The thoroughly revised, updated Sixth Edition of this Spiral(R) Manual is a complete, convenient, practical guide to diagnosis and management of pulmonary disorders. A new chapter on terrorism and disaster medicine has been added and new contributors have rewritten the chapters on preoperative pulmonary evaluation, aspiration pneumonia, the lung in immunocompromised hosts, staphylococcal and streptococcal pneumonias, anaerobic pulmonary infections, histoplasmosis, Aspergillus lung disease, neuromuscular diseases and spinal cord injury, pulmonary complications in burn patients, sarcoidosis, and Goodpasture's syndrome. Other chapters have been revised to incorporate recent American Thoracic Society recommendations on end-of-life care, exercise testing, tobacco control, and other concerns.
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This is to state my high regard for the Authors' effort which has placed a handy tool for residents on call , regarding pulmonary disease . It gets to the point and gives you pertinent data and action strategy to make clinical desicion making easier, systematic and your therapeutic endeavours more fruitive .
I recommend it to all residents and interns who are care givers to patients with pulmonary disease . In two weeks , sooner if you have more time you can review the subject , it's easy to carry and... more info
