Clinical management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Informa Healthcare,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Lung biology in health and disease ;
v. 222. |
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding COPD and its impact
- Burden of COPD
- Smoking cessation
- Relationship of tobacco smoking to COPD: histopathogenesis
- COPD as a systemic disease
- Assessing COPD
- Early diagnosis of COPD: usefulness, tools, and actors
- Assessment of symptoms and quality of life in the COPD patient
- Measuring ventilatory and respiratory impairment in COPD
- Imaging of lung morphology and function in COPD
- Assessing the systemic consequences of COPD
- Pulmonary vasculature of COPD
- How the COPD patient should be assessed for comorbidities
- Goals of COPD treatments and measurement of their efficacy: from clinical trials to real-world practice
- Pharmacological treatments of COPD
- Choosing the right bronchodilator
- When should we use glucocorticoids in COPD?
- Treating and preventing infections
- Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors, mucolytics, and emerging pharmacotherapies for COPD
- Managing exacerbations: an overview
- Nonpharmacological approaches in COPD
- Exercise training in COPD
- New components of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD
- Long-term oxygen therapy for the patient with COPD
- Noninvasive ventilation in COPD
- Surgical therapy for COPD
- Perioperative medical management for patients with COPD: the anesthesiologist's view
- Providing palliative and end-of-life care for patients with COPD
- Conclusion
- Global strategy for a global disease
- Caring for the patient with COPD: a practical summary of guidelines for clinicians.