoscopy;

Anne Thomson ist Fellow an der "School of Economic and Social Studies" an der University of East Anglia.

This book should become a must-have for primary care providers for children and everyone interested in pediatric pulmonology. Doody's Notes ...who can benefit from this book, and how? The trainee will certainly not outgrow it - even the most experienced paediatrician, seeing a child with an uncommon condition, or preparing a teaching session on a common one, will benefit from taking a surreptitious peek at the relevant section here, to ensure nothing has been forgotten. For example, I would challenge the reader to list the totality of the associated conditions which need to be detected in a baby with a PHOX2b mutation before turning to Chapter 26. Review copies of books come into three categories: 'throw away', 'give away' and 'chain it to the wall' - this Handbook is definitely in the last category. Departmental thieves, hands off! from the foreword by Professor Andy Bush